How To Use grandee In A Sentence
- The grandees took refuge in their country houses—it was such a group whom Boccaccio imagined telling each other the tales in his “Decameron”—or hastened to promise propitiatory legacies to the church.
- The 44-year-old leader has reportedly been taking soundings from party grandees over his strategy for the election and the referendum on the European constitution, which is likely to follow soon afterwards.
- With a Royce you will be accepted, or at least tolerated, by the sniffiest grandee - and for considerably less than a duckpond, let alone a manor house. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- He starts with the famous debates that took place in Putney Church in 1647 between the Cromwellian grandees and the radical Levellers.
- He is a former defence secretary of the United States and a grandee of the Democratic Party.
- It was also responsible for one of the most unedifying episodes in modern politics, as Labour grandees sucked up to the label's founder, Alan McGee, in the hope that a little of Britpop's stardust would rub off.
- Elsewhere populism drew upon a peasantry tied to the land as part of the ownership by an aristocracy or local grandees of large estates, as in tsarist Russia and even today in South America and India.
- When combined with the conspicuous deployment of troops and liberal dispensation of patronage to the other princes and Court grandees it was enough to ensure victory.
- Only when such elites and grandees see that there are consequences to their cheap slurs and venom on campuses and American television will they ponder their present relationship with the United States.
- Perhaps he'll enjoy one day being of kafir status. .though of course being a 'grandee' he may expect special treatment and a little rule bending .. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...