grandee

San Francisco hedge-fund grandee Tom Steyer has demanded subpoenas of oil-industry executives.

I have never met a Bay Area environmentalist or Silicon Valley grandee who didn’t drink or shower with water imported from a far distant water project.

And if I was a PC grandee, which I';m not, I'd get all my buddies donating to the NDP to keep things the way they are now.

You can come with evidence for those tough questions to support your position, but one grandee scoffs at your suggestion in the meeting you networked hard to get and there's no recovery.

Neat idea, but I'd bet it was a completely native decision, maybe forced on some poor naval architect by a grandee who didn't understand the implications of the order.

The threats we hear from Russian officials of nuclear consequences aren't foolish merely because they further pariah-ize Russia, but also because they're futilely redundant; you can't swing the proverbial cat without hitting another Western grandee prattling endlessly about the risk of nuclear war.

> Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The appeal of short form names like these is clear considering his full formal name and title is Don Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, Baron of Montechiaro, Baron of La Torretta, and Grandee of Spain of the first class.

It is is pretty irrational for a grandee to "fake a coup" if the said grandee is not in 100% control of military-spook set.

By 2007 Kgalema Motlanthe, a party grandee, said: “This rot is across the board...