Sentences with phrase «dem grandee»

Kalin has poached executives from the likes of Yahoo, Google, and eBay, and he has been honored as a «Technology Pioneer» by the grandees at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos.

Heseltine made the claim, which is remarkable for one of the country's best - known Conservative grandees, in an interview with the Limehouse Podcast.

After all, why would those cynical Republican Party grandees cook up their toxic politics?

Into the risk - averse worlds of corporate lawyers and bankers in the 1970s came a new generation of raiders, a mogul horde the likes of which had not been seen since the days when Jay Gould and other grandees of greed held sway.

Often the new grandees portray themselves as rebels against the old notion that law is not a business.

This is why he pursued not only the grandees of church history (Athanasius, Anselm, Luther) but also those harried, illusory, and sometimes downright weird participants in the community of faith.

From Southern Baptist boycotts of Disney and theonomic tub - thumpers screaming blue murder from crackpot websites to Roman Catholic grandees assuming that their academic achievements require that the world take them seriously, Christians have proved adept at the ways and means of worldly «political politics.»

In each, he cultivated minds and local grandees with perhaps a delicate touch of insouciant espionage thrown in, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World War.

Kings and other political grandees provided for their illegitimate sons by having them appointed bishops, and bishops obtained offices, either clerical or secular, for their illegitimate male progeny.

But GOP grandees now suspect that religion is an electoral liability, or at least will become one if the religious right isn't put on a short leash.

In New York, hipsters and breeders and grandees socialize on separate tracks.

«Typically the big teams, who have the bigger resource, read them better, but when we had the last big regulation change in 2009 that wasn't the case, it was Brawn and ourselves who read them correctly, and the grandees, then Ferrari and McLaren, who struggled a bit.

Blatter last month was banned football for eight years for misconduct in office and the shadow of a scandal - scarred year hung over an event with UEFA president Michel Platini also absent through suspension as well as various other long - serving FIFA grandees either on bail or wanted in the United States.

A fixture at the top of the lobbying business for the last 20 years, and one of the most respected people in it, Warwick Smith has become a lobbying grandee.

I fully understand how the party has changed in a way that some of the grandee generation do not - perhaps because they haven't really been in touch with the Labour roots since Tony Blair stood down.»

Labour really has declared war on Murdoch when a real New Labour grandee joins the attack.

Tory grandee Nicholas Soames appeared to enjoy the film's portrayal of his grandfather, saying it showed «how Churchill made the British feel they were part of a life and death struggle in which all played a heroic part».

12:19 - Father of the House Sir Peter Tapsell, the ultimate Tory grandee, is next.

The Tory grandee, who has served in the Commons since 1974, claimed tens of thousands of pounds for repairs to his estate, including for a tree expert to inspect around 500 specimens.

Egalitarianism is rampant in the affectionate fulsome tribute by grandee Nicholas Soames to Gladys Dickson, who reigns supreme in the Members» Tea Room.

The 33 - year - old, a former Labour special adviser, last week kicked off his six - part television series Unspun on Dave with Labour grandee Alan Johnson his first guest.

When asked once more whether he was not as concerned as Tory grandee Lord Heseltine over Johnson's remarks, he replied: «I'm not going to get into the discussions between Michael and Boris.»

Sir Peter Ricketts, the national security adviser and Foreign Office grandee, has remarked privately to the PM that he has never experienced so many international threats and geopolitical changes at one time.

Freedom of conscience is foremost, followed closely by equality before the law, deprecating the ability of grandees and members of the House of Commons to avoid the normal sanctions of law.

Between the old Afenifere and the Buhari Presidency, there appears no love lost; since the grandees so spectacularly backed the wrong horse at the 2015 elections.

But laws are not the preserve of the grandees or the lawyers: nor are they just what the grandee and lawyers decide they are.

Watch: Tory grandee's voice was laced with sarcasm as he described Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis.

Tory heavyweight Ken Clarke was recorded by Sky News having a conversation with fellow party grandee Sir Malcolm Rifkind.

Soubry has become the latest member of an emerging «Tory awkward squad» after party grandee Ken Clarke and former education secretary Nicky Morgan both lamented the government's silence over Brexit.

Lib Dem grandee Shirley Williams was also heard telling Sturgeon that the Remain campaign had been «awful».

Lilburne is defending himself before a specially constituted court of forty, including grandees, notables, and a dozen judges.

The latest threat to Mr Bercow comes from the unlikely figure of Tory grandee Sir Peter Bottomley, one of the MPs who dragged him to the Chair in the old - fashioned ritual when he was re-elected last June.

Labour grandees go to Tuscany, Tories go to... Many of them, I can now disclose, go to The Gers, in the Midi - Pyrénées, a 90 - minute car journey west from Toulouse.

For days, Sky News had a «Labour woes» strap on the screen as the party's opinion poll lead shrank and its grandees kept on twisting the knife.

«And I think with Nigel, we have to have him around,» he adds, referring to Farage as Ukip's first party grandee.

He now claims to «fully understand how the party has changed in a way that some of the grandee generation do not».

I quizzed one Conservative grandee if he feared David Cameron was going to lose the election.

Tory grandee Ken Clarke said: «On the question of the parliamentary role, I think the Prime Minister was not relying on the archaic, narrow interpretation of the Royal prerogative, which no government has invoked in this country for over 50 years - they have always come to Parliament for debates and votes if possible on any military action.

A few days later Tory grandee Lord Salisbury went further, proposing that the Commons become an English parliament and the Lords become the UK house for a remnant of reserved subjects like defence and foreign affairs.

Some senior Labour MPs believe that respected grandees from the Miliband era and the party's «soft left» must come out against a Corbyn victory to prevent the worst happening.

Liberal Democrat grandee Lord Ashdown recently mooted such action, calling for moderates from across various centre - left parties to have a «conversation».

Countless party grandees have...

Even Labour grandee George Foulkes has given Nicola Sturgeon, the current first minister, his backing to negotiate directly with the EU regarding its future relations with Scotland.

This is certainly true in East Lancashire, where a recent meeting of local politicians convened by Labour grandee Jack Straw resolved to examine the feasibility of creating a single cost - saving authority.

This provoked the Tory grandee Michael Heseltine to famously retort at 1994 Tory conference:

There was immediate excitement in the corridor as almost every waiting journalist followed the master of the dark arts awkwardly down the corridor, eager for an anti-Corbyn quote from a euphemistically titled «Labour grandee» or «senior Labour figure».

In the wake of explosive comments by the party grandee, the Tory backbencher dismissed «the bitter ramblings of a vengeful man».

Tony Blair said «everything she touched turned to gold», while Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn paid heartfelt respects to the Labour grandee.

One has to put up with a lot of nonsense to make it in politics, and sadly that often includes leering employers or party grandees.

As the attacks from Labour party grandees on the leadership frontrunner continue to grow, so too does his support base.