Despite the changes that had taken place in the structure of the empire and in the political, economic, and social patterns of Great Britain, royalty continued to hold its unique and________ place in the minds and hearts of the British.

单项选择题His speech was careful and________, but his words seemed to make no sense.

单项选择题The Western powers responded by supporting, practically without conditions, the regimes of Mobutu in Zaire, despite their ________corruption and their extreme anti-democratic practice.