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...His rendering bears no resemblance to any depiction before or since of the medieval legend of St Ursula, the early Christian princess martyred with her troupe of 11,000 virgins....
...Ominously, the pain is already evident in Europe, where stocks have stagnated and the euro has been dribbling lower against the all-conquering dollar for weeks....
...Fraser is still being paid less than peers - $10mn less than Jamie Dimon at all-conquering JPMorgan....
...First, companies must beware abandoning strategic sense in favour of chasing the largest pot, whichever flag it bears....
...Some groups bear specific blame, not least the fossil fuel companies that have actively lobbied to slow green policies. But this is only part of the picture....
...Its new owner is hoping some of that conquering spirit will rub off....
...And so is that jawline, though his skin bears evidence of years of flexing under the California sun....
...But as head of state, Abiy bears responsibility for dispatching forces that are so obviously out of control....
...Large US companies including IBM, Coca-Cola and General Electric were all-conquering in the eyes of investors until their high valuations popped in a savage bear market in 1973-4....
...I remember with fondness that fantasy culture was not nearly as all-conquering either. The blurring of the line between the “young adult” and “literary” modes of fiction had only just started....
...Frozen, Disney’s current all-conquering franchise, is better, but it still centres around thin, beautiful princesses....
...What is undeniable is that the Nifty Fifty were viciously de-rated in the ensuing 10-year bear market and the worst performers were in the technology sector, including such raves from the grave as Polaroid...
...Sunday — my legs surprisingly unachy — I considered Bear Mountain, a suggestion from colleagues who promised that, despite the name, I would not encounter bears....
...I ask whether he misses big expeditions after conquering both poles and Everest in just a few years. “Not now....
...Some bear names that sing of tougher times — Drowned Caye, Deadman’s Caye, Man of War Caye — but today most are given over to vacation homes, resorts and choice spots to snorkel, dive and fish....
...On his office wall is a poster he was given for his 50th birthday, entitled “Conquering 50 Years of Life!”...
...A deeply ironic, comically inventive and sometimes very sad novel about a black farmer in contemporary LA who finds himself hauled before the US Supreme Court for reintroducing segregation, it easily bears...
...Each was a heavy weight for the other to bear....
...in London’s Borough Market for a tutored Christmas cheese and wine tasting, he tells me cheerfully that it’ll be “a little like drinking in the 18th century, a return to a heroic era of boozing: you’re conquering...
...For most of human history this kind of power was only available to the rulers of empires or commanders of conquering armies, so we might even speak here of a democratisation of despotism....
...Will Wahlberg cast off the bear as Hal cast off Falstaff?...
...The conquering hero returned to his seat, and some thought they caught a tear in his eye. At first it seemed so easy. Murray got early breaks in the first two sets and was never threatened in either....
...I’m scared of flying but to get to the US I have to bear it. I much prefer the tour bus – you hang around watching movies, talk shit with the band and make cups of tea....
...Indeed, it was one of the current maharaja’s 19th-century forbears, Sir Pratap Singh, who invented the fitted riding breaches that now bear the city’s name....
...So a person’s reputation, 500 years or more after their death, rarely bears any resemblance to their actual existence or deeds....
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