Magnates in a sentence

Brown writes that James had come to power after 'fifty years when kings looked like magnates and magnates acted like kings' and succeeded in completely changing the outlook and objectives of the monarchy.

He’s not one of the big magnates of our city, but he does very well.

Meanwhile, apart from the Rs 5 lakh announced for the next of kin of the deceased by the Kerala government, business magnates MA Yusuf Ali and Ravi Pillai will be giving aid to the families also.

Students won five awards at the Bishop Auckland Town Council Youth Awards, and the school’s Year 8 entrepreneurs were the overall winners in the prestigious Future Business Magnates Competition.

Those donations make the magnates among some of Trump’s biggest donors and represent an increase from past election cycles.

He isn’t doing anything different than the settlers and railroad magnates that came before him—who also relied on the work of Chinese migrants to finish the railroad tracks that made them into myth—but those obsessed with the past don’t see it that way.

In a world often ruled by its CEOs and top-level influencers, it is hard to imagine these magnates as vulnerable or helpless.

Nearly $1 billion has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a massive fire.

Will 30-something tech magnates connect to Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor?

Action Libérale was opposed by the Parti de l'Ordre, led by Henri Leclézio, the most influential of the sugar magnates.

After a month, he was back in prison yet again, and this time he was held until the following May, when he was released on bail of 200 pounds, paid by a number of his fellow magnates from Warwickshire.

Archeological evidence proves that to the north of the line mentioned above, not only did the older settlement structures survive, but also territorial-administration organisation led by native magnates.

Architecture The most striking examples of Gilded Age theater architecture were commissioned by the big time vaudeville magnates and stood as monuments of their wealth and ambition.

Bates William the Conqueror pp. 154–155 By William's death, after weathering a series of rebellions, most of the native Anglo-Saxon aristocracy had been replaced by Norman and other continental magnates.

But, because of the structure of the Commonwealth at that time and the lawlessness of Ukraine, even the King was not able to prevent a confrontation with local magnates.

Charles, unusually, had himself crowned with the Iron Crown and made the magnates of Lombardy do homage to him at Pavia.

Competing magnates, those called in charters "dux" or "princeps" (that is, leaders), may have brought the kings to power.

During the late 19th century, several Gilded Age mansions reflecting the wealth of industry and shipping magnates were built east and west of the current downtown, along the major avenues of the Woodward plan.

English rule was delegated to a series of lords and magnates.

Few szlachta were wealthy enough to be known as magnates (karmazyni—the " Crimsons ", from the crimson colour of their boots).