(n.) One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Lib Dems and Labour, after frantic consultations, announced they would table alternative amendments to introduce an element of statute and ensure the new press regulatory body was free from industry interference – two issues that the majority of newspaper proprietors have stoutly opposed.
(2) Desmond, the straight-talking media proprietor whose empire including the Daily Star, Daily Express and OK!
(3) Shortly after her appearance she was appointed the main producer of Today on Radio 4, running coverage of major stories including the trial of former Daily Telegraph proprietor Conrad Black in Chicago.
(4) But that is hardly surprising given that the editor in chief of the Daily Mail this month condemned the fact that the multimillionaire proprietor "who'd made his money from porn" was deemed "a fit and proper person to own a newspaper" in a speech at the Leveson inquiry.
(5) Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors 10.
(6) Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors £32,470 7.795 10.
(7) Adel Abbas is the proprietor of the Top Coast coffee shop and restaurant in the Karrada district.
(8) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
(9) The ill-fated free paper war cost both proprietors millions, and with its circulation spiralling downwards ultimately led Lebedev to take the Standard free as well .
(10) The government’s hold over main-stream media proprietors has meant that disillusioned liberal commentators who may have supported Erdogan’s reform efforts in the past have found themselves out of a job.
(11) Journalists who work here are not part of the press pack who must always keep one eye looking over their shoulder at their proprietor’s political whims – on business, on taxation or the European Union.
(12) For the sake of clarity it is worth pointing out that "the rich" Lord Lester is referring to are the rich who complain of being defamed, not the rich newspaper proprietors.
(13) "The transaction can only affect a cross-media audience and there is no reduction in the number of independent newspaper proprietors or TV broadcasters in the UK as a result of the transaction.
(14) It is standard for newspaper proprietors, however, to offer a month or four weeks' salary for every year worked, although many place limits on any lump sum received.
(15) Yet the proprietors, Minnie, Sweet Dave and her other colleagues, are nowhere to be found.
(16) MacKenzie denied Diamond's claim that News International proprietor Rupert Murdoch had instructed his editors to target her after she confronted him at a social event.
(17) He remains available for the occasional newspaper interview with a friendly proprietor and, at conference time, finds time for a 20-minute breakfast inquisition.
(18) He said the hacking affairs and the Leveson and committee inquiries had proven that politicians, the media and media proprietors had become far too close.
(19) Dominic Mohan told the inquiry that the proprietor of what is arguably Britain's most influential paper at election time supported the decision but was not solely responsible for it.
(20) Former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev yesterday finally signed the deal to become proprietor of the London Evening Standard .
Proprietorial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ownership; proprietary; as, proprietorial rights.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the speech you won't hear from Mark Thompson – or indeed anyone in British political or regulatory life: "This old proprietorial model, long run by media barons, operated as a form of protection from harsh realities the business might otherwise have faced.
(2) Twenty-seven proprietory periodontal dressings were applied to the lower labial segments of 18 subjects showing low levels of gingival inflammation when assessed by the Gingival Index system at the time of application.
(3) In their submission to the Leveson inquiry , the directors said they saw their presence "as the editorial equivalent of nuclear weapons – a deterrent to possible proprietorial interference" – and they are now using this power.
(4) There, proprietorial and remorselessly downbeat, like the ogre in Shrek, stands MigrationWatch UK.
(5) I half expected him to bend down and pat the grass, the way a person, tender and proprietorial, might pat a blanket when they have finished making a bed.
(6) From 1982-1988, the authors carried out a randomized double blind trial on altogether 565 cases of CHD divided into an experimental group to be treated with SSTGP and a control group treated with another TCM proprietory medicine, Dan Qi Pian, that had been used for many years clinically.
(7) It is an odd smile: at once shivery and proprietorial.
(8) Nor can she take consolation from the knowledge that the Mirror has survived serious decline several times before - for on each occasion only the derring-do of a real or quasi-proprietorial figure restored its upward momentum.
(9) The only country in the EU to escape recession since the financial and then the euro crises erupted in 2008, Poland is thriving at a time of universal European gloom, using a new-found confidence to build European alliances to encourage democratic reforms in neighbouring Ukraine and Belarus and to contest Putin's proprietorial policies towards parts of the former Soviet Union.
(10) I don’t have any owner’s rights on the TV series or the character, I’m not proprietorial about it.
(11) They took more proprietory medicines and more vitamin pills and were less inclined to ignore symptoms.
(12) Sometimes the narrative voice is proprietorial, using a royal "we" to speak of Tod.
(13) But if it wants to influence what happens there, staking a claim to almost proprietorial privilege is not the way.
(14) I've become proprietorial about the Quo and want the crowd to love every song.
(15) He gives his new hairstyle a proprietorial pat, which suggests both contentment and the lingering astonishment he seems so keen to bury in conversation.
(16) "We are all struggling to free ourselves from the proprietorial attitudes of the US and UK that continue to dominate the publishing world," said Juliet Rogers, chief of one of Australia's largest independent publishers Murdoch Books, and former president of the Australian Publishers Association.
(17) He has a kind of proprietorial energy more common to a film-maker than an actor.
(18) Therefore SSTGP is a new, safe and effective TCM proprietory remedy for CHD and angina pectoris.
(19) They took the platform of the Frankfurt Book Fair to protest the "proprietorial" and dominating presence of the larger book companies .
(20) "It is always about the proprietorial impulse," he said.