What's the difference between baron and baronial?

Baron


Definition:

  • (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.

Baronial


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to a baron or a barony.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Baroni’s attorney, Michael Baldassare, called the case “a disgrace” and said the US attorney’s office should be “ashamed” of where it drew the line on whom to charge.
  • (2) Media baronies are short of trust right round the world; even MPs and ministers in Britain's post-Leveson months lay claim to a higher reputation.
  • (3) In the whole trial, no one, not even Bridget Kelly, Bill Baroni or David Wildstein, ever testified that anyone ever said to me that this was an act of political retribution.” It was unclear from Wildstein’s testimony whether Christie knew then that the mess was manufactured for political reasons; however, Kelly testified she told Christie about Sokolich’s concerns about political retaliation during the week of the traffic jams at the bridge, which connects New York and Fort Lee.
  • (4) Kelly, Baroni and Wildstein all testified that Christie was informed about the lane closures either before or while they were going on.
  • (5) Bridget Kelly, Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, an executive at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, were convicted of scheming with a former Christie ally, David Wildstein, to punish a Democratic mayor for not endorsing Republican Christie when he ran for re-election in 2013.
  • (6) Today’s verdict does not change this for me.” New Jersey turns on its tough-guy governor after bridge fiasco threatens his ambitions Read more Kelly and Baroni testified they believed the lane closures were part of a legitimate traffic study because, they said, that was what Wildstein told them.
  • (7) Bertens, who beat the one-time Croatian prodigy Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 out on Court 12, told the Guardian, “It’s going to be tough.
  • (8) Socially it was a divided and divisive document, often reflecting the interests of a baronial elite a few hundred strong in a population of several millions.
  • (9) David Wildstein, a former executive of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey , pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges on Friday, shortly before a 23 April indictment against Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni was unsealed.
  • (10) The great majority of the clauses entrenched baronial rights.
  • (11) There was no doubt the colonel was the more suitable spouse, being both Mr Darcy's cousin and a viscount, while Mr Alveston was the heir to a meagre barony, but Mr Alveston was the more easy on the eye and six years ago she might have connived to ensure his preferment.
  • (12) Next year his baronial enemies rebelled and forced him to concede Magna Carta.
  • (13) That wasn't done long ago because the Times and the ST were rival, unwilling baronies, protected in part by the terms of their fire-sale purchase three decades ago.
  • (14) • Doubles from €95, +351 273 919 031, lagostaperdida.com 14 Old Portugal , Ponte de Lima Facebook Twitter Pinterest Casa De Pomarchão is a 15th-century baronial home that was enlarged in 1775 in the curly, knobbly Pombaline style.
  • (15) Those people were terminated by me and today, the jury affirms that decision by also holding them responsible for their own conduct.” Saying his experience as a “former federal prosecutor” helped him understand the case, Christie continued: “Like so many people in New Jersey, I’m saddened by this case and I’m saddened about the choices made by Bill Baroni, Bridget Kelly and David Wildstein.
  • (16) At worst the privy council is neither an instrument of baronial tyranny nor the last bastion of monarchist power.
  • (17) On October 23, 1963, Sir Alec signed an instrument of disclaimer of four titles of Scotland - the earldom of Home, the lordship of Dunglass, the lordship of Home and the lordship of Hume of Berwick, one United Kingdom peerage - the barony of Douglas and one British peerage - the barony of Hume of Berwick.
  • (18) According to a 2009 Guardian article, "Prestbury's tradition of discreet money has been swept aside by the bulldozing of old properties ... to make way for every sort of modern baronial style."
  • (19) Kelly was fired by Christie as his deputy chief of staff after the plot came to light, and Baroni resigned from his job as deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
  • (20) It also includes the four casualties of the scandal so far: Bridget Kelly, who was dismissed by Christie as his deputy chief of staff following the emergence of an email in which she had written: “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee”; William Stepien, a senior Republican strategist now sidelined in the wake of the scandal; and two Christie appointments to the Port Authority that controls the bridge who resigned in December, David Wildstein and William Baroni.

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