magnate znaczenie & definicja

Przykłady magnate

• While politicians and oil magnates argued the case for exploitation, conservationists fought to keep the region pristine.

• At most, the ruler might delay pardon, ignoring the magnate as he did so.

• Thirty of the remaining eightyfive families, one third (35.3 per cent) of the surviving group, managed to establish themselves as magnates in the interval.

• Both magnates had founded their fortunes to some extent on their star female partners.

• Frequently, the personal aesthetic values of these magnates overturned audience preferences.

• The majority of recruits were landed magnates, proprietors of estates of 10,000 acres or more.

• If the majority of new peers were magnates, the crown also ennobled a substantial group of smaller landowners.

• Throughout our period the crown consistently elevated men to the peerage who were not magnates.