How To Use Magnate In A Sentence

By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
In return for this patronage, magnates expected their clients, tenants, and neighbors — their "affinities" — to support them with men, arms, and money when the magnate needed military resources. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Yet, in the absence of the traditional ruling magnates to supervise border rule and defence, the region's precarious peace dissolved into feuds and reiving.
Only the king could appoint people to it and normally only princes of the blood (the most senior nobles), senior prelates and magnates were allowed to join.
A more innocent reason for the chat was that Cragnotti, a fruit magnate, was trying to enlist Erikkson as the European face of Del Monte.

Former Broncos foundation coach Wayne Bennett, who had close ties with the Thoroughbreds through the late mining magnate Ken Talbot, has reportedly already been earmarked as a possible coach of the side if it's approved by the NRL, which is planning expansion in NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
He will be powwowing with Fortune 500 executives, foreign leaders, and banking magnates, too.
An alliance into a historic family deemed amongst the most powerful of the Northern magnates of England would ensure the wealth, security and influence of Mann.
In this way, our banks can only compete in the same financial arena facing up the rules of WTO with the financial magnate from western countries.
To its supporters, who include among others the British Government, which has signed a potentially lucrative contract with Odyssey to salvage a 17th century navy ship called HMS Sussex carrying bullion worth up to £500m, the Nasdaq-listed company, founded by a former advertising executive and a real estate magnate, is a reputable organisation that follows strict archaeological guidelines in its legitimate search for sunken vessels. A £200m treasure hunt. Has Odyssey Marine found ‘La Vierge’? : Coin Collecting News
You will see it on my ticket if you look in your wallet;" but this, of course, the magnate refused to do, and when another hoot of the whistle announced the engineer's impatience he called a brakeman, saying: Lorimer of the Northwest
History is silent as to the exact date when the term "bushi" came into use, but from a very early era its Japanese equivalent, "monono-fu," was applied to the guards of the sovereign's palace, and when great provincial magnates began, about the tenth century, to support a number of armed retainers, these gradually came to be distinguished as bushi. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
It is a "museum of the managed American countryside," preserving the roughhewn log cabin of the mountain pioneer, the summer home of a textile magnate, and traces of early industries such as logging railways and an old canal. Proposal: A great deal on a New Deal
Steve Wynn, multi-billionaire casino magnate.
In Naples, the annona was in the hands of a cabal of corrupt city magnates and nobles, and the royal government was too weak to counter their influence. Delizia!
While many of the writers noted above are relatively new, a couple possibly even more fresher than I've enjoyed and who I look forward to reading more from are Dana Copthorn (The Steam Magnate) and for a bit more traditional (but not really) Lane Robins (Maledicte, and Kings and Assassin forthcoming) who I think went WAY under the radar last year. MIND MELD: The Best Women Writers in SF/F
The next owner, a department-store magnate named Greel, in his late sixties, acquired a mistress, allegedly of French Creole descent. DEAD LINES
The next owner, a department-store magnate named Greel, in his late sixties, acquired a mistress, allegedly of French Creole descent. DEAD LINES
[The passage] is about the Polish magnates 'desire to catholicize the Ukrainian population, in order to have more influence on it and to eventually assimilate it. Neeka's Backlog
The territorial power of the English magnates (the barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes in ascending order of status) was crucial to the peace of the realm and the success of royal government.
Russian oil magnate Roman Abramovich tops the pile with an estimated fortune of more than £10 bn.
The publishing magnate is challenging front-runner Dole by attracting largely middle-class suburban voters seemingly alienated from the political process.
In the thirteenth century the dignity of palsgrave was raised form its original ministerial character to complete independence, and the count palatine, largely in consequence of the union with Bavaria, became one of the powerful territorial magnates, subsequently the foremost of the secular princes of the empire. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
Promoted by what has been described as a splashy World AIDS Day event attended by three U. S. Presidents, business magnates and rock stars, this conclusion was based on the results of a study of 1,763 couples where only one of the partners tested positive for the HIV virus. Bruce A. Barron: Scientific Breakthroughs
The extravagant mansions built on the island of Syros reflect the wealth of these early magnates.
A local magnate, the head of some great family, a peer of old descent, was often thus "nobbled" -- to use a modern colloquialism -- and was allowed to make as many freemen as he pleased and to take whatever part he would in the control of municipal affairs. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)
Jon Huntsman, the billionaire American chemicals magnate, is in his office surrounded by cuddly toys.
