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sky pilot
noun
A clergyman, especially a military chaplain or padre.
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And if I were Unite, I'd get in there first before Willie Walsh proclaims himself The Sky Pilot of the World's Favourite Faith System (Coming In on a Wing and a Prayer).
Like Eric Burdon and the Animals' contemporaneous single Sky Pilot, the Zombies comment on the hypocrisy of organised religion – "And the preacher in his pulpit/ Sermon: 'Go and fight, do what is right'/ But he don't have to hear these guns/ And I'll bet he sleeps at night" – but Butcher's Tale is reined in while the Animals' song is, in their customary fine style, over the top.
Not so much that I like David, but I'd prefer he stayed around than the Sky Pilot.
The God-loving, Commandment-slinging sky pilot who "just wanted to make people laugh" - and wanted to so badly that he flat-out slapped his name on other people's Tweets and sent them out as his own?
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The British armed forces announced in 2005 that they were appointing Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh chaplains, in addition to the long-standing Christian and Jewish ones, known in military slang as padres or sky pilots.
Without the help of switchback trails, the slope is so steep that one can't help but engage in an up-close-and-personal examination of its flora: pale green and orange lichens, cushiony clumps of moss, yellow snow buttercups and the aptly named sky pilots, their purple-blue flowers poking out improbably from the rock debris.
The summit of Mount Elbert is an alpine environment, with plants such as Phacelia sericea (sky-pilot), Hymenoxys grandiflora (old-man-of-the-mountain), and Geum rossii (alpine avens).
The Pilot (AKA Danger in the Skies) Pilots confront drinking problems, with Cliff Robertson and Dana Andrews.
Pause for laughter – and an even longer pause between The Day Today's spoof sketch from some two decades ago involving a collie taking the controls of a helicopter, and the reality of a Sky television pilot dog.
In the sky, helicopter pilots scanned the waters for endangered turtles and manatees.
An airplane and a helicopter circled in the sky, their pilots squinting above the ridges, woodlands, river canyons and meadows.
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