1.   At the height of imperial power, exclusivity was rigidly applied.

2.   His new wife was Beatrice of Burgundy, and the Marriage was part of the complex Second Plan to strengthen imperial power.

3.   The argument that an imperial power needed physically strong and virile rulers convinced many female anti-suffragists.

4.   From an early date the imperial palaces at Constantinople incorporated decorative schemes that emphasized and glorified imperial power and dominion.

5.   As a sign of his imperial power the pope used the regnum and as a symbol of his pontifical power he used the mitre.

6.   From early times the papacy had allied with the imperial power to condemn the unorthodox.

7.   The collapse of imperial power in Gaul and Germany, and the activities of the Visigoths and Burgundians provide a necessary background for early Merovingian history.

8.   At least in Britain, the greatest of the imperial powers, this development was visible to some observers relatively early in the century.