Sentences with phrase «mansion houses of»

The historic mansion house of Newby Hall was the set of another Austen adapatation: the 2007 television series Mansfield Park with Billie Piper.

Not exact matches

The developers for one Los Angeles house hired Kravitz Design to give this $ 38 million mansion the rockstar treatment, as featured on a recent episode of CNBC's «Secret Lives of the Super Rich.»

Contrast that with the East Egg home of Tom and Daisy Buchanan: «Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.

The who's - who of anglophone Montreal live in and around Westmount, with former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's $ 7.95 million mansion just one of a number of notable residences (the average housing bill is a little more forgiving at just under $ 2 million).

It's the fact that Allen owns six adjacent mansions which house members of his family, a full - sized basketball court, fitness center, ballroom, swimming pool with water slide, and more.

The housing bubble burst in 2006, and some of Boston - Edison's formerly opulent mansions now go for less than $ 50,000.

George Clooney and Rande Gerber, husband of Cindy Crawford, at one time had twin Mexican mansions and then decided to have their own house tequila.

The Marlborough moniker given to the soap above by D.R. Harris alludes to a dukedom and the very same noble house from which Winston Churchill was descended (google «Duke of Marlborough» and «Blenheim Palace» — the latter being only one of a couple non-royal estates in England to be called a palace and a mansion I'm sure most gents will say they've seen in film or on television more than once!).

Again, why does Summers say absent the housing bubble the economy would stagnate, when investing in mac mansions is such a poor and unproductive use of capital?

(CNN)- Chicago's new archbishop does not plan to live in the $ 14 million mansion that housed many of his predecessors but was seen by some Catholics as out of touch with Pope Francis» emphasis on simplicity.

It's also obscene because Furtick's moving up from a ~ 3,000 + square foot house that is larger than the houses most Americans live in to a mansion that's supposedly one of the largest in North Carolina.

3 Degrees of Glory — Jesus Christ noted that there were «many mansions» in his father's house.

In the house of a great writer are many mansions.

Like a sound pillar, sound doctrine can uphold a house of many mansions, more spacious than our triumphant modem «little boxes» sitting on top of featureless, impersonal elevators.

The genre's enthusiasts and exegetes, whose fists I can already hear thumping away at the door, will say that theirs is a house of many mansions, with ample room for Tolkien's wan pastiche of Beowulf, Stephen King's Woodstock apocalypse in The Stand, and everything in between, including White's peculiar take on Britain.

There is some difficulty in the expression «the Father's house of many mansions,» so that some translations substitute «rooms» for «mansions.»

That country is six years old; in the United States» 40th year of constitutional independence, the President's backwoods cronies barged their way into the White House itself, turning their jugs and the whole mansion upside down.

When work is done, the 93 - year - old mansion will be the 2007 showcase house for the American Society of Interior Designers, which raises money annually for the Oak Park welfare agency.

Their new documentary Lunch Line (Uji Films) follows the story of six Chicago high school students who enter a cooking contest to create a healthier school lunch and end up serving their winning meal to congressional leaders and touring the White House with executive mansion chefs.

«I think Cameron needs to get into the real world, get out of his mansion house in Oxfordshire and see some real people on a picket line.»

He said a mansion tax for those living in houses worth over # 2 million, moves against tax avoidance including closing hedge fund tax loopholes and a raid on tobacco companies» profits would help pay to relieve NHS workers of the «huge future pressures» they face.

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He plugged his proposal to add a surcharge — known as the mansion tax — to the purchase of high - priced homes to pay for housing for seniors.

Mr. de Blasio, in pursuit of his goal to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing in a decade, wanted Albany to renew the tax credit but require all developers getting it to build affordable housing, no matter where their development was, and also wanted the program to include a mansion tax on sales of residences worth $ 1.75 million or more.

This time around, de Blasio is proposing a «mansion tax» to help fund the construction of new affordable housing.

David Miliband's conversion to the Lib Dem mansion tax on houses worth # 2m and Ed Miliband's moral argument for keeping the 50p top rate of income tax for good are the only tangible interventions that any of the candidates have made into tax - rise territory.

