(1) This is like someone having the scepter of an Egyptian king.” Wu-Tang Clan sell copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for 'millions' Read more That scepter is now in the hands of Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old boss of Turing Pharmaceuticals, a man most famous for hiking the price of a drug used by cancer and Aids patients by 50-fold overnight, Bloomberg magazine reported on Wednesday.
(2) This is like somebody having the scepter of an Egyptian king,” RZA told Forbes in March.
Sceptre
Definition:
(n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
(n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
(v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(2) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
(3) Of the two most successful imprints, with a pair of titles longlisted, Chatto (Flanagan, Mukherjee) is in the top group, but Sceptre (Hustvedt, David Mitchell) is a mere third-tier outfit in Booker terms, entitled to only two submissions.
(4) Much was made of the royal couple's modernity (the aeroplanes, radio and television), and the young Queen's femininity, able to juggle children and a handbag, along with the crown of state and orb and sceptre.
(5) It comes amid a spate of knife killings in London that has prompted Scotland Yard to renew its anti-knife initiative, Operation Sceptre .
(6) The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions by Rolf Dobelli is published by Sceptre, £9.99.
(7) Wintering, inspired by Plath's Ariel poems, by Kate Moses is published by Sceptre
(8) More powerfully still, we are made to visualise the horrific scenes in Rosenberg's most ambitious war poem, "Dead Man's Dump", from its very first lines: The plunging limbers over the shattered track Racketed with their rusty freight, Stuck out like many crowns of thorns, And the rusty stakes like sceptres old To stay the flood of brutish men Upon our brothers dear.
(9) I hesitated before taking the tiny hollow sceptre, but not for too long.
(10) But the Prince of Wales was determined not to let go of the only woman who had truly understood his loneliness and he and Camilla gradually began to be accepted as a couple by the ordinary people of this sceptred isle.
(11) The head of the Metropolitan police’s anti-knife initiative, Operation Sceptre, has admitted past failures in engaging with communities most affected by youth violence, amid criticism of the force’s latest strategy to tackle the problem.
(12) A mace head, a high-status object comparable to a sceptre, and a little bowl burnt on one side, which he believes may have held incense, suggest the dead could have been religious and political leaders and their immediate families.
(13) And, yet, if the Tory manifesto is more or less par for the course, although a bit too leftish in its message for the old party faithful (who wants riff-raff joining in the governance of these "sceptr'd isles"?
(14) The Met launched the eighth phase of Operation Sceptre at the beginning of the month, making 511 arrests and recovering 380 knives.
(15) When it’s a life and death situation, where you are seriously thinking that you’re going to be killed, you don’t care what the law says because the law’s not going to be there to protect you.” As part of the Operation Sceptre initiative, police said they were also recruiting community “role models” to deliver anti-knife messages to young people.
(16) The 18th-century Spanish crown and 17th-century sceptre were displayed rather than put on the king's head or in his hand, no foreign dignitaries or royals were invited and the afternoon reception for 2,000 guests featured finger foods rather than an elaborate banquet.
(17) The deaths have come amid a spate of stabbings in the capital that has spurred the Metropolitan police to revisit its anti-knife initiative , Operation Sceptre, with the formation of a dedicated 80-strong “murder suppression” unit.