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  • Tony Meola, the league's reigning MVP, was as inspirational as he was dynamic last season.
  • Then Pakistan edged past the reigning world champions Holland 2-1.
  • I am concerned to rule out certain options - because if they're not ruled out then we have fall into an "anything goes" mentality - for we have removed the very moral norms that would allow people to condemn what Hamas is doing and also prevent people from reigning in subrational feelings of vengeance/destruction/hate which tend to lead to brutal actions. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Christ's spiritual body (Col 1: 24). they ... also -- as well as myself: both God's elect not yet converted and those already so. salvation ... glory -- not only salvation from wrath, but glory in reigning with Him eternally (2Ti 2: 12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The accession of the Dutch prince to the throne had agonized the Tories because it set aside both the reigning (or "abdicated") king and the Prince of Wales.
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  • Their name, which he had long avoided mentioning, was incessantly on his lips: but always the same, always inclined naturally and systematically, to have more strings than one to his bow, he appeared to incline alternately _for the younger branch, and for the reigning branch_. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
  • For a reigning monarch, that might be considered irresponsible. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
  • That followed another hattrick at Thirsk on Monday for the reigning champ. The Sun
  • The day that he accused a reigning King of murder was the day he signed his own death warrant, and he knew it. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • REIGNING Philippine mini-flyweight champion Denver Cuello takes his act in the weekly boxing show 'In This Corner' as he battles Michael Landero in a 10-round bout to be shown Sunday night (7 p.m. to 8 p.m.) over NBN-4. PhilBoxing.com - XML News RSS/RDF Feed
  • But for many years now bombast, rant, and confident obscurity have been his reigning notes.
  • Usually the Vatican is absolutely not to be believed when it comes to statements about the health of reigning pontiffs.
  • Scientists even begin to express openly their discontent with and unease over the reigning paradigm.
  • The southern club impressed all year and it was no surprise that they defeated the reigning champions to take the title.
  • In so moche that Ptolomeus Lagus reigning in Egipt, when there chaunced a cowe to die in Memphis for very age: he that had taken charge of the kepyng of her, bestowed vpon the buriall of her (beside a greate some of mony that was giuen him for the keping) fiftie talentes of siluer, that he borowed of Ptolome. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • In the beginning, Mickey's head and body were simple circle shapes and his limbs resembled rubber hoses, a design cloned from Felix the Cat, the reigning toon superstar of the 1920s.
  • A counterargument would stress that the greatest learning is derived from the inimitable, silence betrays cowardice, disaffiliation and indie culture give the lie to the unavoidability of affiliation, the literary field exists in many sites other than the academy, self-victimization is the reigning philosophy, program writers are more self-commodifying than the disaffiliated, the system purges internal feedback from dissenters, and the end of excellence is well in sight. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
  • On his death, Canute was succeeded in Denmark by Harthacanute, reigning as Canute III. Think Progress » Kristol: Cheney’s Claim That Lamont Win Helps ‘Al-Qaeda Types’ Is ‘Indisputably Correct’
  • In July 1702 he was offered the post of organist at Sangerhausen but was thwarted by the reigning duke, who preferred a candidate of his own choice; for several months thereafter he occupied his time as a lackey and violinist at Weimar.
  • The reigning taekwondo world champion has not competed for a year as she coped with the death of her parents and knee surgery. The Sun
  • Its hero is not, as the title might suggest, a reigning monarch: he is, in fact, an ex-con living in 1985 Pittsburgh having served a seven-year jail sentence for manslaughter.
  • The profusion reigning everywhere gave birth to luxury and pride.
  • Finding the best art anywhere - even in New York - requires free-wheeling open-mindedness, unburdened by reigning ideas and trends.
  • The quinquagenarian easily outmanoeuvred a reigning World champion Who Was less than half his age. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reigning taekwondo world champion has not competed for a year as she coped with the death of her parents and knee surgery. The Sun
  • Lanre Atijosan, also from Prendergast, then dethroned the reigning champion in the long jump with a mark of 5.65 metres.
  • The local ladies football club and reigning junior ladies champions, took part in their first juvenile match on Saturday, May 27.
  • The reigning world 5,000m champ tumbled again in Boston this month during the mile. The Sun
  • The reigning league champions are also firmly on course for a home semi-final in mid-May, suggesting another title triumph is well within reach after cruising to biggest league away win of the league season. Top stories from Times Online
  • He shakes hands with the principality's reigning monarch, Prince Hans Adam II, at a garden fête.
  • But next Sunday in Clones a reborn Down team will take on reigning National League Champions Tyrone in a final that promises to deliver a contest of passion and football fervour.
  • Grace reigning is a reverence of God, and gives honour to him who is infinitely great and high, and to whom all honour is due, than which what is more becoming or should be more pleasing to the rational creature? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • As reigning All-Ireland champions, the perspective has changed, as has the attitude.
  • That evening, at the Villa Aioussa, there gathered a courtly assembly, of much higher rank than Algiers can commonly afford, because many of station as lofty as her own had been drawn thither to follow her to what the Princesse Corona called her banishment -- an endurable banishment enough under those azure skies, in that clear, elastic air, and with that charming "bonbonniere" in which to dwell, yet still a banishment to the reigning beauty of Paris, to one who had the habits and the commands of a wholly undisputed sovereignty in the royal splendor of her womanhood. Under Two Flags
  • If you're in the market for an answer to the sometimes-lackluster garage rock offerings, Reigning Sound might be just what you're looking for.
