Sentences with phrase «mainly wealthy landowners»
In celebration of International Women's Day 2018 and 100 years after women first got the vote, Doughty Street's women members asked why the streets they walk each day are named after men, mainly wealthy landowners and benefactors, rather than the many inspiring and influential women who lived or worked nearby, such as Jane Lyons, Marie Lawson, Harriet Kerr and Princess Sophia Duleep Singh.
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For the recently proposed US Cape Wind offshore turbine project, environmental, tourism business, and wealthy landowner interests seem to have allied in opposition based mainly on aesthetics.