What's the difference between baron and tallage?

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.

Tallage


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Talliage
  • (v. t.) To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

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