Sentence examples for able to lord it 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.

He's not coming here to lord it over us".

Spurs went on to lord it over their hosts.

I like to be able to lord that power over them," he joked.

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

From the author's perspective, this is simply a case of organized American Jewry "lording it over those least able to defend themselves," such as, presumably, the Swiss banks it was "plotting" to boycott, and "the United States and its allies" from whom it "finagled another $70 million".

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).

WIreless netwasking is excellent on this model.

While many parents argue that the kids should be able to work it out themselves, I saw early on that without intense adult scrutiny it becomes an Internet version of "Lord of the Flies".

Companies have been able to move production offshore and to resist demands for wage increases from workers in their domestic market.But even if capital is lording it over labour, a second mechanism ought to bring corporate profits down.