Sentence examples for able to lord from inspiring English sources

The only immediate benefit was being able to lord it over the dogs.

If you look at pre-imperial writers such as Dickens and Jane Austen, spoilt children are often the youngest who are doted on, or the eldest who have been able to lord it over their younger siblings.

No wonder that 71% think there should be new controls on media ownership (including, at 61%, independent editorial boards able to tell Lord Copper when to get lost).

"It's a great moment to be lord mayor, being able to look to the future and say to finance ministers and governors of central banks and mayors of cities... it's all about growing the cake for both our countries.

I wanted to be able to say "the lord giveth and the lord taketh away".

There is a lot of waffle about parliamentary sovereignty in the government's argument for the change – but the Human Rights Act specifically preserves parliamentary sovereignty; perhaps section 3(2) is too late on in the act to be able to command the lord chancellor's undivided attention.

O'Brien says that the site will be able to avoid a "Lord of the Flies" environment in part because its members are older and (hopefully) more mature, with many in college or working at their first jobs.

He was glad to have been able to give evidence to Lord Justice Leveson, and is hopeful that his inquiry will prove more than a talking shop.

Turbo-LORD is a generalization of LORD, able to manage a-priori information.

The Pittsburgh Press took a similar stance, saying that Sword embodied the Tolkien's spirit and tradition but was quite able to stand apart from Lord of the Rings.

One tip is that you can pick the tickets up at any venue so I was able to pick it up from Lord's.