'The only man in my team who has to hold a cross is the goalkeeper.' Inside Old Trafford he was big as the Pontiff in the Vatican, yet he had been known to kneel quite unselfconsciously inside his own boardroom to kiss the hand of a visiting bishop.
Having convinced the worlds of US film and TV to kneel before him, perhaps he could try his luck on this side of the Atlantic?
Mr Juncker said he "will not kneel down" before other parties, but accepts he will have to compromise with them.Mr Juncker's bigger problem may be with leaders.
Let me remind you that when Muhammed went from Mecca on his visit to heaven in what you call AD621, he paused in Jerusalem to kneel in prayer alongside Abraham, Moses and Jesus.
He asked some scuba divers to kneel, for a total of an hour a day each, on the seabed at a site in the Bahamas frequented by reef sharks.
He bade the people kneel down and pray to God to forgive them their sins; and all that lately so tumultuous multitude knelt down at the command of their sovereign, and unresistingly allowed the police to come among them and quietly convey the ringleaders of the riot to prison". P. P
He embodies the Eritrean slogan "never kneel down".
Supplicants would kneel and he, sometimes puffing on a choice Cohiba cigar, would deliver.
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Prisoners were forced to kneel at gunpoint while they were questioned.
Ms Fernández even abandoned the widow's weeds she had worn since her husband Nestor's death in 2010.In this section Holding the ring Correction: Argentina's maize harvest Seat belt, mirrors, brake Saddle up, kneel down ReprintsBut clothes are easier to shed than Argentina's grievances, exemplified by striking police.
