Sentences with phrase «by grandee»

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

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.

Hopefully, through improved cancer services, this helps to move us toward a more substantive achievement than those typically secured by grandees.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Many on the left of the party — including party grandees such as former leader Charles Kennedy — are likely to be further troubled by Clegg's message that under his leadership the party is no longer a natural home for disaffected Labour supporters.

Labour grandee Peter Mandelson has praised Ed Miliband's «leadership and guts» for refusing to match the Conservative promise of a referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017.

Another grandee to rally to the cause has been Neil Kinnock, who has accused the rightwing press of targeting Miliband because it knew he was bold and seen by the press as a threat to Tory victory hopes.

His senior aide is approached by a delegation of Tory grandees.

As pro-European grandees lined up to denounce Downing Street's plans to hold an in - out referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017 regardless of whether member states accept the proposals, Lord Armstrong called on the prime minister to follow the example of Thatcher, who was a patient negotiator.

You will recall that there were the interventions by the Labour grandees just before the by - elections.

Remain's grandees are led by the last four British prime ministers: Cameron, Brown, Blair and Major.

It will always be outnumbered by Remain, if only because so many grandees derive power or income or profit from the status quo — or even direct subsidy from the EU.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader said: «A secret inquiry conducted by a clutch of grandees hand - picked by the Prime Minister is not what Britain needs.

Lib Dem grandees, who overwhelmingly backed Kennedy, were reassured by his carefully crafted speech which promised to carry on the Ashdown legacy of cooperating with Labour, but to re-tune the links to ensure that the party has a distinctive voice at the next general election.

«If she were male, then Tessa Jowell would be a grandee by now, an elder statesman,» wrote Gaby Hinsliff last year.

A motion of no confidence in his performance as leader was also backed by more than three - quarters of Labour MPs, while a string of party grandees have called on him to resign.

We have the benefit — courtesy of the Guardian — of the advice offered by one of the Labour Party's grandees as to the response that should be made to the calamity that has apparently now befallen the Party.

He described the «soundings» of five Tory grandees, four of whom, like Home and Macmillan had been to school at Eton, as a stitch up by an Etonian «magic circle».

The Conservative grandee said that the plan proposed by communities secretary Sajid Javid was «a good idea» - but only if the best wordsmiths were on the case.

Flanked by party grandees including Vince Cable and Norman Lamb, Mr Farron said journalists «have every right to ask what they see fit».

Hence the shameless public — and, in some cases — private wooing of Clegg by Labour grandees from Gordon Brown downwards.

The artworks, many painted by white grandees influential in giving shape and depth to the city's art scene in the early 20th - century, were easy targets.

Christopher Knight, LA's grandee critic, regards the movement as the city's first wholly original contribution to art history, albeit one with a propensity for being misunderstood as parody — its interpretation of sunsets recalling those of Sunday painters by the sea.

We will read and discuss inspiring essays by artists and critics, such as the great film editor Walter Murch, cultural critic Camille Paglia, the novelists James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe, and art grandee Dave Hickey, along with the crackling prose of artist - eccentrics such as William Blake, Vincent van Gogh and Andy Warhol.

The British Museum's surprise choice of Hartwig Fischer to become its new director has been praised by former colleagues and cultural grandees in his native Germany as a stellar appointment.

Another is entirely encircled by a frieze like drawing reimagining what Rome's legendary Via Appia, lined with the elaborate tombs of grandees, might have looked like during the decline of the Roman Empire.