How To Use Civil list In A Sentence
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In recognition for her endeavours on behalf of women, she was granted a civil list pension of £75 a year in 1913.
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The first monthly payment of the national dotation, calculated to correspond with his civil list, was accepted.
The Liberation of Italy
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Apart from the civil list, the palace receives government 'grants-in-aid' for maintenance of the palaces and travel.
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He was conscious of the power of the crown to excite the popular imagination and opposed attempts by some of his colleagues to reduce the civil list: the monarchy was nothing if it was not splendid.
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I'm afraid we're stuck with the royal family, and the best any anti-monarchist can hope for is a gradual eroding of their powers and the amount of money they get from the civil list.
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There were claims in parliament that she wasn't worth a penny of the money the civil list paid her.
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Although public indignation at the burgeoning Civil List led to some drastic pruning, the Royal supernumeraries continued to live high on the hog.
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In recognition for her endeavours on behalf of women, she was granted a civil list pension of £75 a year in 1913.