Sentence examples for and a pretender from inspiring English sources

The Romans crucified him as a rebel, a zealot and a pretender to the Judean throne.

The greater hope is that last week's toppling of a president and a pretender represents the peak of the social movements' influence.

Astolfo, the king's nephew, and a pretender to the throne, was aptly played as dashing, conceited and conniving by the fresh-voiced young baritone Craig Verm.

Lobengula faced a rebellion in June 1870, and in 1872 he repelled an invasion by Mangwane and a pretender backed by the British in the Natal colony.

Mr. McCain, as he crossed the state on the final day of campaigning before the primary, continued to attack Mr. Bush as a character assassin and a pretender to the mantle of Republican reformer.

In the wake of the 2008 election, when he was soundly thumped by a Democratic challenger whom he regarded as a neophyte and a pretender whose experience and valor were no match for his own, McCain immediately shed all traces of mavericky independence and became one of Obama's fiercest critics from the right.

Pushkin's play — about the 16th-century tyrannical czar Boris Godunov, and Dimitri, a pretender to the throne — "is very seditious," said Caryl Emerson, chairwoman of Princeton's Slavic languages and literature department, who is overseeing the project with Mr. Morrison.

Saad Hariri, the son of the late Rafiq and supposedly a pretender to his throne, hides in Saudi Arabia which – given the fate of Saad's friend Mohamed Chattah last month, blown up by another Beirut car bomb - may be the wise thing to do.

She was about to go out and do a Pretenders tour and the floor above was for sale, and she didn't know that I lived there.

Saya San organized peasant discontent and proclaimed himself a pretender to the throne who, like Alaungpaya, would unite the people and expel the British invader.

Meetings like that don't happen unless the Kremlin takes its interlocutor seriously; in Trump's improvised campaign, figuring out who was serious and who was a pretender was no easy business.