(1) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(2) They include the brothers David and Martin Ennals: the former became social services secretary in Callaghan’s 1976 Labour government and was later ennobled, the latter became general secretary of the National Council of Civil Liberties, a founder member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and secretary general of Amnesty International.
(3) The unlikely ennoblement of this university lecturer, 49, passed largely unnoticed in the press.
(4) Three long-serving party grandees, Sir Alan Beith, Sir Menzies Campbell and Sir Malcolm Bruce, will also be also ennobled.
(5) Or, if that is too complicated, they can simply depict the ways in which human beings endure conflict, or are ennobled by it.
(6) Just marvel at the visceral and psychologically revealing language that Sullivan, after ennobling western violence, uses for the London attack [his emphasis]: "terrorism in its most animal-like form, created and sustained entirely by religious fanaticism which would find any excuse to murder, destroy and oppress Muslims and non-Muslims in the name of God."
(7) Jones, who went on to be ennobled and serve as a UK trade minister, continued to defend the record of Cryne as late as July 2006, when a string of profits warnings prompted concerns about iSoft's aggressive accounting to resurface.
(8) Now ennobled and a schools minister, he had earlier that day met two of the four Barrow borough councillors recently elected on the 'Our Schools Are Not For Sale' ticket.
(9) Yesterday, the MPs who will discuss the matter at their weekly meeting on Wednesday, were saying that the only thing which could rescue Mr Thorpe would be a spectacular performance at the forthcoming by-elections at Carshalton, where the sitting Tory, Robert Carr, has been ennobled, or the Wirral, where the Speaker, Selwyn Lloyd, is retiring.
(10) Stewart Wood, an academic who is Miliband's righthand man and who was ennobled on Friday, the day of the interview, makes the tea in cups that Miliband points out aren't dirty, but instead have been painted by his two-year old.
(11) On screen, after all, she has come to ennoble the dabblers.
(12) For Rabbi Julia Neuberger, today's ennoblement to Liberal Democrat peer is the latest in a list of titles, including a DBE in the New Year's honours, 11 honourary doctorates and an honourary fellowship of Mansfield College, Oxford.
(13) A previous attempt to ennoble the businessman failed when he was questioned as part of the cash-for-peerages scandal.
(14) She said: “The Department of Justice is the only department named for an ideal, and this is appropriate because our work … is both ennobling and profoundly challenging.” On Saturday, colleagues and peers of Lynch told the Guardian of her “low-key, very measured” approach and said she was “very smart, she knows how to surround herself with smart people”.
(15) He served a full five-year term before his ennoblement in 2005.
(16) Digby Jones, the former CBI chief, was ennobled and given the post of trade minister.
(17) In this particular instance, however, Marfan's syndrome bequeathed to posterity a legacy that will ennoble the human spirit for innumerable generations yet to come.
(18) The most eye-catching ennoblement, however, was that of the Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes , creator of ITV1's hit period drama Downton Abbey.
(19) Since being ennobled, Ashcroft has attended the Lords for an average of 36 days each year, has asked few questions and has missed the overwhelming majority of votes.
(20) Alistair Cooke, a veteran of the Conservative research department, and Nick True, a longstanding adviser to Lord Strathclyde, the leader of the Lords, are also ennobled.
Ennobler
Definition:
(n.) One who ennobles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(2) They include the brothers David and Martin Ennals: the former became social services secretary in Callaghan’s 1976 Labour government and was later ennobled, the latter became general secretary of the National Council of Civil Liberties, a founder member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and secretary general of Amnesty International.
(3) The unlikely ennoblement of this university lecturer, 49, passed largely unnoticed in the press.
(4) Three long-serving party grandees, Sir Alan Beith, Sir Menzies Campbell and Sir Malcolm Bruce, will also be also ennobled.
(5) Or, if that is too complicated, they can simply depict the ways in which human beings endure conflict, or are ennobled by it.
(6) Just marvel at the visceral and psychologically revealing language that Sullivan, after ennobling western violence, uses for the London attack [his emphasis]: "terrorism in its most animal-like form, created and sustained entirely by religious fanaticism which would find any excuse to murder, destroy and oppress Muslims and non-Muslims in the name of God."
(7) Jones, who went on to be ennobled and serve as a UK trade minister, continued to defend the record of Cryne as late as July 2006, when a string of profits warnings prompted concerns about iSoft's aggressive accounting to resurface.
(8) Now ennobled and a schools minister, he had earlier that day met two of the four Barrow borough councillors recently elected on the 'Our Schools Are Not For Sale' ticket.
(9) Yesterday, the MPs who will discuss the matter at their weekly meeting on Wednesday, were saying that the only thing which could rescue Mr Thorpe would be a spectacular performance at the forthcoming by-elections at Carshalton, where the sitting Tory, Robert Carr, has been ennobled, or the Wirral, where the Speaker, Selwyn Lloyd, is retiring.
(10) Stewart Wood, an academic who is Miliband's righthand man and who was ennobled on Friday, the day of the interview, makes the tea in cups that Miliband points out aren't dirty, but instead have been painted by his two-year old.
(11) On screen, after all, she has come to ennoble the dabblers.
(12) For Rabbi Julia Neuberger, today's ennoblement to Liberal Democrat peer is the latest in a list of titles, including a DBE in the New Year's honours, 11 honourary doctorates and an honourary fellowship of Mansfield College, Oxford.
(13) A previous attempt to ennoble the businessman failed when he was questioned as part of the cash-for-peerages scandal.
(14) She said: “The Department of Justice is the only department named for an ideal, and this is appropriate because our work … is both ennobling and profoundly challenging.” On Saturday, colleagues and peers of Lynch told the Guardian of her “low-key, very measured” approach and said she was “very smart, she knows how to surround herself with smart people”.
(15) He served a full five-year term before his ennoblement in 2005.
(16) Digby Jones, the former CBI chief, was ennobled and given the post of trade minister.
(17) In this particular instance, however, Marfan's syndrome bequeathed to posterity a legacy that will ennoble the human spirit for innumerable generations yet to come.
(18) The most eye-catching ennoblement, however, was that of the Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes , creator of ITV1's hit period drama Downton Abbey.
(19) Since being ennobled, Ashcroft has attended the Lords for an average of 36 days each year, has asked few questions and has missed the overwhelming majority of votes.
(20) Alistair Cooke, a veteran of the Conservative research department, and Nick True, a longstanding adviser to Lord Strathclyde, the leader of the Lords, are also ennobled.