It was only through the so-called investitures conflict that the Church was freed from secular domination; the reform of religious and ecclesiastical life brought about by the papacy, put an end to the bestowal of abbeys upon laymen. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The Prince of Wales was presiding over more investitures and was being given more access to government papers. ❋ Christopher Andersen (2011)
In 1993, Downing Street persuaded Buckingham Palace to increase the number of investitures for MBEs to allow people who would have received a BEM to be recognised by a member of the royal family. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In the conflict of investitures he sided chiefly in political matters with Henry IV, although he avoided taking sides openly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Water leaking through the roof into the ballroom at Buckingham Palace, where investitures and receptions are held, will however be tackled. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Having weathered more than a decade of scandal, Charles will begin greeting foreign dignitaries, overseeing investitures, and spending more time with Prime Minister Tony Blair. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Figaro or the Gaulois, would doubtless have announced to a larger audience than the dining-room of the Majestic could hold that Brichot had dined with the Duchesse de Duras, but since the war, society reporters having discontinued that sort of news (they got home on funerals, investitures and Franco-American banquets), the only publicity attainable was that primitive and restricted one, worthy of the dark ages prior to the discovery of ❋ Unknown (2003)
Palace here for the investitures, offering thunderous applause as each vice president pledged to respect the December peace accord that created the new government and the vast central African country's territorial integrity. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He does a few investitures for her, and so forth, and he might travel a little bit more in her place. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And then you choose -- there are many investitures during the year, you choose which one, which dates you'd like, and it was a wonderful ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Inscriptions indicate that a lord from Calakmul in Campeche, Mexico, officiated at the investitures of two Cancuén kings in A.D. 656 and 677, and, according to ❋ Unknown (2000)
(For the void hushes every voice except to the speaker himself, unless two come so near that their investitures of air become a single atmosphere.) ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1987)
And theirs is the task of producing and directing the brilliant pomp and pageantry of the great occasions of state-coronations, state funerals, investitures, the state opening of Parliament, and so on, as well as to trace and record pedigrees and to grant coats of arms to the distinguished and noble among Her Majesty's loyal subjects throughout the Commonwealth. ❋ Unknown (1975)
Boneval, who commands in Commachio, had sent circular letters to the inhabitants of St. Alberto, Longastrino, Fillo, and other adjacent parts, enjoining them to come and swear fealty to the Emperor, and receive new investitures of their fiefs from his hands. ❋ George A. Aitken (N/A)
-- The republic naked, frantic, and covered with her own gore, was suddenly seen robed in the most superb investitures of monarchy; assuming the most formal etiquette of empire, and covered with royal titles. ❋ Various (N/A)
There were two evils which Gregory was resolved to extirpate: lay investitures, and the incontinence of the clergy. ❋ George Henry Miles (N/A)
His divan room was crowded with visitors of congratulation: such as shaikhs of villages, and some dignified Arab chiefs; the latter interceding on behalf of the men recently captured by the quarantine people; the former soliciting their official investitures for their several districts. ❋ James Finn (N/A)
In the struggle for the investitures, all their influence was thrown against ❋ Emile Cammaerts (1915)
