Sentence examples for leviathan from inspiring English sources

The British women's handball team may not have landed a medal, or much troubled the leviathan nations of their sport, but in their Copper Box match against the world No8 team Angola, the rookie crew showed more heart, ferocity and sheer giddy joy in taking part in the Olympics than many other teams.

Rising above Los Angeles' Sunset Strip like a leviathan of Gothic glamour, the infamous Chateau Marmont is part of the quintessential Hollywood experience (see longer piece here).

Computing is moving online, away from the desktop and away from Microsoft, the desktop-software leviathan, to Google, master of online search.

Only now are Brazilians starting to cast a critical eye on a state that Sérgio Abranches, a political scientist, has called an "anaemic leviathan".Some of the critics want to pare the state back to its essentials an idea most of Lula's ministers reject as "the neo-liberal concept of a minimal state".

No two parts of the 24,000 square metre (258,000 square foot) leviathan could be the same or even symmetrical.

IN THE historic heart of Helsinki, leviathan cruise ships can be glimpsed across the harbour ready for their next trip.

Trevor-Roper, later Lord Dacre, summed up "Leviathan" curtly: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism".Hobbes would probably have acknowledged the first part: he admitted to being a fearful type.

Twitter has chosen to stay in San Francisco even as it has grown into an internet Leviathan.

But Leviathan has been widely attacked at home: church groups have objected to its depiction of a corrupt Orthodox priest; the head of the town where it was shot complained that the film shows a "dirty, unwashed Russia"; and culture minister Vladimir Medinsky commented that films "with a sense of despair and hopelessness over our existence should not be financed with taxpayers' money".

However, Brits also like a) a juicy news story and b) drinking, which means Leviathan could continue its supermarket sweep.

Neither Western freedoms nor laws, he argued, can bring good by themselves without the fundamental values generated by the state whether the Soviet Union or Russia .Leviathan" shines a light on the entanglement of church and state.