Sentence examples for palace precinct from inspiring English sources

After winning the Tour de France, Wiggins showed a healthy disregard for protocol by addressing the British fans; here, he did something similar afterwards by freewheeling from the finish area for a mini lap of honour among the crowds, who were unable to enter the Hampton Court palace precinct where the medals were handed out.

Buildings in the Tikal tradition are evident in the main plaza, while the extensive, rambling, elite residential section of Naachtun is reminiscent of the Calakmul palace precinct.

Avoiding the Chalke Gate, which was held by the feared Varangian Guard, they made for the imperial box in the Hippodrome, the kathisma, which was connected to the palace precinct.

This rebuilding was facilitated by the fact that his predecessor, Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas (r. 963 969), had enclosed the palace precinct with a new wall of reduced girth, to which the Chalke was no longer attached.

At about that time Justinian II established the first new guards units to protect the imperial palace precinct, while in the 8th century the emperors, faced with successive revolts by the thematic armies and pursuing deeply unpopular iconoclastic policies, established the imperial tagmata as an elite force loyal to them.

St. Stephen's Chapel, in the former palace precincts, was used from 1547 for meetings of the House of Commons.

The tuna were processed in the palace precincts, with bootleg fish butchered in the church next door.

(Rosenberg)20110303 ★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City,' through May 1. Named for one of China's great, late emperors and located within the Forbidden City's precincts, the palace known as of the Qianlong Garden was locked up and moldering away until the World Monuments Fund spearheaded a rescue project a few years ago.

Rowan Williams — who earlier this month decided that he would leave that palace for the cozier precincts of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in December — would probably admit to knowing this when he took the job, ten years ago, with a flock already on the brink of schism.

Rowan Williams who earlier this month decided that he would leave that palace for the cozier precincts of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in December would probably admit to knowing this when he took the job, ten years ago, with a flock already on the brink of schism.

The floor of the basketball palace is partioned by ward and precinct, with other precincts sitting together in the bowl of spectator sections.