Sentence examples for its heiress from inspiring English sources

Gortyn may owe the liberality of its heiress laws to the fact that it was one of the few city-states known to have allowed daughters to inherit even if they had brothers; daughters in Gortyn received half the share of a son.

In the 12th century the vast duchy was conveyed by the marriages of its heiress Eleanor successively to the kings of France and England.

This is a reminiscence to Augusta Tourinorum, the old city of the Roman era which the present capital of Piedmont region is its cultural heiress.

That cleared the way for the current production, which is partly financed by OddLot Entertainment and its owner, the heiress Gigi Pritzker.

It certainly feels like a film from another age: set in a country house and around a dying heiress, its main concern is to offer a prolonged discussion of faith and mortality.

All the more reason he relished "The Heiress" and its rich period dress.

Fans of "The Heiress" cherish its final scene, which has been blatantly toyed with here.

Its owner, a young heiress to the historic Medinaceli family, invited Mr. Finaldi to examine a different work that she wanted to sell.

Her Broadway play, "The Heiress," had its best week since mid-November, according to box office data released on Tuesday by the Broadway League, the trade association of theater owners and producers.

By contrast, Hollywood honored Copland with an Oscar (for "The Heiress," despite its non-Copland title music) and quickly appropriated his lean, modernist style for psychological dramas and the grander horse operas.

It announced its huge gift from the pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly in November 2002 and changed its name soon afterward.