How To Use Bigwig In A Sentence
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There are thousands of film festivals around the world, many as welcoming to the casual visitor as they are to movie industry bigwigs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother.
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Then, every Republican Party bigwig, in an effort to explain away their own failings, or the failure of the policies they advocated, will say, "Oh, well, let's remember, it was a pretty weak field.
The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Aug. 26, 2011
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Significantly, the violators include some political bigwigs, powerful businessman and town planners.
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He is a bigwig and has many contacts, as I discovered when I tried to get a lawyer later to contest his dismissal.
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Council bigwigs have hit back at suggestions a town centre road could be the ‘worst in Britain’ for parking.
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Many corporate bigwigs and sports personalities were seen teeing off at the Karnataka Golf Association here.
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The camera always pans round, showing the party 's bigwigs singing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Arvind, a college teacher catches Rajkumar, son of a political bigwig, in the examination hall while the latter is copying.
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The bigwigs attempt to persuade him, using a variety of arguments, that he is making the mistake of his life.
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They have links with political bigwigs and the local administration, which is all the qualification needed to get into the business.
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They are all bearded bigwigs dressed in finery and look remarkably alike.
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The subtweets were kind of a funny interaction between two NBA bigwigs who come from opposite sides of the social media spectrum.
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It comes as industry insiders say festival bigwigs have struggled to pull in the big American acts of previous years.
The Sun
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Nor has she any intention of cutting out the calories for industry bigwigs.
The Sun
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Commercial advertising campaigns hurt Aussie wine 'larrikin' image AUSTRALIA has lost its larrikin personality to the suits and marketing bigwigs and that is hurting our economy, a leading British wine commentator says.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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With Frogface's help it took about six minutes to straighten put the bargemaster and the committee of bigwigs waiting with him.
Shadow Games
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'The Secret War of Harry Frigg' (1968) Paul Newman is the incorrigible U.S. Army private who allows himself to be captured by the Italians during World War II so he can free five captured Allied military bigwigs (French, British and American).
'Crowne': A Bad Fit for Hollywood Royalty
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It is not an official diplomatic conference, but all the top brass and political bigwigs can be found there.
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In fact the model is now hoping movie bigwigs will bankroll the picture and turn her into a credible film-maker.
The Sun
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The Bigwig family (composed of all the stateliest people thereabouts, and all the noisiest) had undertaken to save him the trouble of thinking for himself, and to manage him and his affairs.
Nobody's Story
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China's nouveaux riches may now be known among their jealous neighbors as "moneybags" (dakuan), "big shots" (dawan) or "bigwigs" (daheng).
The Foreign Devil's Dictionary
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They're set to guard 9,000 leaders, trade negotiators, corporate bigwigs and bureaucrats.
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Madrid Mayor and ruling party bigwigs have consented to participate in the inaugural ceremony.
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But a select group of eight York bigwigs have selflessly enjoyed Buckingham Palace largesse on our behalf.
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The employee is hauled before a series of bigwigs.
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She has been running from the Ohio bigwigs implicated in the scandal as fast as her bandy little legs will carry her.
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I'm sure Senyor Adria's soft-boiled quails' eggs in a caramel glaze, his wild strawberries in Campari and his deconstructed paella were wasted on the music-trade bigwigs, who would have been happier at McDonald's.
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Want to sway to a Caribbean beat along with political bigwigs at the New England Aquarium?
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She tells me the stocky guy is some kind of bigwig shady ticket broker.
The Quickie
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The motivation for Zardari's judicial coup against the PML-N bigwigs, the brothers Sharif, was intended to preserve the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), a corrupt deal struck by Bhutto and Musharraf -- under the watchful eyes of Bush administration "fixers" -- whereby Musharraf would be "reelected" President in return for absolving the gross criminality and corruption of Bhutto and other PPP leaders.
GlobalResearch.ca
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Lagos bigwigs have long paid on-duty local cops to speed them through jams by riding shotgun with machine guns and menacing other drivers with bullwhips.
Traffic Drives Nigerians Nuts, but a Trip to a Shrink May Go Too Far
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She hoped A-list stars and industry bigwigs would add their names.
The Sun
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Among those friends were hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones II, music industry bigwig Tommy Mottola, the actor Michael J. Fox, and, of course, Ms. Dubin's husband, Glenn Dubin, the philanthropist and founder of Highbridge Capital Management LLC.
Friends Toast a Center
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Once a year some 'bigwig' comes from Bangalore to review them.
Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore
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She was only there for four days but managed to do some serious networking with industry bigwigs.
The Sun
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A larky contest with a local bigwig who wants her removed from the street ends with neighbourliness all round.
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She had to entertain some boring local bigwigs.
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People such as Dehring's countryman, Mike Fennel, an Olympic 'bigwig' and Barbadian Steve Stoute, another top dog in the OG.