Any condo or co-op unit valued at more than $ 1.75 million would be subject to a new city «mansion tax,» the revenues of which would be dedicated to further affordable housing construction and preservation.

Mr Miliband said the tax could help reverse the effects of ComDem housing benefit cuts that will drive hard - up families out of more expensive neighbourhoods — including large swathes of London.The annual mansion tax would raise # 1.7 billion — # 400million more than the ConDems are saving from benefit cuts, the Shadow Foreign Secretary said.

Giving his maiden speech in the House of Lords this week, former Labour MP and chair of the parliamentary Labour party David Watts said: «My advice to my own party leadership is that they should take less notice of the London - centric hard left political class who sit around in their # 1m mansions eating their croissants at breakfast and seeking to lay the foundations for a socialist revolution.»

De Blasio told NY1 reporters Wednesday that his family feels «kind of wistful» about the move, which will take them from a modest Park Slope row house to a mansion atop 11 acres on the Upper East Side.

Cuomo did call off his traditional New Year's Day executive mansion open house to attend New York City Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio's public inauguration yesterday in Manhattan along with Democratic luminaries like former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

This year, Gov. Cuomo not only again embraced the two - speeches - for - the - price - of - one approach, but also decided not to hold his annual New Year's Day open house at the executive mansion — a tradition he has kept since his first year in office in 2011 — preferring to mark the one - year anniversary of his father's passing in private.

Photos of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway kneeling on an Oval Office couch — apparently with her shoes on — have sparked an online debate about decorum in the executive mansion.

Indeed, it comes just a few days after former Labour PLP chairman Dave Watts memorably used his maiden speech in the House of Lords to hit out at allies of Jeremy Corbyn who «sit around in their # 1 million mansions, eating their croissants at breakfast and seeking to lay the foundations for a socialist revolution».

ECIDA officials have been exploring the possibility of acquiring the Delaware Avenue mansion that currently houses the Red Cross offices.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday proposed a so - called mansion tax of 2.5 % on homes of $ 2 million or more to help generate money for affordable housing in the city.

He vowed to fight for the mansion tax on residential property sales of at least $ 2 million to provide revenues for low - cost senior housing and the millionaires tax to fund subway repairs and reduced fares for low - income New Yorkers in Albany, which he called «crucial initiatives» going forward.

And so far in this campaign, Miliband has distanced himself from New Labour by adopting a series of left - wing policies: abolishing charitable status for private schools; extending the tax on bankers» bonuses; supporting the introduction of a mansion tax on # 2m houses and a so - called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions.

It would be on top of another 1 percent «mansion tax» the state collects on homes over $ 1 million — a tax which is not dedicated to affordable housing.

Benjamin Dulchin, executive director of the Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development, an advocacy group, said there was a lot to like about the mansion tax and the mayor's other proposals.

More than 12 percent of the approximately 150,000 Facebook posts by candidates running for House seats, Senate seats and governor's mansions are dedicated to inviting followers to campaign events.

Cuomo did hold an open house at the governor's mansion in Albany on New Year's Eve, where he chatted with members of the public who were drawn by a lottery to attend.

If we do not put a Republican in City Hall in 2013, there will be Democrat control of the White House, the governor's mansion and City Hall.

Today senior frontbenchers let their displeasure be known that they had not been consulted on the «mansion tax» announced by Cable on Monday which would see the value of houses above # 1m taxed at 0.5 %.

A report released by the city Independent Budget Office has raised questions about the potential effects of the so - called «mansion tax,» a proposed part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing strategy that would levy a 2.5 percent surcharge on the sale price over a threshold of $ 2 million for residential properties.

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In one, a handmade, Victorian - style gingerbread house is held up by teams of dancing gingerbread men; in another, a miniature mansion serves as an ornate Advent calendar with 24 windows counting down the days until Christmas.

I had been to Newport, RI when I was really little but hardly remember it — although I do remember touring all of the old mansions and dreaming about living in a house to similar to them one day ha!

Filoli Historic House and Garden, a nonprofit organization, began to co-steward the estate in 1976 with the National Trust, thus ensuring that the mansion and its grounds would remain for the enjoyment of future generations.

Site of first house in New Hampshire, present mansion constructed in 1750, by Gov. W. B. Wentworth, New York Public Library.