(1) Sir Richard had been within one hour of signing the necessary documents before Camelot managed to muscle its way back in to contention through the high court.
(2) Challenged by Camelot in court for her conduct in selecting Branson, the lottery regulator was forced to resign and the competition was re-opened.
(3) In August, after several delays, the commission named the People's Lottery as preferred bidder and excluded Camelot from the running.
(4) "We're regularly approached by and undertake discussions with third parties about possible concepts and ideas for future National Lottery games," said a spokesman for Camelot.
(5) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
(6) His mother's earlier marriage to Hugh Auchincloss made him a cousin of Jackie Kennedy, giving Vidal a front-row seat at the court of Camelot, before banishment in 1963 after a row with Bobby Kennedy.
(7) Degree in business organisation at Heriot-Watt University Career Had trials for Hibernian FC 1984 Graduate trainee, Mars Pedigree Petfood 1986 Media sales, Daily Telegraph 1988 Media executive, Saatchi & Saatchi, made media director in 1990 1995 Joint chief executive, Saatchi & Saatchi 2000 Chief executive, Football Association 2003 Chief executive, Royal Mail He is on the boards of Camelot and Debenhams Family Married to Annette; two daughters
(8) A spokeswoman for Camelot described the justification as "absolute rubbish".
(9) Notices were pinned to windows of the building saying that a writ of possession was obtained from the high court on 24 November giving Camelot permission to remove the “unlawful occupants” on 1 December.
(10) Then he's off, calling the national lottery "a tax on the poor" and noting that "she" – Dianne Thompson, Camelot's chief executive - "earns £1.8m".
(11) He gathered a brilliant assembly of aides around him, generally assumed to be the nucleus of a Kennedy-style Camelot that would take the shuttle down to Washington in due course.
(12) Contacts Agencies seeking to place "property guardian" tenants include : Ad Hoc , 020 7226 9900, www.adhoc.eu Ambika , 020 7376 9740, www.ambikaproperty.com Camelot , 0845 262 2002, camelotproperty.com
(13) Also chairman of Octopus Publishing, Hemscott financial data and Camelot.
(14) But earlier this year Camelot lost its contract with Hackney Council.
(15) Fellowes has been named alongside media heavyweights including former BBC and ITV chairman Michael Grade, as revealed by MediaGuardian.co.uk yesterday , who has enjoyed a colourful media career including work as a journalist, talent agent, US TV producer and senior management positions including chairman of Camelot.
(16) Camelot provides security for empty buildings, including offering space to property guardians who pay a reduced rent to live there on a temporary basis.
(17) "It's not accurate, of course," says Chris Chibnall, who "show-ran" ITV's appointment-to-view whodunnit Broadchurch , as well as Law & Order: UK and Camelot.
(18) Camelot provides property guardians , who move into empty buildings to prevent them from being squatted.
(19) The basic reason why no such thought could be contemplated was spelled out by National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, former Harvard Dean and reputedly the brightest star in the Camelot firmament.
(20) In Apple's top-grossing iPhone apps chart , nine of the top 10 were games: Candy Crush Saga beat Clash of Clans, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Top Eleven, Hay Day, The Hobbit, Kingdoms of Camelot, Megapolis and Marvel: War of Heroes, with only dating service Match.com breaking up the gaming.
Stronghold
Definition:
(n.) A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
Example Sentences:
(1) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(2) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
(3) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
(4) Photograph: Reuters Isis controls large swaths of north-east Syria including its stronghold of Raqqa and a number of lucrative gas and oil fields in the east.
(5) The first state to outlaw alcohol entirely was, not surprisingly, a Protestant stronghold, the New England state of Maine, which introduced Prohibition in 1851.
(6) Major Richard Streatfeild, 40, who the Ministry of Defence used as a "poster boy" for the war, was a commanding officer in the insurgent stronghold of Sangin during some of the fiercest fighting.
(7) Ever, ever ever.” Mahoning, the eastern Ohio county where Miller was coordinating Trump’s campaign, is a historically Democratic stronghold that includes Youngstown, a former steel city that has experienced decades of economic decline.
(8) One of the two last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, the town of Bani Walid, has finally been contained, Libya's interim government has claimed, leaving only parts of the ousted tyrant's birthplace out of rebel reach.
(9) However, the military remains unable to shift Isis from its strongholds or reverse the gains the group made during a stunning sweep through Mosul and Tikrit that continues to pose a grave threat to Iraq's borders.
(10) Civilian buildings, including a mosque, reportedly came under fire from tanks and artillery in Misrata, the last rebel stronghold in the west of the country.
(11) Meanwhile, on the doorsteps of the Margate district of Cliftonville, one of Kent’s most deprived areas and historically a Labour stronghold, Scobie, the party’s 25-year-old candidate, was working hard last to consolidate core support in what he characterised a three way marginal where he could emerge as the “anti-Ukip” choice.
(12) The 550 soldiers began handing over control of the palace, the last British stronghold in downtown Basra, to the Iraqi army shortly before 1am local time (2200 BST yesterday), the army said.
(13) A quick conversation was had about the potential for him to be drawing us into that stronghold and then detonating [a bomb] or killing the hostages or police as they entered.” The cafe manager, Tori Johnson, was executed by Monis 10 minutes later, prompting police to storm the cafe.
(14) Wednesday’s atrocities will be set against the backdrop of the anticipated collapse of Isis’s self-declared caliphate, as Iranian-backed Iraqi and Syrian army forces, plus US and British-backed Kurdish militias, close in on its Mosul and Raqqa strongholds.
(15) They mark the furthest point of Isis influence from the group’s stronghold in eastern Syria.
(16) A group of 30 pro-Russian gunmen seized a police station in the eastern city of Konstantinovka, 30 miles south of the rebel stronghold of Slavyansk.
(17) Hedegaard said: "This is important for our renewables industry, which is a stronghold in Europe, creating jobs and economic growth."
(18) Democrats also won the battle for lieutenant governor and were within a whisker of securing the post of attorney general – an unprecedented sweep in a state that until recently was a Republican stronghold.
(19) Stockholm, a Social Democrat stronghold, may for the first time see the Greens emerge as the strongest party.
(20) With the SNP already threatening Labour in at least 20 of its traditional strongholds in Scotland, the Green surge means Labour is facing a second, largely unexpected, challenge from the left, which has made the election result even more difficult to call.