lordship

Example Sentences

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At a press conference, Mr Cleverly insisted Rwanda was a safe country and said "we feel very strongly this treaty addresses all of the issues of their lordships in the Supreme Court".

From BBC

"I am happy that we have got to a place where the bill has been effectively gutted by their lordships," he told MPs.

From BBC

In other words, Russian claims of lordship over Ukraine are about as credible as if British leaders called decolonization a "geopolitical catastrophe" and then dredged up medieval manuscripts to make the case against Irish independence.

From Salon

To kill it is not to restate one’s lordship over the earth but rather to recognize and kill a destructive aspect in our own nature.

From New York Times

"It's something like lordships in the British system," said Mohanad Hage Ali, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.

From Salon