Sentence examples for surviving masters from inspiring English sources

World War I aerial dogfighting provided the training ground for countless postwar stunt flyers, and in Europe the greatest surviving masters of aerial combat were snapped up as test pilots and demonstration pilots for the leading aircraft manufacturers.

REHEARSAL FOR A SICILIAN TRAGEDY John Turturro leads a documentary tour of his ancestral homeland, Sicily, where among other things he learns the art of Sicilian puppetry from one of the form's surviving masters, Mimmo Cuticchio.

The power-dining oasis, where Manhattan's surviving masters of the universe daily attempt critical mass, announced last Thursday that the restaurant, virtually the last in town with a neckwear rule, had abandoned its tie requirement at dinner in its two dining rooms, the Bar Room and Upstairs at 21. Ties are "preferred," it said — indeed, "greatly appreciated".

There aren't many practitioners and there is a sole surviving master who embodies the technical and traditional expertise: Singh Nihang.

In my wildest dreams I never imagined that I would become a child soldier at the age of 13, learning to embrace violence to survive, mastering the skills of how to kill men, women and children with weapons such as AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades, Uzi's and M16s.

With no other goal but to survive, Master Chief and Cortana gather human survivors and launch a rescue operation to get back Keyes, imprisoned aboard the Covenant ship Truth and Reconciliation.

That's why private club managers, teaching pros and surviving caddy masters are trolling local high schools, trying to raise a new model army of "ambulatory valets".

She paid the dalang, Warsad Darya, one of the most accomplished of the surviving wayang cepak masters, his usual fee of $110 for the customary six-hour extravaganza of dance and theater, accompanied by a gamelan, a traditional orchestra of bamboo and bronze percussion instruments, and a singer.

Her problems continued in the set piece "Un bel dì," which was more survived than mastered.

"Saleh survived by mastering the tribal game as no one else had," Khaled Fattah, the tribal expert, said.

A sport could once thrive or just survive by mastering the art of not evolving, but inevitably there comes an era where you pay the bill for that.