| In the seven games that they won the young squad travelled thousands of kilometres, lording it over 191 other contesting schools. |
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| There's something about lording over personal servants that lends itself to deep soul-searching. |
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| It was fast developing into a two-tier event, with France and England lording it over the Celtic subordinates. |
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| He will lead a hedonistic life of unrestricted sense enjoyment, lording over everything and everyone. |
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| This is not about lording it over Unionism but a genuine new start for future generations. |
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| But they're rude, they're abrupt, and they act like little tin Hitlers, lording it over their domain. |
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| If we hadn't done it they would have been strutting around on the steps lording it over everyone. |
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| Sure, our game has seen extraordinary characters in the recent past, lording it over this or that club. |
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| My lovely wife has been lording it over me ever since, unimpressed with the meager success I've had with prior awards. |
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| It is a short step to lording it over your dispirited, lonely and inevitably disappointed wife, and your deracinated offspring. |
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| Then there is dowager Jodha Bai, stately, self-contained, but lording over her eyes which swell with more water than a cloudburst can contain. |
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| This is a real country garden, with hens running riot in the orchard and a cockerel lording it on the compost heap. |
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| To seek power for the sake of lording it over fellow creatures or adding to personal pomp is rightly judged base. |
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| How it made me yearn for a simpler life as it sat there, lording it over their kitchen witlessly. |
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| My housemate is younger than me and probably dreading the thought of me lording over the couch and TV remote. |
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| When things are going well for them politically, they are unbearably arrogant, shoving it in everyone's faces, ungraciously lording it over all concerned. |
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| The roadster's cabin is a carbon copy of the coupe's. The three dials lording it over the centre console add a sporty quality to the dash board. |
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| And far from lording it over Congress, the president has if anything abdicated too much responsibility to it. These are all fair points. |
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| The authority of the pastor was one of service, rather than lording it over the people. |
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| And if you are a stringer, you are not paid for your labours though nobody stops you from printing a visiting card claiming correspondent status, and lording it around. |
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| It is the arrogance of a Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, lounging around the water fountain at Versailles, completely out of touch with the needs of their people but lording it over them anyway. |
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| Not the least of the work's attractions is its firmly concerted character: the two instruments dialogue as equals without one ever lording it over the other. |
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| The Delhi Durbar of 1911 saw King George V and Queen Mary bedecked in sapphires and rubies lording it over half a million Indian subjects. |
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| To draw a more contemporary analogy, it is the arrogance of King Jean I and the member from Grantford lounging around the fountain at Shawinigan, completely out of touch with Canadians but lording it over them nonetheless. |
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| If even she is unable to steer clear of the unfortunate tendency of the more powerful lording it over those who are weaker, there are many others who give in to temptation more often than not. |
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| Performing his hit kiss-off with an unprintable title, Big Sean exuded his usual petulance, the big-timer lording his success over the woman who let him go. |
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| Though General Nkunda launched his latest offensive in August, his 4,000 or so battle-hardened fighters have been lording it over the area for four years, claiming to champion the rights of eastern Congo's Tutsi minority. |
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| Coe's not lording it It's interesting Lord Coe's biography in his election manifesto for the presidency of the IAAF makes no mention of his peerage. |
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| These days, the 36-year-old is lording over a far darker fantasy world. |
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| Washington otherwise doesn't have quite the problems that exist in Manhattan – the city's height act ensures, for now, that there won't be a billionaires' condo lording over the national mall. |
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| But the outburst drew titters when it was reported in the United States, where a gentleman is not thought of as a man of property lording it over the masses, but simply as one who behaves gently towards others. |
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| As usual, the general public bear the brunt of yet more funding cuts while all the fat cats are lording it up in their ivory towers. |
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| They were in a manner absolute despots in their little domains, lording it, if so disposed, over both law and gospel, and accountable to none but the mother-country. |
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| To most of us beach bums, lifeguards look like vaunted kings in their wooden castles, lording over both our safety in the waves and our red-shorted nap-time fantasies. |
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