Sentence examples for princely world from inspiring English sources

The main part of the book is about Low as the resident at the courts of Indian rulers, a story of a dying, dissolute, Indian princely world trying desperately to keep at bay the rapacious British who often broke the treaties they had themselves imposed to cheat these rulers of valuable lands.

These regional powerhouses have worked out how to earn princely sums in the world's poorest places.

Modigliani's funeral, by contrast, was a public, princely affair, thanks to the efforts of his art-world friends.

If so, what must the rest of the not-so-princely men in the world feel when youthful looks begin to fade?

The Kunstkammer at the KHM is the greatest surviving princely treasure in the Western world, with thousands of Habsburg and Imperial objects.

But some commercial outfits can envisage a desperate world paying them princely sums for access to the technology for doing it.

By the start of the First World War, the princely states together provided fifteen cavalry regiments, thirteen infantry battalions, seven transport units, four companies of sappers, three camel corps regiments and two batteries of mountain artillery, totalling around 22,500 men.

That is a princely sum in one of the world's 10 poorest countries.

He has certainly been campaigned with a due adventure, flown all round the world to explore the princely abilities latent in his pauper's pedigree.

Mr Warner's own television company had also been given the exclusive television rights in the Caribbean to the last three World Cups for the princely sum of $1. FIFA has lost over $115m from the collapse of ISL, its marketing partner.

The dirigible prowls the food and travel magazine circuit; as a party trick he has been known to throw darts at a map of the world and name a princely dish native to that region, belching up its flavor on command, an archival gust from deep in his belly.