The party that once bestrode British politics like a colossus has arrived on the Lancashire coast in timid, uncertain mood. |
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He may not be a political colossus but he bestrides Scotland with an absolute and unchallenged power. |
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Not that he was a formidable figure bestriding the political scene like a colossus. |
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The man who bestrides the sumo world like a colossus has been implicated in match-fixing claims that are rocking Japan's national sport. |
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But for four weeks last summer Ronaldo bestrode the World Cup like a colossus. |
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Disappointed at Eden Gardens, a venue that he normally bestrides like a colossus, and then got into trouble with the match officials too. |
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The Father of the Nation, who once bestrode the world like a colossus, had left us orphaned. |
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As I plotted the epic crash of this colossus, my heart began to pound in anticipation. |
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After September 11, he bestrode the city like a colossus, miraculously raising the spirits of its citizens. |
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Porter pointed also to the Dutch Republic in the same period, co-conspirator in actions as well as words aimed against the French colossus. |
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Throughout all Strauss continued to display magnificent form, and Flintoff strode the various arenas like a colossus. |
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But can the world's No. 1 food colossus fatten up its profits as it slashes costs? |
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One might have supposed that the column and colossus of St. Carlo Borromeo had been suggested by these Pillarists. |
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At nearly 200 feet, the building is a colossus which strides the entire block between West Nile Street and Renfield Street. |
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If all this busy-ness meant we bestrode the world economic stage like a colossus, then it just might be worth it. |
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This emerging colossus could find its economic and political influence rising in tandem with the decline of American influence. |
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Edmund Morgan, 97 Diminutive, almost elfin in appearance, he bestrode his field like a colossus. |
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He is a colossus of courage and integrity in an age of political pygmies. |
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This segment of humanity must recognize that despite its arrogance it is a colossus with feet of clay. |
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Accordingly, it is fitting that the passing of such a sporting colossus should be noted in this international parliament. |
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And the actors' performances are the final straw: Damiaan De Schrijver, a bearded colossus, is a master of the double entendre. |
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The American search-and-advertising colossus may even be the single biggest private-sector influence on Africa. |
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Perhaps the Conservatives would like to build a colossus on the Northwest Passage to indicate our ownership of that area. |
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Other graffiti can be read on the same leg and another on the knee of the second colossus at the far left of the façade of the temple. |
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In other words, the best speed governor on the American colossus will be public opinion. |
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This gravity dam, a colossus heavier than the Pyramid of Cheops, holds several records. |
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The war in Iraq has shown that Europe is a colossus in terms of the global economy, but it remains a dwarf on foreign policy issues. |
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Next to it, the largest monolith ever sculpted by humans lies broken, a wounded colossus. |
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A wide range of equipment had to be used to remove the 52 ton colossus from its former location. |
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Our light-fingered fig climber commits acts of larceny while the crumb-laden colossus eats his weight in skunk soup and then falls into narcolepsy. |
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When he brought the idea of the colossus to America, the Civil War had ended just six years earlier. |
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And Bishop, colossus, Warpath, Blink, Sunspot, Quiksilver, Stryker and Havoc will all be there too. |
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And it is an unfamiliar one for the current generations of American who have known only one reality of America the colossus. |
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He has bestrode morning television like an unnaturally tall colossus for almost a decade, and has a wealth of knowledge across every conceivable discipline at his fingertips. |
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What most people don't know is that after World War I, and particularly in Austria where the Hapsburg empire had bestrode Europe like a colossus, things were very, very tough. |
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They are enthusiasts for the notion that the United States has become a New Rome, a colossus unconstrained by any values, loyalties or ideals of international law. |
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Brown's speech last week confirmed him as a political colossus. |
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The equaliser arrived like a dove from above, a divine free kick from Graham Kavanagh, whose all-round game bestrode this contest like a colossus. |
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He is the undisputed colossus of corporate India. |
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As far as I am concerned, EMU cooperation looms ponderously large as a colossus which will have difficulty keeping afloat in the present swelling economy. |
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The Congress party, which dominated the Indian political scene like a colossus and which was responsible for centralizing power has now lost much of its power base and appeal. |
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Dodd's experience ranges from work with jazz funksters Jamiroquai to the free-blowing colossus Paul Dunmall. |
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The solipsistic and normatively depleted mindset of this self-absorbed colossus in the middle of Europe can no longer even guarantee that the European Union will be preserved in its wavering status quo. |
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He looked up again at the portrait of Big Brother. The colossus that bestrode the world! |
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It will be seen as a tired and enfeebled colossus, a continent filled with boastful babble, fragile and old, nothing more than a historical museum. |
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It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. |
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Busch Entertainment: a colossus with feet of clay? |
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The utterly defiant, nay provocative, attitude of Iran against the U. S. colossus was made possible only because the latter proved in Iraq to stand on feet of clay. |
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He may be a colossus, but he has feet of clay. |
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No voluptuary surfeited by conquest, no colossus of the drama bruised and rent by doting adolescents, not Alexander, nor Talleyrand, was more blasé than Scott-King. |
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Units like the thor, the mothership and the colossus all have their roles and we see them in games probably about a half or a third of the games that we see will actually see these units even come into play. |
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Thus, while we enjoy an enhancement of our stature owing to our cliently affiliation with the colossus, our new servility shows that the cost of empire is high. |
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