Sentence examples for of the lance from inspiring English sources

The Soviet Union was a giant beast felled by a hundred small pricks of the lance.

The bubble became unstable when the water air solid contact line moved up the outside of the lance and detachment followed quickly.

After the recovery of the lance, Peter claimed that St. Andrew reappeared to him at various times, giving him instructions for the prosecution of the crusade.

Disputes about the authenticity of the lance, however, caused internal dissension among the crusaders, and its discoverer, Peter Bartholomew, was eventually discredited.

Peter was a peasant who claimed that St. Andrew had appeared to him in a series of visions and revealed the location of the lance.

From the nozzle of the lance a propane-ignited mixture of kerosene and oxygen hit the stone at around four thousand degrees Fahrenheit, generating a jet-engine roar.

The mourners from the foreground are reflected in the shield carried on the hip of the lance-bearing Roman soldier who leans on the man to his right wearing a red turban.

The American cyclist Levi Leipheimer was fired by the Omega Pharma-Quick Step team after confessing to doping as part of the Lance Armstrong investigation.

McQuaid, whose tenure at the UCI oversaw part of the Lance Armstrong era, has been heavily criticised for the governing body's response to the doping scandals, in particular that of Armstrong.

A picture caption on Tuesday with an essay about the ways to restructure professional cycling in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping case omitted the photographer's name in some editions.

Cyclists will be offered a chance to confess to past doping offenses without fear of retribution in an attempt to uncover the full scale of the Lance Armstrong scandal and drug use in the sport.