Sentence examples for lord from inspiring English sources

The word "lord" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a title for nobility, or as an honorific or as a form of address. For example: "My Lord, I thank you for your kindness."

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lord

noun

The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor The male head of a household, a father or husband. The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession

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In 2006 Lord Phillips, then lord chief justice, argued that politicians and judges had been pushed into handing down increasingly long sentences in England and Wales.

During proceedings last month, the master of the rolls, Lord Dyson, sitting with Lord Justice Richards and Lord Justice Ryder, heard that the case stemmed from a freedom of information request by a Sunday Telegraph journalist to Ipsa in 2010.

In South Belfast, Alex Maskey, the city's first Sinn Féin lord mayor, looked likely to be elected, and republicans could also gain seats in North Belfast, Newry/Armagh, North Antrim, and possibly South Antrim.

Think of David Maxwell Fyfe [the future Tory lord chancellor the Earl of Kilmuir who drafted the convention].

Barely educated, though reputedly highly intelligent, Chapo rose to become a second-tier drug lord in the late 1980s, a time when Sinaloa-based Mexican traffickers were taking advantage of the new opportunities opened by the need of Colombian cartels to move their drugs through Mexico following US success at shutting down Caribbean routes.

In his Christmas 2014 picture he was wearing long socks and a sweater vest and looked like a little Victorian lord.

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"Lord Mandelson is just plainly wrong," she told the BBC.

As well as a keynote speech from the government's adviser on big society, Lord Wei, delegates will also hear first hand accounts of how other local government managers are implementing big society in their councils and the best practice they have developed.

Leese was on good terms with Wigan's leader, Peter (now Lord Smithh, and with the region's only Tory, Trafford's dynamic 27-year-old boss, Sean Anstee.

The old chestnut about Nato's purpose voiced by the first Nato secretary general, Lord Ismay – "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in" – looked hopelessly anachronistic.

Lord Adonis, the former Labour transport minister, said the speech amounted to "a systematic hatchet job" on the culture at Network Rail, adding: "I don't think I've ever heard a CEO be so critical of his own organisation".

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