He is slight and wiry: the ballplayers he represented for so long always loomed over him.
Sir Eric had recently retired from a distinguished career as a civil servant in India, and was therefore a stranger to the country he had represented for so long.
Yet as President Obama travels to Hiroshima on Friday, bringing renewed attention to the city and its legacy, many worry that the ideals Hiroshima has represented for so long are fading in Japan.
Simply this: the states' turn on driver's licenses suggests that the sheriff, representing for so long the leading edge of anti-immigrant political activism, may by now have become the trailing edge.
As a commissary clerk and stock worker, Mr. Velella, who holds the distinction of being incarcerated in the same Senate district he represented for so many years, earns 37 cents an hour working from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday.
But such arguments, and the claims to carry the legacy of the old guerrillas of the 1980s, always run up against the terror the gangs represent for so many ordinary Salvadorans.
In 2008, the United States elected Barack Obama as its 44th president, representing for so many the shattering of the glass ceiling of racism that had impeded the progress of Black America since the first slaves had been brought to the country's shores.
"He represents, for people in so many different communities and cultures, a personal connection.
"We can't underestimate the loss that her departure represents for Univision News, so there's no question that choosing her successor was a difficult task.
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