(a.) A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the 12th edition of the winter spinoff of Art Basel, the prestigious Swiss art fair, is drawing the usual assortment of private jet passengers, museum bigwigs, advisers, consultants and social butterflies.
(2) Owing to the whole “ underage sex slave allegations ” thing currently besetting the Duke of York, an utterly bewildering number of bigwigs are coming out of the woodwork to speak up for Andy’s indispensability.
(3) "If you are a sibling of someone who is very important in China, automatically people will see you as a potential agent of influence and will treat you well in the hope of gaining guanxi [connections] with the bigwig relative," said Roderick MacFarquhar, an expert on Chinese elite politics at Harvard University.
(4) Under the gaze of protesters, Republican bigwigs such as Condoleezza Rice arrived to pay homage to – and write cheques for – a governor who has taken stances against gay marriage and the issue of raising taxes on the rich, while at the same time embarking on a union-bashing crusade against teachers in his home state.
(5) He has capitalised on his international upbringing and education to become chairman of Socialist International and build bonds with such global bigwigs as economics Nobel prizewinner Joseph Stiglitz and former US president Bill Clinton.
(6) But don't think it's just Republican bigwigs and oil execs rushing to lend the pipeline a hand.
(7) But the arrests of seven Fifa bigwigs in Zurich on Wednesday, and the coordination of a raid on Fifa’s $100m headquarters down the road with a raid on the Miami HQ of international football’s north and central American federation caught everyone off their guard.
(8) But,” he says without a trace of hyperbole, “I believe the journey up there will be the thing.” Inside the hangar we hear speeches from Virgin Galactic bigwigs, trumpeting what a fabulous achievement the new aircraft is.
(9) "On the doorstep," lamented one Labour bigwig, "people saw it as Boris v Ken."
(10) King, and four other Bank bigwigs, have been called to answer questions about the latest financial stability report – we expect plenty of questions on the eurozone crisis.
(11) New Labour bigwigs insisted that those voters “had nowhere else to go”.
(12) The other half, the party bigwigs roll up their sleeves and bruise in, weaklings following Ukip thugs.
(13) Against all the conventional wisdom of the then prevailing mindset of the studios’ marketing bigwigs, Universal Pictures – with a new monster on hand to match such signature Universal properties as Frankenstein and Dracula – decided on an unprecedentedly wide immediate opening in an era when the move was still largely a ploy to defang bad early word-of-mouth by vacuuming up all the available ticket-buyer money before the bad news got out (actually, this still holds good now).
(14) The bigwigs pressured the police to prosecute me," he says.
(15) One scene called for Davies, who has died of cancer aged 72, and his fellow child actors to look on enviously as the bigwigs of the workhouse devoured a great pile of pastries, hams and chicken.
(16) I am a casual tutor, you are permanent (an academic, subject coordinator, faculty bigwig).
(17) That combination has clearly endeared her to the SNL bigwigs: she was one of four musical performers on the show’s 40th anniversary special, alongside Paul McCartney, Kanye West and Paul Simon.
(18) Don't all the bigwig shrinks – your Freuds, Jungs and Laings – drone on about the importance of separation, individuation and self-actualisation?
(19) Given the ceremony’s choice of host, the outspoken Chris Rock, it’ll be a nervous night for Academy bigwigs.
(20) Better Together had Gordon Brown's impassioned rhetoric; it parachuted in Westminster bigwigs to make hurried vows for new Scottish powers.
Kingpin
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The death of Esparragoza would be the second blow to the Sinaloa cartel this year, following the February arrest of its most famous kingpin, Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán .
(2) Mexican police and soldiers have arrested Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, giving President Enrique Peña Nieto his second capture of a kingpin in less than a week.
(3) The strategy pursued by successive Mexican governments of going after criminal kingpins has resulted in numerous spectacular arrests and takedowns and weakened several important cartels.
(4) In the short term, Guzmán’s escape is more of a political than a security question,” the specialist website Insight Crime said, highlighting the way his arrest had been greeted in the US as proof that the Mexican government was both willing and able to go after even the biggest kingpins.
(5) Life after El Chapo: a year on from drug kingpin’s capture, business is blooming Read more This is clearest, he says, in the lack of judicial action against collaborators of the world’s most infamous narco, the Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, arrested a year ago amid much fanfare.
(6) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
(7) In his final audio released at the end of last year, the kingpin said he regretted all the violence he had overseen.
(8) La Tuta captured: Mexico's flamboyant primary teacher turned drug kingpin Read more In recent days the Mexican government has celebrated the capture of two top cartel suspects: on Wednesday Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the notoriously brutal Zetas drug cartel, was caught in the northern city of Monterrey .
(9) The recapture of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán will have no impact on Mexico’s multibillion-dollar drug trade unless he is extradited to the United States, experts have warned.
(10) It was accused of scheming with Iran to hide billions of pounds’ worth of transactions from the authorities, leaving the financial system susceptible to “terrorists” and “drug kingpins”.
(11) Peter Sands, the chief executive of Standard Chartered, came out fighting against accusations by a US regulator that the British bank conspired with Iranian clients to move $250bn (£160bn) around the financial system for terrorists and "drug kingpins" as he attempted to repair the bank's battered reputation.
(12) One of the world's most sought after cocaine kingpins was hunted down and captured in Colombia yesterday in the toughest blow against the country's drugs trade in more than a decade.
(13) In recent months Beltran Leyva had begun leaving messages beside his victims signed by El Jefe de Jefes , the Boss of Bosses, although few took the claim seriously in a context where much of the violence stems from the inability of any kingpin to establish hegemony over the others, or even lasting alliances.
(14) This announcement marks the first steps in a sensible return to realign funding, focus and efforts into moving away from a largely prohibitionist approach to the much more effective approach of harm minimisation.” The justice minister, Michael Keenan, said local police were working with intelligence and policy agencies in Mexico, Iran, China and other countries to stop the drug from entering the country and to arrest drug kingpins.
(15) Many say his government’s assault on drug cartels and arrest of kingpins actually fueled the growth of Sinaloa and its major rival, the Zetas, which are now going head-to-heard for lucrative territory.
(16) Thai authorities have since arrested dozens of people, including a powerful mayor and a man named Soe Naing, otherwise known as Anwar, who was accused of being one of the trafficking kingpins in southern Thailand.
(17) The assigned reporter first ruled out initial information that the missing body was Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán – the leader of the Sinaloa cartel and the most famous of Mexico's many kingpins.
(18) The accusations followed claims from the family, housemates and neighbours of Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe that the 29-year-old had been mistaken for Medhanie Yehdego Mered, a 35-year-old smuggling kingpin supposedly deported from Sudan on Wednesday.
(19) The government has been heavily criticised for its inability to stop the flow and for turning a blind eye to so-called kingpins linked to the large and influential Chinese community in the country.
(20) Taking down the biggest kingpins has undoubtedly weakened several formerly powerful cartels, but it also appears to have provided the Jalisco-based cartel with opportunities for growth and expansion.