| The Tory college could consist of MPs, grassroots grandees consisting of constituency chairs and council leaders, and finally members. |
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| For years I have heard the grandees of Oxford, Cambridge and London threaten a dash for freedom. |
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| Five days on, this weekend, party grandees are already preparing for the fall-out from another defeat. |
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| Its members will likely include chairmen of big companies and other business grandees. |
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| He cultivated an image of Olympian detachment by scrupulously protecting the respective ranks and dignities of the grandees. |
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| He starts with the famous debates that took place in Putney Church in 1647 between the Cromwellian grandees and the radical Levellers. |
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| Millions of proud, educated Europeans are tired of being told by unelected grandees that the mess they see is really abstract art. |
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| Most of the current grandees of the British newspaper industry were there, and I didn't really know what was expected of me. |
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| Like other grandees, Carter married into another prominent Virginia family. |
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| Four years after his birth in Dunfermline, in 1600, it was thought a good idea to crown the boy King of Scots, but the Scots grandees objected. |
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| One involves grandees of left and right stampeding to embrace gay marriage, after years of timidity and hesitation. |
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| 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. |
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| His prices were too high for the Venetian grandees, who were as careful as himself with money, whilst the religious orders vexed him with quibbles and indecision. |
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| Last year, moreover, a committee of Pushtun grandees retired civil servants, judges and so forth was told to find out what the tribals wanted. |
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| The trip provided opportunities to show Mr Wahid hobnobbing with foreign grandees, and enjoying their declarations of support. |
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| Passed over for court painter to George III, Reynolds turned to the King's opponents, the Whig grandees and the group that surrounded the Prince of Wales. |
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| The Spanish grandees likewise did not recognize it, being unalterably opposed to partition. |
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| That is an amazing ratio and, if snot-nosed American media grandees don't think there's a story there, maybe they ought to consider another line of work. |
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| Built in one go from 1606 to 1625 and preserved intact, it offers an exceptional picture of the life of the grandees of Lyon in the 17th century. |
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| Round the queen some grandees always were twisted, it preferred whose society. |
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| The glass's light recalls the delicacy of the crystal coupes in which the world's grandees tasted the finest wines? |
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| The shopkeepers and aristocrats, peasants and military grandees, nuns and nudes all share an exaggerated pudginess that gives them a pleasant comic quality. |
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| He was the first Tory leader to be elected as party head, rather than emerge from a mysterious process of selection by the circle of aristocratic grandees. |
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| She was the first star who could outsmart, outmanoeuvre, and outswear the studio grandees. |
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| Of the temporal grandees of the realm, and of their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid. |
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| In council which corrected from his name, the leading role was played by the grandees plundering treasury, uniting in conflicting groupings that did impossible law and order maintenance. |
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| Therefore ambitious grandees and the small noblemen, not had time to make own fortune, without effort hired mercenaries for new dangerous expeditions to depth of the American continent. |
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| Don't they know how absurd and unedifying it is to see places such as Cardowan, Cumnock and Port Ellen associated with a bastion of unearned privilege and wealth through the political avarice of a few old grandees? |
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| Today, when Princess Anne opens the £3m redisplay of his collection at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, she may inspect bits of several Georgian grandees, including part of the Earl of Morton's stomach. |
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| The European Parliament is a corporatist assembly, in which big parties rule by consensus and horse-trading, office is awarded by rotation and grandees have safe berths. |
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| A third is to create a board of outside grandees to help break political deadlocks, like the Base Realignment and Closure commission, which was able to prod Congress to shut down military bases. |
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| Like Tory party grandees 25 years later, the dons underestimated her. |
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| Although Whig grandees such as Portland and Fitzwilliam privately agreed with Burke's Appeal, they wished he had used more moderate language. |
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| The Liberal grandees, who hated Lloyd George, did not press Asquith to retire. |
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| However, Lloyd George had more support amongst the wider party than amongst the grandees. |
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| When this parliament was dissolved following pressure from the army in April 1659, the Rump Parliament was recalled at the insistence of the surviving army grandees. |
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| If these grandees were supporters of the incumbent monarch, this gave the Crown and its ministers considerable influence over the business of parliament. |
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| After seven months the Grandees in the New Model Army removed him and, on 6 May 1659, they reinstalled the Rump Parliament. |
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| The Rump was created by Pride's Purge of those members of the Long Parliament who did not support the political position of the Grandees in the New Model Army. |
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