The WA Government looks set for a stoush with the mining magnate Clive Palmer over whether his company should pay an environmental bond on a minesite in the Pilbara. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
The most ardent backers of the opposition were the business magnates and the armed forces.
He had to consult the nobles, the magnates of the Church, and, in time, representatives from the towns who could make commitments of money.
There has been plenty to celebrate from the dawn of the new century too, of course - a period during which the property magnate has spent dinero like there was no mañana.
Carlos Slim, the telecommunications magnate, is the richest person in Latin America, according to the annual Forbes Magazine list of the world's 500 richest people. Lloyd Mexico Economic Report April 2004
In other words, the noble landlords and magnates, whose values were decidedly not those of Puritan asceticism, were in the vanguard of capitalism.
The extent to which a powerful magnate could dominate the shire community and act as a focus for local sentiment varied.
Hearst was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher.
The court of the king, usually known as the curia regis, consisting as it did of magnates, royal vassals, and court officials (mainly chosen from the baronage), was essentially feudal in spirit and tradition. C. France
Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
The next owner, a department-store magnate named Greel, in his late sixties, acquired a mistress, allegedly of French Creole descent. DEAD LINES
Film stars and directors, business magnates and corporate houses are now keen to acquire timeworn artifacts.
They were spotted by none other than pop magnate Pete Waterman.
Andrew Carnegie was a steel magnate who gave a great deal of money away in his later years to libraries and educational causes.
The brilliantly chromolithographed boards were often embellished with capitalist symbolism as well as caricatures of magnates, speculators, and the bestial mascots of wealth.
The publishing magnate is challenging front-runner Dole by attracting largely middle-class suburban voters seemingly alienated from the political process.
A feudal magnate could exercise more power over his tenants than the king who was his overlord.
He provided two reliquaries on which to receive their oaths - one for his magnates, splendidly fabricated of crystal and gold, but entirely empty, the other for the common herd, plainer and enshrining a bird's egg.
The territorial power of the English magnates (the barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes in ascending order of status) was crucial to the peace of the realm and the success of royal government.
Hearst was the media magnate whose tumultuous life was parodied in the 1941 movie, Citizen Kane.
Moreover, there were similar disparities in wealth and status: magnates of the Silesian nobility had little in common with backwoodsmen like the Prussian Junkers.
The wealthy Bombay and Ahmedabad magnates thereupon withdrew their financial support of the ashram.
Hugh Allan, the railroad magnate, would steer Scottish immigrants there until they settled in elsewhere.
Many ports have a capital race-course, which is always circular in shape, enclosing what are generally the grounds of the recreation club, while almost every sporting man trains a pony or two, which he frets and fumes over in a style that would not bemean a Newmarket turf magnate. Life and sport in China Second Edition
Mr Trump is the building magnate and author of The Art of the Deal, one of the most successful business best-sellers of all time.
Indian business magnates of pre-war Rangoon had arrived in that city with little more than a tin suitcase and a few annas in their pockets. Amitav Ghosh discusses Sea of Poppies
He was quite insistent that his school was known as a magnate school. Word Court
And your ideological compatriots in the media might not be able to get up much of a head of steam banging the table for a bunch of hot dog magnates.
trust magnates who felt themselves superior to law
When he carried out a train robbery, he claimed he was defending the small farmer against rapacious railroad magnates.
The billionaire Australian mining magnateand founder of Fortescue Metals is surveying a scene of frenetic activity.
Then quoth the King, "Go thou until the morrow when do thou come hither again;" after which he commanded his Magnates to don dresses of divers colours and different tincts whilst he wore a robe of ruddy velvet. Arabian nights. English
Athenaeum, assembled in their committee-room, and thence marshalled by the chairman and vice-chairman to his rostrum in the lecture-hall, round about which the magnates of the institution and the notabilities of the town were rallied on this public occasion. The Newcomes
Kings and magnates claimed considerable portions of pasture and forest, and there were many disputes concerning their use.
An example that Mr. Folsom provided: the ferry magnate Robert Fulton, who operated successfully on the Hudson thanks to a 30-year exclusive concession from the New York state legislature. An Age of Creative Destruction
The aluminium magnate won the governorship of the autonomous region, just across the Bering Straits from Alaska, in 2000.
I believe, sir, that on this Commission the real source of evil will never be traced; we shall hear of the grinding middleman and the rack-renter, but nothing dangerous to these magnates, or to the trade-system itself -- unless ---- "She paused, and left silence to carry her message. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
Such castles owned as allods by important magnates were particularly common as well in the Spanish March.
