• Asoka, the renowned unifier of India, was Viceroy here in the 3rd Century BC.

    BBC: Following the Silk Road to the end of China

  • The viceroy prefigures the self-lacerating baritone heroes who were to become a Wagner specialty.

    WSJ: Richard Wagner's 'Orphans' | By Matthew Gurewitsch

  • One official that Grant met in China was Li Hongzhang, by then a viceroy.

    WSJ: Book Review: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

  • Warren Cordoba, executive chef at the Viceroy in Palm Springs, revamped its pooch menu after consulting with several veterinarians.

    WSJ: Fine Dining for Well-Heeled Dogs

  • The Queen's cousin and former Viceroy and Governor-General of India was killed in a bomb blast on his boat off County Sligo.

    BBC: Files show US-UK tensions over Northern Ireland in 1979

  • In "Das Liebesverbot" (composed, given just once, and withdrawn when Wagner was 22), a holier-than-thou German viceroy comes to stamp out sin in Palermo.

    WSJ: Richard Wagner's 'Orphans' | By Matthew Gurewitsch

  • Viktor Chernomyrdin, the new Russian ambassador to Ukraine (and a former prime minister), is referred to, only half-jokingly, as Mr Putin's viceroy in Kiev.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Russia

  • At the imperial durbar at which King Edward VII was proclaimed Emperor of India, the Viceroy, Lord Curzon, rode on the grandest elephant of all.

    BBC: No white elephants in this herd

  • The royal ruler the Nawab of Junagadh, the princely state near Gir Forest, invited Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, to hunt lions with him.

    WSJ: Jeeping Up on India's Wild Lions

  • Lord Curzon of Kedleston had already successfully fought to save much of India's heritage while he was Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, including the Taj Mahal.

    BBC: The man who demolished Shakespeare's house

  • Her friends came from diverse walks of life, ranging from an Iraqi gardener to the Viceroy of India, from a Times correspondent to a battle-scarred tribal warrior, from a mutjahid to a servant from Aleppo.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Gertrude Bell'

  • The moment the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Mr. Zelaya in June for organizing mob violence and attempting to overthrow the constitution Mr. Llorens anointed himself colonial viceroy in charge of imposing U.S. will.

    WSJ: O'Grady: Hillary's Honduran Exit Strategy

  • Nehru agreed, and so did the outgoing British Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten. (A pragmatist, Mountbatten noted that Kashmir was more closely linked, through religion and geography, to Pakistan than India.) As a result, the maharajah was asked to sign only a treaty of temporary accession to India.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • One answer is that in the Balkans, as in some other societies where people of different races and religions rub along together, a strong hand at the top, be it that of an Ottoman viceroy, a Habsburg monarch or a communist despot such as Tito, may be a prerequisite for harmony.

    ECONOMIST: Cooling down Kosovo

  • The mesh bag was long enough that if we caught a tiger swallowtail or a spicebush swallowtail, or a mourning cloak, or a European cabbage, or a common sulphur, or a red admiral, or a painted lady, or a monarch, or a viceroy we could, with a twist of the wrist, flip its tapered tip over the wire rim and trap the butterfly inside.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'At Large and At Small'

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