(n.) A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paladin Energy, which mines uranium in Malawi and Namibia (the largest sources of uranium oxide, or "yellowcake", after Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia), has warned that if the price stays depressed, supply will dip by 25% by 2020.
(2) Laura Richards is founder of the Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service.
(3) I like to think of Childe Roland, the paladin whose journey to the Dark Tower forms the basis of my new book The Broken King , as on the fringes of the Arthurian court: perhaps he pricked past Arthur on the plain, had a friendly joust, and galloped off again, his helm glinting in the sunlight.
(4) Laura Richards, chief executive of Paladin, which supports stalking victims , welcomed the guidance but said: "Specialist led training is vital and the lack of investment in prosecutors' training to date has resulted in many of our victims being continually let down and put further at risk.
(5) In my work as the chair of Paladin , the national stalking advocacy service, and in my role as a solicitor specialising on stalking, I see so many victims being treated equally appallingly on a regular basis.
(6) Not many things shock me because we see so much at Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service , but the situation Lily Allen found herself in is disgraceful.
(7) In fact, by the late 1960s Frost was already making programmes with his own production house, David Paladine Ltd (Paladine was his middle name), again pioneering something now common in TV.
(8) The efficacy was evaluated according to the criteria of Paladine et al.
(9) Laura Richards of the stalking advice service Paladin has called stalking “murder in slow motion”.
(10) In an ideal world there would be no need for charities such as Paladin or lawyers like myself trying to plug the gaps in the criminal justice system, but we are a very long way from this.
(11) Lily does have the means and the wherewithal and she was hugely resilient, but advocacy within the system is needed, and that’s what Paladin is for.
(12) • Tina, not her real name, has been supported by the advice service Paladin which supports high-risk victims of stalking.
(13) Craving intellectual and political prestige, the DIY jihadists receive helpful endorsements from the self-proclaimed paladins of the west, such as Michael Gove, Britain’s leading American-style neocon.
(14) The Women’s Equality party has taken up Paladin’s campaign for a serial stalkers “register and order”, which would place positive obligations on the perpetrator rather than simply waiting for his next victim to make a complaint.
Swordsman
Definition:
(n.) A soldier; a fighting man.
(n.) One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(2) James Debens emails: "Watching Spain v Chile reminded me of the Arab swordsman scene in Indiana Jones, with Chile as our bestubbled hero killing tiki-taka."
(3) And he's a spy and a great swordsman, and you get the feeling that if you put him into solitary confinement he would come out very much as he went in.
(4) And yet it is to a Japanese assassin, a stone-cold swordsman, that his two most recent collaborators compare him.