Sentence examples for on the alter from inspiring English sources

The Super, who also declined to give his real name, said he took on the alter ego after a friend was hurt by debris that had fallen from scaffolding.

The American country star Garth Brooks made a similar mistake, though in his case it was, perhaps, by not being superhuman enough: in 1999, he took on the alter ego of Chris Gaines, a fictional rock singer who didn't enjoy the pressures of fame.

A generation of teenage book-haters would sully their hands in the print of the British writer, losing themselves in his kingdom of Magnamund and taking on the alter ego of Lone Wolf, the only survivor of an order of warrior monks.

What makes this one unique is the addition of a volcano vaporizer on the alter at the front of the room beside the iPod dock.

The closest comparison would have to be Andy Kaufman's utter commitment to his obnoxious Tony Clifton persona, but Phoenix is going Kaufman one braver here, by not slapping a fake name on the alter ego bur rather inviting the audience to mistake his damaged doppelganger for himself, over an indeterminate length of time that could leave his "real" career hanging in limbo.

Nothing in their concern over terrorism justified sacrificing privacy on the alter of pragmatism.

However, the molecular mechanisms of regulation on the altered iron absorption during exercise remained unclear.

In this case, elevated extracellular calcium could not act as preventive factor on the altered CaSR.

Based on the altered PCP phenotype of OHCs of the Cdc42 mutant mice, we next examined the possible link between Cdc42 and the Wnt/PCP pathway (Fig. 5F I).

However, the ten verified genes may not be able to fully explain the effects of vitamin C on the altered malignant phenotype of A2058 cells.

I constantly remind politicians what enthralls at the alter scares on the northern lakefront (and for that matter the suburbs).