sultan

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• Ricky Gervais, the sultan of scorn, uttered that cheeky bit while emceeing the Golden Globes ceremony a few years back.

• As a teenager, I was the mistress of his brother—who ‘gave’ me as a gift to the sultan.

• And yet it is the privilege of the prince and the sultan to misbehave.

• At the time, the sultan was the wealthiest man in the world.

• Just two weeks later, the Sultan issued his decree that shariah, Islamic law, would be the new law of the land.

• Then came the Sultan (Abdul Hamid) himself in an open carriage, closely surrounded and guarded by officers.

• In truth, the Sultan of Sulu was probably quite as unable as he was unwilling to carry out its provisions.

• The Sultan declared he could never receive the Governor with such splendour, but he wanted him to promise to return his visit.

• Only half convinced and full of suspicion, the Sultan walked on in a daze, as though he were going to his last doom.

• The sultan of Turkey issued a firman granting new rights and privileges to his Christian subjects.