| 单词 | grandee |
| 例句 | She demanded, “He shall not die in that chamber. Philosophers require a whole retinue of devils for their removal from this world. They are the grandees of the infernal kingdom.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Demographically speaking, they lived in the hinterlands, remote and thinly settled; their lives were as far from Wari or Toltec lords as the nomads of Siberia were from the grandees of Beijing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Its high, somewhat stiff collar against my neck, the wide cuffs touching my wrists, the rich material against my skin excited a sense of strangeness and distinction; I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He dressed impeccably and had the manners of a grandee. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of grandees in tweeds and armbands identifying them as minders to the secretary and his entourage stood off to the side in the front. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The trail passes close to several famous Tidewater plantations, including Shirley, settled in 1613, and Westover, whose owner, William Byrd II, kept a secret diary recounting the life and habits of a colonial grandee. On the Virginia Capital Trail, bike through 400 years of history in 52 miles 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, Attenborough settled down to playing the sort of grandee roles that an actor of his seniority and accomplishments could expect. Richard Attenborough – a career in clips 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z In 1947, Christopher Isherwood undertook a six-month tour of South America, concentrating on cultural sites, large cities and hobnobbing with local grandees. Recall of the wild: South America's new era of nature-led tourism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z He did not dress like an impoverished bohemian artist but like an eccentric grandee. Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z He sees it as a lesson in humility and good manners; outsiders are more likely to feel instead the humiliation of lobstermen forced to wait while the grandee goes on with his meal. Television Review: ‘41,’ George H. W. Bush Documentary, on HBO 2012-06-13T22:26:10Z She was twice exiled, as the social pariah Ruth Madoff in “The Wizard of Lies” and now as an uptown grandee gone broke in “French Exit,” which arrived in theaters this month. Michelle Pfeiffer Talks Scents 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A great-aunt from Silver Spring, Md., who spoke Yiddish with a twang, offered him an education about the area’s grandees. Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z And when the grandee passed away in 1996, the Countess de Ribes became her successor, bringing together the brightest and the best in the tradition of the French salon. The Doyenne of 'Le Tout Paris' 2010-04-12T14:00:00Z So outraged were some Scottish grandees by the profanity of its protagonist, an angry Glaswegian drunk, the Scottish Arts Council refused to help publish Kelman's next novel. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z On one occasion, the great Chief White Elk boldly waltzed into Salt Lake City, where he rapidly enthralled not only the local grandees but also Burtha Thompson, whose mother belonged to the Klamath tribe. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Then, without changing her spangled dress, her Titania is bemoaning the treacherous weather and bringing queenly steel to the business of reproaching Charles Edwards's elegant grandee of an Oberon. 2010-02-16T12:50:00Z What Tory grandee Baroness Shephard suggests is that everything the heroic Mrs T was in office, the callow Old Etonian is not. The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher – review 2013-03-15T19:40:01Z Philosophically, he belonged to the relaxed and evolutionary whig tradition exemplified by grandees such as Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden, but in temperament he was an odd mixture of managerial technocrat and Fabian interventionist. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z His older mistress Lady Sykes even had an affair with the Tory grandee, Lord Lyndhurst, in order to promote Disraeli's career. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z The discovery, which was reported by The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate, has stunned local historians and grandees who help organize Mardi Gras. After Decades of Searching, 1898 Film of New Orleans Mardi Gras Is Found 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The tone is steadfastly lucid and reasonable, even when the plot covers such melodramatic terrain as the seduction of a young novitiate in Sister Juana’s convent by a Spanish grandee. London Theater Journal: Firebrands 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z In gore and danger, and the kind of eerie, unacknowledged violence that flavours the entire film, a calf is born; Patrick is congratulated by the local grandee, Arthur, played by Timothy Spall. Wake Wood ? review 2011-03-24T15:00:01Z The variety runs from the eerily beautiful tombs of Creole grandees to a small plot on the grounds of a former plantation outside town where one of Adolf Hitler’s horses is said to be buried. 36 Hours: New Orleans 2012-02-16T17:02:36Z The nabob was "a controversial new species of grandee who made his fortune in India and returned home to enjoy his treasure". Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z The grandees of Hollywood are approaching this year’s Oscars in a pretty subdued and wary mood, the most subdued since the days of 9/11 and the Iraq war. Oscars 2018 predictions from our film critic Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z As well as featuring shows by grandees of French fashion such as Dior, Chanel or Saint Laurent, emerging labels will also be present. With patchwork and peace signs, Dior channels 1960s protest spirit 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The sesame seeds atop the bun were the pièce de résistance, a simple but decadent touch that marked the sandwich’s status as the grandee on the McDonald’s menu. Jim Delligatti, who gave the world the Big Mac sandwich, dies at 98 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Anyone, grandee or hoi polloi, could turn up in a picture. How Robert Mapplethorpe went from America's pariah to America's sweetheart 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Another grandee role came Attenborough’s way shortly after - of a very different sort. Richard Attenborough – a career in clips 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Next the World in Action confrontation in an Essex garden between four besuited establishment grandees and Jagger, flown in like a young god by helicopter. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z Cosimo was chosen by Florence’s grandees in the hope that this young man still in his teens would prove malleable and allow them to run the state in their own interests. Art: For Florence, Vasari Was a Man of All Talents 2011-07-13T11:48:19Z As well as featuring shows by grandees of French fashion such as Dior, Chanel or Saint Laurent, emerging labels will also be present. With patchwork and peace signs, Dior channels 1960s protest spirit 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z A year ago, the lexicographic grandees at Oxford Languages dutifully stuck out their arms and chose “vax” as the 2021 Word of the Year. The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Charter liberal grandees like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who cannot be accused of racial animus toward blacks, worried that welfare was passing dependency from one generation to the next in some poor black families. How Racism Is Destroying America 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z With his pale eyes, flossy hair and rugged features, Crowell is more evidently the country-music grandee – an imposing Texan in a black silk scarf and matching trilby. Emmylou Harris: 'I looked down on country' 2013-03-04T18:22:38Z Personal memories abound, and his affectionate warmth will linger with me, never the grandee. Ian Bostridge: 'Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a titanic figure' 2012-05-18T16:58:15Z The tiny stone building gives no suggestion of the extravagant alabaster statues within — funeral monuments of the St. Paul family, local grandees who became staunch Puritans. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z They've never coveted the prestige of the BBC, either, nor longed for the status of grandee presenters who get to cover, say, a royal jubilee? Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z McGrath’s West Hollywood home became Clean’s headquarters, where he’d regularly throw parties — attended by a mix of Cool School artists, Old Hollywood grandees and New Journalism figures — in lieu of A&R meetings. Earl McGrath Was a Character. His Closet Was Filled With Rare Recordings. 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z A brief flash forward to an international conference on crisis in capitalism, where urban warriors are beating at the doors of the powerful, provides a nimble satire on economic pundits and global grandees. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z Unsurprisingly his self-portraits became self-dramatizations, less records of what he looked like — a kind of hippie grandee — than projections of what he felt like. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z Few foreign policy theories would predict much change from simply swapping out one pair of old white male Republican national security grandees for another. How Can the U.S. Fix Its Foreign Policy? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Outgoing artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Michael Boyd was among the arts grandees recognised in the Queen's birthday honours this year. Seven days on stage: from a revamped Tricycle to an RSC knighthood 2012-06-22T15:40:10Z The key, says one Labour grandee, is to ensure policy development is being turbo-charged in private. Labour conference: Keir Starmer grapples with how to get into power 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z He was effectively crowned by Tory grandees, who were desperate for someone to steady the ship after the chaos of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson. Rishi Sunak: The Star Wars fan turned political force 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Some are drawn to the Sanfermines - as the festival is popularly known - by the timeless prose of one of the grandees of 20th-century American literature. A century on, Hemingway's prose lures revellers to Spain's Pamplona 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z As if on schedule, DeSantis learned a lesson that other gubernatorial grandees soon came to understand: Despite their high esteem for themselves, there is absolutely nothing like running for president. Column: Ron DeSantis faces a sobering lesson on ambition, hubris and big talk 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The minds of these Athenian grandees were probably in their various potentials not too different from the potentials of the cleverest of more recent times. Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Although she has promised a new start for the party, many of the PD's grandees have rallied behind her in recent weeks. In surprise result, Italy's left picks Elly Schlein to rebuild party 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Jonathan Ruffer, 71, a religious-minded City trader who has lavished millions of his own money on his native north-east England, is a throwback to those God-fearing Victorian grandees. Jeff Bezos: Does US-style philanthropy exist in UK? 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Tory grandee Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative Party leader, told LBC radio that Johnson found himself “struggling and begging people for votes. That was demeaning, really.” Rishi Sunak vows to earn Britain’s trust in first speech as prime minister 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Will the party’s grandees fix things so that a new leader is inserted without an internal election? Opinion | Yes, the Tories are in a mess. But there may be a way out for them. 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z If Truss survives, “it’s only because Conservative Party grandees can’t agree on a replacement.” With Liz Truss’s agenda gutted, Brits ask if prime minister is still in charge 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Then there was a grandee, Sir Bill Cash; and a message from the grassroots too, in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph. Liz Truss's next job is to turn around Tory fatalism 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z There are no vicious anonymous briefings; no political grenades being hurled by disgruntled grandees at fringe events; no plots being hatched at the bar. SNP conference: A calm event amid stormy times 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z "This is not a done deal," Van der Bellen told his closing campaign rally on Friday, attended by grandees of all parties in parliament except the FPO, the third biggest in the lower house. Austrian president seeks re-election by first-round knock-out 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z For these voters, many of whom are older and quite right-wing, Thatcher remains a revered figure, second only to Winston Churchill in the pantheon of Tory grandees. Vying to Lead Britain, Candidates for Prime Minister Emulate Another: Thatcher 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z But Labour grandees have called on Sir Keir to finesse and spell out his policy platform in more detail ahead of the next general election. Keir Starmer: Tory leader hopefuls in arms race of fantasy economics 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Former Tory grandee Lord Heseltine once said of him that he was “a man who waits to see the way the crowd is running, then dashes in front and says, ‘Follow me!’ Perspective | Exit, Boris Johnson. Sort of — he’s still hogging the stage. 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Still, Nixon was free to write a best-selling memoir and to remain something of a Republican grandee all the way up to his death nearly two decades after he resigned in disgrace. The Watergate Hearings, 50 Years Ago: Truth Was Not Up for Debate 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z "They'll be like sheep droppings," the grandee says of the many expected letters. Turbulent week puts PM's leadership back in frame 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The rally of about 30,000 supporters - almost reaching the venue's full capacity - was attended by former left-wing and right-wing prime ministers and other party grandees. Macron warns against Brexit-like election upset at mass campaign rally 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Proponents, from street protesters in Europe to a group of foreign policy grandees in the United States, say a no-fly zone is essential to save lives in Ukraine, but even some of U.S. Explainer: Massive risks keep talk of Ukraine no-fly zone firmly grounded 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Becoming a playwright and theatrical grandee took time. Harvey Fierstein — warts, ego and all — in his juicy memoir 'I Was Better Last Night' 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z It comes after Tory grandee and one-time ally David Davis joined calls for Mr Johnson to quit over lockdown parties in Downing Street. Boris Johnson's future: Ministers blackmailing plotters, claims Tory MP 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, Tory grandee David Davis joined those calling for Mr Johnson to quit, telling him: "In the name of God, go." Boris Johnson's future: Tory MPs stepping back from challenge - minister 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z He was showered with golden ticker tape on the field, then presented with bouquets of roses by government grandees when he returned to Cairo. When Two Champions Leagues Titles in Eight Months Don’t Count 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z "We thought things would get better after Christmas" one grandee said. Downing Street party: Tory MPs send angry message to Boris Johnson 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Very few grandees came here bathed in adoration. The triumph of the scorned 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z He has been widely described as an uncontroversial moderate who holds the trust of party grandees. Japan’s Likely Next Prime Minister Tries to Set Himself Apart 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z While Mr. McManus was planning to watch a soccer match, Mr. Cameron would be preparing for a posh activity like stalking deer at some grandee’s estate in Scotland. To His Surprise, His Play About 2 Dead U.K. Politicians Struck a Chord 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Lee and other Confederate grandees were an object of folkloric reverence whose ideological role as defenders of slavery was airbrushed from the minds of generations. Opinion | Two recent decisions put Virginia on the right side of history and morality 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z A Conservative Party grandee ridiculed it as a “complete waste of time, silly populist nonsense.” Royal Yacht or Fishing Trawler? Either Way, Even the Royal Family Isn’t Interested. 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z That plays well for high-level activists and party grandees. How ‘Rockstar’ DeSantis positioned himself as a Trump successor 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “For too long sports grandees have profited off the labors of youngsters. There’s more than enough money to go around, so why not give some to the kids who generate it?” Supreme Court’s NCAA ruling puts athletes on legal path to getting paid 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z What’s even more striking, however, is that affluent Americans are not following the example of grandees of centuries past. Opinion | Working Less Is a Matter of Life and Death 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z When the vizier arrived in Samarkand, he was greeted by the townspeople very joyfully, and all the local grandees prayed that he might reign over them for a long time. Opinion | Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z This is the “old California” image that caught the nation’s fancy: haciendas, grandees in silver- and gold-trimmed clothes, riding costly horses and betting fortunes on a card. You know their names: Palos Verdes, La Brea, Sepulveda. But what were the ranchos? 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z From Utah to Minnesota and from Long Island to the Berkshires, local grandees have decided that a newspaper is an essential part of the civic fabric. Why Buy a Yacht When You Can Buy a Newspaper? 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Ma was earnest and engaged, at ease in the role of conference grandee. China’s jaded techies find a hero in Elon Musk 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z The reactions have been as comical as they are predictable: Wall Street grandees bemoaning the sophomoric heathens who’ve turned finance into a video game. Perspective | GameStop mania exposes SEC’s failure as regulator 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z These grandees were about to watch a film called “Purity,” which starred one of the most famous women in America: Audrey Munson, a model from New York who posed nude for sculptors and other artists. Perspective | Remembering the most scandalous film ever (not) shown in Washington 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z The corporation operated numerous tobacco plantations, kept detailed records of enslaved workers’ productivity and installed as managers priests who lived more like planter grandees than servants of Christ. Review | The enslaved families who went to court to win their freedom 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z He adds that his loss deprives golf "not merely of its most mellifluous voice but of a grandee, unyielding in his defiance of convention". Newspaper headlines: PM 'ready to quit' EU talks, and vaccine 'V Day' 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z It was a place for second and third sons, two and three generations removed from the grandees of the Eastern Shore and the Tidewater. Perspective | Two old stone houses vie for the title of oldest dwelling in the District 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z The grandees who attend next week’s “New Economy” gathering may be listening to an old record, but I don’t think it’s broken. Opinion | The global establishment’s advice for Joe Biden 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z A number of Conservative grandees were among those voting to remove controversial clauses in the internal market bill - which has been heavily criticised by the EU. Brexit: Government's bill suffers heavy House of Lords defeat 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z "Being pro-Palestinian is conflated as anti-Semitism, both by the mainstream media and now by Labour Party grandees." Corbyn anti-Semitism row: Len McCluskey urges angry members to stay in Labour 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Among the train’s chief beneficiaries will be Ruffin and the other grandees of gambling who became a vital font of political money for Trump when he needed it most. Trump engineered a sudden windfall in 2016 as campaign funds dwindled 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z When he began to focus on African American folk art, he heard one Atlanta grandee scoff, saying that it was “nothing but rusted tin and rotten wood.” Bill Arnett, who collected and promoted Black vernacular art, dies at 81 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z When she began writing fiction, McCarthy was well-known as the sleek grandee of the magazine world. Love beyond sex, money and property: a case for friendship 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Criticism of Trump from the grandees of his own party is growing. First Thing: coronavirus is making a comeback in parts of the US 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z It is a peculiar thing when rap grandees talk about retiring. Wiley on his final album: 'I need to not let grime die on the way out' 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Party grandees are encouraging states and territories instead to extend postal and early voting to reduce public exposure to the virus. Sanders 'assessing' campaign following Biden rout 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z If no one is able to win a majority of delegates, then the nominee will be decided by party grandees at the Milwaukee gathering. Warren persists in Democratic race despite crushing Super Tuesday losses 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Wooden sarcophagi of the Middle Kingdom’s grandees were primarily painted on the inside. An Afterlife So Perilous, You Needed a Guidebook 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s a poignant, faintly surreal encounter, two superannuated grandees coming to terms with their own obsolescence, but Morgan felt it didn’t quite work as an ending. How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z In the middle third of the twentieth century, a crippled Hudson River grandee delivered the United States to the summit of global power. False security: Trump and the Ten Commandments (plus one) of the national security state 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z While the grandees mingle, Rinehart sets up court with her entourage in a shaded corner of the garden on what looks like a sedan chair, but is actually just a garden settee. When Donald met Scott: a reporter's view of Trump and his White House wonderland 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The drama was divided, as the title implies, between the grandees in the upper rooms and the crew of loyal servants who, from their base of operations down below, saw to their employers’ every need. Villains Hog the Spotlight in “The Laundromat” 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Last week, he ejected from the party 21 members who defied him, including grandees such as the longest-serving member of the House and the grandson of Winston Churchill, an idol of Johnson’s. The question before Britain's Parliament: Can Boris Johnson be trusted to obey the law? 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z To prefer some grandee risks breaking the unity and goodwill of the alliance. If Boris Johnson quits, MPs should back Jeremy Corbyn to avoid no deal | Polly Toynbee 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “The Tory grandee doesn’t so much talk at you as through you, barely pausing for respite,” Woodward wrote in the Decanter Journal. Fighting back tears, Winston Churchill’s grandson exits politics and chides Boris Johnson 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z The center was founded three decades ago, after Governor Mario Cuomo urged the local grandees to find a way to provide health services for the burgeoning Orthodox population. The Message of Measles 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z “Mrs. May has many virtues, but I’m afraid leadership is not one of them,” said Andrew Mitchell, a Tory grandee. Theresa May packs her bags, her legacy dominated by failure 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z But this wasn’t Helmand, it was a posh do for city grandees, who were being momentarily inconvenienced. The Mark Field video is chillingly familiar to anyone who recognises male violence | Suzanne Moore 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z It mirrors an amendment tabled by the Tory grandee Sir Graham Brady in February - approved at the time by four votes - which authorised the PM to seek changes to the deal. A guide to MPs' alternative Brexit plans 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The expectation among Tory grandees now is that PM uses the below to set a date for her resignation. Brexit: Government may ignore result of indicative votes process, says Hancock - live news 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The grandee in question was outraged that the government of the Republic of Ireland seemed to be a real player in determining the E.U.’s priorities in its divorce negotiations with Britain. Can an American Get Excited About Brexit? A Six-Part Test 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Fellow Republican Jeb Bush said condemnation was not enough, and called for party grandees to oust Mr King. US congressman in white supremacy furore 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Anschutz and the neoconservative Standard were not a perfect ideological fit, but to its editors he exuded a “cowboy graciousness,” and when the Standard staged events with Republican grandees he would come. Who Killed The Weekly Standard? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z He was described as "the grandest of grandees" by the late sketch writer Simon Hoggart. Who died in 2018? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Some disgruntled grandees decided to grab the opportunity. Could Angela Merkel’s successor be Europe’s saviour?| Alan Posener 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z But when the grandees and the grunts of Germany’s dominant postwar party gather in Hamburg on Friday, they will face an uncertainty unknown for the past 18 years. Ally or rival? In Germany, Merkel’s party faces a choice that could define her legacy. 