Sentences with phrase «as any knight of»

As loyal as any knight of the Round Table, this 6 - year - old boxer and Labrador retriever mix named Lance is also as playful and as loving as pets come.

Not exact matches

A white knight as well as a green one, Surace bought Republic's crippled assets out of bankruptcy and pledged to restore the factory and eventually rehire all the workers at their old pay levels.

Using a Sharpie, knight one of your partners as the designated «note taker,» then ink business terms directly onto the orange holiday fruit.

But Ackman now finds himself planning a proxy battle, because CP's board and its chairman John Cleghorn have so far resisted the notion of Harrison as white knight.

Teva could also become an unlikely white knight for Perrigo as it seeks to fend off Mylan, because Teva's proposed acquisition of Mylan hinges on the Perrigo deal's collapse, Teva said in its presentation.

One new spot the company posted online features a collection of odd couples — from a knight and a dragon to the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote — coming together in harmony as they share a McDonald's meal.

During the recession of the late 2000s, he served as a white knight - at - large, coming to the rescue of Goldman Sachs, General Electric and Swiss Re, while rejecting pleas from Lehman Brothers Holdings.

Falstaff at war is a parody of the other knights: too fat to be hoisted onto a horse, he spends the battle as a tubby suit of armor, waddling from tree to tree, justifying his mid-battle feint of death with «the better part of valor is discretion.»

Welles presents the fat knight as an unlikely prophet, rebuking the absurd folly of war in his very shape — an inversion of the spindly Don Quixote, satirizing not knight - errantry but the brutality of the battlefield.

Another epic short film / music video mash - up, «Great God» finds Carman as both the cool teacher at a Christian school, as well as a heroic knight out to reclaim the good name of the medieval church.

Heck — my father was knighted into the Order of St. John as recognition for a lifetime of humanitarian work and it is a protestant order!

It probably took no more than an instant for Cervantes to have the simple, fruitful idea that produced Don Quixote: take a middle - aged, down - at - the - heels landowner, fill his brain with the entire tradition of chivalric romance, and then have him ride forth into the world as a knight errant.

Other examples of moral heroism may be drawn from medieval romance, in which young knights like Gawain and Percival are presented as imperfect but persevering questers who develop virtues of truth - keeping, courtesy and humility to match their physical prowess and bravery.

It was not Kierkegaard or Chesterton or Barth — Updike's much - admired knights of Christian faith — who called God «the eternal not - ourselves» or who spoke of biblical language as a human net «thrown out at a vast object of consciousness.»

It begins at a Pentecost tournament called by Charlemagne, for Christian and Muslim knights alike, which is interrupted by the arrival of Angelica, a woman of astonishing beauty who offers herself as the prize to any knight who can defeat her brother upon the field of battle.

«It is true that he sees himself as a crusader and some sort of Templar knight,» said Marcus Buck, a political science professor at Norway's University of Tromso, referring to an online manifesto that Breivik appears to have authored and which draws inspiration from medieval Christian crusaders.

In Kierkegaard's earlier works are found the germ of some of Buber's most important early and later ideas: the direct relation between the individual and God in which the individual addresses God as «Thou,» the insecure and exposed state of every individual as an individual, the concept of the «knight of faith» who can not take shelter in the universal but must constantly risk all in the concrete uniqueness of each new situation, the necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance of realizing one's belief in one's life.

New propaganda being introduced serving the Israelies after all them knights were serving fighting for Jerusalem beside guarding the treasures and scriptures of wisdom and sorcery... which they learnt to use to gain their richness before the Vatican declared them as sinners and had them killed...!

As the story proceeds, and as Tannhäuser is increasingly confronted with the warring sides of his character, Wagner writes the role so that the voice itself increasingly shows the deepening psychological strain that the knight sufferAs the story proceeds, and as Tannhäuser is increasingly confronted with the warring sides of his character, Wagner writes the role so that the voice itself increasingly shows the deepening psychological strain that the knight sufferas Tannhäuser is increasingly confronted with the warring sides of his character, Wagner writes the role so that the voice itself increasingly shows the deepening psychological strain that the knight suffers.

He makes exactly the same movements as the other knight, infinitely renounces claim to the love which is the content of his life, he is reconciled in pain; but then occurs the prodigy, he makes still another movement more wonderful than all, for he says, «I believe nevertheless that I shall get her, in virtue, that is, of the absurd, in virtue of the fact that with God all things are possible.»

This is quite as clear to the knight of faith, so the only thing that can save him is the absurd, and this he grasps by faith.

The knight of faith, on the other hand, is kept sleepless, for he is constantly tried, and every instant there is the possibility of being able to return repentantly to the universal, and this possibility can just as well be a temptation as the truth.

Moreover, the passage in Luke must be understood in such a way as to make it clearly evident that the knight of faith has no higher expression of the universal (i.e. the ethical) by which he can save himself.

