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This time, under pressure from a new generation keen to break the grip of Socialist barons, the party has agreed to open up the voting.

When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke , both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far. . .

One reason why "Hillarycare" imploded was that Mrs Clinton failed to court the barons on Capitol Hill.

One only has to drive through this country to see that you're all as rich as barons.

The great financier and banker was the prototype for all the Wall Street barons who followed.

President Barack Obama is the incredibly shrinking leader, waiting to see whether Congressional power barons will call.

The press barons would no longer be able to push an unrepresentative party into office or easily manipulate it once it's there.

Having destroyed any semblance of democratic institutions and with no rule of law, Mr Putin's rich barons have to rely on shaky agreements.

Such a move would mirror the way that the US curbed the influence of the so-called "robber barons" at the end of the 19th century.

The team Mays was playing for when he hit his first home run in the Polo Grounds was not the Giants, but the Birmingham Black Barons.

The notion that the regime relies on or is controlled by an inner core of Alawi security barons is misleading.

We've mentioned de Montfort's unfortunate habit of alienating those of his fellow barons who might otherwise be tempted to support him.

Lest we forget, the Americans who turned this country into the industrial marvel of mankind were known as "Robber Barons. "

These were the robber barons of their time, and, unlike Standard Oil, encouraged to be so by their governments.

The famous names of the great 19th-century "robber barons" are not to be found here.

The business titans Mr Bloomberg lists were known as the "robber barons" .

Usually they are incompetent, too, since the regional barons who anoint them like weak figures who will not challenge the status quo.

But credits could be made by importing slaves to the war barons, who would pay handsomely for any exotic edge in combat.

Of course, a great number of people made the history. But the historians seem only to be interested in those royal families and barons.

The eco-barons' mission, Humes says, became all the more important when Washington shrank from its role as environmental guardian.

The rebels could not let this pass, and under pressure from the barons, Henry agreed to let King Louis IX of France mediate the dispute.

Two generations have gone by since the last real steel barons led the world in production and we look back on those days with nostalgia.

Today's property barons can borrow against the value of the assets and use the cashflow from rental income to meet the interest payments.

The succession will be decided in the traditional manner: among the LDP's barons, without asking the electorate.

This swanky place west of Paris is home to a constellation of French film stars, media barons, business chiefs and politicians.

But it must feel like that for the private equity barons who strutted their stuff recently as the new kings of capitalism.

Perhaps the newest member of America's press-barons' club is not such an outsider after all.

As Dooku, he appealed to the greed of the galaxy's most powerful commerce barons to consolidate their forces to challenge the Republic.

Yet even within the CDU, state premiers tend to act as regional barons, not as voting fodder for the federal government.

He even forced "German" dress and hairstyle on the population, famously insisting that the boyars, Russia's barons, shave their beards.

Mr. Zuckerberg fits into a long queue of tech barons with grand ambitions.

Analysts had also been playing down share-price prospects until the two barons came on the scene.

He says the book is designed to "demystify" Asia's business barons and to suggest that investors consider worthier opportunities elsewhere.

Muckraking journalists denounced the titans of American business as "robber barons" .

The fact that Mr Brown has had to resort to barons and baronesses to stagger on is telling.

Before the turn of the 20th century, the emotions directed toward the financial barons of New York were anything but peaceful.

How can you learn to weave a dream that is sovereign from the bank and land barons or real estate companies and outside of their control?

The first people to settle were the Dutch , who subsequently handed the island over to France and its sugar barons.

But Mr Colom concedes that there are still four areas of the country where the drug barons have "temporary control" .

some state spending takes money from ordinary citizens and gives it to banks, arms companies, oil barons and farmers.

The landowning barons and the princes of the Catholic. Church exercised absolute power over the shepherds and farmers.

Such seduction is readily seen in famous Gurus of the East or great financial barons or movie stars of fame and fortune in the West.

The monopolistic excesses of the Robber Barons led to antitrust laws.

Summertime is here, and amusement park barons are competing for the mad throngs of customers looking for excitement.

Our sympathies now lie with the besieging militias, not the robber barons.

Even those barons who had fought against Simon de Montfort had no intention of allowing Henry III to resume his autocratic ways.

