Sentences with phrase «such a legend in»

«[Sir Alex Ferguson is] such a legend in the club and I'm more than happy to say that we won in «Fergie time».

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Especially after losing legends such as David Bowie and Tom Petty over the last few years, I'm treasuring the chance to catch my favorite acts in concert while I can.

That can't be proved, of course, so every such case resides in the limbo of urban legend and ancient superstition.

At the most recent expo, held in August, there were bona fide industry legends on convention floor, such as Jon Kosmoski, the ponytailed, self - described «solvent head» who helped kick off the custom car craze back in the 1960s.

After all, this is the place where legend has it that Google employees were warned prior to their IPO that showing up at work in a fancy car after the big day would likely get them a broken window, and where a Facebook employee once told The New York Times that if anyone working there bought such a car and posted a picture of it online, they could expect to be «ridiculed and berated.»

Unfortunately for the Tribune, being a media entity also involves boring things like having a platform and infrastructure that can support the release of news such as the retirement of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who also happens to be an investor in the site.

America's first vegan restaurant even opened on Sunset Boulevard in 1969, attracting legends such as Marlon Brando and John Lennon.

The creator of such classic games as Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda is reporting an operating loss of about $ 335.7 million for its fiscal year ending in March.

Velloso says his team is working with companies such as Riot Games, the Tencent (tcehy)- owned developer behind the most popular eSports game in the world, League of Legends.

[Update 11:23 AM: In a press release Tuesday morning, Nintendo noted that the length of the rewind depends on the genre of game: «Players can go back a few minutes in role - playing games such as Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, while action titles such as Super Mario World offer around 40 seconds, ideal for re-trying short segments of gameplay.&raquIn a press release Tuesday morning, Nintendo noted that the length of the rewind depends on the genre of game: «Players can go back a few minutes in role - playing games such as Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, while action titles such as Super Mario World offer around 40 seconds, ideal for re-trying short segments of gameplay.&raquin role - playing games such as Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, while action titles such as Super Mario World offer around 40 seconds, ideal for re-trying short segments of gameplay.»

Starbucks has also become a champion of emerging artists such as John Legend, Madeleine Peyroux and Fleet Foxes, introducing customers to these musicians at an early point in their careers.

As much as the two consider themselves disrupters of competitors like Luxottica (Warby Parker's $ 10.5 billion rival, which owns everything from LensCrafters to Ray - Ban), they're students of retail history and find inspiration in such leaders as hospitality guru Danny Meyer, Apple Store legend Ron Johnson, and Mickey Drexler, the merchandising titan famous for reviving Gap in the 1990s and J.Crew in the 2000s.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

For this reason the legend must be told in such a way that two things are apparent: how the saint was so holy that he controlled his surroundings; and how his life, from infancy, was under divine guidance and protection and hence was lifted out, by God Himself, from the mass of human misfortune.

But she also loved the dramatic arts, and by the time of her first communion, she had already been signed by talent scouts, and appeared in commercials and on television, alongside acting legends such as David Niven, Richard Burton and Sir Lawrence Olivier.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

Well, part of the problem is that the legends in the Bible frequently exhibit mythological archetypes that have been employed by countless religions, such as the God martyred for mankind's salvation.

In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features of the narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legenIn later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features of the narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legenin, with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features of the narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legend.

If the legends of Genesis have been employed editorially in such a way as to express the faith of Israel and if, in the legends of the patriarchs, Israel sees her own experience mirrored, it is also true that the legends retain at the same time their own stamp, something of their own unique character.

If, in Genesis, individual legends and originally separate cycles of legends are combined in such a way as to convey the theological drama of Israel, if the spoken lines are the lines of the play, we observe at the same time that this literary material of legend always refuses to yield itself completely to such editorial, theological design..

It is quite otherwise, however, with Elijah, the ninth century prophet, who, according to the Biblical tradition, had been carried up to heaven in a whirlwind riding in a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire.13 Elijah had made such an impression on the men of his own generation as a man of vitality and divine power that he continued to be a living legend.

Maybe that's why John Legend is such a good choice to play Him in NBC's Easter production of Jesus Christ Superstar Live.

In mythology — e.g. in the legends about the gods — we constantly meet such unobservable phenomena as will, wrath, fear, etcIn mythology — e.g. in the legends about the gods — we constantly meet such unobservable phenomena as will, wrath, fear, etcin the legends about the gods — we constantly meet such unobservable phenomena as will, wrath, fear, etc..

In the legend Agnes is (to modernize my expression a little) a woman who craves «the interesting,» and every such woman can always be sure that there is a merman in the offing, for with half an eye mermen discover the like of that and steer for it like a shark after its preIn the legend Agnes is (to modernize my expression a little) a woman who craves «the interesting,» and every such woman can always be sure that there is a merman in the offing, for with half an eye mermen discover the like of that and steer for it like a shark after its prein the offing, for with half an eye mermen discover the like of that and steer for it like a shark after its prey.

In the last century that legend was reduced to just the one word, «Veritas,» and at Harvard there is obviously no consensus on what that truth might be or even on whether there is such a thing as truth.

There are many illustrations of their nostalgic attachment to the old ways, such as their tendency to escape into the desert for sports and physical and spiritual refreshment, the practice of sending their children to be reared in Bedouin encampments to protect them from the effects of city life, and the legends of the desert which beguile their evening hours.

