Sentence examples for Legion from inspiring English sources

What luck, then, to find the toweringly meritorious figure of Thomas Piketty, the French economist, encapsulating the objections in his rejection of the of the Legion d'Honneur.

A Gang of Nine going after John Boehner is as terrifying as when the Legion of Doom tried to take over the world in a Superfriends episode.

The traps that might open up are legion.

Last month, Preibus and a handful of top lieutenants carefully telegraphed the findings of a new report wherein the party's legion political liabilities were diagnosed.

Born in 1910, abandoned and brought up by the state, homosexual, imprisoned for thieving at 16, sent out to join the foreign legion at 18, then imprisoned for petty crime repeatedly in the 1940s, he had at the same time produced the masterpieces that attracted the attention and solidarity of Cocteau, Sartre and André Breton.

Griffin purists and experts (believe me they are legion, as I, a novice, discovered after writing a book about Canberra) still regard the initial decision to place the George V monument on the land axis as some sort of heresy.

And so many of the cultural affiliations of military life – regiments, the Royal British Legion, the commanders-in-chief – are intimately bound up with the historic Protestant and imperial attributes of the British royal family.

There was no precise time I became a thief, just a metempsychosis of Uranus that saw me graduate from the Reformatory to the Foreign Legion and thence to the piss and shit of the sewers.

Confronted by the Sunday Times, Kiszley insisted he "always kept my role as national president of the Royal British Legion completely separate from my business interests".

Addressing the American Legion in Reno, Nevada, Bush said: "Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust".

After his death, the Royal British Legion said Jordan's decision to go to France highlighted "the spirit that epitomises the second world war generation".