Sentence examples for grandees over from inspiring English sources

The return of many injured grandees over the next few weeks complicates the potential picture by widening the palette at the maestro's disposal.

The building is a palimpsest of Egypt's troubled 20th-century history: rooms once home to colonial grandees are taken over by military officers swept to power in the 1952 revolution; apartments vacated by middle-class families grown rich under Seventies liberalisation are taken over by businesses; and the two-metre-square storehouses on the roof are colonised by poor migrants from the countryside.

The City grandee will take over in May after leaving Lloyds, which is 33%-owned by the taxpayer following its rescue during the financial crisis.

That may seem obvious, and indeed Lib Dem grandees were all over the airwaves this morning saying that this result means very little.

In this cash-poor world, J. Pierpont Morgan and other grandees exerted godlike powers over American railroads and manufacturers because they straddled the indispensable capital flows from Europe.

Ed Miliband has called David Cameron a "dodgy prime minister surrounded by dodgy donors", in a row over party grandees with Swiss bank accounts.

Profile: Bryan Sanderson Bryan Sanderson has all the right north-east business grandee credentials deemed necessary to take over at Northern Rock.

With a new generation increasingly taking over and the 70-plus grandees quietly fading out, fresh talents have been seen on the world's runways.

The Royal Photographic Society's collection at the National Media Museum in Bradford is to be moved to London in "an appalling act of cultural vandalism" after museum grandees decided to ignore protests over its relocation.

Mr. Cameron provoked anger from Tory old-timers by publicly rebuking the party grandees caught in last year's scandal over parliamentary expenses — the ones who charged taxpayers for items like buying manure, getting moats cleaned and fixing swimming pools (many of those particular legislators were successfully dissuaded, by Mr. Cameron, from seeking re-election).

Pettinaroli has provided writing paper to the Milanese nobility, grandees and the new rich for over a century (it was founded 130 years ago, in 1881); it is the place where your engraving die is likely to be kept if your name happens to be Visconti or Prada.