But other grandees waxed nostalgic about their single mothers or their struggle against adversity.
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Still, this is not necessarily proof that reactionary grandees are conspiring against a Labour government.
The gathering is impeccably egalitarian: grandees such as Governor Owens or Newt Gingrich sit next to interns.
Over the years, various aristocrats, cousins and horse-racing grandees have been more or less plausibly identified as her friends.
But around 15 MPs spoke in support of Mr Mitchell, led by grandees Sir Peter Tapsell and Bernard Jenkin.
There is also realism among most ordinary British voters, who are not filled with imperial nostalgia, whatever Euro-grandees suspect.
As well as grumbling monarchies, Mr Museveni must satisfy his party's own grandees.
The hotel where the grandees will stay has recently suffered a salmonella scare.
Grandees on both sides still insist that when push comes to shove, everyone will stop posturing and do their duty.
As for punishing unprofessional behaviour, Mr Khurana is inspired by the internet rather than by a closed council of grandees.
From local party hacks to the grandees of Beacon Hill, the pols are looking for a step up the food chain.
But the spectacle of wealthy grandees having their country homes renovated at taxpayers' expense has done the Tory brand no favours.
Meanwhile the PSDB's grandees will swing big states to Mr Serra, where they will be joined by most of Ms Silva's voters.
Mr Cameron is under intense pressure from his own backbenchers, and many Tory grandees in the Lords, to block his deputy's plan.
But Gaullist grandees and ambitious youngsters alike have begun to speak out.
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Were the greed-blinded grandees of Bordeaux gearing up a Wile E.
So if the Afghan government needed time to secure support among the tribal grandees, "we wanted them to have it, " said the senior NATO officer.
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Mr Bernstein is using Hillary Clinton's device of trying to link his opponent to Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott and the unpopular Republican grandees in Washington.
From within gilt frames, 18th century grandees gaze down sceptically.
Is the Beeb quietly atoning for the days when two of its now grandees sneered publicly at Gateshead as the very symbol of provincial, proletarian ignorance?
The Spanish cardinals and grandees, who were later adorned with oversized pairs in their portraits, were unwittingly helping to launch a very 21st-century idea: Technological self-enhancement is cool.
Such pragmatism makes right-wing grandees worry that, if events have pulled Mr Cameron's coalition towards Conservative policies, a turn of fortune could yet lead it the other way.
Many Republican grandees blame the Romney campaign for the stalemate.
Private-sector groups want to have their say too: the Market Monitoring Group, a collection of grandees linked to a banking-industry group, is already issuing warnings about fresh bubbles emerging.
Conservative unrest over Europe has gained fresh momentum following the recent election success of the UK Independence Party and comments by Tory grandees such as Lord Lawson suggesting EU withdrawal.
At sales of collections from grandees like Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Amelia, the bourgeoisie bought the oil paintings, bronze sculptures and decorative masterpieces that transformed them into faux aristocrats.
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He was a member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, whose annual encampment in a redwood grove upstate drew many of the country's prominent Republicans, and cohorts of business grandees too.
Grandees from both parties are now trying to persuade the president that handing out more jobs and allowing through at least some pork would be a small price to pay for governability.
IBM, membership of advisory boards at Citigroup and DaimlerChrysler, and one of the six deputy chairmanships of the Trilateral Commission, the body of grandees which in anti-globalist demonology supposedly runs the planet.
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