This was the site of the imperial court's grandest events, including coronations and royal birthdays.
One of Bali's grandest temples lies just 10 minutes from the chaotic streets of Ubud.
The powerhouse runner flashed a bright smile as she entered the grandest athletic stage of all.
Born in 1925, Eugene Luther Vidal was the scion of one of America's grandest political dynasties.
One of its guide books waxes lyrical about Powis being "gardening on the grandest scale".
Yet the recent improvement is from a very low base, especially at the grandest stores.
Cape Coast Castle was the grandest of the slave emporiums, at the centre of the trade.
The grandest accommodation is Bickford's own two-bedroom villa, which can be rented when he's not in residence.
Giuliani had laid the groundwork for his grandest venture, the consulting firm Giuliani Partners, before leaving office.
This is one of the grandest neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, its wide streets lined with Dutch Colonial and Greek Revival townhouses.
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In 1994 he was elected mayor of Istanbul, Turkey's grandest city, on the fulcrum between Europe and Asia.
Its sound had been sorely missed along the grandest avenue of New Orleans.
"Years ago, the grandest hotels were bastions of culture, representing whatever was happening artistically in that city, " says Frolich.
Philanthropy on the scale that Gates practices it represents imagination at its grandest.
In some areas, parents register their daughters for membership at birth, a practice usually reserved for the grandest public schools.
At Smithfield, "one of the grandest processions of market buildings in Europe is hanging in the balance, " Ms. Cecil says.
The other masterpiece on the first floor is a vast triptych that is the grandest manifestation of Stingel's silver abstract paintings.
He reaches for the grandest of grand visions, like his proposal to build a base on the moon by his second term.
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While this format is unusual, it is not unknown: The grandest example is the Vanderbilt family's 250-room mansion, Biltmore House, in Asheville, N.
It is another kind of comfort that all this nostalgic yearning offers too - that and a communal affection for America's grandest and story-filled city.
Better is to push on another 20 minutes from the museum and you'll hit Gyeongbokgung , the largest and grandest of the city's palace grounds.
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.
Package tourists were invited to wing their way in for two weeks at the grandest hotels for the price of half the normal air fare.
Once you are standing on top of the rocks, staring at nature in its grandest form, you will most likely feel small and irrelevant in comparison.
Instead of putting a real person on this new dollar, a better idea would be to choose the grandest lady of them all, the Statue of Liberty.
On this occasion, she was standing on the wedding ground amid thousands of awed guests, watching the grandest entrance she had ever been asked to pull off.
Thus the 24-member Senate, which is elected from a single, nationwide constituency, includes several former movie stars and generals alongside the scions of the Philippines' grandest political clans.
Our real estate brokers advise us to buy the most modest house in a neighborhood of grand homes rather than the grandest house in a neighborhood of modest homes.
At nearly 100 years old, the Taj Mahal Palace is the grandest dame in town -- a hotel that is deeply woven into the history and social fabric of the city.
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