CaribbeanCricket.com
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Throughout the day, Laurie confabs with entertainment bigwigs, at times working outside, via cell phone, so she can deadhead her roses while juggling a long list of projects.
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Go and schmooze with a VP (trust me, if they have the time every bigwig likes to talk about himself - they might even buy the coffee).
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We have seen that scene repeated so many times that it is refreshing to see that there are still a wife of a political bigwig who does not compromise her personal integrity to keep her husband's political career afloat.
Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance
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Local politicians, normally passed over by Washington bigwigs, suddenly find themselves courted by all nine of the runners.
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But bigwigs then shelved plans to put it out.
The Sun
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But that is during the domestic season and team bosses have made their feelings known to rugby league bigwigs.
The Sun
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Want to pitch a movie idea to Hollywood bigwigs?
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Bigwig, cheerful at the prospect of action.
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But bigwigs then shelved plans to put it out.
The Sun
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Actually, I've often been asked why I don't leap into the affairs of politicians and corporate bigwigs.
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Earlier during the day, it was all so formal with industry bigwigs around for the presentation of the management degrees.
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Even the fact that the heroine is an ex-actor and the Washington bigwig she befriends a thwarted thesp gives the whole affair a cosy patina of showbusiness.
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Politicians, princes and bigwigs of every stripe vied for a place in their circle and were roundly rejected.
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In the late 1990s the itch to merge seemed to infect most of the bigwig chief executives.
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It is not an official diplomatic conference, but all the top brass and political bigwigs can be found there.
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A messy divorce, custody battle and continuing concerns about her mental condition left industry bigwigs worried about the future of her career.
The Sun
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BlindType acquired by Google, Android typists grin uncontrollably (engadget) ... we were wowed back in July by the software's ability to predict words regardless of how text was inputted, and it seems as if a few bigwigs within Google were as well.
Daily Dispatch: Virtual worlds reach 1 Billion users; Car Home for Android simplifies app use on the go
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The four-part series kicks off with a look at entertainment industry bigwigs conning us and is crammed with helpful ways to avoid getting fleeced.
The Sun
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So, unlike the bigwigs who cashed in big on stock options, look for him to remain a working stiff.
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He said local bigwigs had come into Asian homes, pressuring voters to cast their postal ballots in front of them - insisting they back Labour.
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Apparantly, a bigwig from the matrix is supposed to make the ghostrider sound ultra creepy, seen from wikipedia
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Ghost Rider: Gonna be lame or good?
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Madrid Mayor and ruling party bigwigs have consented to participate in the inaugural ceremony.
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The audience was an array of stars, rowdy fans and industry bigwigs, including Virgin magnate Richard Branson.
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Meanwhile party bigwigs have urged the leadership to ditch the pledge as the money would be better spent elsewhere.
The Sun
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There is nothing official about this drive as there is no circular from the police stations and no directives from the bigwigs.
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This impression is not dispelled by the ‘not our fault, guv’ approach from the bigwigs at the Ministry of Defence.
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There was some kind of bigwig in the store, so all the supervisors and managers were following him around like trained dogs ... and I was all standing around scratching my head all day.
I Will Go Insane, And I Will Take You With Me
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The head chef of the swanky hotel hosting Earth Summit bigwigs described the mountains of posh food he is laying on for their pleasure.
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What on earth induced the local bigwigs to want to wreck this picture postcard image by adding ‘city’ to the list?
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In this most recent case I'd say a personal contact from a bigwig at this company is a highly encouraging sign, but becomes much less so when he fails to ever reply to additional samples or requests for confirmation of receipt.
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The mechanism was GP fundholding, which enabled local doctors to call the shots from the ground, rather than bigwigs from the centre.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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Yes, the launch had the mandatory fashion show, with all the bigwigs, political and celluloid, in tandem.
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MusicPublicityBigWig: college radio, late night TV, street team marketing
Turn the Taps Off | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
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MusicPublicityBigWig: see the major labels specialize in taking people who can sell 200,000+ on their own to selling 500,000 or 1 million
Turn the Taps Off | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
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A growing number of bigwigs are agitating for change.
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The property sector may be in meltdown, but the bigwigs in the industry have obviously decided that this is no reason to spoil a good party.
Times, Sunday Times
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Already being touted as the best comic book film ever (until, that is, the next one comes along), it is probably no surprise that the studio bigwigs want to cash in on the expected rewards this flick is sure to reap in.
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An elegant four-seater arrived which got everyone so hot under the collar that the bigwigs gave it the green light.
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You write about the evil Israelis making load noises in the ears of Palestinian children but you seem to care little about those children if some Hamas bigwig straps a bomb to their tiny backs and points them toward an Israeli bus.
Matthew Yglesias » Blankley Calls for Comprehensive Press Censorship
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He chuckled as did the assembled DC bigwigs of press and politics.
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The bigwigs attempt to persuade him, using a variety of arguments, that he is making the mistake of his life.
