Sentence examples for royal back from inspiring English sources

Couldn't he have turned his royal back on NBC's proposition?

When Page first started choreographing at the Royal, back in the early 1980s, he liked to have most of a ballet mapped out in his head.

John's reply: "Why do not the barons, with these unjust exactions, ask my kingdom?" But in June, 1215, the King, his royal back against the wall, affixed his beeswax seal to a treaty, or charter, written by his scribes in iron-gall ink on a single sheet of parchment.

Hollande has been micromanaging the precise construction of Valls's incoming cabinet: placing his ex-partner, and the mother of his four children, Ségolène Royal, back in government after a time away — ascribed, in seventeenth-century style, to the influence of the now departed Official Girlfriend, Valérie Trierweiler — and balancing the left with the right wings of the Socialist Party.

The PAD trumpeted this as evidence of royal backing for their cause.

In the past, General Anupong has shown sympathy for the protesters, who also have a degree of royal backing.

The Inquisition, on the other hand, was completely independent of the viceroy and often challenged his jurisdiction, but it received royal backing only in purely religious disputes.

"England was the only country where there was no royal backing of ceramic manufacturing," said Jill Weitzman Fenichell, an English porcelain expert and partner with Craig Basmajian in Fenichell Basmajian, a Manhattan gallery specializing in antique glass and porcelain.

But the royal backing failed to distract investors from the $20.3 billion in losses that the bank has racked up in the past year due to the declining mortgage market and bad securities investments.

Did you know that the Yankees had a huge rivalry with the Kansas City Royals back in the '70s and '80s?

The next day they brought the royal family back to Paris.