Its local CEO, João Geraldo Ferreira, likes to point out that GE's light bulbs illuminated Rio's famous statue of Christ the Redeemer when it was put up in the 1930s.
After 200,000 people thronged to see Obama at the Victory Column in Berlin, christening him "Redeemer" and "Savior," it turned out Sarko was also Obamarized, as the Germans were calling the mesmerizing effect.
The cliches were rich and familiar on our arrival in this vast, sprawling city: the white sand, the seething surf and the spectacular statue of Christ the Redeemer watching over it all.
After 200,000 people thronged to see Obama at the Victory Column in Berlin, christening him 'Redeemer' and 'Savior,' it turned out [French President Nicolas Sarkozy] was also Obamarized, as the Germans were calling the mesmerizing effect.
Browsing in a real store, the instant gratification of a physical purchasing experience and yet the item can be redeemed as soon as the redeemer wants to pick it up.
After fielding numerous requests from Catholics looking for a green burial, the Diocese of Albany set aside a wildflower-filled meadow at Most Holy Redeemer — one of its 16 cemeteries — and blessed it as a green resting place in September 2012.
When "Guide me, O thou great Redeemer" echoed through Trafalgar Square, it didn't sound like the soundtrack to another age.
The ladies were so impressed by his melange of tortilla chips, cheese and jalapeño peppers that they took it home with them – "nachos especiales" features in a 1954 cookbook published by Eagle Pass's Church of the Redeemer, named after its creator, Ignacio Nachoo" Anaya.
The USA has not so much felt it needed a Redeemer as to be a Redeemer--a leader--nation to the world.
There are thousands of tiny tchotchkes in the world modeled after the giant Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro, but it's been impossible to make any of them into an exact replica until now.
