(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.
Templar
Definition:
(n.) One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
(n.) A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple.
(n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a temple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(2) He called the Knights Templar a “brotherhood” and boasted of its Robin Hood-like quality, saying the gang’s members were born to protect the people and give them back what was rightly theirs.
(3) His power only grew after La Familia splintered, giving rise to the Knights Templar in 2011.
(4) Participants were administered Marcia's Ego Identity Status Interview and Templar's Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) in counterbalanced order.
(5) Vallejo acknowledged the violence had gone on for four days as vigilantes appeared to be surrounding the farming hub of Apatzingán, which is said to be the Knights Templar's central command.
(6) European security sources confirmed they were investigating claims that Breivik and other far-right individuals attended the inaugural meeting of the far-right Knights Templar group in London in 2002.
(7) This is particularly clear in territories once dominated by the Zetas, now a shadow of their former selves , as well as the recently dismantled Caballeros Templarios, or Knights Templar .
(8) This is the stronghold of Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar), a crime syndicate which combines pseudo-mystical ideology with cut-throat business instincts – and a capacity for extreme violence.
(9) He is the cult-like figurehead of the Knights Templar, which claims to be the righteous defender of the peasantry against a corrupt government.
(10) Last week it was the turn of Servando Gómez Martínez, leader of the Knights Templar cartel; he was caught in the central city of Morelia – reportedly after the authorities trailed a chocolate cake his girlfriend had cooked to celebrate his 49th birthday .
(11) In an article published yesterday by the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, a historian, Barbara Frale, said she had found "missing clues" to the fate of the Templars and the Shroud while sifting through unpublished documents in the Holy See's Secret Archives.
(12) He also wrote that he was given the codename "Sigurd (the Crusader)" at a founding meeting of a group called the Knights Templar Europe in London in 2002.
(13) The Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán state is facing an uprising of thousands of vigilantes who first emerged in outlying towns a year ago to challenge the pernicious influence of the dominant local cartel known as the Caballeros Templarios, or Knights Templar.
(14) He found precursors of the witch-hunts in the persecution of early Christians by the Romans, in the Church's campaigns against 12th-century heretics, and in the destruction of the Knights Templars.
(15) The International Good Templar Youth Federation, a non-governmental organization with branches and contacts in more than 40 countries in the world and a membership consisting of 200,000 "juniors" (7 to 15 years old) and older "youth" members has undertaken a world-wide campaign for developing a culture free of any kind of intoxicating substances, such as alcohol and narcotic drugs, and for promoting the development of drug prevention and social reintegration programmes.
(16) He has also written about the great train robbery and Chernobyl, but other non-fiction books have had overt Catholic themes including a study of the Church itself, the Templars, and an authorised biography of Alec Guinness which revealed unexpected information about Guinness's sexuality.
(17) But a confluence of bizarre and troubling events has pushed the state into Mexico's spotlight, particularly because of the response of residents in a handful of villages near Apatzingán who have chosen to fight the Knights Templar rather than wait for a more aggressive response by the government.
(18) The Templar order risked becoming a refuge for heretics who denied Jesus was fully human and the Shroud offered evidence to the contrary.
(19) "Our aim is to clean the Knights Templar cartel out of all the municipalities of Michoacán," Beltrán said.
(20) Members of so-called self-defence groups entered Nueva Italia in Michoacán state in an effort to liberate towns from the control of the Knights Templar cartel.