(1) On the left is the favourite, Spanish-born Hidalgo, 54, protégée of current mayor Bertrand Delanoë and disparagingly referred to as la dauphine (the heiress).
(2) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
(3) Around the same time, the motor racing heiress Tamara Ecclestone totted up a champagne bill of £30,000 in one evening.
(4) Trump’s eldest daughter, heiress-apparent to her father’s real estate empire, said she had worked with him for more than a decade and seen him hire people from “all walks of life”.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marjorie Merriweather Post, the cereal heiress who had Mar-a-Lago built in 1927.
(6) Alan M Dershowitz, who has represented heiress Patty Hearst and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, is asking to represent the 81-year-old director of Chinatown and The Pianist in the Los Angeles county superior court.
(7) Sobchak was once dubbed the Paris Hilton of Russia because of her similarity to the American hotel heiress.
(8) In 2010 Mediapart, which is run by veteran French newspaper and agency journalists, broke the story of an alleged party funding scandal around Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party and the L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
(9) France's richest woman, L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, and her daughter have called a truce in the three-year family feud that sparked a political crisis.
(10) When Carla Bruni-Sarkozy – a millionaire heiress who once made over £4m a year as a supermodel – became France's first lady, commentators whispered that she might be attacked as a kind of modern-day Marie Antoinette.
(11) Shortly afterwards, the heiress's former bookkeeper claimed Bettencourt had made illegal cash donations to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election campaign, an allegation vehemently denied by the French leader and his entourage.
(12) While some are already privately owned, such as Skorpios by the Onassis shipping heiress Athina Onassis, the state owns islands such as Fleves, which is near the coastal resort area of Vouliagmeni, and a cluster of three islands near Corfu.
(13) The mansion was built by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1927, at a cost of $7m.
(14) Another example explains the structure the bank proposed for a British client: “A new Liberian Company that we shall open for ESD reasons, as the client is Greek and UK resident … transfer all assets from the named accounts to the Corp. account” it notes for a retail heiress with £8m.
(15) Suchlike scribbling formed a seedbed for the art Twombly developed after he returned to Italy in 1957 and married an heiress.
(16) An export bar was placed on the Van Dyck last November , temporarily halting its sale to the Los Angeles-based financier James Stunt, husband of the heiress Tamara Ecclestone.
(17) As the 29-year-old heiress to one of the wealthiest real-estate dynasties in south-east Asia, IGB of Malaysia, she’s part of a fast-growing group in Britain: the big-money investor getting into independent eateries.
(18) 2 Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playlist Paris Hilton is the target; her dog kills itself and the heiress's supposed vacuity is ridiculed in catchy songs.
(19) HMRC does not publish names, but the roll call of declared non-doms includes the Tetra Pak heiress Sigrid Rausing, the financier Ben Goldsmith, the Dragons’ Den entrepreneur James Caan, and the newspaper owner Viscount Rothermere, who inherited his French nationality, along with the Daily Mail newspaper, from his father.
(20) Sarkozy, who was under investigation for allegedly accepting cash from the L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, 90, was told there was no case to answer and he would not be sent for trial.
Inherit
Definition:
(v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.
(v. t.) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.
(v. t.) To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.
(v. t.) To put in possession of.
(v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alleles in this region can be exchanged between X and Y chromosomes and are therefore inherited as if autosomal.
(2) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
(3) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(4) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
(5) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
(6) Asymptomatic relatives that have inherited the disease probably can be detected with this method.
(7) This recently reported inherited syndrome should be recognized by pathologists because of major risk of cardiac myxoma.
(8) This situation highlights the potential importance of molecules with different inheritance patterns in elucidating complex cases of reticulate evolution.
(9) Approximately 20 inherited disorders of kidney transport occurring in man have so far been defined.
(10) Neurospora crassa mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid shows strict uniparental inheritance in sexual crosses, with a notable absence of mixtures and recombinant types that appear frequently in heteroplasmons.
(11) The overall results indicate an inherited impairment of 3-HSD activity confined only to C-21 steroid substrates and, thus, suggest the existence of at least two 3-HSD isoenzymes under independent genetic regulation.
(12) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
(13) In considering nutrition and circadian rhythms, time-of-eating behavior is an inherited, genetically controlled pattern that can be phase-shifted by conditioning or training.
(14) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
(15) The pupils at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh, were surveyed and it was found that 40% of the 100 pupils had definitely inherited severe eye disease.
(16) However, as the males have not reproduced, it is not possible to rule out X-linked dominant inheritance.
(17) However, family members born at 50% risk can find out if they have inherited the mutant gene only if family analyses are possible.
(18) Proposed models for the inheritance of locus-specific methylation phenotypes in somatic cells include those in which there is stable inheritance of a methylation pattern such that all cells contain a similarly methylated locus, as well as models in which the inheritance of methylation can be variable.
(19) It inherited an economy that was growing quite strongly but activity came to an abrupt halt last autumn and has flatlined ever since.
(20) An autosomal recessive mode of inheritance of this deficiency was found.