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How to use lieutenancy in a sentence

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The counties and county boroughs continue to exist for the purposes of lieutenancy and shrievalty.
Dumfries also lends its name to the lieutenancy area of Dumfries, which is similar in boundaries to the former Dumfriesshire county.
The City of London was uniquely given a commission of lieutenancy, and was exempt from the authority of the lieutenant of Middlesex.
The lieutenancy area and registration county of Moray cover smaller areas that are similar to the old county.
They are now abolished, although in Northern Ireland their former areas are used as the basis for lieutenancy.
However, Henry successfully courted Rhys, offering the lieutenancy of all Wales in exchange for his fealty.
The creation of a new County of London also led to the ending of the Tower Hamlets lieutenancy.
In August the lieutenancy was remodelled and in September over one thousand members of the city livery companies were ejected.
The one exception was County Tipperary, which although administered by two county councils, was to remain united for lieutenancy.
It restated the combination of counties and counties corporate as lieutenancy counties.
For the purposes of lieutenancy the counties constituted in 1974 were preserved.
Orkney is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, a constituency of the Scottish Parliament, a lieutenancy area, and a historic county.
The ceremonial counties, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England, are areas of England to which a Lord Lieutenant is appointed.
The lieutenancy at that time included the City of York and as such was named West Riding of the County of York and the County of the City of York.
Haverfordwest was permitted to retain a lieutenant while the Tower Hamlets and Cinque Ports were to be continue to be regarded as counties for lieutenancy purposes.
The Act also extinguished the lieutenancy of the Cinque Ports.
For some statistical purposes Arran is within the registration county of Ayrshire and for ceremonial purposes within the lieutenancy area of Ayrshire and Arran.
Counties continue to be used for the purpose of lieutenancy and land registration purposes, though the lieutenancy areas are not entirely identical.
The abolition of the county boroughs resulted in the distinction made between the counties for Lieutenancy and those for county councils becoming unnecessary.
Examples from Classical Literature
This devil of subornation, that talks of his lieutenancy, what could he ever have done without me?
Soon after his return, on the 8th of April 1777, he passed his examination for a lieutenancy.
What do you say, gentlemen, to a second lieutenancy for General Beatty's friend?
He had just been advanced to a first lieutenancy, and the family were jubilant in consequence.
The men wished to put up Allan Gold for the lieutenancy, but Allan declined.
Her husband bought a lieutenancy of foot, and is gone to Portugal.
They did so, and secured each a lieutenancy in an artillery regiment.
Nor did he gain his long-expected promotion to a lieutenancy.
He was instantly deprived of his lieutenancy and of his regiment.
When he was 14, he enrolled in the Honourable East India Company's academy at Addiscombe, graduating two years later with a second lieutenancy in the Bombay Artillery.
He spends a fair amount of time helping us understand the nature of Hemingway's honorary lieutenancy as well as discussing the other volunteers' mixed opinions of him.
She would have been promoted to a Lieutenancy in a few days if she had lived.
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