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Тезаурус:

1. The Herald of Free Enterprise , which lived up to its name and capsized; 190 people were killed, thanks to sloppiness in P O "from top to bottom"; at the top, Jeffrey Stirling, chairman of P O, was given a peerage.
2. It states the peerage conferred (whether it be a barony, a viscountcy, etc.) and prescribes the mode in which it is to descend to heirs.
3. Prior to union, each kingdom had its own peerage.
4. popular name for one or other of the various court guides which are Mrs Pocket's favourite reading, e.g. Debrett's Peerage (first published 1784) and Baronetage (1808).
5. More than a dozen other candidates' names - some frivolous, others serious - have been bandied about, particularly since Lord Wilson's departure was brutally disclosed four months early by his elevation to the peerage at New Year.
6. Lord Cranborne, son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury, had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years: his grandfather, "Bobbety" the fifth Marquess, had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties.
7. Although nothing like as corrupt as the practices of Lloyd George and his broker Maundy Gregory, when a visitor to his office at 38 Parliament Street could buy a knighthood, baronetcy or peerage, depending upon whether he wished to spend 10,000 or 100,000, there are plenty of signs of a correspondence between political donations and the receipt of honours.
8. The article unleashed a storm about his head, the more so because of his peerage, which he renounced six years later.
9. All peers of Great Britain have retained entitlement to sit since the peerage was instituted in 1707 as have peers of the United Kingdom since 1801.
10. Whilst the peerage was validly conferred, however, the House of Lords itself decided that such a peer had no right to sit, and the object of the exercise was thus frustrated.
11. Nearer to home, the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage "for reasons of health", also that "the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619, being 1123 more than in the previous years."
12. Foppington recently "bought" his peerage; he was formerly known as "Sir Novelty Fashion", and he speaks with gusto and effrontery, his speech deliberately affected, turning his "o" s to "a" s.
13. At the Queen's accession authority in the county centred on the peerage as represented by the Earl of Arundel and Viscount Montague, both of whom were Catholics.