Shaw only called for a bit of shattered glass to fall through the conservatory of John Tarleton, the underwear magnate whose lively daughter, Hypatia, is slated to marry a prancing ninny named Bentley Summerhays. George Bernard Shaw's 'Misalliance' misses the mark at Olney Theatre Center
Feyga Lejbowiczowa (d. 1730) was active mainly in the Konskowola section of the Sieniawski latifundium, owned and operated by the magnate noblewoman, Elzbieta Sieniawska. Poland: Early Modern (1500-1795).
Burkle, the supermarket magnate, is a believer in the separation of supermarket and state ( "The first thing they teach you in checkout-counter school," he has said, "is not to talk politics or religion with the customers"). The Hollywood Campaign
Concessions to the barons: reform in the exaction of scutage, aid, and relief, in the administration of wardship and in the demands for feudal service; writ of summons to the great council to be sent individually to the great magnates, collectively proclaimed by the sheriffs to the lesser nobles (i.e., knights). 1194-99
The band was playing in Atlantic City and she got enticed away by a fruit-canning magnate. MR STARLIGHT
Mother Mayberry from Providence, who is the grand old woman of the whole valley, having established her claim to the title thirty years ago by taking up her dead doctor husband's practice and "riding saddlebags to suffering ever since," as she puts it, broke the feminine ice by rising from her seat by the side of one of the entranced Magnates, -- who had been so delighted with her and her philosophies that he could hardly do his dinner justice, -- and addressing the rally in her wonderful old voice with her white curls flying and her cheeks as pink as a girl's. The Tinder-Box
He may yet fail to survive: to second-guess the caprices of Blackburn's distant poultry magnates would be folly, and six defeats in nine Premier League matches before this draw, not to mention rumours of an altercation between supporters and a member of Kean's coaching staff in midweek, had combined to create a sense of crisis. Steve Kean encouraged by eager Blackburn despite draw with Norwich
The local magnates exercised a limited but real authority entirely independent of the colonial administration.
Property magnate John Bloor bought the land for redevelopment and picked up the Triumph name as part of the deal.
The film-star or the crooner is not grudged the income that is grudged to the oil magnate, because the people appreciate the entertainer's accomplishment and not the entrepreneur's, and because the former's personality is liked and the latter's is not. Notable & Quotable
During Stephen's reign tenants faced the prospect of disseisin through the territorial disputes of magnates.
Domino's Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan is using a large slice of his fortune to build a Catholic university in southwest Florida, exciting conservative Catholics with his dream of an academically first-class institution that is also solidly orthodox. Sunday Reading
The number of mints was carefully controlled and permission to subjects to strike coins granted sparingly: it was an indication of the weakness of government during Stephen's reign that so many magnates began to mint coins.
Their words infuse the air Britain breathes, serving just three press magnates whose pernicious influence corrodes all political discourse.
The next owner, a department-store magnate named Greel, in his late sixties, acquired a mistress, allegedly of French Creole descent. DEAD LINES
HONG KONG – The right-wing US advocacy group Freedom’s Watch is reportedly shutting down, as its main funder, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, becomes one of the high-profile casualties of the global economic downturn. 27 « November « 2008 « Niqnaq
The audience was an array of stars, rowdy fans and industry bigwigs, including Virgin magnate Richard Branson.
The magnate's style creates interesting theatre, but is out of place in a modern boardroom.
He seemed to be heading the same way as his cousins Dinto and Tindo, both of whom were now successful tea shop magnates in Fujeirah.
The inn is the pet project of Canadian construction magnate Cliff Lede (that's his eponymous winery directly below) and takes its name from his top red blend, also called Poetry. Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
James Bond now takes on international media magnates rather than Rosa Kleb.
Melbourne is filling with tycoons, moguls, magnates, billionaires and mere millionaires.
Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy, unscrupulous Morty, a discount electronics magnate.
Henrietta had written it again, and again had crept into his chamber and in whatever part of the house the magnate might now be found, he everywhere encountered this pale tremulous figure who pressing her hands together and without uttering a word gazed at him beseechingly, imploringly -- only they two knew why. The Poor Plutocrats
Magnate -- a high and stuck-up beauty, who is now my squaw. Page 7
Two newspaper magnates, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, turned producing newspapers into a war when they began adding special sections including sports and multiple frame cartoon strips.
