Sentence examples for royalties connected from inspiring English sources

He thanked Adidas for paying for the collection and then led the crowd in a chant of "fuck Nike," referring to his falling out with the company after a disagreement over royalties connected to his Air Yeezy footwear.

More money, in the total of $3 million, was paid to all the members of Creed for royalties connected to their last album 2009's Full Circle, which Wiederhorn's article reports sold 444,000 copies, a far cry from the band's heyday.

When First Data snatches away the processing work on a $100 charge swiped on a Visa card, Visa still gets a 17-cent royalty for connecting First Data to the card-issuing bank; First Data gets 17 to 20 cents.

It is nevertheless certain that divinity and royalty were closely connected in Southeast Asian civilizations and that several Hindu rituals were used to valorize the powers of the monarch.

Known as the "Sport of Kings", polo is a game often connected to royalty.

Navratri -- sometimes also known as Dasara or "10th day" -- was also connected with royalty, and until India got independence from the British in 1947, rulers of smaller kingdoms would celebrate the last two days of this festival as a show of their military prowess.

Later generations of Sultan Sulaiman's family were closely connected with Siamese royalty: two of Sulaiman's descendants commanded armed forces led by Prince Surasi in the 1786 conquest of Pattani; Princess Sri Sulalai, a consort of King Rama II and mother of King Rama III, was also descended from Sultan Sulaiman.

After the fraud had been revealed and the credit card accounts connected to the royalty payments had been frozen, The Daily Mail reported that Craig Anderson contacted TuneCore about his money -- and it was then that Anderson, White, and the rest were found out and brought in.

On a TV show devoted to exploring celebrities' ancestry, actor Matthew Broderick learned that one of his grandfathers had won a Purple Heart during World War I, and his great-great-grandfather had fought in the Civil War; actress Brooke Shields found out she was connected to French royalty.

Valkyries also appear as lovers of heroes and other mortals, where they are sometimes described as the daughters of royalty, sometimes accompanied by ravens, and sometimes connected to swans or horses.

And unless your ancestry connected to early American colonists or to European royalty, it was very difficult to find paper documents older than the last few centuries.