Sentences with phrase «grandees like»

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.

After Osborne's big squeeze on welfare in the Autumn statement, Lib Dem grandees like Sir Menzies Campbell have been signalling they will not put up with any more.

Labour peers tweeted last night about the novelty of voting with diehard Tory grandees like Brian Mawhinney and ex-social security minister Tony Newton.

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.

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.

A few days later Tory grandee Lord Salisbury went further, proposing that the Commons become an English parliament and the Lords become the UK house for a remnant of reserved subjects like defence and foreign affairs.

But the latest comments make the Tory grandee look a lot more like modern House of Cards protagonist Frank Underwood, who ended the life of a dog.

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.»

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].

To hear many party grandees tell it, all we have to do is party like it's 1997 again.

If we are to win the election, we have to stop producing people who simply recycle old grandee policies and show that, like Boris, we stand up for communities we represent.

And this in the most important place possible — among a Jury that looks like an ideal dinner party, Mad Max's Dad, George Miller, French cutting - edge auteur, Arnaud Desplechin, sassy Kirsten Dunst and alluring actress - helmer Valeria Golino, handsome cannibal Mads Mikkelsen, Hungary's youthful father of Son of Saul, László Nemes, French actor - singer and proud Mum in Cannes, Vanessa Paradis, elegantly veiled Iranian producer Katayoon Shahabi, and the grumpily avuncular grandee, Donald Sutherland.

The set - pieces of black comedy, like the crucial dinner party which Stevens manages to handle perfectly, never disturbing the Hitler - appeasing grandees upstairs, while his father dies below stairs are as shiny as the silver cutlery.

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.

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.