Sentences with phrase «by aristocrats»

This ship - shaped piece perfectly straddles the line between now and the past, by being quirky while also harking back to early 19th century lights favoured by aristocrats with a love for the sea — check out some National Trust homes like Castle Ward for some more inspiration; you'll be surprised how well the study's similar chandelier to this one works in a country manor as it does in this cool modern home.

image by aristocrats - hat What if you could create a situation where you sell your art, you help people in need, and the people who bought your art felt like they were doing a good deed?

The Council is about a private island populated by aristocrats who were invited there by Lord Mortimer, the owner of the island.

An historical palace now a five star luxury hotel — this is the place to escape into the old world 18th century world of decor where the English grand tour was conducted by the aristocrats of England.

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel A dog favoured by aristocrats, the breed first dubbed the King Charles Spaniel was once the favourite breed of King Charles II of England.

With a history of being owned by the aristocrats, this breed has still retained a dignified attitude.

Historically, many of these pampered pooches were cherished by the aristocrats who used them as lap and feet warmers.

Now new reports were coming in daily through the gates of the Norbulingka, watched not only by his bodyguards and Tibetan army troops but also by representatives of «the people's committee,» a bewildering concept in Tibet, which had been ruled for centuries by aristocrats and abbots, under the authority of the Dalai Lama himself.

While technically a «shooting brake» — used years by aristocrats to go out hunting, with a rear compartment for the rifles and hunting dogs you inevitably had in tow — we can easily see it being adapted as a family hauler with room for Spot out back.

In the 1800s, golf was a sport played by the aristocrats.

Hangings and beheadings are depicted as public affairs attended by aristocrats and common folk alike.

The control of the written word by aristocrats, clergy; academics, and politicians skews our understanding of culture and history in the West — a history portrayed by those in control of society.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (PG - 13 for action, violence and brief sensuality) Mash - up of the horror and romance genres yielding a parody of the Jane Austen classic in which a headstrong heroine (Lily James) finds herself being courted by an aristocrat (Sam Neill) raised from the dead during a zombie outbreak.

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By the 19th century, the buckles on our aristocrat's shoes would have been replaced with laces, but otherwise, they are not unlike the black lace - ups that appeared this year, in Louis Vuitton's fall 2012 collection.

The work is notable for its depiction of the elaborately detailed clothing favoured by 18th - century French aristocrats, but look closely at the young man in the foreground and you'll see he's wearing a pair of remarkably simple black dress shoes.

Another Electronic Entertainment Expo is upon us, which means the nerd news cycle of the next week will be dominated by a steady stream of video game information and hype, not to mention a decent share of child - like squealing as the latest alien - shooting, terrorist - killing, football - throwing, aristocrat - stabbing and Italian plumbering titles are announced.

Ivan IV began his rule by reorganizing the central government and limiting the power of the hereditary aristocrats (the princes and the boyars).

Perhaps the worst of many in the UK was Lord Beaverbrook whose red pencil is now carried aloft by the likes of Rupert Murdoch and, until recently, by Canada's very own aristocrat, Lord Conrad Black.

Another dividend screen we run is to take all the companies in the Dividend Aristocrat Index and rank them by cheapest.

In other words, the Dividend Aristocrats have outperformed the S&P 500 by an average of more than 3 % per year for ten years.

Miyabi Blockchain TechnologyThe name «miyabi» was first coined between the 9th to 12th centuries by Japanese aristocrats to refer to the theme of elegance and refinement.According to Ringwelski, bitFlyer's miyabi blockchain platform is the fastest in the world: «Based on our research, «miyabi» is the fastest enterprise - grade blockchain technology, delivering 1,500 - 2,000 transactions per second on average, and in some cases, even faster,» Ringwelski said.Their processing speed of 1,500 to 2,000 transactions per second compares with Bitcoin's two transactions per second and Ethereum's seven transactions per second.

Miyabi Blockchain TechnologyThe name «miyabi» was first coined between the 9th to 12th centuries by Japanese aristocrats to refer to the theme of elegance and refinement.According to Ringwelski, bitFlyer's miyabi blockchain platform is the fastest in the world: «Based on our research, «miyabi» is the fastest enterprise - grade blockchain technology, delivering 1,500 — 2,000 transactions per second on average, and in some cases, even faster,» Ringwelski said.Their processing speed of 1,500 to 2,000 transactions per second compares with Bitcoin's two transactions per second and Ethereum's seven transactions per second.

