What's the difference between baronial and ducal?

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.

Ducal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a duke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
  • (2) When Loder followed a call to Halle and took his collection of specimens along with him, his successor in Jena had to set up another collection which came under ducal administration.
  • (3) At the 50th anniversary of the couple's accession to the ducal title, Debo swanned into the marquee in a costume created for a Victorian duchess at a 19th-century Chatsworth thrash: she found its whaleboning very supportive.
  • (4) Around the corner from Belgium's royal palace, Number 17 Rue Ducale is a splendid 19th-century Brussels mansion, if a bit bombastic.
  • (5) A tour of the historic centre – starting with the duomo, baptistry, and painted ceiling at San Paolo convent, then heading over the river via Palazzo della Pilotta to the Palazzo Ducale – is fascinating and not too demanding.
  • (6) As a young man, Devon- shire's ducal manner could sometimes seem abrasive.
  • (7) Still, they meant the Queen's partner had an affinity with her subjects that the ducal stuffed-shirt favoured by her courtiers might not have enjoyed.
  • (8) Merkel left Rue Ducale after 1am, her powers of persuasion failing for once.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ruskin’s study of the exterior of the Ducal Palace, Venice (1865).
  • (10) One of its most celebrated spaces is the staggering library, 55 metres long, which holds the largest pipe organ in any private house in Europe, a giant marble statue of Queen Anne, an array of ducal coronets and ermine-trimmed robes, and, soon, pieces including a hand-carved marble model of one of the security cameras that watch the artist's every move.

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