Sentence examples for whose lord from inspiring English sources

But then came Peter Jackson, whose Lord of the Rings made epic fantasy a profitable concern.

It's the story of a group of samurai whose lord has been put to death — ordered to commit hara-kiri — by the shogun, and whose castle has been confiscated.

It may not be a surprise to learn that the British novelist William Golding, whose "Lord of the Flies" (1954) supplanted "The Catcher in the Rye" as the bible of tortured adolescence in America, did not have a happy childhood.

And Warner Brothers has kept the heat under its early season entry, "Argo," even as "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" arrives from Peter Jackson, whose "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" swept 11 Academy Awards in 2004, including best picture.

When it was time for cocktails and dinner ($1,200 a plate), guests — some in very high heels — teetered out onto Main Street, and with traffic whooshing by, walked to the historic Gardiner estate, whose "lord of the manor," Robert, died in 2004 after a family feud over the rights to Gardiners Island.

Anglican bishops in England place over their shield a mitre; but the bishop of Durham, as a bishop palatinate (bishop of a county whose lord had regal powers), has the mitre in a ducal coronet (a coronet decorated with three strawberry leaves), and behind his shield is a sword and crosier in saltire (diagonally crossed).

She places the Kremlin in the heart of Russia's history, describing the intrigues that revolved around what was at first just an obscure palisade at the junction of the rivers Yauza and Moskva, whose lords glared enviously at their more prosperous kin in Kiev and Vladimir.

With the support of large numbers of rōnin, samurai whose lords had been dispossessed, the rebels fought so zealously that an army of 100,000 troops was unable to quell them, and the Japanese government had to call in a Dutch gunboat to blast the rebel stronghold.

This, after all, is the city whose Lord Mayor's trousers fell down during a civic reception, his shreddies putting Leicester on the global map for all the wrong reasons.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: December 20 , 2010Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about the author Jaimy Gordon, whose novel "Lord of Misrule" won the National Book Award for fiction last month, misstated the title of another book she wrote.

Another factor was the Crusades, in which it was useful to distinguish quickly between men from different lands with different languages, men whose liege lords might be pursuing quite different objectives.