Sentence examples for splinter who from inspiring English sources

The longevity of Mr. Menino's tenure and his bowing out on a high note are already earning him comparisons to Ted Williams, the legendary Red Sox "Splendid Splinter," who left at the top of his game.

In many versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, the master and adoptive father of the turtles is Splinter, who was once the pet rat of ninja Hamato Yoshi and learned his martial arts skills by imitating his owner.

There are splinter thinkers who want to use White's quicker development to obtain an endgame advantage.

But the March Against Mike was different from the usual collection of scrappy diehards and socialist splinter groups who congregate at Town Hall to air their grievances.

Padraic, the antihero of "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," the second play in the Aran Islands trilogy, is a member of an I.R.A. splinter group who, with unflinching enthusiasm, tortures and dismembers his victims but dotes on his pet cat.

Mr Baggott's force continues to face problems from both the republican and loyalist sides, with the greatest risk to life coming from dissident republican splinter groups who continue to try to kill his officers.

True, they have the support of the usual suspects, Marxoid splinter groups who probably have a few doctors among their number, and the political innocents in the National Health Action party, which helps fragment the progressive vote.

In a flurry of hurried voting, the country's parliament passed a series of laws on NGOs, defamation, and the internet meant to stiffen spines inside the regime and scare off and splinter those who are most actively opposed to it.Despite signs of resistance from parties once deemed loyal to the Kremlin, the Duma is still under the control of the firmly pro-Kremlin United Russia party.

That could splinter Imgurians, who are otherwise united by a homescreen that shows identical top-rated content to everyone, unlike the fractured and personalized landing pages of most social networks.

We chat to the guys from Action Française, the monarchist splinter group who march behind the flags of Christianity and the Kingdom of France.

In 1961, a left-wing splinter group who was previously centred around the party newspaper "Orientering" decided to break off and form a new party known as Socialist People's Party (SF).