Sentence examples for peer with a from inspiring English sources

But Carter's time in Downing Street was an unhappy one, and in October last year he was made communications minister – and a peer – with a powerful role in shaping internet and media regulation.

Finn, elected to parliament thanks to the support of a peer with a rotten borough at his disposal, spends more time falling in love than in the House of Commons.

"Of course they should be allowed to say the play isn't any good," Harris says, "provided they are also saying the same thing about a play of similar quality by a male peer with a male protagonist".

After all, the fact that Glenda Jackson took all her clothes off for a film did not mean she was disregarded when she entered parliament, and Brian Rix regularly lost his trousers in Whitehall farces but was still taken seriously when he arrived in Whitehall proper as a peer with a lot of experience from his work at Mencap.

At the time, journalists were still struggling with the old ideological inhibitions, and so Buntman, recognizing a peer with a deep interest in politics and a restless curiosity, hired Venediktov as a reporter, though he had not had five minutes of journalistic experience.

The new synchrotron, a particle accelerator that will produce X-ray beams 10,000 times brighter than the current one, will be able to peer "with a resolution we never had before" into new types of batteries being developed at the lab that convert hydrogen to electricity, Dr. Misewich said.

A peer with an incurable form of blood cancer is to urge the House of Lords to support controversial assisted dying legislation that would give him the option of allowing doctors to hasten the end of his life.

He wandered, picked, peered with a magnifying glass, wrote and reflected.

It is the art of a dying era peering, with a mixture of excitement and trepidation, into the next.

As for editorial experience, Ms. Adams outranks her peers, with a year and a half spent as an assistant at Domino.

And she was able to deflate the pretensions of her peers with a wit so laconic it was practically unnoticeable.