He had never known anything else but a society both stable and yet somehow dissatisfied, Information from afar about the old Emperor Maximilian, «the last of the knights» as he was sometimes called; about the anti-clericalism which stretched right across Europe, and of the attempts in London by the young King Henry VIII to keep it under control; about the pseudo-Council of Pisa, called by King Louis XII of France, denounced by the warlike Pope Julius II, was of little significance to him.

Encompassed at all corners by such fine a cadre of companions, knights, and flags as could be wished by any modern mistress between her piles of trashy plastic bags, take care you mind your station and your manners.

The concept of a study of St Francis as the «knight of Christ» is a highly attractive one, combining as it does two of the most loved (and problematic) images of the high Middle Ages — chivalric culture and the wandering friar of Assisi.

It is a sport so cruel that its popularity is anything but a credit to those that patronize it, / a number of plump ganders, whose necks are well - greased, are suspended at the regulation height, in much the same manner as rings arranged at ordinary tournaments The «knights» who enlist from the prizes dash out on their horses in courtly fashion and grab each of those down - hanging necks in succession as they pass, the most skillful rider and «puller» winning the prizes.

so wenger is the face who can be blamed for anothers mistakes, eho can support that... the dark knight who can live being the villian... come on, wenger is as much respondable than gazidis and all the team in charge of transfers

We're all the true fans had knighted him as Sir in football world, you as moaner plastic fan might ignore our culture of pure fans.

Department stores cater to the steelheader's need for voluminous costuming — the rites of preparing for the wintry stream have become almost as formalized as those of the ancient knight preparing for the lists.

«The horse moved in the Sanskrit game precisely as the knight does in modern chess,» Henry A. Davidson wrote in A Short History of Chess.

The knight was always called the horse back when chess was played as a simulation of war.

At midnight we were back in the village, feeling much, I suppose, as the English knights felt as they gave up the vain pursuit of an enemy that struck and disappeared, then came disconsolately home, sweating and clanking in their expensive armor.

But having learned to drive by feel as no driver before him, America's sledi knight will have an advantage on the 2010 Olympic track, the world's fastest, with sleds reaching speeds of 95 mph.

But Wenger's Achilles» heel is that he has failed to grow and evolve as a manager, something that his arch-nemesis: the chewing - gum knight of Manchester has managed quite brilliantly.

Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran was knighted as Knight Bachelor in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2009 in recognition of Services to Medicine.

From Ukraine, or Belorussia, or Baltics, you can strike at the main part of the country, and roll through it without any natural defensive positions right up to Moscow - which, it should be noted, was already done by both Napoleon's France in 1812 and Hitler's Germany in 1941, as well as earlier by Poland in 1610 and even earlier by Western knights (Google «Alexander Nevsky»)- as well as unsuccessful attempt by Swedes and Poles during Great Northern War.

Thornberry is married to High Court judge Sir Christopher Nugee, as the wife of a knight she could style herself Lady Nugee and Tories like to use the title to point up her wealthy upbringing.

Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday for trying to portray himself as the «white knight» of the New York City Housing Authority,...

Labour's Lindsay Hoyle, the deputy speaker of the Commons, is also knighted along with Mark Hendrick, who has served as Labour MP for Preston for 17 years and was previously the first MEP from a minority ethnic background.

Only seven of the party's MPs are female, and the Labour MP Angela Eagle pointed out last summer that it has as many knights on its benches as women.

He was knighted by the Conservatives but has been a Labour donor for many years and in 1996 was named as one of the «multi-millionaires who keep Blair in his office».

Jeb may be considered the white knight of the Bush clan; but his little brother's POTUS terms have been described as a POTUS that there was no there there... either through incompetence, or corruption, or both.

The genealogy company MyHeritage found that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Robert Anderson Van Wyck, a Tammany Hall - backed mayor from the turn of the last century, are 11th cousins five times removed, with an English knight from the 15th century as a common ancestor.

As the name suggests, Brodsky casts himself as a white knight, capable of protecting voters» finances, the environment and securitAs the name suggests, Brodsky casts himself as a white knight, capable of protecting voters» finances, the environment and securitas a white knight, capable of protecting voters» finances, the environment and security.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — David O'Halloran, who resigned last week as vice chairman of the Ulster County Republican Party, said the lack of GOP support for his plan to bring video lottery terminals to his Kerhonkson resort shows the party is less interested in helping local businesses than it is in looking for a «white knight» to ride in and save the county's economy.

BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR Broadacres Still in Doubt, Youth Collaborative Created Orangetown's Town Board also serves as the Board of Fire Commissioners for the Blauvelt Fire District.

Council Delays New Sewer Hire, Setting Meeting Dates BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Confusion appeared to be the over-arching theme of Tuesday night's meeting of the Orangetown Town Board, as the council tried vainly but fruitlessly to clear its calendar at the last scheduled gathering of the year.

He is truly a knight in shining armor that successfully battled corrupt corporate chieftains as Attorney General of New York.

Later that week, at almost the exact moment that Mr. Cuomo was in a Manhattan ballroom condemning the city's public housing as «disgusting,» Mr. de Blasio was on the roof of a New York City Housing Authority development in Queens swiping at the governor for acting «like the great white knight.»