Sentences with phrase «aristocracy who»

It is important to understand that the extremist, reactionary elements of America's corporate aristocracy who created, funded and developed what has come to be known as the «conservative media» in America — e.g. talk radio, Fox News, various newspapers & websites — did not merely create a propaganda machine.

The wealth created by this activity fueled the city's ascent as a cultural capital, and artists were supported by government commissions, churches and lay religious communities, and, notably, by a powerful and enlightened aristocracy who sought to decorate their impressive private dwellings in Venice and on the mainland.

Among them are the gritty documentary photographer (and gallerist) Jane England, an Australian emigrée who captured London's 1970s subculture, and Volker Eichelmann, an eclectic German artist fascinated by the English aristocracy who works in everything from floral découpage to video art.

The deer hunters were exclusively the possession of the aristocracy who, of course, owned the deer in Ireland and England.

Companion dogs of the early warlords and barons, Vizsla blood was preserved pure for centuries by the land - owning aristocracy who guarded them jealously and continued to develop the hunting ability of these «yellow - pointers».

But in contrast to Tommy's public persona, his personal turmoil ultimately led him to rebel against both the aristocracy who gave him opportunity and the parents who shunned his passionate relationship with his wife.

In the monasteries following the Volotsky pattern were trained many of the aristocracy who became abbots and bishops and rose to prominence in public affairs.

The leaders in American culture are not like the tiny minority of landed aristocracy who were educated as gentlemen at Oxford or Cambridge so that they might enjoy their leisure and be ornaments of erudition.

The Mughal power structure rested on a heterogeneous Muslim aristocracy composed of newcomers from Transoxiana (where Bukhara and Samarkand had long been centers of Arabic Islamic culture), of Iranian noblemen seeking careers in the newly conquered country, and of the Turkish and Afghan aristocracy who were already entrenched in India but now removed from supreme power.

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And note those guillotined during the French Revolution and those Russians who died in concentration camps suffered these indignities as a direct result of the revolution of the peasants and poor abused by centuries of domination by religion - backed aristocracies.

So if Tocqueville is right that the partial truth of democracy needs to be corrected by the partial truth of aristocracy to properly appreciate both who we are and what human liberty really is, then lots of political philosophy types need to look to the South more than they have.

These insects included religious believers, the bourgeoisie, all the aristocracy, any property - owning peasants or «kulaks,» and the independent - minded socialists who refused to sever socialism's remaining connections with Western humanism and the liberal and democratic cause.

Kevin Phillips, who published The Emerging Republican Majority in 1969, is the author, most recently, of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush (Viking).

Aristotle, for example, was sympathetic to the landed aristocracy — who appropriate for themselves the lion's share of nature's bounty — and hostile to merchants, who earn a living by exploiting the «unnatural» fecundity of money in the marketplace.

The Queen was put on the throne by a conspiracy of the commoners who in this way were able to join forces with the Andriana aristocracy more favorable to Christianity and very sensitive to the possibilities of modernization which it offered.

They see their club as the pinnacle of the footballing aristocracy, and every other club as a being supported by a bunch of lower class loonies who live in such wholly unacceptable places as, well, for example, Manchester.

There is no attempt to show how there were differences within the aristocracy, and how many families lived up to a reputation as good people who helped to advance, political engagement, the arts and science.

The lunch started off with the customary introduction from press gallery chairman Kate McCann, who was sure to mention's the home secretary's role as aristocracy coordinator on Four Weddings and a Funeral.

No just as the Slave owners of our first Civil War, who needed African slaves on their Plantations, to make them economically viable for the Southern Aristocracy to maintain their affluence, the Anti Gov forces of today seek a totally deregulated American economy.

Katniss» victory has changed everything in a profound way, and even characters who were oblivious members of the aristocracy, like Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), have been awoken to the injustice of the world around them and have begun to take action.

Gore Vidal, born and raised as a member of the East Coast American political aristocracy, was a respected novelist, essayist, and outspoken liberal commentator who used his wit to provoke and satirize.

The protagonist is Aveline de Granpre, a French - African orphan who finds herself cast into the Louisiana aristocracy via her caring (and maddeningly underdeveloped) adoptive parents.

