The most ardent backers of the opposition were the business magnates and the armed forces. |
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Experience also shows that our present rulers and corporate magnates will not yield without a fight. |
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He had to consult the nobles, the magnates of the Church, and, in time, representatives from the towns who could make commitments of money. |
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Stephen was brought up at the court of his uncle Henry I, becoming one of the wealthiest of the Anglo-Norman magnates. |
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The territorial power of the English magnates was crucial to the peace of the realm and the success of royal government. |
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This was made up of magnates who enjoyed freedom of speech while the assembly was in session. |
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Melbourne is filling with tycoons, moguls, magnates, billionaires and mere millionaires. |
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The justices of the court included both elite magnates and lesser squireens. |
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The oligarchs, those Kremlin-connected magnates who once dazzled the world with their riches, are reeling. |
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He will be powwowing with Fortune 500 executives, foreign leaders, and banking magnates, too. |
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During Stephen's reign tenants faced the prospect of disseisin through the territorial disputes of magnates. |
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Only the king could appoint people to it and normally only princes of the blood, senior prelates and magnates were allowed to join. |
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When he carried out a train robbery, he claimed he was defending the small farmer against rapacious railroad magnates. |
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Such castles owned as allods by important magnates were particularly common as well in the Spanish March. |
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The landed magnates of Irish landlordism found themselves at the head of Ulster's Protestant democracy. |
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Film stars and directors, business magnates and corporate houses are now keen to acquire timeworn artifacts. |
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By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council. |
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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. |
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Aware of the power of the press, many political parties have even nominated media magnates as members of parliament. |
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The extravagant mansions built on the island of Syros reflect the wealth of these early magnates. |
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Kings and magnates claimed considerable portions of pasture and forest, and there were many disputes concerning their use. |
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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. |
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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. |
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In other words, the noble landlords and magnates, whose values were decidedly not those of Puritan asceticism, were in the vanguard of capitalism. |
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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. |
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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. |
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He emerged as sole leader of the opposition in 1263, but his position had weakened, for many magnates suspected him of having designs on the throne. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Until recently, the Hirst Spot paintings had frequently supplied the background in newspaper photographs of magnates on the go. |
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Samaras and I palled around a bit, especially with the son of a New York lawyer who did work for Greek shipping magnates. |
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Magazine magnates, television producers and movie studio executives wouldn't continue to use bridal themes as a blueprint if they didn't snare consumers. |
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Historically, local magnates administered justice in Manorial Courts and other ways. |
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The Scottish magnates made a request to Edward to conduct the proceedings and administer the outcome, but not to arbitrate in the dispute. |
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We should also protect the autonomy that such a medium confers to ordinary people as well as media magnates. |
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Some of the largest such magnates held several hundred fees, in a few cases in more than one county. |
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A group of magnates led by the Earl of Warwick and Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, accused Gaveston of stealing the royal treasure. |
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We'll teach these magnates that they cannot ride roughshod over the rights of the commoners, confound them! |
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William remained in England after his coronation and tried to reconcile the native magnates. |
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With civil war looming, the magnates of the realm met in council to hammer out a compromise. |
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The earliest known parliament met at Kilkea Castle near Castledermot, County Kildare on 18 June 1264, with only prelates and magnates attending. |
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Their deaths left the majority of the magnates younger and more naturally aligned to the princes than to the king himself. |
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To prevent civil war the Scottish magnates asked Edward I of England to arbitrate. |
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Nominally members of the council were some of the great magnates of the realm, but they rarely attended meetings. |
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To avoid the catastrophe of open warfare between the Bruce and Balliol, the Guardians and other Scots magnates asked Edward I to intervene. |
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This decision had the support of the majority of Scots nobles and magnates, even a number of those appointed by Bruce as auditors. |
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Guillaume des Roches led the magnates of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine declaring for Arthur. |
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Thus the French magnates chose Philip of Valois, who became Philip VI of France. |
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Later English sources stated that Harold had been elected as king by the clergy and magnates of England. |
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This arrangement changed during the reign of George III, who hoped to restore his own power by freeing himself from the great Whig magnates. |
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Charles, unusually, had himself crowned with the Iron Crown and made the magnates of Lombardy pay homage to him at Pavia. |
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The German magnates, having legally elected Henry, would not recognise the deposition unless their king did also. |
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Once-productive fields were deserted, as magnates surrounded themselves with hired rascalry, and banditry took over large areas of the countryside. |
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William also required his newly created magnates to contribute fixed quotas of knights towards not only military campaigns but also castle garrisons. |
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By invitation of Scottish magnates, Edward I resolved the dispute, ruling in favour of John Balliol, who duly swore loyalty to him and became king. |
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This the Scottish King did, but the final straw was Edward's demand that the Scottish magnates provide military service in the war against France. |
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The renewed threat to the homeland gave king and magnates common cause. |
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The preamble to Magna Carta includes the names of the following 27 ecclesiastical and secular magnates who had counselled John to accept its terms. |
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Confident that many magnates and even many of Richard's officers would join him, Henry set sail from Harfleur on 1 August 1485, with a force of exiles and French mercenaries. |
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Godwine and his sons came back the following year with a strong force, and the magnates were not prepared to engage them in civil war but forced the king to make terms. |
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Early on, manning a castle was a feudal duty of vassals to their magnates, and magnates to their kings, however this was later replaced with paid forces. |
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English rule was delegated to a series of lords and magnates. |
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During the reigns of the Norman monarchs, the English Crown was advised by a royal court or curia regis, which consisted of magnates, ecclesiastics and high officials. |
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This the Scottish king did, but the final straw was Edward's demand that the Scottish magnates provide military service in England's war against France. |
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At a meeting of a council of the magnates at Peebles in August 1299 an argument broke out relative to the property of Wallace, who was then in France. |
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After King John was forced to surrender Normandy to France in 1204, English magnates with holdings on both sides of the Channel were faced with conflict. |
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During the reigns of the Norman monarchs, the English Crown was advised by a royal court, which consisted of magnates, clergy and officers of the Crown. |
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During the 1960s, the size of the Greek fleet nearly doubled, primarily through the investment undertaken by the shipping magnates, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos. |
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Many sugar estates closed down, and it marked the end of an era for the sugar magnates who had not only controlled the economy, but also the political life of the country. |
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Henry III was also advised by bishops and magnates that it posed a threat to Oxford, and signed a Royal Decree which banned the establishment of a university in Northampton. |
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