palace intrigue

collocation in English

meaningsofpalaceandintrigue

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palace
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpæl.ɪs/us
/ˈpæl.ɪs/
a large house that is the official home of a king, queen, or other person of high ...
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intrigue
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.triːɡ/us
/ˈɪn.triːɡ/
(the making of) a secret plan to do something, especially something that will harm ...
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(Definition ofpalaceandintriguefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Fitzpatrick, beset on all sides by palace intrigues, becomes increasingly paranoid.
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Though apalaceintriguekept her away from the emperor, this eventually ended, and she bore a son.
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Impersonating the president, the actor balances the pleasures and temptations of office, dangerouspalaceintrigue, and his duty to the people of the country.
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Palaceintrigueis rife as complex networks of loyalty emerge in the battle for succession.
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He died a few months after his fathers death in the course of apalaceintrigue.
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Many of his most trusted officials died, and were replaced by far less scrupulous upstarts; a long period ofpalaceintrigueensued.
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Nonetheless, he continued to live a precarious life, being promoted and demoted constantly, depending on palace intrigues.
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We, of course, were engaged in more important events—our palace intrigues.
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The result were initially promising, but bad harvests and palace intrigues led to his downfall.
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His last years were filled with palace intrigues over succession.
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He also inherited his throne via palace intrigues in which number of heir apparents died under mysterious circumstances.
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A victim of palace intrigues, he was put to death in 1302.
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The result was palace intrigues and internal strife.
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He rose in the financial administration of the empire until the palace intrigues caused him to be sent to a provincial administrative post in 1715.
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She is best known for her involvement in palace intrigues.
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