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z However, one Brexiteer complained this was a bid to "spook grandees". MPs to debate economic impact of Brexit 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z She won—and now, improbably, continues to call on the octogenarian grandee who refused to support her, for leadership advice. “Local Politics Is Nice Politics”: Small-Town Concerns and National Implications in New York’s Nineteenth District 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z This was jokingly dubbed the launch of Ms Greening's leadership campaign by Tory grandee Lord Willetts. Tories need dramatic change - Greening 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Bill Gates is just one of the grandees to laud Pinker’s ode to the present. The business class doesn’t understand the Enlightenment 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Initially, mainstream Labour politicians and grandees understood his surge of support as a moment of collective insanity. Think we can rewind to the heady days before Trump and Brexit? Think again | Gary Younge 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. McCain was one of the few grandees who managed to transcend party, serving at times as a loyal Republican and other times as a massive thorn in the side of the party. John McCain, American hero, leaves unmatched legacy 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z In Washington, Mr. McCain was one of the few grandees who managed to transcend party, serving at times as a loyal Republican and other times as a massive thorn in the side of the GOP. John McCain has died of brain cancer, Vietnam War hero and senator was 81 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Described as "the grandest of grandees" by the late sketch writer Simon Hoggart, in 2011 he was appointed to the Privy Council - a rare honour for a backbencher. Former MP Sir Peter Tapsell dies aged 88 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Yet when the idea was first mooted in the 1980s Environment Secretary Mr Heseltine - now Tory grandee Lord Heseltine - found a city in economic decline and reeling from the riots. How Tate Liverpool 'revived' a city 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z One of his sons developed the hotel in Milwaukee’s third ward, a project that attracted scepticism from local grandees, who doubted anyone wanted it. The flourishing Midwest 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z His military background, and fearless attitude, endeared him to Tory grandees such as the late Alan Clark, another of his heroes, as he began his rise through the party ranks in the early 1990s. David Davis - the maverick minister 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z It recruited investments from experienced venture-capital firms that were wooed as easily as those naive grandees who joined the board. Opinion | A dazzling story of deception in Silicon Valley 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z At times, the book reads like the travelogue of a globetrotting grandee. Review | John McCain reflects on his ‘maverick’ past and the future of the country 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z While Mr Abe was visiting America this week, some LDP grandees met for dinner, which the press interpreted as an incipient plot. The cabals Japan’s prime minister has tried to curb may curb him 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z State Department grandees tended to see these White House advisers as rivals. Francis Bator, Hungarian Refugee, Advised Lyndon Johnson on Economics and Europe 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z This group of grandees is chaired by the Speaker, and they organise the running of the House. Harassment at the House of Commons 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It shows the renewed power of party grassroots, and the increasing influence of members over grandees. Germany’s coalition deal safeguards the Merkel/Macron vision of Europe | Anne McElvoy 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Unwitting party officials promptly sent Lima a ballot, along with messages from party grandees welcoming the canine newcomer. German Government Hinges on Party Tally 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Things will never revert to a healthy level until policy makers render academia less attractive from the financial point of view for faculty grandees. Opinion | The Student Loan Serenity Prayer 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z At the same time, so many of the grandees of female privilege seem to be rejecting feminism too. When feminists advance, why do prominent women hold us back? | Afua Hirsch 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z If anything, opposition from such grandees emboldened Mr Trump. Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital makes peace less likely 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z He is also reforming the board of directors, an unwieldy collection of 18 grandees who failed to ask hard questions even as GE’s performance deteriorated. Flannery unveils his strategy to revive GE 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z In private, grandees put the chances of a full Obamacare repeal and replacement in the near future at close to zero. What Republican senators really think of the president 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z But the former education secretary Nicky Morgan said it would be difficult for May to fight another election, and the Tory grandee Michael Heseltine said she had no long-term future. Senior Tories cast doubt on Theresa May's long-term future as leader 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Either way, the feuding reflects more than internecine battles among the Conservative grandees. As ‘Brexit’ Clock Ticks, U.K. Seems Adrift 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z And in part it’s because to the sheikhs, oligarchs and hedge fund grandees who own Premier League clubs, £50m isn’t actually that much money. Kyle Walker for £50m? Collective madness has gripped the Premier League | Jonathan Wilson 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Certainly, Mr Xi received the territory’s grandees, and he attended a mushily patriotic variety show. There is a gulf between Hong Kongers and the Communist Party 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr Abe’s trip is a chance for the party’s grandees to plot his downfall, but he will not be easy to dislodge. An electoral defeat puts Japan’s prime minister on the back foot 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z So Xi Jinping, China’s president, told grandees at a ceremony in Hong Kong marking the anniversary of the handover of the territory by Britain to China in 1997. Xi Jinping talks tough to Hong Kong 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Marchers began gathering in the afternoon in the city's downtown Victoria Park in uncomfortable proximity to an outdoor exhibition — organized by a Who's Who of pro-China grandees — touting China's myriad achievements. Fanfare and Protests Mark the Hong Kong Handover Anniversary 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Its grandees knew neither the cost nor value of anything. FIFA Pulls Back the Curtain, but Will It Ever See the Light? 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Party grandees, sure that Theresa May, the prime minister, would secure a big majority, rubbished the prediction—as did officials from the opposition Labour Party, convinced they were heading for defeat. Britain’s election is the latest occasion to bash pollsters 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It is why the poor are being caricatured by party grandees as “emotional beings” who do not care about the policies that are having such an impact on their lives. The Democratic party still thinks it will win by 'not being Trump' | Douglas Williams 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z This might discomfort many a grandee in the news profession; but if the man from Wikipedia provides a business model that sustains top notch reporting, they might thank him eventually. Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales creates news service Wikitribune - BBC News 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The Front National has only two members in the French national assembly and En Marche! none, although Macron has enlisted about 50 sitting Socialists and several centre-right grandees. Le Pen attacks Macron as she steps aside as head of Front National 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Instead, this version of MLS needs him to play the part of a party grandee, which is bad news for all involved. Tim Howard is an increasingly outdated frontman for MLS 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In a pomp-filled ceremony, the king bestowed the signed charter to Thailand’s junta chief in an ornate throne hall filled with foreign dignitaries and political grandees dressed in white. Thailand's king signs constitution and puts country on path to polls 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Trump had just cut through the grandees like a hot knife through butter. Opinion | American democracy: Not so decadent after all 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z His grandfather was the chief justice of the supreme court of Vermont; his great-grandfather was the governor of Vermont; so the creator of The Dice Man was born to New England grandees. Three days with The Dice Man: ‘I never wrote for money or fame' 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z How can it be OK for a Tory grandee to start woofing at a female politician when she stands up to speak? Populists blame poor behaviour on migrants – but these fearmongers are less civil than most primary school kids 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z In 2025 the party ceded most of its metropolitan seats to OTM!, now endorsed by several centrist unions and most Labour grandees. How the slow death of Labour might happen 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The Lib Dem grandee retired from the House of Lords in February after a distinguished parliamentary career stretching back more than 50 years. New Year Honours 2017: Olympic heroes and entertainers recognised - BBC News 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Many of his closest allies are also “princelings”, as offspring of the party’s grandees are often called. China has gained hugely from globalisation 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z If Washington grandees are shocked, they misunderstand Mr Trump. The impresario-elect 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Even though not formally announced, it is a humiliation for the company and for the business grandees on its various boards. Clash of the Tatas 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The man too incompetent to insult is now going to sit in the Oval Office, whence he will hand down his beauty-contest verdicts on the grandees and sages of the old order. Donald Trump is moving to the White House, and liberals put him there | Thomas Frank 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Party grandees appalled by their nominee’s success should ponder how they have spent years denouncing Washington as corrupt, and accusing Democrats of threatening the country’s future. Donald Trump, vigilante 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Trump’s outlandish statements have stunned Republican party grandees. Republicans fear Trump's parade of insults might help cost him the election 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Candidate Trump alarmed grandees from both parties with his cooing praise for President Vladimir Putin of Russia. The impresario-elect 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It was a poignant celebration for Republican grandees: they gathered to rehabilitate an outcast, a leader history deemed unfit for the White House, only to grapple with a potential brand new one. Richard Nixon library's reopening highlights Republican party's rift 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Lord Heseltine, the Conservative party grandee and famed almost-prime minster, studied at Pembroke College and joined the Oxford Union and the Oxford Conservative Party Association on his first day there. Why have so many Prime Ministers gone to Oxford University? - BBC News 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The grandees of the Federal Reserve, before their annual retreat with fellow central bankers, took time to engage with the progressive activists of Fed Up. The Federal Reserve’s Politicians 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s steamroller success has caused many party grandees, including the two former Presidents Bush, to stay away. Behind a Facade of G.O.P. Unity, Frayed Edges Painfully Exposed 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Like other Republican grandees, he complains about conservative outside groups and talk-radio hosts who in 2013 forced a “futile” government shutdown. Homeopathy politics 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z By custom, Cody’s holiday parades are watched by Wyoming grandees from the roof of the Irma Hotel, built by William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, the scout, soldier and impresario. Ride ’em, cowboy! 