| Hunt's acquisitive instincts far surpassed anything the Sublime Porte had in mind when it granted the firman. |
| The first firman made its way slowly from Constantinople to Athens, but events had overtaken it by the time it arrived. |
| Those days, through a shahi firman certain persons were appointed to perform some specific tasks. |
| Lord Elgin had obtained a firman, or Ottoman permission from the local authorities, but only after the payment of significant bribes. |
| A year later a firman conferred upon Ismāʿīl the special title of khedive, which had in fact been used unofficially since Muḥammad ʿAlī's time and which distinguished the viceroy of Egypt from other Ottoman governors. |
| Gregory confessed the forgery, and the Western Powers, on a plea from Pope Urban VII, succeeded in 1636 in having the firman withdrawn. |
