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...Napoleon’s Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era, by Louis Sarkozy, is published on 30 May by Pen & Sword Books at £22...
...American defence company Anduril is named after a reforged sword from The Lord of the Rings. What was the reforged sword originally called?...
...Attempts over last weekend to build bridges were entirely unsuccessful and Yousaf fell on his sword....
...A minister who resigns is called the “Godzilla of c*nts”. Crucial legal advice of the attorney-general, baritone barrister Geoffrey Cox, becomes known as “Cox’s codpiece”. And so on....
...Hals worked into his eighties, fell into obscurity after his death in 1666, then found fame when Theophile Thoré, champion of both the Impressionists and Vermeer, claimed: “Frans Hals, c’est un moderne.”...
...That is the double-edged sword.”...
...Such traits, however, are a double-edged sword....
...Absolutely — just ask the professional athletes who use the Grind as part of their off-season training routines FYI: The hike up is free but the ride down, on the Grouse Mountain Skyride gondola, costs C$20...
...And, you know, there was even a joke in PMQs that she famously was, you know, holding that sword during the coronation, that she might be the sort of human sword of Damocles held over Rishi Sunak’s head....
...All it takes is one Cambridge Analytica scandal, one whistleblower, one livestreamed mass-shooting, and users bolt for the exits, and then Facebook discovers that network effects are a double-edged sword...
...So Jim, what was the point of Rishi Sunak’s bringing together 250 odd footsie bosses, C-suite people, all the rest of it?...
...“C’mon, man, don’t gabble. Softly now.” Breaking for lunch, we head for the kitchen and bump into Ben Onwukwe, the only other reader in the building today....
...“Xi has said multiple times that Chinese officials and diplomats must unsheathe swords to defend the dignity of China,” he said. “The wolf warriors are just acting on Xi’s call to arms.”...
...It could not, you know, if I go to Twitter, I can be C Dixon on Twitter. If I go to RSS, I have to set up a website and pay $10 a year and all these other kind of wonky things....
...Is Kirkland’s success a double-edged sword? When are “good financials” not necessarily good financials? When they were generated in a global pandemic....
...(The reason we spelt Catana with a C instead of a K is because a reporter during that time did too, as he heard “Cat-Tana” instead of Katana.)...
...At the centre surges the warrior woman, Painting: red cloak flying, palette a shield, brush raised like a sword....
...“Circle of Swords” has handclaps, a quirky ethno-percussive melody, bird song and a distracted electronic bassline....
...C Raja Mohan, director of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, said the ruling would further complicate the relationship between the Pakistan’s powerful army and...
...From a balance sheet perspective, net cash as at the 30th of June is c£305m, this is down from c£430m at the last update with the timing of land payments flagged in the statement....
...“I don’t know if Kim has a sword but if he had, he wouldn’t fall on it,” said one ally on Tuesday. “It would set a terrible precedent.”...
...His silver and marquise-cut amethyst ring features a knight’s sword of diamonds and a ruby. It bears the motto “Vox populi, vox dei” (the voice of the people is the voice of God)....
...“There’s no sword of Damocles hanging over [Belfast],” he added....
...Euro thus remains a sword of Damocles hanging over investors’ heads....
...Death might be a certainty, but the barbarian kings of buyouts knew how to keep taxes at bay with their trusty paper sword....
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