What's the difference between barony and empire?

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.

Empire


Definition:

  • (n.) Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.
  • (n.) The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.
  • (n.) Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
  • (2) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
  • (3) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
  • (4) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (5) Comparisons between predicted and observed results of studies using different coalition paradigms show considerable empirical support for the model.
  • (6) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
  • (7) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
  • (8) The current work utilizes an empirical relationship between HbO2 saturation measurements and reflected light oximetry, which is consistent with the two-flux theory of Kubelka and Munk (Z.
  • (9) Energy conformational calculations on these compounds were also carried out using the empirical energy program called MOLMEC, in order to better understand how the 4-R substituents modulate receptor binding affinities and efficacies.
  • (10) The resultant scales were administered to a small sample for preliminary empirical testing.
  • (11) We conclude that the concept of the limbic system cannot be accepted on empirical grounds.
  • (12) Based on a large, ongoing empirical research effort to determine factors associated with the successful community adjustment of troubled adolescents leaving residential treatment, this paper focuses on multiple indicators of success measured at multiple points of time in the treatment process.
  • (13) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
  • (14) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
  • (15) The similarities in methods of intervention found in the work of investigators of very different theoretical persuasion raise the possibility that most treatment methods owe more to empirical clinical experience than to their presumed derivation from a theoretical model.
  • (16) This study is directed toward the empirical elaboration of four of these issues as they relate to adjustment in the community.
  • (17) The Assyrian Empire, though it did fluctuate in strength, had gone down finally over six hundred years before this scene is set.
  • (18) In addition to a detailed description of the method, examples for its applications are given, including concomitant investigations of the same cells by empirical staining, immunostaining, and fluorescence histochemistry of biogenic monoamines; colocalization of multiple peptides to the same cells and corresponding specificity controls; three-dimensional reconstructions based upon immunostained serial semithin sections; quantitative (computer-assisted) determinations of immunoreactivities.
  • (19) The purpose of this study was to test an empirically based prediction model of school dropout on a sample of 137 juvenile delinquents, some who have dropped out and some who have remained in school.
  • (20) Comparison with other pinch strength studies established that although force magnitudes may be strongly influenced by specific experimental conditions, empirical relationships among different pinch forces are fairly stable and predictable.

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