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The grim economic news in Britain was briefly offset by a rare glimpse of two Conservative Party grandees talking bluntly about their younger colleagues, apparently unaware they were being filmed by TV cameras. Pound Plunges as U.K.'s Ruling Party Starts Choosing Leader 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Overnight a visibly tired Cameron, backed by former prime ministers and other grandees, pleaded with voters to put “jobs and the economy first”. Brexit decision day: a last-minute primer as voters cast ballots to leave EU or stay 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The items are due to go on public display on Friday under the theme “Hitler and the Nazi grandees – a look into the abyss of evil”. Jewish group protests at 'scandalous' Nazi memorabilia auction in Germany 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The grandees “need to mark themselves to market,” says Mr. Rolet. A Tale of Two Cities: How ‘Brexit’ Splits London 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z With so many disapproving GOP grandees skipping the proceedings at Quicken Loans Arena, Trump may strain to fill his preliminary fight card with enough speakers to satisfy even the C-Span faithful. 8 Moves Donald Trump Has to Make at the Convention 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Rising costs forced grandees to chose between building a music hall and a bell tower. Mortarboard in hand 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Faced with Trump’s challenge, GOP grandees have failed to react in any meaningful way. Trump understood the voters the GOP forgot 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z A couple of weeks before the New Hampshire primary in February, Byron York, a journalist well sourced among Republican operatives, crisscrossed the state asking party grandees: “Do you know anyone who supports Donald Trump?” Is the U.S. Ready for Post-Middle-Class Politics? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Polls of evangelical grandees regularly found that their choice for the nominee was Marco Rubio, and this did his candidacy little good. Donald Trump, Abortion, and the Collapse of the Conservative Coalition 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images For party grandees, sticking their heads in the sand left them unable to cope with the tempest whipping up dissent. The rise of Donald Trump is a battle for the soul of the Republican party 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Some Republican grandees might languidly reply that angst among Cruz voters does not much matter—they are not endorsing the Texan because they want him to win. Ted Cruz, false hope 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z These are current or former elected officials and other Democratic grandees who are formally unpledged to any candidate before the convention. Bernie Sanders Gets No Respect 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z But he is still seen by party grandees and many Republicans in Congress as preferable to Trump, a real-estate billionaire viewed as straying even further from party principles. Trump, Cruz feud over wives simmers online as attacks get personal 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The all‑too-familiar challenges faced by Africa’s researchers were thoroughly rehearsed, both by the Fellows and by African, European and US policy grandees who sat alongside them on panels. Africa’s elite 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Conservative grandees preparing to back Mr Trump are arguably the worst snobs of all. The big schmooze 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z In practice, as she got older, this meant a sort of tweedy look with wellies, always with pearls and a proper hairdo, as befits a grandee – and, indeed, the grandmother of model Stella Tennant. The Duchess of Devonshire – fashion royalty who loved Elvis 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Morning, noon and night, he was feted by the grandees of publishing, broadcasting and many organizations in need of charismatic leadership. A Bill Buckley Lesson for Conservatism Today 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Both suspect that Republican Party grandees don’t see a future for them in the United States. Evangelical Christians are so sick of losing that they’re voting for Trump 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z She formed tight friendships with movie stars such as Marlene Dietrich and Elizabeth Taylor and other grandees of culture and politics, including Clark Clifford, who became godfather to her only child. Yolande Betbeze Fox, a Miss America who rebelled, dies at 87 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z This might help explain why Republican grandees are starting to make their first tentative moves towards Mr Trump. Is Donald Trump now unstoppable? - BBC News 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Its small airport was built to accommodate the supersonic Concorde jet, which flew in grandees from Paris once a week for parties and fashion shows. Iranian Island Plots a Return to Heyday 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z For several years, de Montebello had been meeting informally with Leonard Lauder, the cosmetics grandee, to talk about the future of Lauder’s Cubist paintings. The Met Gets with It 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Chart-topping entertainers, scientists, sportsmen and grandees from both the left and right of politics - 2015 has seen the deaths of some familiar faces. Notable UK deaths of 2015 - BBC News 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Last year, the former PP grandee was jailed on preliminary charges of money laundering, criminal association, influence peddling, bribery, misappropriation of funds, abuse of power and fraud. Spanish political landscape set for new era - BBC News 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Because these are the very grandees who commissioned the exhaustive research after the 2012 defeat about how the GOP needed to connect with the ethnic minorities, women and disadvantaged. Is Donald Trump now unstoppable? - BBC News 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim visitors did prove a step too far for many Republican rivals and grandees. The politics of panic 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z In May 2014, the grandees of British and European capitalism gathered in London, where Mr. Jin spoke to representatives of several hundred wealth funds. China Creates an Asian Bank, as the U.S. Stands Aloof 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z As befits an academy that has sent former students to Congress at every election since 1789, grandees have had much to say about a row at Princeton. What’s in a name 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Lake Como, tucked against Italy’s border with Switzerland, has been home to ancient Roman grandees, Renaissance cardinals, Milanese industrialists and, most recently, to Russian billionaires and actor George Clooney. Lake Como Rises Again 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Local grandees call their state a microcosm of conservative America. The Firewall State 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z He is an ambitious leader, and the son of a Communist revolutionary grandee. The emperor’s descendants 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Paul Guilfoyle has a wonderful turn as a Bostonian grandee, confident that any unpleasantness can be smoothed away with a hand on the shoulder and a quiet drink. The Saddest Scoop in Boston 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z And, Nigel Lawson, a Conservative Party grandee who served as Treasury chief for six years under former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, called on Mr. Osborne to rethink his proposals. U.K.’s House of Lords to Vote on Tax Credits Cuts 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z It is dawning on the party grandees that their most recent predictions of Trump’s demise, like earlier ones, were wrong. Chaos is the GOP’s new normal 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z As the race slipped away, finding a way to undermine Corbyn became an obsession for some party grandees. The Corbyn earthquake – how Labour’s leadership contest shook the party to its foundations | Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z A young man at a fringe meeting earlier berated his party colleagues, including grandees Shirley Williams and Simon Hughes, for not being gloomy enough. Why are the Lib Dems so happy? - BBC News 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z And it was highly contentious, with some politicians and grandees warning that TV adverts would somehow debase society. The man behind Britain's first ever TV advert - BBC News 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Immediately after the election, a stream of grandees on the right of the party took to the airwaves. Britain’s “Bernie Sanders” moment: How this unassuming left-wing populist became the leader of the Labour Party 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z A group of politicians, including the late Cyril Smith, a gargantuan Liberal Party grandee, reportedly met at a flat in south London to abuse teenagers. Where truth and myth collide 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Separately, a small group of party grandees proposed the three mainstream candidates should pull out in the hope of invalidating the race. The Corbyn earthquake – how Labour’s leadership contest shook the party to its foundations | Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z I’m not sure that Republican grandees understand the nature of Trump’s appeal, which is that he defies the traditional customs and strictures of politics. Attacking Donald Trump seems to only make him stronger 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The grandees of the City are often accused of crying wolf, pretending that their industry is about to be devoured by taxes and regulation when in fact they are just trying to protect profits. A chance of showers 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Others, such as David Steel, a grandee, say the party needs to regain its left-of-centre edge. Not dead yet 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But grandees grinding axes, affronted by the failure of boys who used to make their tea, may be creating so much noise that they can't hear more insistent sounds. Are Labour tribes readying to go to war? - BBC News 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Labour grandees, who took another month to wake up to the threat posed by Corbyn, were caught off guard. The Corbyn earthquake – how Labour’s leadership contest shook the party to its foundations | Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z One Liberal Democrat grandee, Lord Ashdown, declared at around ten past ten that, if the exit polls were correct, he would eat his hat live on national TV. David Cameron Carries On 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The Tory grandee says the young Mr Clegg always resisted attempts to recruit him to the Conservative Party. Lib Dem leader resigns: The Nick Clegg Story - BBC News 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z A former foreign secretary under Tony Blair, David Miliband had the backing of most party grandees and generous support from donors. British Parliamentary Elections 2015 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z But unlike Bill, she is now attempting something hard: to reverse her passage through the money door, quit the life of the global grandee and reinvent herself as a tribune of the people. Hillary’s money woes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z A presidential candidate’s detailed policy positions are at best polite suggestions to the barons of the House and the grandees of the Senate, who will decide what does and does not become law. The media’s dangerous “policy wonk” fetish: Why America doesn’t need a president with bold ideas 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps the liberal position would be for Silicon Valley grandees to relocate to the wet and rainy Klamath River Basin, where it could grow without unnaturally imported water from the Sierra Nevada. Why Californians Are Starved of Water 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Adams is now sixty-six and a grandfather, and his evolution into an approachable grandee has found its surreal culmination on Twitter. Where the Bodies Are Buried 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Mr Wu, a former bureaucrat, knows many grandees. The big Anbang 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Known for his rhetorical skills, his dislike of neckties and his youthful looks, Mr Tsipras's colleagues see him as quite unlike any of Greece's traditional political grandees. Syriza's Tsipras faces great expectations 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z That's where the UK's new strategy for 'maximising economic recovery', written for the government by industry grandee Sir Ian Wood, faces much bigger challenges than Sir Ian thought when he published last summer. Stormy times ahead in the North Sea 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The Tory grandee, who wanted a European deal, later quit over the issue. Westland: Heseltine's Libya concerns 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Not fops, grandees, and pretenders, but the undercutting of the people, the danger to democracy. Fear of a Mad King Jeb 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The 83-year-old Tory grandee made the proposal in a letter to Matt Shardlow, chief executive of a charity called Buglife, which is concerned about the effect of declining ragwort on bees and rare insects. ‘Make young unemployed pull up ragwort for benefits,’ says Lord Tebbit 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z From the outset, Scots retained their own legal, educational, and religious systems, and were traditionally governed by way of their own indigenous grandees and operators. Scottish independence: catalogue of errors that has brought UK to the brink 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z On September 11th the Electoral Reform Society, along with a roster of academic and political grandees, called for a constitutional convention after the referendum. The Unitedish Kingdom 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Today, few ask why he did not take Baghdad and foreign-policy grandees long for a muscular realist like Mr Bush. The George H.W. Bush revival 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Anyway, the shortlist is, for today at least, back to one: Nick Prettejohn, City grandee and former adviser to George Osborne. A depressingly British tale of friends in high places 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Beckham was "terribly affected by it", according to Bobby Charlton, one of many football grandees who pleaded clemency for him, much as they plead it for the Brazil team now. Life after 7-1: what happens to footballers after a defeat like Brazil's? 