When crisis strikes, the powerful barons react initially by using their power to protect themselves from the worst of the storm.

Earls and barons shall be fined only by their equals, and in proportion to the gravity of their offence.

At the time, the buy-out barons argued that diversity would protect them.

Cotton kings planted them in New England. Coal barons scattered them across Appalachia.

But the bloated buy-out barons, particularly the leveraged flippers of existing businesses, need no special favours.

Business is advanced by stitch-ups between party barons, not the open clash of ideas.

"The exile of Gaveston was the sign of the barons' triumph" (John R. Green).

To this list of digital sovereigns we might someday add two young barons: CouchSurfing's Casey Fenton and 4chan's Christopher Poole.

For a century now, barons of industry and other big-shot men have sealed business deals over rounds of golf.

His connections with mining barons extended to making some of them state ministers.

Garlic speculation has attracted the attention of everybody from Shanxi coal barons to Wenzhou traders.

This was when robber barons started to collect unauthorised taxes on the gorge.

The media barons tell us what we wish to hear.

Rubber barons lit cigars with $100 bank notes and slaked the thirst of their horses with silver buckets of chilled French champagne.

Thus to make a profit, barons had to acquire control over huge tracts of land.

Barons mob the Court, shouting: "Where are our bonuses? "

So the years passed, and the merry men hunted the deer and took toll of prelates and barons as they would.

Other barons like Julio Cesar Arana simply used terror to acquire and hold on to Indian slaves.

The recently retired Bull was chasing curveballs for the Birmingham Barons.

That doesn't mean the age of property barons is over, however.

The police are accused of receiving secret pay-offs from the drug barons.

The voter of today, in other words, inherits the rights first sustained by the barons of old.

Thank you for the triangle. Thank you for the baseball and the Barons.

The opulence of the rubber barons could only be exceeded by their brutality.

Some senior government leaders were robber barons before they donned state robes.

The land barons hold the dream for the life of the masses.

In the third draft version of the script, the Republic's demise is attributed to the actions of "ruthless trader barons. "

Luxury goods barons are jingling the change in their pockets.

Labor was always a problem so barons got creative.

Many black leaders are taking away land from the white land barons and giving it back to their own people again.

But increasingly, newspaper barons, not content to preside over slow decline, want to embrace the revolution.

Several of the powerful French barons, including the mighty Duke of Burgundy, joined the English.

After 1066, the Norman barons introduced surnames into England, and the practice gradually spread.

The barons took the oath which Stephen Langton prescribed.

The buyout barons got good news this week, when the Fed relaxed its rules on their ownership of banks.

Lacking its old subordination to executive power, the PRI is more than ever an agglomeration of factions and barons.

His parents get revenge killing drug barons, don Lewis.

Privatisation meant a field day for robber barons.

Critics say it is little more than a vehicle for ambitious party barons, most of whom despise each other.

Three have held the noble title of earl, and eight were barons.

Dukes , earls, and barons are all lords.

But now the tree-huggers are in the ascendant and the IT barons are busy investing in clean-energy technology.

Instead, he chose to please his party barons.

Indian mining barons will face bloody protests from the people whose land they tear up.

In 1242, making use of the French barons ' mutiny, King Henry III of England invaded France.

It was signed by King John in 1215 under the press of the barons .

Landowners will be barons again.

English Barons forced King John I to sign the document in 1215.

Who sent you? The Apocalypse Monger? The Blood Barons?

The feudal barons were cruel to the people.

He is one of the Senate's big barons who is not easily pushed around.

The real target could be the heavily armed United Wa State Army, a 15, 000-20, 000-strong force led by drugs barons and warlords.

Last year, you may recall, a number of financial-industry barons went wild over very mild criticism from President Obama.

The barons break open the chests and rush off with the treasure.

Magna Carta, signed by King John in 1215 under pressure form his barons, is the heart of British freedom and justice

English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins

we , my friends , are the new oil barons

In selecting your intimates, you are perhaps to consider which party you most favor in the barons wars. (No. 46)

Hahaha She doesn't like crap games, with barons and earls

Their main goal has been to resist the tax-and-spend policies too often pushed by their party's barons;