Sentence examples for deb from inspiring English sources

The office of the deb raja, in theory filled by election by a council composed of penlops and jungpens, was in practice held by the strongest of the governors, usually either the penlop of Paro or the penlop of Tongsa.

The minister became the temporal ruler and acquired the title of deb raja.

This institution of two supreme authorities a dharma raja for spiritual affairs and a deb raja for temporal matters existed until the death of the last dharma raja in the early 20th century.

Similarly, the penlops, who were to be appointed by the deb raja, in practice fought their way into office.

In 1907, after the dharma raja had died and the deb raja had withdrawn into a life of contemplation, the then-strongest penlop, Ugyen Wangchuk of Tongsa, was "elected" by a council of lamas, abbots, councillors, and laymen to be the hereditary king (druk gyalpo) of Bhutan.

Ellin Mackay, deb extraordinaire, married Irving Berlin, the most famous songwriter in the world, six weeks after her article on cabarets appeared.

Following Cambridge she worked as a deb-ball-crashing journalist on the Evening Standard diary column, then married the film producer Richard Goodwin.

During the deb-party season, between Thanksgiving and February he'll announce at fifty or sixty parties, and is busy all year around with weddings, receptions, etc.

What this really means, says Deb Mielke, an industry consultant, is that Mr Chambers intends to emulate IBM, where he once worked, by transforming Cisco gradually from a boxmaker into an army of network consultants and integrators who charge for services as well as, or even instead of, hardware.

Even in industries such as clothing, jewellery and toymaking, the ratio of labour to capital halved over the 1990s, according to† Deb Kusum Das, Deepika Wadhwa and Gunajit Kalita of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations ICRIERR) in Delhi.

In Nebraska, for example, Deb Fischer, a local politician and rancher, looks poised to claim the seat of retiring Democrat Ben Nelson, even though the Democrats managed to recruit their ideal candidate, Bob Kerrey, a former governor and senator.