Sentences with phrase «triumphant visit»

Since I last wrote on this subject, in the period approaching the Pope's triumphant visit (which, like many others, I was very concerned that this issue would be used by the Dawkins / Tatchell coalition to wreck) work has continued within the Church to understand the problem.

The election of Pope John Paul II and his triumphant visit to Poland in June 1979 accelerated Reagan's sense that the Soviet emperor had fewer clothes than the realists imagined and that the Cold War might actually be won, not simply managed.

The unraveling of the Communist tyranny began in Poland, and it began with John Paul II's first and triumphant visit in 1979.

(John Paul II, in his triumphant visits to Poland, achieved more than Paul VI could possibly have hoped to.)

Not exact matches

At 18, a rather triumphant Benjamin Franklin returned to visit Boston, the city he'd run away from.

When Bill Curry makes his less - than - triumphant return to Tuscaloosa this week, visiting for the first time since he jilted Alabama in 1990 to take the coaching job at Kentucky, he'll be the object of considerable scorn.

Buoyed by their triumphant week, Manchester United will set out to ensure they don't end up slipping on a potential banana skin as the United faithful welcome a former servant of theirs to Old Trafford, with Mark Hughes» Fulham paying Manchester's finest a visit.

Pep Guardiola was triumphant on his only other managerial visit to Wembley when his Barcelona side beat Man Utd in the 2011 Champions League Final.