(a.) Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict.
(a.) Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme.
(a.) Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc.
(n.) The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.
(n.) An outside seat on a diligence.
(n.) A luggage case on the top of a coach.
(n.) Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drowing, printing, or writing paper, etc.
(n.) A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars.
(n.) A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.
Example Sentences:
(1) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(2) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(3) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
(4) Flying in Soyuz was “ real teamwork ” she said, adding: “Tim will have no trouble with that.” David Southwood , a senior researcher at Imperial College, and a member of the UK space agency steering board, has known Tim since he joined the European Space Agency in 2009.
(5) The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust education officer, Rachel Donnelly, thinks the certification is appropriate.
(6) In its determination to probe the (semi) private lives of the nation's kings and queens, no imperial pyjama leg is left unplundered.
(7) Aaron Ramsey, who scored the opening goal and set up Bale for the third, was outstanding, Joe Allen delivered another imperious performance in centre midfield and then there was that wonderful moment when Neil Taylor, of all people, popped up with the second goal.
(8) Kipling deliberately concealed something of himself, but did not seek to conceal the truth about the nature of imperial power; Wodehouse exposed himself, and thereby inadvertently exposed something of the double standards of the system of power in which he unthinkingly believed.
(9) Imperial College [said] that 34% of their undergraduates are from non-EU, 64% of their postgraduates are non-EU," said Willis.
(10) Professor David Nutt, director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit at Imperial College, London, and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs , said the report provided strong evidence "that the costs of the current punitive approaches to cannabis control are massively disproportionate to the harms of the drug, and shows that more sensible approaches would provide significant financial benefits to the UK as well as reducing social exclusion and injustice".
(11) A recent study by researchers at Imperial College London made the claim that "statins have virtually no side effects, with users experiencing fewer adverse symptoms than if they had taken a placebo".
(12) Irish independence in 1922 was the first body blow in the 20th-century break-up of the British empire, even if Ireland was always something of a special imperial case.
(13) Britain should withdraw from the European convention on human rights during wartime because troops cannot fight under the yoke of “judicial imperialism”, according to a centre-right thinktank.
(14) Imperial Tobacco has become a major player in the US market after snapping up a raft of brands in a £4.2bn ($7bn) deal.
(15) Tony Goldstone , of the MRC Clinical Science Centre at Imperial College London, scanned the brains of people who skipped meals and found mechanisms at work that could help explain the conundrum.
(16) Thus China replaced a state bureaucracy with a similar state bureaucracy under a different name, the USSR replaced the dreaded imperial secret police with an even more dreaded secret police, and so forth.
(17) In 1948 it was a battered and exhausted London that played host, knowing that the days of imperial glory were gone for ever.
(18) His movements were monitored everywhere he went; he spent hours discussing the merits of Juche ideology over American imperialism; and his only contact with the outside world was a 10-minute phone call with his mum once a week.
(19) The Brexiters, by summoning up the patriotic genie, are implicitly calling on Britons to either become more parochial and less diverse – or else aspire to a second imperial age.
(20) Earlier this year, the university, which has long since dropped its imperial title, made the surprising decision to acknowledge the darkest chapter in its history with the inclusion of vivisection exhibits at its new museum .
Imperil
Definition:
(v. t.) To bring into peril; to endanger.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many of the plays we produced needed time for research and development in workshop mode – this investment, the provision of time for the development and rehearsal of plays for which I have campaigned throughout my career, was a cornerstone of our work, and could not be stripped away without imperilling the creation of plays themselves.
(2) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
(3) We need to persuade ministers that our great art galleries, from Manchester to Margate, our flourishing TV industry, our growing reputation for fashion, and all the many other achievements are imperilled if we do not invest in the arts and cultural education.
(4) Attempts to salvage patients are indicated when treatment has failed to arrest disease, when life expectancy is threatened, or when return to normal activity is imperiled.
(5) Carney said in response: “The issue would be imperiling potentially the achievement of price stability.
(6) But with Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress and with a wide-open presidential contest looming, the 20-week abortion ban could soon overcome the obstacles that have thus far imperiled its enactment at the federal level.
(7) Claude Turmes, the Green MEP who was the European parliament draftsman for the original renewable energy directive, warned that the UK government's stance would imperil efforts to tackle climate change.
(8) Unions can disintegrate because mistakes are made, and I would like to think the Conservatives are not going make mistakes that imperil the future of the union.
(9) The success of the D-day landings was imperilled by the marital problems of the double agent at the heart of Britain’s elaborate wartime deception operations, newly declassified MI5 files have shown.
(10) The situation demands carefully crafted solutions since it involves millions of livelihoods that are already imperilled by the dwindling of the bay’s resources.
(11) Never before had he found his holy body, under the protection of dozens of professional security guards, so imperilled.
(12) Dealing with Islamic State, Russia and al-Qaida, and maintaining Britain’s status as a country that is true to its word and punches above its weight - all of this is imperilled unless Labour and the Conservatives have a real discussion about defence spending and the foreign policy challenges the next government will face.
(13) I’d rather do it right than do it fast but obviously we can’t wait forever.” A growing list of defections had imperiled the prospect of a vote to even begin debate on the Senate legislation, which would repeal and replace major components of the healthcare law signed by Barack Obama.
(14) Enddiastolic flow reductions, based on an increased placental resistance, are provable relatively early, whereas a beginning centralization of the fetal circulation is only recognizable in a closer temporal connection with the fetal imperilment on account of pathological flowprofiles.
(15) Their comments on my research do not imperil my interpretation of it or challenge my criticism that classification judgments of acoustically analogous speech and nonsense signals do not permit interpretation, by themselves, in terms of underlying auditory-system mechanisms.
(16) Malcolm Turnbull has weighed into the case of a Brisbane hospital that is refusing to discharge a baby facing removal to Nauru, saying the government would not “imperil the health or security of any individual”, as Australia came under further international pressure over its asylum policies.
(17) Our highest-ranking soldier, Field Marshal Lord Bramall – no starry-eyed Europhile – warns that if we left, “ a broken and demoralised Europe just across the Channel ” would imperil our security.
(18) Though the protests were sparked by the electoral reform proposals, they were fuelled by concern that the existing freedoms and rights enjoyed by residents under the “one country, two systems” framework are imperilled by Beijing’s tightening grip, and that migration and closer integration with the mainland are wearing away its culture.
(19) After the successful dissection of AcP's the patients lost the feeling of illness and do not feel being imperilled.
(20) 's study imperil both their results and their conclusions regarding developmental stuttering.