Sentence examples for local lords from inspiring English sources

"Sánchez Gordillo criticized the local lords, but now he acts like them," Mr. Aires said.

The income from these dues and services was often more important to local lords than the rents they collected.

Hugh Capet's rule was limited to his own domain around Paris, while the rest of the French kingdom was in the hands of powerful local lords.

In the case of both Baarle and Cooch Behar, these allegiances hardened over centuries, as local lords were succeeded by national governments.

In the absence of forceful kings and emperors, local lords expanded the territory subject to them and intensified their control over the people living there.

Instead, in the counties into which Bohemia was subdivided, leagues were organized to promote the cooperation of local lords, knights, and royal boroughs, irrespective of religious orientation.

Some of Europe's towns grew round the stronghold of a local lord.

Of village greens, tea and the labourer doffing his cap to the local lord.

After repeated futile attempts to persuade the local lord to make reforms, he decided to retire and concentrate on painting.

The BEM is awarded by local lord-lieutenants, appointed by the Queen to represent the monarch in every county in the UK.

At Paris Philip Augustus acted as did no other local lord to promote the civic interest, improving sanitation, paving streets, and building a new wall.