All around the table sat married friends, and after a couple of hours, the six-year-old put her arm around her mother in a proprietorial fashion, a bit like a husband might, and said they should probably be getting home now, because they both had to get up early in the morning.
Undertakings signed by Rupert Murdoch in 1981 as part of his takeover of the Times and Sunday Times mean that a majority of the six independent directors must approve the appointment of the editor of the other title, as a restraint against proprietorial interference – an arrangement unique on Fleet Street.
"I don't want the proprietorial state," he insists, adding that "I respect the workings of the market".
"I happen to be a nuclear physicist, and the word is 'indivisibility' .The guide tries to ensure that his walkers (and he does feel proprietorial about them) enjoy their stay in the capital.
"Ally" had his picture taken beside his craft, a hand casually in a pocket, proprietorial and proud.
The relationship was sometimes friendly, sometimes tense, but always close and rarely craven on the part of the media firm.In this section Double-dip trouble Fatal attraction Day of dread Two left feet Road warriors Thin skins, thick bills Buy this team The pen is mightier Internship ReprintsAnother milestone in the Sun's political coverage does not seem to have earned a proprietorial rebuke.
Such proprietorial interests trouble some journalists, particularly given the papers' weak finances.
This risked being "profoundly unjust" to poor families with children, said the bishops.The Anglican church has become rather proprietorial about anti-finance protesters camped in the City of London outside St Paul's Cathedral, after a muddled initial response that saw two senior clergymen resign.
I don't want a proprietorial state, or an interventionist state, but I do want the state to have the capacity to regulate and that people know that the state can do this.
And the unification of consumer lenders' jealously guarded proprietorial credit databases into a national whole would remove an important barrier to entry.
So Brazil feels proprietorial about the tournament, which it is to host in 2014.
