Sentence examples for light the torch from inspiring English sources

I loved being part of the Maccabiah Games and being in the opening ceremonies and being able to light the torch.

Ali was well enough to light the torch to start the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, though his hands shook as a result of the disease taking further hold.

Aly Raisman, the gymnast who won a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics for the floor routine she performed to "Hava Nagila," was in Jerusalem to light the torch for the July 18 opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games, the international Jewish sporting competition held every four years in Israel.

But it is too early to talk of Mr Milosevic's imminent downfall.The president's quarrelsome critics did have their reasons for choosing a provincial backwater to launch a campaign which, according to one wildly applauded speaker, will "go from town to town, from house to house, from man to man and light the torch of democracy".

But during the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics in South Africa, I had the opportunity to stand with him in his former jail cell at Robben Island to light the torch, and his legend grew before my eyes," he said.

With dozens of guards forging a corridor and aides guiding his steps, Mr. Arafat mounted the platform, adjusted his checkered kaffiyeh and stepped forward to light the torch to mark the revolution he started exactly 37 years ago by planting a bomb near a water pipeline in Israel.

Light the torches!

Light the torches when you're ready.

They will light the torches and hold them in front of the beehive.

The man lit the torch and tossed it inside.

In yesterday's Guardian, he seriously lit the torch.