Sentence examples for grandees for from inspiring English sources

The Met, which was founded in 1883 by aspiring social grandees for whom there was no room at the Academy of Music — Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Roosevelts — is an inherently aristocratic domain.

In the first public response to the criticisms of his leadership, the team beind Mr Corbyn's victory has used their official Facebook page to lambast MPs and "New Labour grandees" for attempting to destabilise the party.

The Met, which was founded in 1883 by aspiring social grandees for whom there was no room at the Academy of Music Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Roosevelts is an inherently aristocratic domain.

In the past, the Times has hired retired, or nearly retired, journalism grandees for the job, all of whom seemed to have understood that the role they had to play was one of sagaciousness and judiciousness; when they weighed in, they ought to be pained about having to.

Overlooked art Gongs a go-go for grandees of the arts and literary worlds, with New Year Honours being awarded to Sir Roy Strong, Ed Victor, Matthew Bourne and William Sieghart, among others.

Today, few ask why he did not take Baghdad and foreign-policy grandees long for a muscular realist like Mr Bush.

Cameron remains under pressure from within his own party over the EU referendum, and the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, has accused Conservative cabinet colleagues and party grandees campaigning for Brexit of being prepared to "sacrifice" British jobs to cut ties with Brussels.

The skill and courage of the athletes, with their blend of nobility and violence, of devastating energy confined in rigid ritual, emerges in its full artistry (the biggest surprise is Frazier's own speed), even as the fight itself, with its tuxedoed — and almost all white — grandees shouting for the blood of others, comes off as a grotesque gladiatorial setup, a primal theatre of death.

A throng of voters willing to shut down the government is unlikely to nurture tender feelings for the grandees of the GOP.

Dave Smith of the Blacklist Support Group said: "This damning report is supported by all political parties and condemns the grandees of the construction industry for the blacklisting wretches they are.

Boodle's is for gregarious business Johnnies, Brooks' is for would-be grandees, White's is for genuine glories of the nobility and Pratt's is for friends of the Duke of Devonshire and a few hangers-on.