Sentence examples for overlord on from inspiring English sources

Mr. McMahon, who still plays the part of the corporate overlord on some of the company's broadcasts, is chairman of the company and his wife is chief executive.

Perhaps it is not only the veterans in America, Canada, Britain and elsewhere who are fading fast, but also the Euro-American world they forged in Operation Overlord on June 6 , 1944

To match their strange diet, the St. Kildans, who spoke only Gaelic and had minimal contact with their feudal overlord, on Skye, had an unusual economic and political system.

Watch on as they morph from human, to alien, to cheetah, to robot overlord on the fly.

Sorties over the Atlantic on 4 June 1944 contributed to the decision to launch Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944.

The carucage was raised in order to pay John's feudal relief— the payment to an overlord on inheriting lands for his 1199 inheritance of lands in France.

So are they our steam-powered overlords-on-the-horizon, or a roundabout way of becoming more human?

Appointed overlord of Kurdistan on 18 March 1987, he moved swiftly to crush the long-running Kurdish rebellion by destroying all villages, using poison gas on a mass scale and slaughtering the men women and children who survived.

Wareru was a Tai adventurer of humble origins who had married a daughter of King Ramkhamhaeng of Sukhothai and had established himself as overlord of Martaban on the Salween River in 1281.

Henry claimed to be the overlord of Brittany, on the basis that the duchy had owed loyalty to Henry I, and saw controlling the duchy both as a way of securing his other French territories and as a potential inheritance for one of his sons.

The rulers claim that keeping London as the world financial capital is a vital British interest, but it imposes another lot of grotesquely overpaid overlords on Londoners.