Sentences with phrase «grandees in»

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.

Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.

Not exact matches

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.

Heseltine made the claim, which is remarkable for one of the country's best - known Conservative grandees, in an interview with the Limehouse Podcast.

Into the risk - averse worlds of corporate lawyers and bankers in the 1970s came a new generation of raiders, a mogul horde the likes of which had not been seen since the days when Jay Gould and other grandees of greed held sway.

This is why he pursued not only the grandees of church history (Athanasius, Anselm, Luther) but also those harried, illusory, and sometimes downright weird participants in the community of faith.

In each, he cultivated minds and local grandees with perhaps a delicate touch of insouciant espionage thrown in, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World WaIn each, he cultivated minds and local grandees with perhaps a delicate touch of insouciant espionage thrown in, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World Wain, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World Wain his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World Wain Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World Wain the Second World War.

In New York, hipsters and breeders and grandees socialize on separate tracks.

«Typically the big teams, who have the bigger resource, read them better, but when we had the last big regulation change in 2009 that wasn't the case, it was Brawn and ourselves who read them correctly, and the grandees, then Ferrari and McLaren, who struggled a bit.

Blatter last month was banned football for eight years for misconduct in office and the shadow of a scandal - scarred year hung over an event with UEFA president Michel Platini also absent through suspension as well as various other long - serving FIFA grandees either on bail or wanted in the United States.

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.

I fully understand how the party has changed in a way that some of the grandee generation do not - perhaps because they haven't really been in touch with the Labour roots since Tony Blair stood down.»

Tory grandee Nicholas Soames appeared to enjoy the film's portrayal of his grandfather, saying it showed «how Churchill made the British feel they were part of a life and death struggle in which all played a heroic part».

The Tory grandee, who has served in the Commons since 1974, claimed tens of thousands of pounds for repairs to his estate, including for a tree expert to inspect around 500 specimens.

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

The latest threat to Mr Bercow comes from the unlikely figure of Tory grandee Sir Peter Bottomley, one of the MPs who dragged him to the Chair in the old - fashioned ritual when he was re-elected last June.

Labour grandees go to Tuscany, Tories go to... Many of them, I can now disclose, go to The Gers, in the Midi - Pyrénées, a 90 - minute car journey west from Toulouse.

He now claims to «fully understand how the party has changed in a way that some of the grandee generation do not».

Tory grandee Ken Clarke said: «On the question of the parliamentary role, I think the Prime Minister was not relying on the archaic, narrow interpretation of the Royal prerogative, which no government has invoked in this country for over 50 years - they have always come to Parliament for debates and votes if possible on any military action.

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.

There was immediate excitement in the corridor as almost every waiting journalist followed the master of the dark arts awkwardly down the corridor, eager for an anti-Corbyn quote from a euphemistically titled «Labour grandee» or «senior Labour figure».

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

One has to put up with a lot of nonsense to make it in politics, and sadly that often includes leering employers or party grandees.

Last week, Conservative grandee Sir Nicholas Soames subjected fellow Tory MP James Cleverly to a foul - mouthed outburst in the Westminster dining room.

And in the same happy company we find Tory grandee George Osborne hoping for a hand - out.

The executive director of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign and son of Labour grandee Jack Straw had suggested that European Union citizens living in the UK could be sent back to the country they were born in should Britain vote to leave on June 23.

The Conservative grandee successfully claimed for the costs of hanging a chandelier in his main manor house.

He easily eclipsed Ken Clarke, the Tory grandee who had turned up to lend his support, suggesting that the Tory leader's big tent approach to candidate selection — particularly in a constituency where 62 per cent of voters are from ethnic minorities — may pay dividends.»

But another Tory grandee, Lord Heseltine, said in doing so it could lead to «civil war» within the Conservative party.

New Labour grandee warns that «lowering trust in Labour's fiscal credentials remains the Tories» main aim»

Labour grandee Alan Johnson, who chaired the Labour In campaign, laid bare his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's «risible» performance in the fight last weeIn campaign, laid bare his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's «risible» performance in the fight last weein the fight last week.

Labour grandee Alan Johnson has laid bare his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's «risible» performance in the EU referendum campaign as he tore into the party leader.

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.

Near to the end of a play centred on the compromises and retreats made in the name of party politics, the Labour candidate, Nigel Barton, breaks down in the middle of a speech to selected local grandees.

Tory grandee's new book reveals how a No 10 press officer lied to BBC in a bid to keep him off the airwaves.

Elsewhere in the documentary Tory grandee Sir Nicholas Soames describes Tory leadership contests as «loathsome», «ghastly» and «hideous».

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.

Now the Tory grandee has trained his sights on David Cameron, with his new book claiming that the former prime minister went a bit too far in trying to control his cabinet ministers.

Responding to criticism from Labour MP Kate Hoey, the Eton - educated Tory grandee added: «I met him purely and entirely in a personal capacity - there was no - one present, it was just him and me.

The Labour grandee, who served as Olympics minister between 2005 - 2010, also dismissed calls for the leadership race to be halted amid the recent surge in party membership after the general election.

Speaking on the BBC's This Week programme, Conservative grandee Michael Portillo said that May wanted «an entirely controlled situation in which she didn't use her humanity».

Then, to the South West progressive grandees, flashing their Awo franchise as Geoffery Chaucer's Pardoner would, in Canterbury Tales, flash his papal pardon, hot, fresh and smoking from Rome, it was additional gall, that a certain Bola Ahmed Tinubu, midwifed the Buhari coalition!

The Liberal Democrat grandee, who spectacularly lost his Twickenham seat in May's general election to the Tory candidate Tania Mathias, will take part in the competition in November.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph the pro-Brexit Tory grandees said: «There has been startling dishonesty in the economic debate, with a woeful failure on the part of the Bank of England, the Treasury and other official sources to present a fair and balanced analysis.

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

As well as his immense experience in the political nuances of the Lords, Strathclyde was seen as an important link to the more traditional wing of the Tory party and its grandees.

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.

Before long the Labour Party grandees will soon search for a credible, statesman - like leader whom they believe capable of delivering a victory in the polls.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin that image.»

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].