Sentence examples for master landlord from inspiring English sources

The city's previous role as a master landlord was widely deemed a disaster, with many buildings locked in chronic states of disrepair.

In 1894 the abolition of Korea's class-based system allowed commoners to adopt a surname too: those on lower social rungs often adopted the name of their master or landlord, or simply took one in common usage.

At a board meeting last month, parents lashed out at the Reichs, angrily describing their relationship as that of master and servant or landlord and tenant.

The Irish actor has locked himself out of his flat and has had to borrow his landlord's master to make a hurried copy; he's also due on stage at the Old Vic theatre round the corner in about an hour (where he'll perform one of the last nights of his well-received run in The Playboy of the Western World), and the conflicting duties have left him a little flustered.

The campus has negotiated master leases with area landlords to alleviate the student housing crunch without needing to invest in new construction in the short term.

Lobbyists for the Marina del Rey Lessees Assn., representing landlords with master leases in the marina, and Los Angeles County officials joined him in pushing for the measure.

His landlord is Heathcliff, master of Wuthering Heights.

He said landlords now establish master plans for buildings to ensure that all tenants have equal access to space for installation of generators, coolers, antennas and fuel tanks.

"By keeping a master list we can track landlords, Web sites and management companies that operate illegal hotels," instead of just looking up buildings one by one, Mr. Cayler said.

Specifically, fear of the masters of our universe landlords.

Thus, the landlords were masters of the land and of the peons.