Other states started the war by seceding in response to the agitation by hotheaded aristocrats (masters) without anywhere....

By then, even the aristocrats will be afraid, as all the economic slave labor upon which they depend will have perished.

By the end of the fourth century, becoming a Christian did not mean a radical change in an aristocrat's way of life.

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.

The genius, an aristocrat of the spirit, has had gifts lavished upon him by nature that distinguish him from his fellows.

Small groups of philosophers, scientists, scholars, and men of letters were increasingly convinced that the rising merchant and bourgeois class were destined by «the laws of nature and history» to replace the aristocrats of the old feudal order.

I would finish it by the end of my return trip home, and would then give it to my mother to read — it appealed to this French aristocrat, too.

Examples abound: twins, separated at birth, reunite and conceive a superman child before one is killed by his father (Wagner's Die Walküre); a polygamous American seduces and later abandons an Asian girl and their child (Puccini's Madama Butterfly); through deceit, seduction, and murder a prostitute becomes empress of Rome and finds true love (Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea); to prove the inconstancy of feminine love a cynical aristocrat convinces two young lovers to seduce each other's girlfriend (Mozart's Cosi fan tutte).

Plato was an aristocrat by birth and by conviction, also he must have owned slaves.

How is this idea brought to the dust by virtue of the mixed motives Tocqueville the aristocrat may have had for supporting mediating bodies?

Most were subjects of a few — and one ruling aristocrat was often overturned by another.

The fall of the Umayyads was due to a successful conspiracy led by a Persian aristocrat, Abu Muslim al - Khurasani, whose motives are still a mystery.

Got a huge party for some french aristocrats for Friday and I know they were thrilled last time by the pecan pie I did.

In the red corner, we have the fallen aristocrats, forever being thrown forward by crashing waves of hype then dragged back down by the undertow of despair.

Chile pressed harder and higher, and once again the aristocrats looked thoroughly discomfited by their speed in the transition.

The Little Aristocrat is proudly handcrafted in the USA by Colgate, the Crib Mattress Specialist ®, a family - owned and operated business dedicated to baby's safety since 1955.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

Written as a follow - on from Stindberg's 1888 play Miss Julie, which describes the sexual liaison between a lowly footman and an aristocrat, the play is a contemporary take on the reality of a relationship blighted by outlooks moulded by class.

An «election» could, however, include a situation like that surrounding the adoption of the Magna Carta or the assembly of representatives of the various estates that was convened by the monarch shortly before the French Revolution in which the franchise is quite limited (e.g. limited only to aristocrats, or to elders, or to clergy, or to members of a political party, or to members of a particular tribe or caste, or to a council of leaders of tribes or castes) who are not all members of the incumbent's extended family and whose appointment was not primarily within the control of the incumbent as a practical matter.

Invented in 1884 by Charles A. Parsons, son of an aristocrat and scientist, it revolutionized shipping and the generation of electric power.

We pinned down the history of velvet in our trend report for fall 2016 by stating that the aristocrats in the 16th century used it and so can we.

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The very mention of the hyphenate Merchant - Ivory effortlessly conjures up heavily stylized images of Edwardian England, replete with stiff upper lips, effete aristocrats, and young women confined by both corsets and repressed desire.

There's a keen, biting edge to these crystalline recollections; by the third episode, «Some Hope,» which takes place in a labyrinthine mansion during a country aristocrat's party, Patrick Melrose is turning the refined and dazzling world of British peerage on its ear.

By focusing on the aristocrats and ministers on the sidelines, Wright divorces his characters from the war they're discussing by design, which sometimes leaves the film unsatisfyinBy focusing on the aristocrats and ministers on the sidelines, Wright divorces his characters from the war they're discussing by design, which sometimes leaves the film unsatisfyinby design, which sometimes leaves the film unsatisfying.

The film starts with a prologue sequence in which a rich aristocrat (a blink - and - you'll - miss - him cameo by Paul Reubens) discovers his wife has given birth to a vicious little monstrosity with flippers for hands.

«Slow West» tells the story of Jay Cavendish (played by Smit - McPhee), a Scottish aristocrat that travels to Colorado in search of his love Rose (played exquisitely by Caren Pistorius).