Sentence examples for By grandees from inspiring English sources

In myth and often in reality, newspapers used to be owned by grandees: wealthy and civic-minded individuals or families.

Last Thursday, the prize went to Volkswagen's Golf, at a ceremony dubbed the "auto Oscars" and attended by grandees of the German car industry.The problem, first reported by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, is that ADAC had inflated the votes for the winner.

Part of Jokowi's appeal that he is a political outsider can also appear a weakness, making him look dependent on the PDI-P's machinery and easily outmanoeuvred by grandees such as Ms Megawati, Surya Paloh, head of a party in his coalition, and even his own vice-president, Jusuf Kalla, who held the same job in Mr Yudhoyono's first term.

But around 15 MPs spoke in support of Mr Mitchell, led by grandees Sir Peter Tapsell and Bernard Jenkin.

Dr Doug Parr, Greenpeace's policy director, said: "A lobby group led by Tory grandees and backed by high-profile government figures was preparing to undermine building regulations, including crucial fire safety standards, just weeks before the Grenfell disaster.

Lionized by immigrant-bashing right-wingers and courted by Republican grandees such as Donald Trump and Mitt Romney, Mr. Arpaio has made the mistake of believing that his own celebrity bestowed immunity from compliance with judicial orders.

A month of headlines mostly swinging his way – the Tories on the rack over the NHS and intemperate remarks by party grandees moaning about the crackdown on MPs expenses — and strong performances by the ministers holding the fort while he's been away.

His views are echoed by Tory grandees.

Cameron was spotted by Tory grandees; in his own profession, so too was Coulson.

In periods of decentralization similar functions were exercised by local grandees.

He became instead international secretary of the Labour party, nominated by party grandees Hugh Dalton, Harold Laski and Nye Bevan.