Sentence examples for to grandees from inspiring English sources

David Cameron tried to butter up the Tory old guard this week by suggesting that he would give ministerial jobs to grandees such as Peter Lilley and Stephen Dorrell, but he probably gave a more candid insight into his vision of the ideal Tory MP in the message he wrote on the back of one of Chloe Smith's election leaflets.

The dispersal of their land, mostly to local grandees, shifted wealth to a new class of citizens, many of them merchants rich from the medieval wool trade.

McCluskey insisted that Unite did nothing wrong in the dispute over a parliamentary selection in Falkirk last year and added: "Let me finally say to those elements inside the party who seek to edge us out, or to the grandees who snipe from the sidelines, this is our party and we are going nowhere".

On Thursday the chancellor has the opportunity to resurrect the Remain camp's faltering campaign to keep Britain in Europe when he takes the podium at the Mansion House to make his annual speech to City grandees.

Miss Dow invited Millay to stay at the Y, bought her some decent clothes, introduced her to the grandees at the Poetry Society of America and the MacDowell Club, and arranged for her to attend Vassar.

The building is a palimpsest of Egypt's troubled 20th-century history: rooms once home to colonial grandees are taken over by military officers swept to power in the 1952 revolution; apartments vacated by middle-class families grown rich under Seventies liberalisation are taken over by businesses; and the two-metre-square storehouses on the roof are colonised by poor migrants from the countryside.

There is no need to transfer yet more money from the retirement savings of ordinary employees to the grandees of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Mayfair, London.

Research has shown him to be a member of the impoverished old aristocracy but well-related to the grandees of Portugal and Spain.

This Georgian square was home to publishing grandees (now retired).

Well accustomed to painting grandees, he was socially at ease with his royal and aristocratic patrons.

But both she and Johnny Rotten knew how to needle grandees and relished the experience.