(1) [In 2014 I saw two Oscars … one was this super-Olympian, very successful, who seemed totally in control and even physically tall with his prostheses.
(2) I also have a son who is a show-jumping pupil at an Olympian's academy and my youngest son, still at school, wants to be a tree surgeon.
(3) In one photograph displayed on TV monitors in the courtroom, spots of blood were seen next to some of the trophies won by the double-amputee Olympian and multiple Paralympic champion.
(4) Around 160 will take part including 30 Olympians and seven Olympic medallists.
(5) An intriguing merging between Olympian and local deities had occurred (the Romans being relaxed and pragmatic about that kind of thing, unless the Christians were involved).
(6) Some of the 52 Olympians, with dozens of medals between them and including 12 Sochi competitors, have also criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and multinational sponsors for not doing more to force Vladimir Putin's administration to scale back the legislation.
(7) Nineteen Olympic golds (23 medals in total) confirm him as the most decorated Olympian of all time, which presumably now affords him a spot on Mount Rushmore.
(8) That "pocket of calm" is every Olympian's holy grail.
(9) My favourite Coe moment of the past fortnight was seeing the Olympian in Chief held in a queue behind the back of the stands before the start of the triathlon by a super-efficient volunteer on the "Olympic Family" gate.
(10) Now let’s see how the two-time Olympic gold medal winner compares to other Olympians.
(11) If an appeal court found him guilty of murder, the former Olympian could face at least 15 years in prison.
(12) Inspired by Jack London's 1903 book People of the Abyss about how imperial London treated its East End poor, Lindqvist reflects on the same subject a century on as the capital of imperial shame postures and struts Olympian.
(13) For most of Britain’s two-wheeled Olympians this has been a stressful week, with the resignation of British Cycling’s technical director, Shane Sutton , but unlike her colleague on the track squad, Armitstead will be barely affected.
(14) This is a culture where Holger Osieck, the manager of the Australian football team, can say "women should shut up in public "; where the former boxing world champion Amir Khan can warn female boxers, "When you get hit it can be very painful" ; and where the American network NBC can air a slow-motion montage of female athletes wobbling, like Olympians who have wandered, obliviously, into porn.
(15) Before these Olympics began, there were one or two articles and features about Pindar, how in Athens he earned his living singing odes to the great Olympians, so their names would live down the decades and centuries.
(16) February 15, 2013 9.44am GMT A police officer holds a gun that was allegedly used in the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend of Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius.
(17) ThreatConnect’s Toni Gidwani, formerly of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Guardian that the breach came after the revelation of widespread cheating by Russian Olympians.
(18) Roux was trying to reinforce the Olympian's story that he shot the model by mistake on 14 February 2013 and then desperately broke through a locked toilet door to help her.
(19) The Hatfield Olympian had operated at the best available level domestically, but Lee, seasoned during a long spell in America under the late Manny Steward, had elite-level experience and a track record of resilience.
(20) It had obviously been a harrowing experience, one of Pachauri's senior associates told me, but he never lost his Olympian calm or his warm collegiality, turning out every weekend as usual -- at the age of 70 -- to play for TERI's redoubtable cricket team.
Pantheon
Definition:
(n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.
(n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The MPC likely will place much more weight at next week’s meeting on the weak official data for the first quarter than on April’s better PMIs, and we expect Kristin Forbes to remain alone in voting to raise interest rates,” said Samuel Tombs, the chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
(2) Sadly there's a distinct lack of bushy facial features on show in Germany this summer, although should Gennaro Gattuso steer clear of a razor and Italy go all the way, then he'll surely be eligible to join Batista in the pantheon of hirsute legends.
(3) No place for Suarez in the Uruguayan World Cup pantheon alongside Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Alcides Ghiggia and Obdulio Varela (who would have dealt with Giorgio Chiellini by giving him a sharp clip around the ear, and got away with it too, but that's another story).
(4) In the pantheon of this comedian's attacks on Thatcher, it was a retort that probably won't be treasured longer than the best lines from The Young Ones.
(5) Few figures in the pantheon of the NSW barristers’ trade union are more saintly than Sir Garfield Barwick.
(6) (Cripps, chancellor in the final period of the Attlee government, was a symbol of austerity in the Labour pantheon).
(7) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.
(8) It's hard to say why Felt and Denim never enjoyed the success of many of their peers, or why Go Kart Mozart haven't been included in the pantheon of XL-approved heritage acts.
(9) I got a whole pantheon of Sally Field references in here,” he grins, tapping his head, a reference to the hysterically anti-Iranian 1991 film.
(10) There is very small pantheon of great reforming education secretaries who have genuinely created change.
(11) In some quarters, the reception has been so adulatory that you could have been fooled into thinking that he had won himself a place alongside Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of great orators and the Gettysburg Address now had a rival in the Bloomberg Speech.
(12) Other surveys pointed to continued recession, said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
(13) She said the other major site under threat from the militants was Ashur, a Unesco world heritage site on the banks of the Tigris not far from Mosul , named after the chief god of the Assyrian pantheon.
(14) Perhaps greater regulation of the food industry, with its love of marketing at children with a pantheon of quite horrible cartoon characters and its happy facilitation of access to sugars and fats in inappropriate places, would help?
(15) However grudging the judgment sounds it will stick to him in the pantheon.
(16) Losses look inevitable, and a pantheon of psephologists predict 150, 190, more,” said the BBC’s deputy political editor, John Pienaar just 24 hours ago.
(17) In between winning three Oscars , having four children, keeping bees and studying music, Murch recently investigated new links between the architecture of the Pantheon, the work of Copernicus and the origins of heliocentrism in western astronomy.
(18) 1991 Graduates with a master of laws and a master of advanced studies in criminal law from Pantheon-Assas University in Paris, France's leading law school.
(19) For all his achievement and worth, I don't think Perry Anderson quite fits in the pantheon the obituary suggests.
(20) This is the prize all physicists want , a chance to be remembered in the same pantheon as Max Planck , Richard Feynman , Niels Bohr , Marie Curie , Werner Heisenberg and, of course, Albert Einstein .