"mantle" is a word that is common and correct in written English.
You can use it to refer to a cloak, a responsibility, or something that covers or encloses something else, either literally or metaphorically. For example: "The mantle of leadership has been passed down through generations of this family."
Nostalgia was bittersweet in Roddy Doyle's The Guts (Jonathan Cape), which caught up with the music-mad hero of The Commitments, weighed down by illness and middle age, while Elizabeth Jane Howard, now 90, added a final volume, All Change (Mantle), to her upper-class family saga the Cazalet chronicles – still comfort reading supreme.
In short, I want my party, and I hope a government I would like to lead, to reclaim a mantle that we should never have lost – the mantle of One Nation, one United Kingdom," he said.
When Australia travelled to South Africa in early 1997, they carried the mantle of the world's greatest Test side with them, and eked out an incredibly close 2-1 series victory – set up, in large part, by the epic 385-run stand between Steve Waugh and Greg Blewett in the first Test in Johannesburg.
The stylish performance was rounded off with unfeasibly cool statements after the 4-1 with witHuub Stevensns ("others are better"), Julian Draxler ("we stay modest") and the sporting director Horst Heldt ("we won't get relegated with 40 points") refusing the mantle of title contenders.
I passionately hope friends and colleagues in England will take up the mantle," he said.
It was the more ambitious Oasis who acquired the rock star mantle that many consider should have been the Roses'.
Even before his appointment Zawahiri had taken on the mantle of a leader, adopting an inclusive tone intended to unite the various groups.
With Cameron declining to attend the debate, held in London, Miliband tried to take on the mantle of prime minister in waiting.
By demanding that they can only do so if they adopt the feminist mantle, Wong is essentially telling these women that to support their daughters and granddaughters, they must take on a political persona that is totally foreign to them.
Saffron's video received 538 Facebook likes, qualifying him for the mantle of people's choice winner.
A new generation of African artists is taking over the mantle of Afrofuturist arts from a US-centred crowd.
