Sentences with phrase «grandees at»

It's good to know climate grandees at least appreciate good radio entertainment.

The result - on a turnout of 77.6 % - was announced to a hall packed with Labour grandees at the party conference in Liverpool

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.

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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.»

But GOP grandees now suspect that religion is an electoral liability, or at least will become one if the religious right isn't put on a short leash.

A fixture at the top of the lobbying business for the last 20 years, and one of the most respected people in it, Warwick Smith has become a lobbying grandee.

Sir Peter Ricketts, the national security adviser and Foreign Office grandee, has remarked privately to the PM that he has never experienced so many international threats and geopolitical changes at one time.

Between the old Afenifere and the Buhari Presidency, there appears no love lost; since the grandees so spectacularly backed the wrong horse at the 2015 elections.

This provoked the Tory grandee Michael Heseltine to famously retort at 1994 Tory conference:

There is also more than a touch of the old «Tory grandee» — which he really wasn't — as we read about lunch or dinner combined with plotting at Claridge's, the Savoy, Pratt's, Boodle's, the Garrick and Rules.

Tory grandee Lord Lawson grabbed a few headlines at lunch time with a call for the chancellor to be...

The Tory grandee's latest remarks come a week after Lord Howard — who employed Cameron as a special adviser at the Home Office in the 1990s and also supported him in the 2005 Tory leadership contest — also urged voters to back Brexit.

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.

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.

In his Times interview he takes a provocative swipe at two Labour grandees he has long disliked: «I understand that people of a certain age like Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley want to hark back to a previous age, and they believe that [Ed] Miliband would reconstruct the party in that image.»

The leader of the Unite union has hit out at Labour grandees being «dragged out» to be part of the «unedifying» coup against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn which he said was «outrageous».

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».

Tory grandee Sir Patrick McCormack told the Commons: «The times we are living in are unprecedented» and invited Mr Martin to «dwell» on the proposition that «the condition of the House is rather like the position of the country at the time of the Norway debate» [in 1940].

Tory grandee Lord Lawson grabbed a few headlines at lunch time with a call for the chancellor to be sacked.

Party grandees including Lord Kinnock and at least one potential challenger to Corbyn, Angela Eagle, have continued to claim that support from the party's members is ebbing away from the leader.

The drawing room was full of Washington grandees, some elected; some born in place, like Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wearing for once the wrong blue; some newly arrived from abroad now that England and France were at war with Germany.

And he duly took his place on the steps at Millbank alongside the great and the good, the young and not - so - young Turks, the ennobled and bearded grandees, freighted with reputation and achievement.