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Andronikos himself is believed to have married a member of the Doukas family, another clan with imperial connections.

With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Offenbach found himself out of favour in Paris because of his imperial connections and his German birth.

It lost the magic of the imperial connection.

"It's the imperial connection," I admitted slowly, with growing dismay.

"The Tely" strongly supported Canada's imperial connection with Britain as late as the 1960s.

It is a myth that Canadians emerged from the war alienated from, and disillusioned with, the imperial connection.

The Latins enjoyed the security that a distant imperial connection gave them when they were threatened by the Muslim powers of Syria.

The Unionists were anxious to maintain the imperial connection.

The subject of trade, which was increasingly bound up in the debate over the imperial connection, was equally divisive.