Sentence examples for saint status from inspiring English sources

On the downside, it gave Bono and Bob Geldof enduring saint status.

That's Saint status right there.

Not quite making it to saint status or creating a church like many of his contemporaries, Futterer's Holyland stands as an anomaly.

He laid a wreath at a six-metre (20-foot) bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping, the late leader who enjoys near patron-saint status in the city.

This week a leader of one junior partner openly called for Mr Lula, who enjoys near-saint status among Brazil's poor and whom many deem a surer bet than Ms Rousseff, to take her place on the PT ticket.

Though the explorer came with no real baggage in England, he had a saint-like status in Norway, and Huntford was forced to tread carefully.

Ned Kelly has assumed a saint-like status – somewhere between Robin Hood and Che Guevara – in the 135 years since he was hanged, aged 25, in Melbourne.

According to Katharine McGregor of the University of Melbourne, the Indonesian military has elevated Sudirman to a saint-like status.

And it's Rihanna's difficultness that has always made her so compelling, especially juxtaposed against the almost saint-like status of Queen Bey.

Delhomme's backup, David Carr, sustained a back injury against the Saints, and his status for Sunday's game at Arizona is uncertain.

Qadri's supporters compare the burly ex-policeman to Ilm-Deen, a carpenter's apprentice who gained the status of saint and Muslim nationalist hero after being executed for killing the publisher of an allegedly blasphemous book in Lahore in 1929.