What's the difference between baroness and barony?
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.
Barony
Definition:
(n.) The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
(n.) In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
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.