(n.) A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her behaviour with her European counterparts mirrored her treatment of the Tory grandees.
(2) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
(3) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(4) You’re not the first person to be let down by Boris Johnson,” a Tory grandee once dryly remarked when I had to stand in for BoJo at some obscure seminar.
(5) I share with Jeremy the wish to see a world which is free of nuclear weapons, but I don’t believe for one second that if Britain were to give up its deterrent any other of the nuclear states would give theirs up,” he said “The truth is that we live in a differently dangerous world now and we need a continuous at-sea-deterrent, and we need to do it in the most cost effective way – that is the view the Labour party conference has taken for many years now.” Labour party grandees also made interventions on Sunday that could undermine Corbyn.
(6) Public criticism of Ed Miliband's leadership by senior Labour figures is creating an impression of "toxic disunity" and risks handing the next election to the Tories, according to party grandee Dame Tessa Jowell .
(7) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(8) If this is so, the lineup of grandees he manages to assemble to speak for his character is all the more impressive.
(9) Yet the upper classes are Tory grandees; never little Englanders.
(10) Ignatieff, who was cast by some party grandees as the great hope for an ailing party in search of a charismatic leader, became leader in 2009.
(11) As a final attempt to reconcile the rival camps, party grandee Alain Juppé was brought in to mediate.
(12) Shadow cabinet members are under pressure from Labour grandees to start spelling out their policies more clearly.
(13) As well as his immense experience in the political nuances of the Lords, Strathclyde was seen as an important link to the more traditional wing of the Tory party and its grandees.
(14) A plan to transform the organisation, produced by City grandee Lord Myners, echoed Sutherland's call to "modernise or die" and recommended a shakeup of the Co-op's structure.
(15) Lord Hurd , 70, the Tory party grandee and a second member of the honours committee, has declined to give evidence to the current hearings in line with Conservative party members who are boycotting the proceedings.
(16) Back at the bar of the Imperial hotel, he made himself busy introducing Tory's trousers to various Conservative party grandees, insisting they shake a proffered leg by way of greeting.
(17) John Hall Bristol It is hardly surprising that people such as Chris Patten have turned into apologists for the EU when they were shunted off to the Brussels gravy train - yet they still seem to think we want to hear their views (Grandees turn on Cameron over plans for EU, 30 May).
(18) The Conservative grandees were backed up by a retinue of more-or-less loyal historians.
(19) Brown wined and dined with Charles Kennedy and other party grandees, and used his private jet to fly Kennedy across the country during the election campaign.
(20) George W Bush spun a tale depicting himself as an average boy who grew up in an average family, when, as we know, he had all the privileges available to a son whose father was a Republican grandee and would-be president.
Grantee
Definition:
(n.) The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present a case in which the dissenting views of a coinvestigator were suppressed because the principal investigator and grantee institution informed a medical journal that the coinvestigator was not "authorized" to use the data generated by a publicly funded grant and because the editor of a scholarly journal refused to review the dissenting manuscript and to submit that dissent to external reviewers for peer review.
(2) The principle investigator and the grantee institution claimed that the coinvestigator was not authorized to use data from the publicly funded grant, and the editor of a scholarly journal refused to review the dissenting manuscript or submit it for external peer review.
(3) Information on Title I EMAs is based on analysis of their 1991 applications, bylaws of their HIV service planning councils, intergovernmental agreements between Title I cities and other political entities, and contracts executed by Title I grantees with providers for the delivery of services.
(4) Future grant support will be a maximum of $4,000 in the first year, and up to $3,000 with a provision of $1,000 in matching funds from the grantee in the second year.
(5) A mail survey was conducted to document the experience, critical comments, and recommendations of a sample of applicants and peer reviewers who participated in the 1983 grantee selection process conducted by the National Institute of Handicapped Research.
(6) Interviews with personnel in several Title I EMAs, including planning council members and grantee staff members, provided additional information.
(7) Looking at the primary grantees in our database doesn’t provide a complete picture of where our funds end up and who they benefit.
(8) of Health, Education, and Welfare family planning grantee agencies.
(9) Four lessons can be drawn from this study: Donors need to plan funding phase-outs carefully, in conjunction with grantees; grantees need to assess the costs of the procedure realistically, and assign fees accordingly; management needs to seek alternative funding sources in lieu of, or in addition to, increasing fees; and caseloads can be increased and costs recovered by diversifying services.
(10) A greater percentage of grantees now have multiple grants and the cost of multiple grants is greater on a per grant basis.
(11) There are lots of grantees of ours whose members have political views that would be well outside the mainstream in this room.
(12) The good news is, there are different ways in which civil society “fundermediaries” can help: by disbursing smaller grants to smaller organisations in the global north (as Forum Syd does in Sweden), by using regional mechanisms (like the African Women’s Development Fund ) or by tapping into community foundations close to the ground (like the grantees of the Global Fund for Community Foundations .
(13) It added: "We regret that these new policies have impacted some longstanding grantees, such as Planned Parenthood, but want to be absolutely clear that our grant-making decisions are not about politics.
(14) At the same time, a common requirement among donors has become for grantees to show how gender perspectives have been incorporated or "mainstreamed" in projects.
(15) The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has established a Mycoplasma Contamination Testing Service for NIA grantees studying cellular aging on cell-culture systems.
(16) The grants are not tied to specific programmes, which means grantees can decide how best to spend their money.
(17) The accomplishments of NCI research grantees and contractors in radiotherapy-related areas have been considerable over the past 45 years.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Charlize Theron with young participants of one of her project’s grantees, WhizzKids United, which helps young people gain self-confidence through football.
(19) Grantees who failed to publish took about 16% of sustained project grants and 10% of such funding.
(20) This resource is designed to support NIA grantees, prospective grantees, and other laboratories engaged in cellular aging research.