One should strive to grasp the symbolic meaning of the religious facts in their heterogeneous, yet structurally interlocking appearances; such facts can be rites or ritual behavior as well as myths or legends or supernatural beings.

As the tradition is now enveloped in legend, there is no way of discovering the historical circumstances of the call of Moses, but we can be reasonably confident that there was such a man, who led a band of Hebrews in a dramatic escape from Egyptian slavery, and one of the oldest elements in the tradition is a song which celebrates the defeat of the Pharaoh's army in the waters of the Sea of Reeds.

Full retail price is about $ 45 but I've seen it in a few stores for $ 30 — a bargain for such a dead - set cellar - worthy legend.

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And there is the legend of the wealthy Alpine cattle rancher who loved both the game of baseball and his hometown with such consuming passion that in 1947 he built what is quite possibly the world's most beautiful ballpark.

Instead of psychoanalyzing it all, it will just be fun to see Tiger out there and his kids running around like so many of the other legends who have their families play such an important role in the par - 3.

All time legend Tony Adams hasn't moved any mountains in his previous coach / manager jobs so I doubt if he would be risked in such a high profile position at the Arsenal.

Mertz should never have been our captain in the first place... who has ever heard of a team that makes 11th hour transfer buys (Arteta & Mertz) then seemingly places those same individuals into prominent leadership positions from the get - go... indicative of the problems that have permeated our clubhouse for the better part of 7 years under the Kroenke & Wenger... what is wrong with the players chosen and / or the management style of Wenger that doesn't develop and / or encourage strong leadership from within... Mertz was the fine collecting lackey from year one... this is what happens when you don't get world - class players because many times they want to have a voice on and off the pitch and this can't happen when you play for a fragile manager who has developed a coddling wage structure where everyone is rewarded for simply wearing the shirt and participating in the process... not enough balance between performance and pay, combined with the obvious favoritism shown to some players regardless of their glaring lack of production... remember that Ramsey has played in positions that make no sense considering his skill - set (out wide) and has forced other players off the field or into equally unfamiliar positions with little or no justification (let's remember when you read articles about how Ramsey's goals this upcoming season being the potential X-factor for our success that this is the same individual who didn't score a goal until the final week last season)... this of course is just one example of many... before I hear another word from Mertz I want this club to address the fact that no former player of any real consequence has any important role in the management structure of this club, yet several former Gunners have expressed serious interest in just such an endeavor (Henry, Viera, Adams, Bergkamp... just to name a few legends)... there is only one answer: an extremely insecure manager!!!

But now another Arsenal legend, in the form of Robert Pires, has agreed with such a view.

However, the report suggests that aside from the fact that Guardiola wouldn't want to take such a club legend away from Barca, the club that ultimately gave him a career in playing and management, he isn't actually on the best of terms with Messi as they're described as being «very cold» in person.

It's rare to see three legends of such high esteem retire in such rapid succession, and as basketball resumes, we're left wondering what regular ol' domestic life is like for each.

Imagine if wenger were a top class musician who was at his highest in the 80s and 90s competing fiercely with legends such as springsteen or bowe or elton john etc..

You go back a little bit further and throw in the legends such as Hughes, Penn, and I'm going to say Shields was a legend too because his resume was so impressive and he was on a huge ass winning streak and had defeated excellent competition going into the fight with GSP.

However, it has resulted in a competitive and highly entertaining campaign for supporters, with emotional goodbyes to legends such as Luca Toni and Antonio Di Natale to the crowning of new young starlets hoping to establish themselves as the stars of the future.

That's in part because it was driven by rally legends such as Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Makinen, and Carlos Sainz, but also because of that colossal whale - tail rear wing.

Smalling himself started his career at lowly Maidstone United, and although legends such as John Barnes, Ian Wright, and Stuart Pearce also started in non league tiers, the practice of the country's biggest clubs looking beyond the top couple of flights has become less common since the advent of the Premier League in 1992.

Having Alvarez come out of retirement to coach in the Rose Bowl wouldn't be the worst idea, and I bet a lot of the players would rally around such a legend.

In a touching moment during the game, David Beckham would sub himself out for his son, and the young footballer would share the pitch with such legends as Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Ronaldinho and Michael Owen en route to a 3 - 1 win.

Big names such as Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas and Filipe Luis have since been brought in, while club legend Didier Drogba has also returned to Stamford Bridge on a free transfer and promising youngster Thibaut Courtois has returned to the club after three years out on loan with Atletico Madrid — and it is these signings that look to have pushed these two players out of the exit door:

Their shirts bear the simple legend «Canada» — not the big «C» that identifies Les Canadiens of proud old Montreal, a city which feels so strongly about such things that it would be quite in character if its citizens loyally refused to buy any of the new stamps.

For all his achievements at club level, many have argued that Messi can not truly be held in the same category as legends such as Pele and Diego Maradona unless he finally gets his hands on the World Cup trophy.

The new film on his life and career is set to hit cinema screens in 2017, featuring appearances from other F1 legends such as Emerson Fittipaldi, Sir Jackie Stewart and Mario Andretti.

Lampard is undoubtedly a club legend and will probably be viewed as such in the long term.

He was a true giant of motor racing (literally - he stood at six foot four) worthy of mentioning in the same breath as other legends from his era such as Jack Brabham, Mario Andretti, and Bruce McLaren.