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• While politicians and oil magnates argued the case for exploitation, conservationists fought to keep the region pristine.

• At most, the ruler might delay pardon, ignoring the magnate as he did so.

• Thirty of the remaining eightyfive families, one third (35.3 per cent) of the surviving group, managed to establish themselves as magnates in the interval.

• Both magnates had founded their fortunes to some extent on their star female partners.

• Frequently, the personal aesthetic values of these magnates overturned audience preferences.

• The majority of recruits were landed magnates, proprietors of estates of 10,000 acres or more.

• If the majority of new peers were magnates, the crown also ennobled a substantial group of smaller landowners.

• Throughout our period the crown consistently elevated men to the peerage who were not magnates.

• As a result, to a very large extent, propertied elites, merchants and industrialists and local magnates created their own private arrangements for protection and policing.

• Each magnate had his own domain of schools, students, followers, and charities.

• The degree of control over subsistence production enjoyed by the sultan and his provincial magnates extended to the collection of services and dues reminiscent of feudal relations.

• It is hardly surprising that the bulk of ' new ' peers were landed magnates as well as members of the parliamentary elite, for the two groups largely coincided.

• Before 1770, the likelihood was that if their families survived for long the scions of these more modestly endowed recruits would enter the magnate group within a few generations.

• Clearly, then, the expectation was that the newly ennobled who lacked magnate status at the time of their elevation would correct that deficiency within a generation or two.

• Generally, the maritime settlements should be regarded as seasonal settlements forming the basis for administered trade, and in some places this occurred in connection with gathering places for local magnates.