1.   Only in one remote, unnoticed, and unreported area did imperial authority ring out with any confidence.

2.   Outfitted in his regal trappings, he would symbolize imperial authority.

3.   Prussian authorities party took over the function of imperial authorities.

4.   Without imperial authority to reinforce its moral precepts, it increasingly relied on high-minded exhortation.

5.   At first, the imperial authorities saw no danger in a Ukrainian cultural awakening and even thought it might assist them in their conflicts with the Poles.

6.   Since the only Byzantines permitted to don jewels were members of the Imperial Court, the Ravenna mosaics are like a snapshot of the splendor of imperial authority.