Among the great expectations aroused by the rout of Communism was a role for the United Nations that would match its lofty purpose.
Western yoga has recently seen more than one well-known teacher take highly-publicized tumbles from their lofty leadership roles.
Roomorama's co-founder and COO Jia En Teo will now share that role with Lofty's CEO Olivier Brion, who now becomes the co-COO.
By the lights of the Oval Office and the New York Times editorial boardroom, lofty rhetoric aside, the proper role of Palestinian people is to be slaughtered into submission.
He can only play the role of a lofty, intimidating king if he wins the right to wear the prime ministerial crown.
The kid came two-and-a-half years ago, and I dutifully established all sorts of lofty principles about the limited role TV would play in her childhood.
First, this was a very recognisable speech: no European social democrat or centre-left politician from around the globe could fail to identify with Obama's lofty attempt to validate the role of government within an essential acceptance of market capitalism, or his appeal to national unity, or, in particular, the strong defence of the welfare principle.
In 1547, 14 years into his role as grand prince of Russia, Ivan IV obtained the lofty title of "tsar and grand prince of all of Russia".
The Passion of the Christ (that lofty second "the" enforcing Jesus's role as the Messiah) is certainly a distinctively personal movie in a blandly secular Hollywood culture.
In that historical moment, Verdi played a significant symbolic role: "Va, pensiero," the lofty chorus of the Hebrew slaves in "Nabucco," became an unofficial national anthem, its Biblical lament alluding to the long struggle under Austrian rule.
Newsweek said he had returned the role of security adviser to the "lofty status" it had under Henry A. Kissinger in the Nixon administration.
