Sentence examples for lordship on from inspiring English sources

The rider's face, under a Saracen helmet, looks like His Lordship on a battlefield, about to fire somebody.

I dare say that if you get his lordship on the programme, he will be very happy to answer for you Eric Pickles, Conservative Party chairman (on the Today programme) Sir George doesn't know Lord Ashcroft's status.

Thus, by the later 12th century, France north of the Loire consisted of several large principalities (some of them associated with the English crown) coexisting with each other and with the king, who struggled to impose his lordship on them.

In 1320 King Edward II of England confiscated the lordship of Gower on the grounds that Braose had given it to his son-in-law Mowbray without royal permission.

Nevertheless, Domhnall appears to have left his son Aonghas a lordship of respectable size centred on Islay, while his reputedly younger son Alasdair Mòr appears to been left lands in Kintyre.

On 11 July 1723, the Lordship of Newsham was put up for sale by the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates at their office in the Inner Temple, London.

He argued that the exercise of lordship depended on grace and that, therefore, a sinful man had no right to authority.

Next came Peter Mandelson's book, in which his lordship passed on Tony Blair's view that Gordon was "mad, bad, dangerous and beyond hope of redemption", "like a mafiosi", and "flawed, lacking perspective and having a paranoia about him".

This allows Wyclif to describe just, grace-favored civil dominium as different in kind from the civil lordship predicated on materialistic human concerns: "It is right for God to have two vicars in His church, namely a king in temporal affairs, and a priest in spiritual.

"For, as long as a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be subjected to the lordship of the English".

The greatest group of surviving sculpture from this period are from the West Highlands, beginning in the fourteenth century on Iona under the patronage of the Lordship of the Isles and continuing until the Reformation.