Sentence examples for pares of from inspiring English sources

At one time he was also the primus inter pares of the Russian oligarchy, until Vladimir Putin turned upon him shortly after his election as president in March 2000.

Major newspaper columnists, who had a lot more influence than the people who populate today's op-ed pages, could be merciless, starting with Walter Lippmann, the primus inter pares of opinion writers, who called the men (there were no women) who surrounded Truman "blunt trash" who did "not have the brains, and practicality, none of the wisdom from experience and education to help the President".

Bob McNair was the primer inter pares of the high Houston business set who led by word as well as deed.

In the 1950s, the two primer inter pares of Keynesian economics, Paul Samuelson and James Tobin, outlined what they chose to call the "neo-classical synthesis," which recommended among the four possibilities of the loose/tight fiscal-monetary policy matrix, loose money and high tax rates.

The National Center for Science Education, under the leadership of its executive director Eugenie C. Scott, has been primus inter pares of the social movement organizations working to defend the teaching of evolution; counterparts at the state level include Texas Citizens for Science and Kansas Citizens for Science.

He was primus inter pares of the "Big Three" which dominated the anti-fascist coalition, working with Conservative Winston Churchill and Communist Josef Stalin.

But Webern practiced an art of paring music of excess, of making each gesture, however minimal, expressive and significant.

cleansing, even to the paring of the nails.

Regulations and interventions spawn constituencies that will fight any paring of their benefits.

More paring of excessive rules burdening start-ups could improve the jobs picture even further.

At Henry Holt, the hallway musings favored the darker paring of Alan Ball and Sam Mendes, of "American Beauty".