She's dating her strapping classmate Massimiliano (Guglielmo Pinelli), who happens to be the son of Giovanni Bernaschi (Fabrizio Gifuni), a filthy rich fund manager who Dino sees as his ticket into the aristocracy.

This looks like a no - brainer, but her uncle, Frank Adler (Chris Evans), who assumed custody of Mary (Mckenna Grace), believes that she should be able to fit into the regular world rather than in the bubble of the academic aristocracy.

The conventional yet entertaining Jane Austen elements soon come into play, with both Dido and Elizabeth now old enough to court potential suitors who will hopefully be able to provide not only financial stability, but also the desired social status of being married to a man of prestige within the British aristocracy.

Few men on earth had less in common: Khrushchev was a short, pudgy, uneducated Russian peasant who'd climbed to power by tenacity and brutality; Lodge was a tall, thin, Harvard - educated Boston Brahmin who'd been born into America's aristocracy, scion of one of the families immortalized in an old New England toast: Here's to good old Boston, Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells speak only to the Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God.

And Jeff Bezos, who once courted the publishing aristocracy of New York, now competes against them.

It was the French who subsequently added the pompons and ribbons wich are seen in the show rings today, after adopting them as the national dog of France amongst the aristocracy - the term «French Poodle», is still heard today.

Because of the draconian trade restrictions imposed on its colonies by Spain, Tenerife remained one of the only ports open to Cuba for trade, and it would appear these little dogs, who soon found their way into the homes of the resident Spanish aristocracy, developed without much outside influence.

Its cobblestone streets run red with the blood of commoners who dared to rise up against the oppressive aristocracy.

While the aristocracy has always provided the lion's share of the patronage and the audience for art — as, indeed, the aristocracy of wealth does even in our more democratic days — it has contributed little beyond amateurish efforts to the creation of art itself, despite the fact that aristocrats (like many women) have had more than their share of educational advantages, plenty of leisure and, indeed, like women, were often encouraged to dabble in the arts and even develop into respectable amateurs, like Napoleon III's cousin, the Princess Mathilde, who exhibited at the official Salons, or Queen Victoria, who, with Prince Albert, studied art with no less a figure than Landseer himself.

Wile the aristocracy has always provided the lion's share of the patronage and the audience for art — as, indeed, the aristocracy of wealth does even in our more democratic days — it has contributed little beyond amateurish efforts to the creation of art itself, despite the fact that aristocrats (like many women) have had more than their share of educational advantages, plenty of leisure and, indeed, like women, were often encouraged to dabble in the arts and even develop into respectable amateurs, like Napoleon III's cousin, the Princess Mathilde, who exhibited at the official Salons, or Queen Victoria, who, with Prince Albert, studied art with no less a figure than Landseer himself.

In 1931 the bar opened in an old rope warehouse facing the Grand Canal near Piazza San Marco and soon welcomed various European kings and queens, aristocracy and celebrities including Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Aristotle Onassis and Ernest Hemingway — who had his own table.

In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey tells the story of Mercedes Matter, who was born into the East Coast cultural aristocracy in 1913 to father Arthur B. Carles, a pioneer American abstract painter who studied with Matisse, showed at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery and exhibited work in the legendary Armory Show.

The London - born Nigerian artist who considers the intersection of race, class, culture, identity and globalization in his work has described his practice as both a flirtation with the aristocracy and a critique of the establishment.

However, even the most democratic Americans, who rejected European monarchies and aristocracies, found it difficult to resist the multifaceted allure of European culture — including art, architecture, decorative arts, literature, music, and fashion.

I've just been mugging up on who the green aristocracy are by going through the Independent's list of «Britain's top 100 environmentalists».

We Brits tug our forelocks to monarchy and the aristocracy, not Johnny - come - lately property tycoons or genius entrepreneurs, and this continues to irritate everyone — liberal media in particular — who believe in a more egalitarian, rational and meritocratic way of thinking.

But under the onerous terms imposed by the aristocracy, debtors who could not pay their debts could be enslaved.