baron Betydning & definition

Eksempler på baron

• The king's barons together attempted to restrain him from innovatory acts of misgovernment.

• The government derived no less than 43% of its annual revenue from taxes paid by the sugar barons.

• The creation of new earls and marquesses inevitably led the more senior barons and earls to demand restoration of their pre-eminence.

• Early each day, the baron himself would select one out of the twenty-five animals printed on the tickets.

• Sitting in judgement, the king complained of the insult to his dignity, and likewise each of the barons condemned the monks.

• If such central direction had been attempted, most likely it would have been firmly resisted by powerful committee barons.

• On the third day after a council, the king with his barons, on their way to a conference, turned their way to the monastery.

• Apparently, some commanders in the army are virtual barons, whose troops are personally loyal to them.