Sentence examples for as a protege from inspiring English sources

Friends of Mr. Turoff described him as a protege of the former Democratic Party leader in Brooklyn, Meade H. Esposito.

Regarded as a protege of the higher education minister, Margaret Hodge, he also has a strong interest in education.

Schwartzel has been regarded as a protege of Ernie Els, South Africa's three-time major winner, since his golfing youth.

He began in the mid-fifties as a protege of the arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, to whose sister he was married.

Before his official jobs under Mr Bush, he served as a protege of James Baker, a long-time confident of the Bush family.

Once one of America's best amateur golfers as a protege of Bobby Jones, who founded the Masters, Yates played in the first 11.

Mr. Blumenthal, 52, a Democrat, said, "I'm certainly a practicing lawyer in this job, and I pride myself on it". He is often described as liberal and was a protege of the archetypal Connecticut liberal Senator, the late Abraham A. Ribicoff.

The Horatio Alger myth, that of a poor, starving boy who through a chance encounter performs a service to a wealthy older man (stops his runaway horses) and is made a protege as a result and set on a path to wealth and happiness- happens only in Horatio Alger stories.

"He is widely regarded as the brain of the Republican conference". Many expect him to be succeeded as Ways and Means chairman by a protege, Rep. Jim McCrery (R-La)., who has had the politically delicate job of heading the Ways and Means subcommittee overseeing Social Security while Bush was trying to revamp the program last year.

Xi is seen as a Jiang Zemin protege, but in another three and a half years Jiang's influence will be gone.

Hard working, intelligent and ambitious, he rose steadily as a Reuther protege and potential successor through the 1940's, 50's and 60's.