(a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
(a.) Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
Example Sentences:
(1) On tour, meanwhile, the band have supported some true indie gentry: Thurston Moore, the Breeders, Stephen Malkmus.
(2) The Red Army attacked despotic gentry and evil landlords, people who exploited our country and exploited individuals," she says, recalling her reasons for joining.
(3) We previously reported the cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding omega, which we call rpoZ (D. R. Gentry and R. R. Burgess, Gene 48:33-40, 1986).
(4) It was extremely tiring and cold, with nowhere to sit down and nothing they told us appeared to be correct.” Simon Gentry (@Simon_Gentry) The arrival of the #eurostar to collect us has now been pushed back to 8:30.
(5) Having sold his once-expensive books of literary theory for a derisory sum, he finds himself in a food store for "the super-gentry of SoHo and Tribeca", where the midsize piece of wild salmon he has selected has just been priced at $78.40 (2001 rates).
(6) Further analysis of conditioned media with antiserum to either a pro- [amino acid (aa) residues 1-220] or mature [aa 297-414] peptide of the TGF-beta 2 precursor suggests that TGF-beta 2, similar to TGF-beta 1 production in Chinese hamster ovary cells [Gentry et al., Mol.
(7) Kinsler at the plate and he gets jammed by a Price fastball but manages to muscle one just beyond the reach of the second baseman Zobrist who was pursuing the pop in right field - Gentry comes home and the Rangers have an important run back.
(8) Ikea has finally broken this silence, calling upon us to stop taking pictures of our food using our dearest role models: the landed gentry of 17th-century Europe.
(9) The stature of the Habsburg boys was greater than the poorest boys of contemporary London but compared unfavourably with the height of the English gentry and American cadets of the nineteenth century and, of course, with the height of today's populations.
(10) Having shocked purists by displaying a shark in formaldehyde and servicing his art with other dead and decaying animals, Hirst last week joined what once seemed a dying breed, the landed gentry.
(11) Previous studies (Gentry, L. E., Lioubin, M. N., Purchio, A. F., and Marquardt, H. (1988) Mol.
(12) Oh wait ... October 1, 2013 3.39am BST Rays 4 - Rangers 2, bottom of 7th Gentry skies to right center field and that's it for Texas in their half of the seventh.
(13) Gentry said it was only at that point that he felt Eurostar had let the passengers down.
(14) Landed gentry to self-made millionaires • Back to the top Duke of Westminster (Wealth: £7.9bn) Gerald Grosvenor and his family owe the bulk of their wealth to owning 77 hectares (190 acres) of Mayfair and Belgravia, adjacent to Buckingham Palace and prime London real estate.
(15) Best if you have a very big, paved garden, or a friend from the landed gentry.
(16) This is what happens when your city becomes a global reserve currency.” Before you know it a draughty Victorian terraced house in what was once a slum costs more than £1m Danny Dorling warns of the UK becoming a resort for the jet set: “London takes the role that Mayfair had in the past, where the gentry came in for the season.
(17) 1-beta-d-Arabinofuranosylthymine (ara-T), a metabolite of the sponge Tethya crypta, has shown selective activity against herpes simplex virus (HSV) replication (G. A. Gentry and J. F. Aswell, Virology 65:294-296, 1975).
(18) Good start in the home half - Gentry lines one off the glove of Escobar's great glove at shortstop, the ball heads to left field and the speedy left fielder is on.
(19) Matt Gentry, who previously looked after Murray's media commitments for Fuller's XIX Entertainment, will be managing director of the new company, working with Mahesh Bhupathi, who will be in charge of new business and sales, and Juan Martín del Potro's manager, Ugo Colombini, who will continue to be responsible for tournament-related activity.
(20) The same could happen on a global scale with the global gentry.” This model is not without benefits.
Peerage
Definition:
(n.) The rank or dignity of a peer.
(n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ashcroft's decision to become a UK resident for tax purposes comes 10 years after first apparently agreeing to do so in order to fulfil the conditions of taking his peerage.
(2) Hague was also facing further questions about his role in securing a peerage for Ashcroft.
(3) His life peerage was awarded by former Conservative prime minister John Major but his allegiance has always been to the Labour party.
(4) If peerages are in effect being sold, the academics argue, “these could be thought of as the ‘average price’ per party.” Former Liberal Democrat peer, Matthew Oakeshott, who on leaving the Lords in May last year lamented that his efforts to uncover cash-for-honours deals across the parties had failed, told the Observer that the case against the system, and the parties, was now compelling.
(5) Mandelson, who was MP for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, twice resigned from the cabinet amid scandals in 1998 and 2001, and was granted a peerage by Gordon Brown last year so that he could return to the government after several years as European trade commissioner.
(6) The undertaking apparently worked – on 31 March, eight days after signing the letter, his peerage was announced in the spring honours list.
(7) The exchanges between the then prime minister, Tony Blair, the then leader of the opposition, William Hague , and the honours scrutiny committee detail how Ashcroft was twice turned down for a peerage, partly because of concerns about his status as a "tax exile".
(8) In 1963, when Tony Benn won his fight to renounce his inherited peerage, he was rapidly followed by Quintin Hogg and Alec Douglas-Home, who were prominent in the Lords but understood they needed to face the people to get to the very top, as Douglas-Home went on to do.
(9) A week later his peerage was announced and an agreement that Ashcroft need only be a "long-term resident" was apparently struck between a senior civil servant and a Tory whip.
(10) If the peerage is suddenly opened up to placemen, who hope for later preferment in elective politics, then we could soon have more legislators who are not only unelected, but also the opposite of independent.
(11) Business leaders worried about what this would do to our international reputation, what it said about our consistency, whether or not it made the peerage system look like a political plaything.
(12) Lord Wei of Shoreditch, who was given a Tory peerage last year and a desk in the Cabinet Office as the "big society tsar", is to reduce his hours on the project from three days a week to two, to allow him to see his family more and to take on other jobs to pay the bills.
(13) The Ashcroft letters: how tax promise was key to Tory donor's peerage
(14) I don’t want a peerage, and I don’t want a job in government.” Davis calls himself an “eclectic” politician.
(15) William Hague was said to be aware 10 years ago of a deal struck by senior Tories that eventually resulted in Lord Ashcroft secretly remaining a non-dom after obtaining his peerage, according to official documents released today.
(16) In the event, he was awarded the first hereditary peerage since the Macmillan years, and became leader of the Lords as well as deputy PM.
(17) The then Sir Anthony Bamford was granted a peerage in 2013.
(18) The list of media figures also includes Patience Wheatcroft, the editor of Wall Street Journal Europe, who has said today that she intends to stand down from the newspaper as a result of taking up the peerage.
(19) He said he was going to say nothing about us doing away with the hereditary peerage.
(20) Lord Mandelson said today he had no "present plan" to return to the Commons amid speculation that he intends to take advantage of legislation that allows peers to renounce their peerage.