(n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
(n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sabogal was one of a group of four Colombians who took over the reins of the country's biggest drug-trafficking outfit after the arrest and deportation to the United States of drug baron Luis Hernando Gómez Bustamante in 2004.
(2) There are some things even a billionaire petrochemicals baron can’t control.
(3) The term "barons" hasn't really had any meaning since the Combination Act of 1799 ; at a pinch 1825 , when the legislation to prevent the activity of unions was passed again, in the Combination of Workmen Act.
(4) The question isn’t even complete before Baron jumps in: “He doesn’t inject himself at all into our journalism.
(5) The recently described dominant yeast marker Tn5ble confers phleomycin resistance on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Gatignol, Baron and Tiraby, 1987.
(6) Baron, who tabled Wednesday night's amendment, said he would back the bill even though he regards it as a "second-best option" because it was important to try to get legislation through.
(7) So is this presidential election over?” asked Michael Barone , resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
(8) Even if the inquiry does not provide the answer, the solution may be coming sooner than the press barons expect as a result of new technology.
(9) She rented a flat to be near his grave at Vienne, near Lyons, and was befriended by a neighbour, the octogenarian Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who had run a theatre in his youth.
(10) The New York Times' Editorial Page Editor Andy Rosenthal called the DOJ's actions "outrageous" while Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron said they were "shocking" and "disturbing".
(11) 1.20pm: Our Guardian beat blogger in Leeds, John Baron, reports on the protests in the city: More than 2,000 noisy students have marched through University of Leeds and the half a mile into Leeds city city.
(12) The dusty and impoverished town has few signs of diamond wealth, and the word is that its senior baron recently fled to Maputo to evade Zimbabwe's secret police.
(13) The last bit means "baron of Guttenberg", a village in the Franken area of Bavaria where the Guttenbergs have had their family seat – an impressive castle – since 1315.
(14) HSBC has apologised for "shameful" systems breakdowns that failed to stop the bank from laundering money for terrorists and drug barons as it set aside $700m (£445m) for potential fines in the US and another $1.3bn for mis-selling financial products in the UK.
(15) John Baron, a Conservative MP and former army captain, whose urgent question forced Hammond to come to the Commons, said that the new Isaf order threatened "to blow a hole in our stated exit strategy, which is heavily reliant on these joint operations continuing".
(16) This is the speech you won't hear from Mark Thompson – or indeed anyone in British political or regulatory life: "This old proprietorial model, long run by media barons, operated as a form of protection from harsh realities the business might otherwise have faced.
(17) Autistic children, pair matched on chronological and verbal mental age with control children, were given Hobson's task of recognition of emotions and Baron-Cohen's False Belief tasks to assess the replicability of their findings of deficits in understanding of feeling and mental states in autism.
(18) Cody Tennant, his grandson, succeeds as the 4th Baron Glenconner.
(19) Leaving aside the more obvious consideration of whether to oppose Boris Johnson or powerful media barons is intrinsically leftwing – many Tories do too – it raises the questions: a) what are Sherlock Holmes's politics; and b) have Moffat and Gatiss hijacked them for their own ends?
(20) He wants to style himself as patron of the most ambitious urban overhaul since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the Champs Elysée.
Baroness
Definition:
(n.) A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
(2) In addition alcohol like cocaine inhibits the baro receptor reflex.
(3) Two and a half years on, Baroness Warsi is no longer a cabinet minister.
(4) McAlpine, one of Baroness Thatcher's closest aides during her time in Downing Street, had been retired from public life for some years when he was thrust back into the limelight over a poorly researched Newsnight investigation in 2012 .
(5) Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive of the Breast Cancer Campaign charity, said: "These are interesting results that report a link between increased fat in the blood and an increased risk of breast cancer.
(6) The Edinburgh-born actor Lindsay Duncan, 58, who played Baroness Thatcher in a recent BBC TV film, was appointed a CBE, as was Welsh-born Jonathan Pryce, 62, who has recently appeared in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films.
(7) UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) Baroness Stowell has been appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary at @CommunitiesUK #reshuffle October 7, 2013 That's Tina Stowell , the Lords whip who took the gay marriage legislation through the Lords.
(8) This is a humane Bill" #untiltheend July 18, 2014 1.40pm BST In one of the more extreme speeches so far, Conservative peer Baroness Cumberlege refers to the bill as “gag of poison”.
(9) The last time a euthanasia bill came before our parliament, much was made by Baronesses Knight and Finlay of the fact that allowing any form of assisted death had impacted badly on palliative care in Oregon.
(10) The Lords leader, Baroness Amos, said: "Significant negotiation goes on by our ministers and others, usually in Brussels, before we get to the point where we agree."
(11) That number had to be doubled with reinforcements from the territorial support group (TSG) after it became clear protesters had infiltrated the building housing Tory Party headquarters, with party chair Baroness Warsi inside.
(12) I look forward to the results of the review of the PCC which Baroness Buscombe has announced.
(13) The Press Complaints Commission chair, Baroness Buscombe, has claimed the organisation would have helped stop publication of allegations that Ryan Giggs had an affair with a former reality TV star .
(14) Staff Facebook Twitter Pinterest Conservative peer Baroness Shields, formerly a managing director at Google, is now the minister for internet safety and security.
(15) On the face of it, Baroness Butler-Sloss has all the qualifications, and more, for what will be a highly complex and sensitive task: heading the wide-ranging inquiry the home secretary has announced into historical child abuse.
(16) Their origin seems to be correlated to the acute imbalance of the autonomic innervation of the heart after surgical disturbance of baro- and chemoreceptors.
(17) • With the funeral preparations now advanced, notables continue to share recollections of the baroness.
(18) Corner for Liverpool, which Milan Baros wins off Jaap Stam.
(19) Murdoch will have an opportunity respond to Thompson's comments later this month when he delivers the first Baroness Thatcher lecture in London.
(20) Application of sodium pentobarbital to the ventral medullary surface (VMS) depressed baseline arterial pressure and ventilation, and attenuated the baro-pressure reflex, but not the baro-ventilatory reflex.