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z After Mr Romney lost, Republican grandees were determined to build a national rival to Bridge. Digging dirt, digitally 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Victorian-era photos arrayed on the house’s patterned wallpaper depict starchy grandees and cheeky tableaux of women embracing and cross-dressing. She Did It Her Way 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Gurus of the subject, grandee diplomats and soldiers, disdain Mr Cameron almost unanimously. Running out of gas 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Modest in private, with a rich hinterland of interests from fishing to book-writing, Paxman, a self-made grandee from a modest, middle-class and provincial background, is a classier, more effortlessly stylish act than most. Jeremy Paxman represents the best and worst of the media elite 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr Carney was speaking in London on Thursday at the annual Mansion House dinner attended by City and business grandees. Rate rise hint sends pound higher 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr Carney was speaking in London on Thursday evening, at the annual Mansion House dinner attended by City and business grandees. Bank hints at rate rise this year 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z A number of party grandees have taken to the airwaves to give Clegg their support. Vince Cable calls for end to Lib Dem feuding 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But now Michael Hicks, head of history at the University of Winchester, and archaeological grandee Martin Biddle, have voiced doubts. Richard III rows set to rumble on 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z And the GOP’s grandees are spending lots of it. Big Money Powers Big Business in GOP Primaries 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The decision to endorse reforms put forward by City grandee Paul Myners will be seen as a major victory for its executive directors. Troubled Co-operative Group backs controversial reforms 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Past winners include such grandees as Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman. The late edition 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z But this is not your typical proxy fight between the GOP’s grassroots and grandees. Nebraska Senate Race Bridges Republican Divide 2014-05-13T16:17:51Z If the GOP Establishment wins the first wave of primaries Tuesday, it will be a sign that the GOP’s grandees are the favorites in the Republican civil war of 2014. GOP Establishment Faces First 2014 Primary Tests 2014-05-05T21:36:05Z In a blistering attack, Michel Rocard, a grandee of the French Socialist Party who served as premier under Francois Mitterrand, identified Britain as the source of all the EU's problems. PRESS DIGEST- British Business - April 30 2014-04-29T23:48:33Z The takeover of London's biggest commercial Asian radio stations is being led by a former business associate of Conservative grandee Cecil Parkinson who is awaiting trial for fraud at the Old Bailey. PRESS DIGEST- British Business - March 24 2014-03-24T02:46:17Z These are two sides of the same coin: the skilled must be able to rise, but grandees caught with their snouts in the trough must also come tumbling down. There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged 2014-03-16T11:00:00Z However Mr Sutherland and his senior executive team believe that these Co-op movement grandees are on a course to destroy the Co-op, failing to recognise the scale of its financial woes. Sutherland offers to resign 2014-03-11T08:27:34Z The Daily Mail says pressure is mounting on three Labour party grandees to comment on a group that in the 1970s supported lowering the age of consent to 10. Ukraine fallout on the front pages 2014-02-24T00:15:13Z As is his habit, however, he quickly backed away from the idea at the urging of pollsters and various Democratic grandees. Paul Krugman won’t save us: We need a new conversation about inequality 2014-02-23T12:00:00Z Boris Johnson's choice of chairman for a policing ethics panel has been criticised as "not appropriate" by Green Party grandee Baroness Jones. Row over Mayor Johnson's ethics boss 2014-01-28T15:59:18Z Bridget Harris, one of four party activists who made allegations against the peer, accused Mr Clegg of being reluctant to enter a row with party grandees in the Lords. Rennard could face new investigation 2014-01-19T02:06:42Z Barclays appointed City grandee David Walker as chairman last year, when the bank was shaken by mass resignations following its indictment by regulators over rate manipulation. Virtuous veterans hard to find in British banking 2013-11-29T18:25:37Z Southern planter grandees also were moving westward, transporting their slaves in chains from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi Valley, building what historian Robert Fogel tells us was a hyperefficient and wealthy Cotton Kingdom. A Nation Built for Immigrants 2013-09-21T03:26:11Z He was endlessly writing letters to grandees in India trying to secure a job for his brother, and also happy to give more distant relations and cronies a leg-up. The ancient Chinese exam that inspired modern job recruitment 2013-07-22T23:41:08Z Fry is a City grandee, with service to Rothschild, Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers in his back catalogue. Absence of trust may be just what the BBC needs 2013-07-13T23:05:45Z I am absoutely not a conspiracy theorist but it is striking that the grandees invited to this self-selecting little clique all tend to regurgitate the same failed orthodoxies. Bilderberg group summit: Cameron attendance at 'cliche fest' damned 2013-06-07T18:17:13Z Also this week: after rows over Europe, same-sex marriage and the attitude of party grandees towards the grassroots, David Cameron attempts to get a grip on his party. Politics Weekly podcast: Woolwich attacks, tax avoidance and Obama's second term 2013-05-23T15:35:18Z Iran's best known political grandee, Rafsanjani entered the June 14 vote as a reformist candidate at the last minute, igniting interest in a ballot many had viewed as a race between conservatives hardliners. Barred from election, Rafsanjani lambasts Iranian authorities - report 2013-05-23T07:35:38Z On Sunday, Tory grandee Lord Howe accused the prime minister of "running scared" of Eurosceptics and losing control of his party on Europe. Business leaders attack Eurosceptics 2013-05-20T04:25:00Z Tory grandee Lord Howe said the PM was "running scared" of Tory Eurosceptics and losing control of the party by planning to change the relationship. Tories 'united' on Europe, says Hunt 2013-05-19T10:03:18Z Tory grandee Lord Lawson spends a lot of time in France, but wants Britain out of Europe. The Tories want out of Europe. Let's try to get out of this depression instead 2013-05-18T23:05:53Z But Conservative unrest over Europe has gained fresh momentum following the recent election success of the UK Independence Party and comments by Tory grandees such as Lord Lawson suggesting EU withdrawal. Abstain in EU vote, ministers urged 2013-05-12T04:08:59Z A host of Republican grandees, from Haley Barbour, a former governor of Mississippi, to Paul Ryan, the party’s leading budget wonk, rushed to denounce the Heritage report. Immigration reform: Not so fast 2013-05-09T15:00:32Z Khan has predicted a "tsunami" of support for his party in Saturday's general election as voters, particularly urban youth, turn against the traditional grandees of Pakistani politics after years of misrule and corruption. Pakistan's Khan: cricketer, playboy and now a political spoiler 2013-05-09T10:38:20Z It started with Tony Blair and a gaggle of New Labour grandees. Ed Miliband will fail if he locks himself into Tory austerity 2013-05-01T06:00:19Z They married in 1951 but the young Thatcher faced snobbery from the party grandees: she was female and far too lowly. "Iron Lady" Thatcher mourned, but critics speak out 2013-04-09T10:27:30Z She would have been just run over by the grandees of the party – but she ran over them.” The Thatcher Legacy 2013-04-08T21:03:00Z She referred to them as “the not so grand grandees.” Sarah Palin thinks she’s Margaret Thatcher 2013-04-08T21:26:00Z It employed a lawyer – City grandee Anthony Salz, a director of the Scott Trust, which owns the – to investigate how and why standards had hit rock bottom. Barclays and HBOS: two banks, two different fates 2013-04-06T23:06:08Z Exciting new markets or not, the Six Nations still clings to its old upstairs-downstairs structure, which means Georgia can only hope to play the grandees above them every four years at a World Cup. Times are changing as the world discovers a passion for rugby 2013-03-22T16:43:57Z A former grandee of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, she became more vulnerable after splitting with the PRI ahead of the 2006 presidential election, when the party suffered a resounding defeat. Mexican union boss must stay in jail pending trial: judge 2013-03-05T06:08:37Z The bank's court of directors, whose job is to manage the bank, is just a tad more enlightened – there is a woman among the 12 grandees who meet seven times a year. Bank of England women doing sterling work to keep our money safe 2013-02-27T17:37:12Z But grandees know the Republicans’ future depends on it. Lexington: The politics of purity 2013-02-14T16:06:18Z Obama said he is running as an independent to avoid being beholden to party grandees whom he blames for what he says is the failed leadership in the country of 40 million. Obama inspires brother to run for office in Kenya elections 2013-01-18T14:26:52Z Just for comparison's sake, that other old grandee of the game, Muttiah Muralitharan, is fourth, having taken ten wickets at 15 runs each in 28 overs which have cost 5.57 runs apiece. Shane Warne: a wax mannequin manqué who is growing old disgracefully 2013-01-08T12:42:02Z In recent days, a string of grandees have singled out those comments for attack. Lexington: Mitt Romney’s legacy 2012-12-06T16:03:43Z It's funny to think that Heseltine was once regarded as an arriviste – a bit nouveau, ever so slightly non-U – now that he's the grandest of grandees. Michael Heseltine: 'I would have liked to be prime minister' 2012-11-25T20:00:03Z Following devolution and the first elections to the new Scottish Parliament, Labour grandee Mr Dewar became the first minister on 13 May 1999. Alex Salmond reaches FM milestone 2012-11-07T00:31:36Z Few of the grandees of American show business have such healthy presidential connections as America's 80-year-old "Queen of Country Music" - she counts Jimmy Carter and both presidents Bush as friends. Pick your celebrity president 2012-10-26T17:02:27Z He is one of the select group of "princelings" - top party officials who are descended from former party grandees. Q&A: China's new leaders 2012-10-16T15:27:47Z That brought dividends in 2010, but left the Republican movement filled with what one party grandee calls “the guys with pitchforks”, whose electoral support is deeper than it is broad. Lexington: A fiscal hawk, grounded 2012-10-18T15:26:19Z In his conference fringe speech on Sunday evening, the Tory grandee denied believing the recession was exaggerated but confessed that he did not understand what was happening to the British economy. PM's aide slams small firm scheme 2012-10-07T18:35:57Z Many Republican grandees urged Mr Akin to withdraw; he declined. The Senate: Not so flippable 2012-10-04T15:05:52Z That one's just as likely to rile local campaigners, so expect them to quiz Pinewood chairman Lord Grade at the group's annual meeting this week, in a nice tale of Joe Public against City grandee. A G4S guard walks into a bar… and other tales from results presentations 2012-08-25T23:06:24Z The case's conclusion will cause some discomfort for David Cameron because former Tory grandees have promised to return money received from Polly Peck if it was proved to be stolen. Asil Nadir's conviction triggers calls for Tories to return donation 2012-08-22T19:53:12Z Sir David Walker - the City grandee who oversaw a review into bank governance for Gordon Brown - is unveiled as the new chairman of Barclays. Libor-rigging scandal: a timeline 2012-08-16T07:44:50Z It’s to be protected by the power,” says Dall’Oglio, gesturing to the historically close ties between Syria’s Christian grandees and the Assad regime. Out of Syria: An Expelled Italian Priest Calls for Peace and Reconciliation 2012-08-08T19:35:30Z A series of Republican grandees have publicly questioned his tactics. Lexington: The long fight 2012-07-19T15:02:29Z Wednesday's probing of Labour-era Treasury grandees like Lord Myners and Lady Vadera was a dry run for what Tory ministers hope will happen if the parliamentary inquiry is ever up and running. For Cameron and Osborne, the Barclays showdown really about 2015 2012-07-04T20:30:01Z In March 2001, Taliban fighters and grandees clustered around the famed giant statues of the Buddha in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, laid explosives at their feet and blew them up. Islamist Militia Destroys Mali's Historic Relics 2012-07-03T02:35:32Z Barclays shareholders are clamouring for an urgent meeting with the City grandee, over the record £290m fine slapped on the bank for its attempts to manipulate the rate. Profile: Sir Michael Rake 2012-07-01T17:08:48Z It used to be said that a governor of the Bank of England could make his displeasure known by raising his eyebrow at a City grandee called in for a "chat". Barclays banking scandal: time to come in from the cold on reform 2012-07-01T13:39:50Z Some British diplomatic grandees are, however, starting to challenge Cameron's view that he could block further measures. Grandees' warning to David Cameron: UK powerless to stop EU integration 2012-06-28T16:17:13Z Trierweiler caused a national storm when she tweeted in support of Socialist grandee Ségoléne Royal's rival days before Sunday's legislative election. François Hollande's girlfriend regrets tweet that led to election storm 2012-06-20T18:30:35Z One reason is their audience: these are not dishes for American mandarins, or the kind of kaiseki grandees who savor each bite with their eyes closed. Talented, Young and Asian-American Chefs 2012-06-20T11:20:30Z The chancellor will tell City grandees at Mansion House that legislation must be on the statute book by the end of the current parliament in spring 2015 and implemented by 2019 at the latest. hh 2012-06-13T21:00:01Z He has brought in dozens of City grandees as "non-executive directors" - headed by former BP chief Lord Browne - to sit on the boards of government departments. Why do PMs find the civil service so hard to reform? 