In The FBI Files 43, he has overpainted the photograph of a man to create a Baconian screaming magnate; the FBI document around him has an exaggerated amount of blacking out that seems to be constricting the figure.
He was elected for the borough speedily after his father's demise; a magistrate, a member of parliament, a county magnate and representative of an ancient family, he made it his duty to show himself before the Hampshire public, subscribed handsomely to the county charities, called assiduously upon all the county folk, and laid himself out in a word to take that position in Hampshire, and in the Empire afterwards, to which he thought his prodigious talents justly entitled him. Vanity Fair
The fact that most of the railroad magnates lived in the East added that element of absentee landlordism which is essential to most agrarian problems. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states
On the 14th October 1066, much of Harold's tiny force was made up of the housecarls of his most powerful magnates because the fyrd had been disbanded.
More than 9,000 works of art were donated to the city of Glasgow by the shipping magnate Sir William Burrell and his wife, Constance.
The publishing magnate is challenging front-runner Dole by attracting largely middle-class suburban voters seemingly alienated from the political process.
They've linked her with various men, including magnate Donald Trump.
The justices of the court included both elite magnates and lesser squireens.
One neighborhood was characterized by the mansions of long-gone steel magnates. Runners
The publishing magnate is challenging front-runner Dole by attracting largely middle-class suburban voters seemingly alienated from the political process.
In consequence the value of lead and the skills needed to mine the ores enabled miners to sustain their social independence from the attempts of feudal magnates to control them.
At about the same time that shipping became a major industry, Bolivian tin magnate, Atenor Patiño, built Las Hadas, as a "playground" for his jet setting friends. Manzanillo... Bustling Port / Quiet Resort, Or Both?
There was, for instance, the daughter of that Bokharan magnate Isakhof, who was the son of Isaac of Bokhara. KARA KUSH
From magnate to baron, from workman to villein, from publicist to court agent and retainer, will be changes of state and function so slight as to elude all but the keenest eyes. A REVIEW
Just wait until she discovers who the serial killers are, and New Orleans magnate Victor Helios is involved. Archive 2009-07-01
In the late 1960s came an unexpected invitation to work for the Johnsons of Wisconsin - the floor-wax magnates and art collectors.
Hungary stood out by ennobling bankers, traders, and railway magnates in significant numbers, and in 1890 the first Jew was promoted, without conversion to Christianity, to the baronage.
The oligarchs, those Kremlin-connected magnates who once dazzled the world with their riches, are reeling.
He shilled for the shipping magnate in his bid to lead the Liberals.
The Town constituency - temporarily held by the Lib Dems - includes a picture of Turner asbestos magnate Cyril Smith and Rediffusion salesman Jeremy Thorpe. Lib Dem Voice: Looking to Rochdale, Missing T'Story
Magazine magnates, television producers and movie studio executives wouldn't continue to use bridal themes as a blueprint if they didn't snare consumers.
It is true that the national assembly, and in particular its government ministries, continued to be dominated by wealthy notables, but the landed magnates were in retreat.
Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy, unscrupulous Morty, a discount electronics magnate.
The local magnates exercised a limited but real authority entirely independent of the colonial administration.
My first two months as a magnate were a great success. Happy Days
There is an evident resemblance between those barons who humiliated King John and the Whig magnates who invited William of Orange to usurp the throne.
Stephen was brought up at the court of his uncle Henry I, becoming one of the wealthiest of the Anglo-Norman magnates.
After a fire razed the place in 1917, it was rebuilt as a Spanish revival village by the Ohio glass magnate Edward Libbey, who helped rechristen it Ojai, a moniker the Chumash Indians had given to the surrounding valley. Ojai Getaway Guide: The Best Of Ojai
Established by billionaire timber magnate Timothy Blixseth, the resort is affiliated with the Yellowstone Club, an exclusive ski and golf site in Big Sky, MT. Costa Alegre
The landed magnates of Irish landlordism found themselves at the head of Ulster's Protestant democracy.
Aware of the power of the press, many political parties have even nominated media magnates as members of parliament.
Experience also shows that our present rulers and corporate magnates will not yield without a fight.
The local magnates exercised a limited but real authority entirely independent of the colonial administration.
This fall he, backed by the Greek shipping magnate, is scheduled to introduce a new Washington biweekly called The American Conservative.
One tempting way of picturing the result is to view Whiggism as a kind of metropolitan magnet that represented the interests of the merchants and financiers of London and the magnates of the English heartland.

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