Sentences with phrase «grand affairs of state»

London (CNN) British royal weddings are usually grand affairs of state, where presidents and prime ministers rub shoulders with obscure European monarchs.

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It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

«What the sordid state of affairs has so far revealed is that the Buhari - led Federal Government and the respective state governments controlled by the APC, the PDP, and the All Progressive Grand Alliance lack the capacity to resolve the myriad of economic problems and hardship confronting the country.

At 6 p.m., Deputy Secretary for Legislative Affairs Mark Weprin outlines Cuomo's 2016 State of the State agenda, Towers on the Green North Shore Towers, 270 - 10 Grand Central Parkway, Arcade Level, Floral Park, Queens.

Oaks Grand Gladstone features state - of - the - art function and conferencing spaces able to accommodate a range of events from intimate affairs of under 50 to extravagent events of up to 500 guests.

For the company behind Windows, that state of affairs has always kinda made sense in the grand scheme of things, but never has it been so markedly obvious.