Sentences with phrase «grandees of»

Many are now grandees of the British art establishment — an extraordinary achievement considering the bleak prospects they faced setting out.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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 War.

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».

12:19 - Father of the House Sir Peter Tapsell, the ultimate Tory grandee, is next.

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.

Freedom of conscience is foremost, followed closely by equality before the law, deprecating the ability of grandees and members of the House of Commons to avoid the normal sanctions of law.

But laws are not the preserve of the grandees or the lawyers: nor are they just what the grandee and lawyers decide they are.

Soubry has become the latest member of an emerging «Tory awkward squad» after party grandee Ken Clarke and former education secretary Nicky Morgan both lamented the government's silence over Brexit.

Lilburne is defending himself before a specially constituted court of forty, including grandees, notables, and a dozen judges.

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.

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.

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.

Known as the grandest of Commons grandees, when Tapsell rises he intones rather than speaks.

Both MPs argued that the judgement of a committee of «grandees» deciding on whether to authorise a petition was flawed.

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.

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.

Many on the left of the party — including party grandees such as former leader Charles Kennedy — are likely to be further troubled by Clegg's message that under his leadership the party is no longer a natural home for disaffected Labour supporters.

The Daily Telegraph discloses how Tory grandees have received tens of thousands of pounds to maintain manor houses and stately homes.

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 what is being put forward is a scheme to allow for recall only when Westminster grandees judge an MP guilty of wrongdoing.

Labour grandee Peter Mandelson has praised Ed Miliband's «leadership and guts» for refusing to match the Conservative promise of a referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017.

Another grandee to rally to the cause has been Neil Kinnock, who has accused the rightwing press of targeting Miliband because it knew he was bold and seen by the press as a threat to Tory victory hopes.

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

He was the last of the «grandees» who kept Margaret on the straight and narrow.

His senior aide is approached by a delegation of Tory grandees.

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.

On September 11th the Electoral Reform Society, along with a roster of academic and political grandees, called for a constitutional convention after the referendum.

The Tory grandee, one of the leading pro-Europeans on the British right, said that allowing ministers to campaign on opposing sides would lead to a «divisiveness», «bitterness» and «civil war» that would make the task of collective government very difficult.

For example, Tory grandee Sir Malcolm Rifkind is the cousin of... Tory grandee Leon Brittan.

But none of that put off Tory grandee Nicholas Soames from meeting up with the president of Zimbabwe last week.

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.

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.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader said: «A secret inquiry conducted by a clutch of grandees hand - picked by the Prime Minister is not what Britain needs.