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privy council

NOUN
  1. an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown)

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  • I can understand a responsible Liberal minister deciding, ATC, not to open this can, but not without first tipping off the PM and probably not without tipping off the priviest part of the privy council the part that handles national security issues. Kory Teneycke, meet my tire iron.
  • The secretary of Elizabeth I's Privy Council is supposed to have submitted the warrant for the execution of Mary Stuart several times, concealed in a pile of lesser bumf, to help the Queen get over the hump. Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)
  • The Privy Council wrote to Henry that they had visited Mary often recently "whoe god be thanked is in prosperous health and convalescence. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • Security services and intelligence agencies should be accountable to a committee of senior Privy Councillors.
  • Even the timorous Lord Mayor, who was summoned that night before the Privy Council to answer for his conduct, came back contented; observing to all his friends that he had got off very well with a reprimand, and repeating with huge satisfaction his memorable defence before the Council, ‘that such was his temerity, he thought death would have been his portion.’ Barnaby Rudge
  • Security services and intelligence agencies should be accountable to a committee of senior Privy Councillors.
  • That minister had himself gone the length of petitioning the Scotch Privy Council for a birth-brieve, or certificate, to attest his descent from the Castlehill family, and the petition was refused through the influence of the Duke of Lauderdale. Life of Adam Smith
  • Dropping the appeal to the privy council was a matter of petty nationalist self aggrandisement.
  • These proposals have been approved by special general meetings of both institutes, and now only await Privy Council approval.
  • Now that the Privy Council has confirmed the right of vindicatory damages, there will likely be many more.
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