2012-06-12T01:24:39Z This thinking is explained by a new joke doing the rounds among the grandees: Cameron followed his empty chair in December with an empty threat in the New Year, making Britain largely irrelevant. Grandees' warning to David Cameron: UK powerless to stop EU integration 2012-06-28T16:17:13Z Shipbuilding grandees believe there is still room for a more specialised industry, even if chances were missed three decades ago when McKendrick's generation was still primed for such work. Britain's last few shipbuilders steer a course through the fiscal storm 2012-06-09T23:06:20Z None, though, have played a more striking role than former Citigroup grandee turned independent go-between Michael Klein. DEALTALK-Michael Klein helps Glencore, Xstrata finally tie knot 2012-05-31T18:58:45Z Star economists, foreign policy grandees, and respected lawmakers lend their gravitas and intellectual credentials to a nominee’s policy platform. Romney's Experts, Whose Advice He Ignores 2012-05-24T22:03:37Z Traore is a labor activist turned political grandee who before his appointment last month as caretaker president was national parliament speaker. Protesters march on Malian presidential palace 2012-05-21T12:46:35Z The grandees are saying that giving the EU's institutions a free rein has meant that the fiscal compact is effectively embedding itself within the architecture of the EU. Grandees' warning to David Cameron: UK powerless to stop EU integration 2012-06-28T16:17:13Z The grandees of the sport, in the form of The Jockey Club, the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, etc. have decided that Lasix must go. The Rail: The Case for Using Lasix 2012-05-17T12:26:10Z Bo Xilai is a former Communist Party chief of the south-western city of Chongqing, the son of a party grandee, and one of the most charismatic, and some say ruthless, politicians of his generation. Dual identities of a princeling 2012-05-16T17:00:07Z The Duke of Plaza-Toro, though described as a Spanish grandee, is really very much an Englishman. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z On his return to Italy he was loaded with gifts from the King of Spain and grandees, so much were his works esteemed and so greatly was the young Fleming admired. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z One grandee said: The prime minister looks very confident and is boasting that events of the past six months have shown how right he was in December. Grandees' warning to David Cameron: UK powerless to stop EU integration 2012-06-28T16:17:13Z I can see "Ulster" in a gorgeous tabard, flitting to and fro, marshalling grandees, as none so well know how to marshal them, each according to his or her degree. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The hotel had long since been the home of a Spanish grandee, and although the back was ruinous the Moorish front had been altered and decorated by American enterprise. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The Duke of Plaza-Toro was studied from an old print of a grandee. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z And in what country but democratic Spain would a bishop stroll out with canons and grandees to while away a friendly hour with a miller? Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z He copied the Czar’s side-whiskers, walked like a corpulent grandee, perpetually pulling at his waistcoat as though he were burdened by a voluminous paunch, and interlarded his speech with aphorisms from the Latin Grammar. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z The churchman fairly burst into laughter; and had it been any other than a Minster grandee, Gentleman Nixon would have been highly irritated by his mirth. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z We readily presume that Jesus would not choose his followers among the grandees of the country. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z I speak not of kings, grandees, or the like show-figures; but few soldiers, judges, men of letters, can have had such pains taken with them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z As we left the Armoury, a present-day scene presented itself and it struck me as very characteristic of a country where the grandee, shopkeeper, and peasant live side by side in friendliness. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The "Cups," a hotel more celebrated, was not available, being occupied by the umpiring staff, military grandees generally, and military and naval attachés of many nations. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z A woman answered his summons, and not knowing the young grandee--for he was cloaked to the nose--fetched the Bat, an old, lean, lank-visaged captain who played squire of the body to des Ageaux. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z It was essential to commence with gaining adherents and co-operators, and thereafter a party among the people, to support him against the grandees of the nation. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z “When other Japanese companies see NEC, they can’t think it is only NEC’s problems,” says a former grandee at a big electronics firm. Japanese manufacturing: From summit to plummet 2012-02-16T15:59:48Z One day, in the streets of Alcal�, as he was led to prison on a false accusation, the proud young grandee of Gand�a passed him. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Meantime in the hall of the inn the grandees were smoothing their ruffled plumes, in a state of mind in which it was hard to say whether indignation or astonishment had larger place. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z His jests were racy, of the soil, and coarse--just such as could be appreciated by squireens who were far enough removed from the grandees to give free rein to their hilarity. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z These bully squireens, these venal, brow-beating grandees, must be shown, before more harm was done, that there must be a bound to their arrogance. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z The daughter of the peer, or other great grandee of the country, may be almost said to be a horsewoman to the manner born. The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises 2012-02-13T03:00:14.370Z After the president, the members of the council and house of assembly rank next among the grandees, all of whom, no doubt, are— “Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors.” Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Then the peasant languidly arose, followed the lad to our window, named an infinitesimal price, and received his coin with the bow of a grandee. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z In dress, in manners, in speech, he doubtless resembles the grandees of Pharaoh's court. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z The Bar chose its special facings, so did the 'prentices, so did the adherents of each opulent grandee. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z They dressed themselves in the rich robes of Castilian grandees over their own blooded shirts, and sat down to revel in the gilded saloon of the galleon. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z They then tortured him again, thinking he was a grandee in disguise, till he offered, if he was released, to show them a refinery. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z To make this social league invincible within, each member in the fellowship must show a true humility, abjuring all temptation or desire to be a despot or a grandee. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z "A Lord Hunt of Wirral surrounded by a couple of lawyers surrounded by a couple of proper editorial grandees, not malicious people... and I think we'd all be very happy," he said. Desmond says would not buy more newspaper stakes 2012-01-12T17:43:57Z Nevsky is the main artery of the capital—palaces belonging to the Imperial family and the grandees, public buildings, bazaars, workshops, and every edifice you can think of. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z As for the grandee at the castle, if I so much as asked him that question, so proud is he of his nationality and family that likely he would kill me.” The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z Examining the prisoners, who were now crowded in with merchants and grandees, he inquired for banditti from Panama, and three slaves stepped forward who knew every path and avenue to the city. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z As they got into the train the servile assiduity of the station-clerks betrayed how great an excitement was produced by the mere passage through the office of these potentates and grandees. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Perhaps these obsolescent customs, unsuited to prosperous times, had lingered longer among the Spanish grandees. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z "There is no doubt, my boy, that grandees of strength can do more than grandees of rank," he said in his bell-like voice, enunciating every letter. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z He was chosen by several grandees of Spain to defend the right of their families to the succession of the elder branches, and for other interesting trials. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z Criticism is, in truth, the soul of caricature, which by stressing the emphasis of Nature on face and expression makes even simpletons judges of grandees. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z In the first place, the king and the grandees, and lords and chief people of the men-at-arms, can marry more than one wife, especially the grandees, who can maintain them: their children are their heirs. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 2011-12-11T03:00:10.483Z You are a grandee in an instant! you, too, are rich now! Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z The grandee retained his cigar in his left hand, and, with an impassibility which savored of the theatrical, he gave long puffs at it. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The Marquis de Terranova had been viceroy and governor-general; he was constable and admiral of Naples, a grandee of Spain of the first class, and related to the emperor through the house of Aragon. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z The later, however, are Greek in form, and are clearly the work of skilled Greek sculptors, who seem to have been employed by the grandees of Phoenicia in the adornment of their last resting-places. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z To take off the shoe was a ceremony exacted from all those who came into the Inca's presence, to have it put on by a grandee was great honour. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Other Wall Street grandees have been very small pygmies in the social estimate. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Ever since the night when he had discovered his sister-in-law with the grandee, his incessant efforts to find out who had helped the duke into the house had been fruitless. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z He wrote to almost all the grandees of Spain, to request their assistance in an enterprise which he had planned. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z There's little question that church grandees, left to their own devices, would prefer to tread the safe ground of figurative religious art. Catholic Tastes: The Vatican Enters the World of Contemporary Art 2011-11-20T05:05:00Z In Spain the aristocracy and grandees rear bulls for the ring. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z But she has managed to have it seriously disputed whether he was a saddler or a landed Knickerbocker grandee. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Pe�a during the drive even cut jokes on the splendid trouncing administered to the grandee. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z IT is not surprising that the Inquisition should persecute magistrates and learned men, when it has not scrupled to attack kings, princes, and grandees. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z When two men like Goethe and myself come together, these grandees must perceive what is accounted great by such as we. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z The title of “grandee,” abolished under King Joseph Bonaparte, was revived in 1834, when by the Estatudo real grandees were given precedence in the Chamber of Peers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z What grandee in Europe has a finer home than this? Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Don Jaime, as the grandee was called, decided to paint her reclining on a crimson sofa, with plants and flowers at her side. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Two seditions were the result, and several grandees of Spain, many gentlemen, and a still greater number of private individuals, were condemned to death. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z I am in a way to receive payment from all of your grandees—their self esteem is so mixed up with it that I think I shall manage to get all they owe you. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z These found the doctrines of the Levellers more to their taste than the more moderate schemes of Cromwell, Ireton, and the "grandees." The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z This singular balance-sheet sufficiently shows the temper of the grandees of Spain even in the days of the New Monarchy. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Nevertheless, she was so fascinated by the importance of the grandee that she soon began to think that his cynicism and style of conversation were only according to fashion and "good form." The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z In fact, it was a political intrigue, which the king and his minister charged on some of the Spanish grandees and on the Jesuits. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z The Chancellor, its nominal head, is a non-resident grandee, usually a political leader whom the University delights to honour and whose protection it desires. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z This is the style of the Turkish grandees, a slave to every guest. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z The example set by the Medici was followed by many of the great grandees of Spain at this time. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z The mayor's appointment through his influence made the grandee a powerful patron of the party. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Catherina--that was her name--replied with a smile,-- 'I have neither forgotten your voice nor your face, though last time we met you were a Spanish grandee.' The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z One day, as he sat in his halls among his courtiers and grandees studying maps, a man of about thirty years, who had a noble bearing, entered an outer apartment. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z There was no Railway then, and consequently the boat hire alone from Calcutta to Chinsurah for English and Native grandees might have cost four to five thousand Rupees. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Godoy was a handsome young officer; she made him a grandee of the first class with the title of Duke of Alcudia, and entrusted him with the ministry of foreign affairs. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Then the grandee frequently invited him to join him in shooting expeditions, so that their relations became less strained. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z So I really think I will run up to see the grandee show, and run down again. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z And now the flags arose in the clear air, and the joyful fleet cleared the Guadalquivir and leaped into the arms of the open sea, amid the acclamations of gay grandees and a happy people. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z A great crowd gazed from a respectful distance at the house of such a grandee; the palace shone with multi-coloured lanterns and wreaths of flowers. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z The Infant Don Carlos and five or six Spanish grandees are here, the Prince of the Asturias fifty miles away. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z Thereupon the rage of the grandee was so great that, raising his gun, he fired upon the dog, but the animal, seeing the aggressive attitude of the sportsman, ran away and got off scot-free. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z East Coast private equity and hedge fund grandees might like to throw extravagant parties for themselves that get written up in New York newspapers. An Accidental Billionaire's Political Emergence 2011-09-21T17:58:14Z "Pardi, my lord Marquis," interrupted Wessex haughtily and in tones of withering contempt, "I did not know that there were any cowards among the grandees of Spain." The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z These grandees of Parnassus differed from the common multitude in being permitted to wear their laurel-wreaths in Goethe's presence. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Louis XIV. signified to his ministers and grandees his intention of himself governing. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z However, some days had elapsed, and September had come in without bringing the advent of either the grandee's son or brother. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The New Town was beginning to hold out its aristocratic attractions to the grandees and wealthy merchants, who had chosen to live so long in so pent-up a place. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z He is such a grandee himself that kings and emperors are quite matters of course to him. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z It was not uncommon to see a wretched tumble-down-looking house supporting itself against the palace of a grandee, displaying its checkered, moss-grown, weather-stained tiling in mockery of the marble and sculpture of its next-door neighbour. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z The dramatis person� are divided into two camps according to a rule of his own, in a fashion very unpleasant for the grandees of this world, Moli�re allowing them the precedence in folly. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z THE Se�ora de Belinchon descended the iron staircase leading to the second floor, and, meeting the grandee's valet, she asked: "What is the se�or duke doing?" The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Yet withal he was a gentleman; for his bow to Geordie was just that which the grandees of the Wynd made to each other as they passed and repassed. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z It seems Henselt goes to Frankfurt every year to visit a Russian lady there, who is the grandee of the place and a great patroness of artists. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Another grandee kneeled before the king, constantly fanning him during the ceremony. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z Have I not seen, with a radical survey, the aimless folly of the life led by men and women who presume to call themselves social leaders and social grandees? The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z The grandee forwarded with the diploma the Order set in diamonds worth not less than 20,000 reales. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z As with any grandee, he could often get his way when he believed it was essential to bring a costly footballer to his club. Fabio Capello seeks an honourable finale after losing his aura 2011-08-08T18:48:51Z These, the grandees of rascality, lived in places far from the Jago, and some drove in gigs and pony traps. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z These ceremonies concluded, the grandee of Ardrah was summoned to attend. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z This is a grandee," said Kindelon, "and so they are glad enough to know her. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z The grandee even condescended to tell her a great deal of his private history; his public one was known by everybody. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z It is interesting to compare the match officials' style with the grandees of the game. The Referees ? review 2011-08-04T20:30:03Z An avuncular, white-haired grandee of the Texas borderland, Sanders is one of the most influential figures in a region ruled by mercantile interests. Life on the Line 2011-07-31T04:27:16Z They were of various ages of youth, and different in features; many of them having come, as the grandee observed, “a journey of many moons,” that is, many hundred miles inland. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z I, too, have heard of the ways of English grandees. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z Since then, Cameron’s young premiership has been largely dictated by what that other Tory grandee, the 1950s P.M. David Cameron Loves a Crisis 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z In addition to the titles of Roman nobility bestowed upon them with a lavish hand, many of them became grandees of Spain and their names were inscribed in the "golden book" of the Capitol. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z The City grandee called on the investment and pension funds that voted against Murdoch's re-election at last year's annual meeting to do the same this year. Vote James Murdoch out, Lord Myners tells BSkyB shareholders 2011-07-16T13:19:23Z One of the grandees held in his hand an umbrella: this, however, was more for ornament than use, as the ceremony took place at night. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z Longbow felt just as omnipotent, walking up and down the streets of Puddleford, as the tallest grandee treading a city pavement. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Admirable; yet I perceive the grandee under the livery. The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts 2011-07-09T02:00:12.740Z To Meta had succeeded the temperament of her mother expressed in the features of her father; whether Canadian trapper or Scotch grandee, he had owned an admirable profile. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z Ninety-two public coaches and pleasure-vans used to pass in the day, not counting the private carriages of the grandees posting luxuriously to Dover for Paris and the grand tour. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z While they were feasting, the grandees prostrated themselves before their sovereign; and what provisions were left were given to them, which they appeared readily and cheerfully to accept. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z The Russian and Polish grandees never omit to carry with them on their journeys a bed with all its appurtenances, a whole range of cooking implements, and plenty of provisions. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Those who return bring back a love of betting and of horse-racing, and ape the display of European grandees as far as their fortunes will allow. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z Selim, the son of a Turkish grandee, on a voyage to Genoa, was captured by a Spanish corsair, and eventually sold as a slave to a young Moor at Oran, in Barbary. Privateers and Privateering 2011-06-21T02:00:26.477Z The fortune of a grandee depends on the result, and it is meet he enjoy all fair means of vindicating himself from so heinous an offence. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z During this interval, the government is rather in the power of the grandees than the king; for they execute all the public acts and business, without consulting him. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z I intrusted the management of this important affair to those of my grandees whose disinterestedness and enlightenment were already known to me. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Both were disturbed when they heard that a Chinese grandee was in the house. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z I tell ye there's a big, silent army, marshalling without fife or drum, and if ye persist in ignoring it, as the grandees of France did before their Revolution, ye'll maybe have a revolution, too. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z He had not been many minutes playing the grandee among these simple beings, when they seemed desirous of offering to him some mark of particular distinction. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z It was during the interval of these rejoicings, that Irving, with his attendants, arrived at Sabi, and was appointed to take up his quarters with a grandee high in favour with the new king. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z I guessed at once that they must be either grandees or soldiers, at least to judge by their shorn heads. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Quite respectable butchers they were, these grandees, who had been used no long time ago to appear before the world with the most splendid of panther-skins slung elegantly over their shoulders. 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God 2011-05-26T02:00:15.987Z So the Saxon came to the grandee of his house, to the "Lord of Ducats" as he styled the advocate. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z A research work on savings and inequality won him international attention but also the attention of Socialist Party grandees, and he rapidly rose through the ranks as the economic brains of the party. Special report: The two faces of DSK 2011-05-19T19:06:19Z The greatest respect is paid, by all ranks, to this officiating nobleman; and all the expences of his journey are defrayed by the grandees of Whidáh. