Bentham's latest disciple is the Cumbria Safety Camera Partnership, the organisation responsible for speed cameras in that corner of north-west England.
Julian Assange sits in his spartan room in the Ecuadorian embassy like a figure from a storybook; cornered by his enemies and yet, in recent days, reportedly reaching out through cyberspace to advise the latest disciple of his WikiLeaks movement, Edward Snowden.
Jennifer Garner is the latest disciple of the Japanese lifestyle guru who's changing hearts, minds and T-shirt drawers with world-renowned decluttering tactics in her series "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo".
Old and alone, she is frequently interrogated by two of her late son's disciples, who become impatient if she veers from their version of events, in which her son was the son of God, a miracle worker.
The trouble is that the rise of politicians like France's Jean-Marie Le Pen, Austria's Jörg Haider, Italy's Umberto Bossi, the late Pim Fortuyn's disciples in the Netherlands and the Danish People's Party, shows that populist and xenophobic movements are gathering strength in Western Europe.
It is reminiscent of Muhammad Ali in his own late 30s, persuading the disciples and dreamers he was still the indomitable force of old even as the sorry defeats kept piling up.
A high-minded disciple of the late John Smith - his personal hero - he almost seems to welcome it, in contrast to the flashy loadsamoney culture New Labour has condoned.
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney's running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, is a self-styled disciple of the late Jack Kemp, the buoyant conservative Republican who played a major role in shaping the political agenda in the last quarter of the 20th century.
I spent at least 80percentt of his speech with my glance averted, listening, as if at a radio and Daisey was declaiming somewhat like a disciple of the late, great Jean Shepherd.
Bishops like New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, have voiced support and sympathy for Ryan -- a disciple of the late philosopher and atheist Ayn Rand, the patron saint of modern libertarianism.
As NPR's Nina Totenberg and Lauren Russell noted, Gorsuch is a "self-proclaimed disciple of [the late Justice] Scalia's crusade" of originalism ― taking the Constitution as it was literally intended by those who wrote it in its time.
