| The boundaries of the Palatinate varied with the political and dynastic fortunes of the Counts Palatine. |
| Then again, this is part and parcel of most political systems, including China's dynastic cycles. |
| Although the Angevin monarchs no longer had most of their Angevin lands, their grand dynastic visions had not diminished. |
| Moreover, pedigrees, by which dynastic links could be checked, do not exist for all the families of all his beneficiaries. |
| The transition from the traditions of a dynastic empire to a modern nation-state was neither instantaneous nor a complete transformation. |
| There was a strong dynastic element in the composition of these workshop teams. |
