Sentences with phrase «once king of»

By Patricia Devlin CHRISTY «Bronco» Dunne was once the King of Ireland's criminal underworld who made millions from heists, armed robberies and trafficking drugs Today he lives in a Co Dublin council flat with just $ 3.50 in his pocket.

Objective statements were once the king of resume formats.

Once the king of computer gaming, the PC has been steadily experiencing a decline, especially with the combine onslaught of major consoles.

Vaio, the spin - off of Sony's old PC business, recently released their very own two - in - one tablet / PC promising all the polish, portability, and power that made them once king of the PC hill, but does it deliver?

Once the king of mobile handset world is now set to be in the control of the software giant.

Nokia, once king of the mobile phone market, bought Withings last year for $ 191 million.

Pioneer was once king of the budget speaker market, offering a host of car and home audio speakers that pumped up the volume for a pittance.

While the PC was once the king of AAA gaming, with the advent of consoles, PCs have often become an afterthought for game developers and publishers in recent years.

By now, you pretty much have a picture of the once king of the wearable hill having a bit of a fit.

Once a king of mobile phones partnered with Microsoft for Windows Phone

Out the box, the OnePlus One ran Cyanogen OS — a custom fork of Android that was once the king of the custom ROM world.

Our antagonist is Scarecrow, once king of the Emerald City, later ousted in a coup, and eventually exiled to a life of solitude, despite being described as «the wisest man in all Oz.»

The real question, however, is whether the once king of RPGs can still stand on its own today.

And even the biggest of fans may feel mighty hollow by the shaky treatment of the once king of extreme sports games.

Atari, the once king of video games, has been in the news a lot recently.

The side - scrolling brawler was once king of the arcades and early home consoles, but has since seen a decline in popularity.

ONCE the king of the cashback and benefits credit card market, American Express has been given a serious run for its money by the Santander 123 Cashback credit card.

Once a King of Kash customer is fully approved for their loan, King of Kash has the ability to issue the loan funds via the following methods:

BlackBerry was once the king of smartphones.

BMW has the midsize X5 offered as a diesel, but not the compact X3; Mercedes - Benz, once the king of diesels, sells none in the US this year.

Traditionally the biggest car on the road, the large car was once king of the American highway.

Gordon Brown mocked him (6 July 1992) as having «absolute power over a department which has become absolutely powerless» and «the tiger that was once the king of the jungle is now just the fireside rug — decorative and ostentatious, but essentially there to be walked all over».

Some Arsenal fans will not remember this, although the shock Premier League triumph of Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City side did cause a lot of people to hark back to the similar achievement of the managerial duo of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor in the 70s, but Arsenal's opponents in the EFL cup after this international break, Nottingham Forest, were once the kings of Europe.

The Dodge Durango and Ford Explorer, once kings of the truck - based SUV segment, are both unibodies now, the next Dodge Dakota and Ford Ranger are rumored to be unibodies and the Kia Borrego is dead.

AWD is what comes on the likes of BMWs Mercedes Subarus Porsche and the once kings of AWD..

All of this is yet another disappointment from the once kings of the JRPG genre.

Not exact matches

As former Bank of England governor Mervyn King once said, «A successful central bank should be boring.»

In this insightful post, James Clear reveals the once - daily productivity trick the king of sitcom comedy leveraged to become a better comic, maybe even the funniest of his time.

Once the undisputed king of coffee and doughnuts in the province, with a peak 290 locations to Tims» 60 in 1998, Dunkin' Donuts presence in the province is now a mere 11 locations, leaving it with nothing but time to make the doughnuts.

Jimmy Fallon, once the young king of late night, has been dethroned by a rising Stephen Colbert, and political comedy in general is cashing in.

The temple served as the headquarters of an organization once headed by King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Once on this Island, nominated for best revival of a musical, and Ferenelli and the King, nominated for best play, were fourth - and fifth - highest grossing, with more than $ 13 million and $ 12 million, respectively for the 2017 to 2018 season.

As America turns once again to our perennial celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a full year of Donald Trump on full Technicolor display has cast its inimitable shadow over the legacy of one of the greatest American citizens in this nation's history.

A friend who worked in TV once found her intern had a website declaring him «King of All Interns.»

Once you've developed that solid foundation from everything you've read, King says it's time to understand «the dynamics of how everything is interrelated.»

Sears, once a giant of America's consumer - led economy, was run into the ground by hedge - fund king Eddie Lampert.

Massive demographic and economic shifts, as well as historic levels of technological and media disruption, are turning this once predictable industry — where «average» was king — into a sea of turbulent change, leaving consumer behavior permanently altered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once described the 51 year old billionaire as a man or a company of men who was plastic and permeable to principles and by the law of nature overpowers and override all cities, nations, rich men, kings and poets.

Although there is often a sense of things happening for a reason and a guiding force behind events, Jesus has never once shown up in any of King's stories that I've read.

3) The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11) The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55) 4) The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23) Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance.

For bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia once.

Indeed, the founding father once remarked «How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words» — an invocation that Justice Scalia reprised in his indignant King v. Burwell dissent.

The British government's blocked the export of a golden jewel - encrusted prayer book which once belonged to a king of France in the hope a museum can raise enough money to buy it.

The son of the Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, Acheson movingly described the ways in which the King James Bible, which the new RSV was to supplant, had once shaped American culture and our national life:

«When the horror novelist Stephen King was once asked why he wrote such gross stories, he said he did it because he had the heart of a small boy — which he kept in a jar on his desk.»

The first is that of David the King, who is referred to more than once as a «man after God's own heart.»

King once wrote that all people are caught up in an «inescapable network of mutuality... I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.»

King once wrote that «any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them... is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.»

Its position around the corner from the Glasgow Orange Order - a Protestant fraternity who still march once a year to celebrate the victory of King William III over the Catholic King James II in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne - may be a mere coincidence, the allegiance of its regulars to Rangers is not.

Martin Luther King Jr. once said that «the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.»