Sentence examples for as a runner of from inspiring English sources

He has been compared to an Exocet, because of his brisk and unerring manner; likened to a monk, by virtue of his austere appearance; and admired as a runner of marathons, whose stamina has been tested as much in the negotiating room as on the roads.Mr Lamy has been an occasional critic of the organisation he will lead.

They both stammered as boys before their families moved north in the 1920's, and they discovered themselves in sport -- Owens as a runner on the sidewalks of Cleveland and Louis in a Detroit gym.

Mr. Maheras, the son of a Greek immigrant, is a Notre Dame graduate who got his first taste of markets as a runner on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Johnson was unrivaled as a runner for most of his career.

There are no real heroes here, except perhaps the mysterious Dion Mial (Rainbow Francks), who is hired as a runner for Mr. Coleman at the height of his fame and stays on as a counselor and companion.

The wall on the left in the hallway is covered from floor to ceiling, from the front door to the kitchen, with photographs, awards and plaques from Carnevale's 70-year career as a runner, many of them from his days at Newark's Central High School and Georgetown University.

My background is as a runner but because of the injury problems I started cycling as a way of cross-training and then I had a go at triathlon.

"The reality of what we've stepped into we could not be prepared for," said Moses Port, who took over as a show runner of the NBC comedy "Community" with his writing partner, David Guarascio, in May.

There is no score in pickle, but if you want, you can keep track of the number of times you run back and forth between the bases as a runner and the number of outs you record as an end.

Finding a good job in the media used to be about old-school-tie networks or else climbing those long career ladders from making the tea in the newsroom to working as a "runner" in the corridors of broadcasting.

Give Running's model has gone through almost as many iterations as a runner goes through pairs of shoes in a decade.