From the moment the polls close, party strategists are scheming about the pre-ordained date, five years hence, when they will close again.
I have a secret theory, developed and tested during the Brezhnev years, that one of the little laughs God likes to have, especially on the massed punditry of mankind, is that whenever the world's media (inspired by the world's spooks) decide unanimously to bury someone alive, he gets more months, and even years, added to his divinely ordained expiration date.
Let it be known throughout the Kingdom of Horticulture, on this 27th day of February, in the Year of our Lord 2013, that Martin Goffinet is recognized for serving his King and Queen valiantly, with years of volunteer service above and beyond his ordained retirement date, and well in excess of what mere mortals usually give in service to the Kingdom.
Kesha is a vegetarian and an ordained minister, having been ordained online.
I'm an ordained minister.
You're an ordained minister.
Alan was an ordained pastor".
By 1999, Arinze was an ordained priest.
Ordained Deacon and Priest in 1966.
Recently, he became an ordained minister.
Ordained rabbi, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, 1931.