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z “Now, look here, father,” said he, “this is the King, that is the Prime Minister, that is the General, here are the other grandees,” pointing to each bundle as he said the name. The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India 2011-05-07T02:00:31.307Z "How camest thou to know," demanded Don Quixote, "that grandees have their gentlemen of the horse to follow them?" The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z So they drove about the town on the Saturday--and where anybody in the shape of a grandee lived they stopped, left their passengers' tickets and drove on, without any misbehaviour. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z It was an apt type of what had preceded, and what was to follow: the rude neglected warrior during life—the Duke, the King's friend, the grandee of Spain after death. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z He was then conducted to the apartments prepared for him near the palace, where he was splendidly entertained by the grandees, and received visits from the principal officers of the court. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z We never used to have such grandees down. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z I was born in a certain town of Andalusia, from which a duke takes his title that makes him a grandee of Spain. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Sometimes, now, also, the grandees would come and drink beer, to earn popularity against the time when the revolution should begin here. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z A young grandee of Spain, the Count of Via-Manuel, had been taken prisoner. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z The grandee prostrated himself, and retired to caution Irving to conceal the transaction of the female slave from the king, or he would doubtless force her from him. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z The largest number of acres are owned by Spanish and Cuban grandees, some of whom have not been in the island for twenty years. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z In short, Dorothea was obliged to comply with his entreaties, and promised to make him a grandee, when fortune should favour her with the recovery of her lost kingdom. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z The two Herrs von So and So with their sons had taken leave long before, and some of the grandees had also quietly retreated. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z He is still looking to recruit a City grandee to chair the board. Glencore poised to publish plans to become a public company 2011-04-10T17:47:04Z Conducted by his friend the grandee, and some other officers of the palace, he found it more extensive than he had supposed, having entered by a private passage. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z This was followed by the Archbishop and his clergy, and the grandees of the place, wearing their decorations, officers in uniform, and gentlemen in evening dress. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z It was all incredible folly, but I thought I was loving beneath my station, for I was a little grandee in the town. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z It is, no doubt, due to the training of those days that I, personally, for instance, cannot bear the trouble of appearing like a grandee, or a fashionable person. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z From the grassroots to the grandees, there is nervousness. Health row 2011-04-05T11:47:11Z Where was the train of attendants that should wait on the lady of a Spanish grandee? The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z As if by magic, the absentee Spanish grandees' great plantations were set ablaze. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Not very likely, I was told by a coalition grandee. Politicus: In Germany, an Election Hangover 2011-03-28T13:00:58Z He was a tall, thin, rigid figure of about seventy, with a long, grave, wrinkled countenance; in a word, the very image of an old Spanish grandee. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z In general one must be content with a passing glimpse of these luxurious dwellings, for the haughty grandee resents all intrusion, and guards his home with Oriental jealousy. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z "A low fellow like that to be treated as if his wretched soul were worth as much as that of a grandee of Spain!" thought Teresa. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z In this place, he beheld monarchy and liberty subsisting together in a manner thought incompatible in other states; the laborers of the ground shared in the legislature with the grandees of the realm. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Only three weeks ago there was no end of ridicule heaped upon Mrs. and Mr. Fane, unknown grandees from California, when it was reported that they wished to give a ball. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z Her mother inherited a hundred thousand acres from one of the old grandees. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z The grandee of Spain, the escaped galley-slave, the Hungarian magnate, the London "swell," the old and hoary gambler with snow-white moustaches, and the unfledged minor, anticipating manhood by ruining himself in his "teens." The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z She is Spanish, by the mother's side; "Las Caldenhas," I think the name, whose father was a grandee of the first class. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Next followed the hangman; and last of all were seen, in the midst of the guards and grandees, about forty persons clad in sackcloth, on which were painted the figures of flames and devils. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z But a week had wrought a wonderful change in the sentiments of the humbled grandee, whose beeves were indeed grazing in the royal pastures, whilst his jars of old mead reposed in the royal cellars. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The floor was bare, the furniture prison-like; but he had heard of the simplicity of the adobe mansions of Californian grandees. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z We could not help wishing that some rural grandee, who avows that he hates all manufacturers, could see this fair specimen of an English handicraftsman. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Some of cricket's grandees were weary of him – he was too independent for their liking, too much of a "pro" when nominally an amateur. Trevor Bailey obituary 2011-02-10T18:47:48Z The testimony of the former FA grandees served to explain why the FA has failed to address these downsides of the commercial boom. Lord Triesman reveals a bullied and impotent FA to Commons inquiry 2011-02-08T20:43:36Z I hope he is not one of your grandees," she said apprehensively; "I would not like to think of Kate not being up to him. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z Did these haughty grandees take him for a pauper? A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z There is plenty to do up at the house, I assure you; all the gentlemen from the works are invited to dinner, and there are all sorts of grandees coming out from the town too.... Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z The chancellor, George Osborne, will continue to seek an EU-wide deal on disclosure of pay bands above £1m, along the lines proposed by the City grandee Sir David Walker. Banks given go-ahead to pay unlimited bonuses 2011-01-10T22:03:11Z The affection of a grandee no doubt flattered the vanity of the youth of meaner rank, and the other accepted as a piece of good fortune this devotion freely offered to him. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Its ponderous simplicity pointed to the time when the grandees of Brandenburg had not yet possessed a feeling for art. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Factions, jealousies, and fears together with the dangerous intrigues which the great carried on against each other, and which oft-times brought the heads of such contrivers to the block, kept the grandees apart. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z I should like to cross swords with some of those shaking grandees, just to convince them that I have the strength of a man, if I have not his years.' The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z You will be guilty of a grave solecism if you imitate that American to whom the grandee remarked with effusion that the stud which captivated his taste was his own, his very own. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z The Tsar and the Tsaritsa sat on their throne, and around them stood their grandees, their Boyars, their captains, and their heroes. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z After the first world war, football restarted in the summer of 1919, and, thanks to the Arsenal chairman and Tory grandee Sir Henry Norris, it was set to be a whole new ball game. The Joy of Six: Arsenal and Chelsea showdowns 2010-10-01T08:21:00Z It was unimportant that Twente lacked the sheen of the true grandees in the tournament. Tottenham 4-1 FC Twente 2010-09-29T20:42:00Z The island of Jersey, another tax haven grandee, is now thinking the unthinkable: raising taxes, to stave off a fiscal deficit. This is not the end for tax havens 2010-09-27T12:02:00Z I hope he is a relative of mine; for kinship with a grandee, however distant, is something to brag about. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z How dare it inflict discomfort and filth on the grandees of international sport? Compared to a lootfest like London or Beijing, Delhi is just an also-ran 2010-09-23T19:25:00Z Switzerland, like England, are under the command of a football grandee. Fabio Capello's only concern must be to guide England to a crucial win 2010-09-06T22:00:00Z Again it seems likely that some lesser sides trying to nick a point away at one of the league's grandees will attempt something similar. Expect reactivity not proactivity to be the shape of things to come 2010-08-07T08:00:00Z Project New Bank City grandees Lord Levene and Sir David Walker are seeking funding to buy government-owned banking assets such as Northern Rock or the branches that are being sold by Lloyds Banking Group. All change for Britain's high street banks 2010-08-04T08:05:00Z Alas! for my judgment; he was no grandee of Castile, but a butcher from Saragossa, a mere carnifex with blood of the common red tint. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z African and Asian teams wouldn't just get the chance to play the game's grandees, they get to host them. The Question: Is the World Cup too big? 2010-07-21T11:01:00Z Two of the City's most eminent grandees are fronting the company that will target banks controlled by the government. Profiles: Sir David Walker and Lord Levene 2010-07-08T17:41:00Z Last week some City investors voiced concerns about the media grandee's position on the board over his track record as a businessman. Ocado backers in line for ?430m in flotation 2010-07-06T07:55:00Z Chancellor George Osborne is expected to champion severe cuts in the public spending in his Mansion House speech this evening to City grandees. Headline UK unemployment rate drops 2010-06-16T10:08:00Z What it will do — what it is already achieving in abundance — is communicate the headaches and heartaches of the American people to the grandees within the gates of Washington. The Pitchfork Primaries: Will Washington Get the Message? 2010-05-20T08:55:00Z It is unlikely to be a City grandee fixated on the status quo. Denied full control of banks, Vince Cable settles in at 'ministry of growth' 2010-05-14T21:00:00Z He was only sitting in the Commons as MP for the Wiltshire seat of Calne because the rich Whig grandee Lord Landsdowne had it in his pocket and made Macaulay the gift of it. The thrill of the count 2010-04-23T15:01:00Z Instead they, Barack Obama included, were also petitioning Wall Street grandees for campaign contributions. Explained: The mysteries of the financial meltdown 2010-04-22T01:01:00Z Many post-2001 grandees, grown rich on corruption and the siphoning of American tax dollars spent here, favor hulking mansions faced with shiny marble and as many glittering surfaces as possible. Ann Marlowe: The Man Who Might Have Been 'King' 2010-04-10T02:05:00Z The heart soars to hear Barcelona grandees express these life-enriching principles. Paul Hayward: Beautiful Barca must learn to be clinical 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z The only notable grandee not too offer a clear opinion was Waqar Younis, who confined himself to saying that he was "shocked" by the verdict. PCB resorts to extreme measures in bid to dig their way out of a hole | Andy Bull 2010-03-30T13:20:00Z IPL grandees are well aware of the popularity of its mostly foreign, mostly white cheerleaders, organising reality TV shows and fan contests to further cash in on their appeal. Cheerleaders shame Indian cricket | Kanishk Tharoor 2010-03-27T18:00:00Z "If you get any trouble from the government, day or night, you come to me," he told one gathering of Marjah grandees. In Afghanistan, NATO Denounces an Ally 2010-03-06T02:07:00Z A panel of City grandees reviews the executive's decisions. 2010-01-19T11:31:00Z The Eastern grandee rides not at the head or rear of his attendants, but in the midst of them. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments The Spanish grandees preferred to live on their estates in the country. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies Artabanus II., like all Parthian princes, was much troubled by the opposition of the grandees. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" I have said that it was impossible to look upon the face of Maria, and not love; and many of the grandees and wealthiest citizens of Madrid sought her hand. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 The grandees prostrated themselves before their dying lord and did him homage. The Great Mogul |
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