(1) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
(2) His chief drawback is that he is a protege of Tymoshenko, who led Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution only to subsequently destroy it as prime minister.
(3) The Franklin Centre did not exist before 2009, but it has quickly become a protege of Donors Trust.
(4) Power and achievement characteristics reported by the protege to be very important included mastery of concepts and ideas (55.2 per cent) and capacity to work hard (52.1 per cent).
(5) Khamenei, who adopted Ahmadinejad as his protege in the past, does not appear to have stepped in this time.
(6) Dyke was also happy to recommend Duncan for the job: he was a great admirer of his protege's work as the BBC's marketing chief, especially his role promoting the digital terrestrial TV service Freeview.
(7) Prince undertook a six-month tour to promote 1999, where he was joined on the bill by his proteges the Time and a new all-female group, Vanity 6, the latter seemingly an embodiment of Prince’s sexual fantasies.
(8) Amid these fears Clegg's original patron has decided to pre-empt any moves against his protege.
(9) Ahmadinejad has strongly pushed Mashaei as his political heir, but there are serious obstacles to his protege making the final ballot.
(10) She had been a protege of Sir David Nicholson, the outgoing boss of the NHS, and rose under his wing in the West Midlands.
(11) As her old boss Alex Salmond, out campaigning in Fife, enthused that his former protege was “wiping the floor with the Westminster old boys’ network”, Sturgeon offered words of caution: “We’ve got to see how people vote; after all, there’s a danger that all of us will get carried away with the post-match analysis.” Judging by the sheer energy and spirit of the scores of activists gathered on St John’s Road in the prosperous suburb of Costorphine, this is yet another seat the Liberal Democrats are unlikely to hold.
(12) He fought the safe Conservative seat of Hereford in the 1951 election, and secured his selection as the Labour candidate at Greenwich wearing a prominent CND badge, although this was quietly discarded when he arrived at Westminster in 1959 and became a protege of Hugh Gaitskell.
(13) Collaborations with Sly and The Family Stone’s Larry Graham and young protege Andy Allo are due out this autumn, but for the moment new songs are confined to live shows and occasionally leaked to radio, such as this vicious putdown of a love-rival’s inability to match Prince’s income.
(14) His first task will be dealing with the future of one of his star players, his old protege Wayne Rooney .
(15) Throughout the controversial latter days of the reign of Juan Antonio Samaranch as IOC president, which ended in 2001 when he was succeeded by Jacques Rogge, Bach was seen as one of his proteges.
(16) In 2007 he leapfrogged Li Keqiang – until then seen as likely to succeed Hu, but seen perhaps as too much Hu's protege – as the consensus candidate in a system built on collective decision-making.
(17) Now Ferguson's most famous protege, who perhaps best represents what football has become in the celebrity age yet never lost his appetite for the game, has repeated the trick.
(18) Anthropomorphism was simply not on, they told Goodall when, in the early 60s, she took a PhD at Cambridge at the insistence of Leakey – who was desperate for his protege to gain academic respectability.
(19) Admittedly, the Green party’s Natalie Bennett hopes to barge in on the leadership debates, the SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon thinks she can run a country and there are rumours of similar insanity on the part of top Cameron Cutie – as the prime minister’s female proteges are formally designated in much of the media stylebook – Theresa May.
(20) Apart from the fact he might threaten to sing, along with the other three mentors who joined their proteges in ill-chosen, decently done, songs.
Purveyor
Definition:
(n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
(n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
(n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
Example Sentences:
(1) The worst purveyors of hate, they’re emboldened by this election and they’re out in force.
(2) Here was the purveyor of nigh on a third of the nation’s food openly promising a cut that will be barely noticed over time by consumers but will have a positive health impact.
(3) He even has a soft spot for the Cockney Rejects, pugnacious purveyors of football singalongs.
(4) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
(5) But his core supporters have remained faithful, choosing to believe that the mainstream media are purveyors of fake news, rather than accept that the Trump presidency has not been the unrivalled success the president has claimed.
(6) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
(7) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
(8) Josie Long Watching Josie Long evolve from purveyor of childlike whimsy to political agitator has been one of the pleasures of the last few festivals.
(9) One side of each carcass was fabricated using National Association of Meat Purveyors specifications.
(10) Phosphorus is also an energy purveyor during numerous biologic reactions, and depp deprivation may lead to a lot of pathologic situations, sometimes severe.
(11) It certainly looks over the top to me.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “I would have loosened my grip.” Photograph: Screenshot via FoxNews.com Even Bill O’Reilly, the reliable hardass and purveyor of murderous ideation , seemed off his game.
(12) One rebuke to purveyors of a failing conventional wisdom, which may have been refined in the retelling , was "When the facts change, I change my mind.
(13) For Greeks, the IMF has a reputation as a merciless purveyor of fiscal delinquents, more usually associated with Latin America and other developing economies.
(14) The Beatles are now regularly credited with making pop acceptable, elevating it from the realms of teenage delinquency, and forcing critics in the Sunday papers to consider pop stars as thinkers, not just purveyors of teenage noise.
(15) But these platforms are by no means merely the purveyors of Smith’s invisible hand.
(16) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
(17) There is a certain duty that comes with being the anointed purveyor of truth.
(18) This study reports on the value of head injury instruction cards as purveyors of information to patients.
(19) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
(20) ) I would rather drink Bud (another St Louis product) than chomp on antacids.... looks like I need to hit the fridge for suds St Louis, purveyor of beer, ribs and Rolaids.