Sentences with phrase «grandees assuming»

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.»

To be charitable, it's possible Sir Muir Russell, Lord Oxburgh and the other grandees assumed that, having been caught once, the Warmanos wouldn't do it again.

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Predictable mayhem ensued, from which a handful of party grandees advised the Queen to call for the foreign secretary, Douglas - Home (a 14th earl at the time) instead of the assumed favourite, Rab Butler.

Perhaps because of my experiences as a British student and, knowing of the strong objections of British geophysics grandees like Sir Harold Jeffreys (not to mention Leslie Moore), I had assumed that there was a fair debate between advocates and rejectionists on both sides of the Atlantic, with the advantage on both sides given to the rejectionists until the data on the oceans turned the tide in the 1960s.