But now they have almost all gone, the victims of time (Dan Bartlett), excessive partisanship (Karl Rove, the president's chief adviser, who resigned two weeks ago) and incompetence (Harriet Miers and Mr Gonzales).
The grand heads of Rapa Nui that Selectman Mahoney saw as the centuries-old antecedent to Pilgrim's dry casks could well crumble into the sea, the impassive victims of time and global warming.
Ed thinks of confiding how magically strange and exciting he had found it to be again among fertile women, but, though he might have once said something like this to Alissa, between Vanessa and him there had come to prevail the tact of two cripples, companion victims of time.
He was very much a victim of his time.
My mother is a victim of her time.
She's one of the characters who I have true compassion for — she's a victim of her time.
But the show didn't last; a victim of poor time slots, it was axed after three years.
Mayweather truly is a victim of his time and his ability, and pointing that out should not be considered a slight.
Rawlins's hyper-anxious and self-obsessed Halder is portrayed as a victim of his time rather than a moral agent presented with choices.
Perhaps a group of campaigners will take up its cause, or perhaps it will continue to crumble slowly away, a victim of "envious time"– that enemy to us all which Milton puts firmly in its place here.
