Pogba and Stones have reportedly been the subject of tentative interest from both the Spanish giants in recent months, seemingly gazumping long-term admirers Chelsea without even making an official bid for the pair.
In 1964, two years after her death, admirers sought (without success) to persuade the Nobel committee to relax its rules and award her the Peace Prize posthumously; 28 eminent personages from around the world wrote letters of support.
I am a great admirer of religious music without being religious.
He was a follower and personal admirer of Enoch Powell, but without Powell's apocalyptic impulse or his burning hatreds.
Though I'm a great admirer of education, people without edges are often less interesting.
Without admirers, he is like a Stradivarius without strings.
Maybe it's a coincidence, but that sounds like exactly the sort of thing you say to a smitten admirer who can't live without you, right after you decide that the feeling isn't quite mutual.
This week's nit-pickers do have some genuine nits to pick.Nor should Reagan's admirers claim that without him the collapse of communism would never have happened.
When the exposition closed there was a stampede to buy the contents of its Japanese pavilion.The arts of Japan and Japonisme are not in the spotlight these days, but they are not without admirers.
Most of it has been isolated in concerts devoted entirely to his works: safe islets in which confirmed admirers can bask without disturbing nonbelievers or, for that matter, being disturbed by them.
