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.

• This latter institution established the composition of clergy, barons, and lesser landholders (burgesses and knights).

• Defended by the barons and their soldiers, it stands or falls.

• The charter included the right of the barons, and other freedmen, to take up arms, even against the king if necessary, in order to protect their freedom.

• So, although seeing the early 1640s as traditional politicking - barons, threats and counter-threats, royal incompetence explains much, it does not quite explain why the outcome was so untraditional.

• Both were legislative councillors and tin barons.

• That will prevent the robber barons at county hall from holding them to ransom, as they have done for the past nine years.

• It goes to the international drug baron and his cronies.