Sentence examples for anointed from from inspiring English sources

In this ceremony the 57-foot (17-metre) high statue of Bahubali is anointed from above with a variety of substances (water, milk, flowers, etc). in the presence of an audience that can approach one million.

The Republican establishment has a full arsenal of weapons at its disposal, including endorsements, favored speaking engagements at key party gatherings, leverage over top consultants and a signaling process to show who has been anointed from on high.

"Having been anointed from the start of his career because he was that magical combination — a black man who talks like a white man (that's what they mean by calling him 'articulate' and a 'great speaker') — he has never had to work for a living, and he has never had to struggle to accomplish goals.

The show comes ready-anointed from the US, with an award from tv.com for "favourite guilty pleasure", while leading lady Madeleine Stowe, who plays the excitingly unpleasant "queen of the Hamptons" Victoria Grayson, has shown great spectrum with nominations from both the Golden Globes and the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association.

The South Africans hope that, fairly soon after that, he will step down and hand over to an anointed successor from within ZANU-PF, perhaps Emerson Mnangagwa, a former security chief who has been the Mujurus' rival in the ruling party.

More fundamentally, it's that a tour by an anointed symphony orchestra from the other side barely registers in the Western political consciousness.

The city accorded Morningside Park landmark status only in 2008, long after it anointed other parks from the design team of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux — Central Park in 1974 and Riverside Park in 1980, for example.

Moving on to other stories, the Vatican anointed two Indians from the southern state of Kerala as saints on Sunday.

A week after TIME anointed images ranging from Ellen's Oscar selfie to Thomas van Houtryve's drone-aided photo of house boats as 2014's 10 most influential photos, Guardian writer Jonathan Jones, today, singled out Robert Longo's 10ft-wide charcoal drawing of Ferguson police holding back protestors as the most important artwork of the year. .

The two dozen 14-year-olds forming an imperfect circle in a large hall on this humid morning in the Berkshires hail from every tier of their adolescent caste system, from the anointed to the laughingstocks.

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king.