  • It is the first time a reigning monarch and consort have appeared on opposite sides of a UK coin. The Sun
  • Meanwhile Siward died, and the matter rested for a few years, Malcolm reigning as King of Cumbria, and Macbeth occupying the Scottish throne.
  • When her mother was eventually forced out of the regency, the reigning government saw fit to have Isabella confirmed as a fully independent queen when she was just 13.
  • That followed another hattrick at Thirsk on Monday for the reigning champ. The Sun
  • The renewed oppression of the Continent by the old reigning families, the countenance apparently given by the English Government to the conspiracy against liberty called the Holy Alliance, and the enormous weight of the national debt and taxation occasioned by so long and costly a war, tendered the government and parliament very unpopular. Chapter IV. Youthful Propagandism. The Westminster Review
  • The ageing fighter comes out of retirement to take on the reigning heavyweight champion. The Sun
  • We are the reigning champ and the odds reflect it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reigning champ Joey Chestnut won for the second year in a row, downing more than 60 hotdogs.
  • She's the reigning champion at Wimbledon.
  • They've won the world championships four times, and they are the reigning champs.
  • Instead of working their way back into the game as reigning champions should be expected to do, they constantly bombarded Quirke with high balls as they desperately sought a lifeline through a goal.
  • These girls were unlucky to lose out to reigning All-Ireland champions Rathcoole in the Leinster final of the Community Games in the summer.
  • Unusually, it changes its name with the gender of the reigning monarch. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 19th century saw the early deaths of two more potential heirs, both grandchildren of the reigning sovereign.
  • And everyone knows that a funny woman who plays down her intelligence is less threatening than a woman who asserts her intelligence, at least in America where "bimbos" are still reigning national prom queens and the likes of Sarah Palin (who, let's face it, might not have gotten where she is if she didn't look like the former beauty pageant contestant she once was) appeals to so many precisely because she is not intellectual. Debra Ollivier: Funny, Filthy, and Smart: Sandra Tsing Loh Meets Sarah Silverman
  • You'll come up against the reigning champion in the next round.
  • But the reigning 400 metres champ insists gold is not on her mind. The Sun
  • The reigning Wimbledon champion has recounted a spooky episode in which he once awoke to find a hotel maid stroking his arm. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reigning champion scraped home just 2.9 seconds ahead of his nearest rival.
  • On the 27th, _Malim Cairy_ came to Acheen, by whom I received letters from our merchants at Surat, as also a copy of the _firmaun_, sent them from Agra, bearing date the 25th January, in the seventh year of the then reigning Great Mogul, by which everything was confirmed that had been agreed upon between the governor of Ahmedabad and me. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • The reigning Wimbledon champion has recounted a spooky episode in which he once awoke to find a hotel maid stroking his arm. Times, Sunday Times
  • Clan wrestlers could not overcome the strength behind the reigning champion, Brock University.
  • The reigning Wimbledon champion has recounted a spooky episode in which he once awoke to find a hotel maid stroking his arm. Times, Sunday Times
  • He and his wife, Carlene, are unaligned with the reigning social hierarchy - and they like it that way.
  • People tend to forget that when she passed the longest reigning monarch, that was only because her father died so young. Times, Sunday Times
  • The first domestic-grade ICs were already able to oust FIDE†™ s reigning chess champion while still not performing adequately on tasks such as the vacuuming of a shagpile rug. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Ballintrillick, who are the reigning champions, will be on home turf for the clash.
  • But the reigning Paralympic champion is now approaching full fitness and is raring to get back on the track. The Sun
  • Thierry Henry joined Dennis Bergkamp as a member of Arsenal's ton-up club as the reigning champions re-established a five-point lead at the top of the Premiership.
  • The reigning champion will defend her title tonight.
  • Artur, you are one of boxing's longest reigning champions with 17 title defenses.
  • People tend to forget that when she passed the longest reigning monarch, that was only because her father died so young. Times, Sunday Times
  • In 1254, local landowner Richard Rochelle was granted a charter to hold a market in the village from the reigning monarch of the day, Henry III.
  • The Wolfman is looking glorious, and this trailer really brings an urgency and pace to it, but with Anthony Hopkins reigning it in and giving it a darker and broodier feel through his voiceover. Filmstalker: New trailer for The Wolfman online in HD
  • The Americans (reigning champs at mispronouncing things) thought the Italians meant “Jerusalem” when they said “girasole,” and voila. Green Beat: Society and Style
  • England were reigning champs after lifting the trophy four years earlier. The Sun
  • But the reigning 400 metres champ insists gold is not on her mind. The Sun
  • He says he has urged his followers to oppose segregation currently reigning in the city.
  • That followed another hattrick at Thirsk on Monday for the reigning champ. The Sun
  • The flat focused inwardly upon the study; Andrew reigning there, a bumbling royalty, to whom they became cheerful minions. AN OLDER WOMAN
  • The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight.
  • Hillary St. Pierre is the reigning bad-ass baldie in question. Linda Keenan: Don't Worry, Get Angry: Hillary's Health Care Travesty
  • She is a double junior world champion, a senior bronze medallist in 2003 and the reigning senior World Cup champion.
  • The first is of the eternal goods, that we may have them; and therefore saith he: Pater noster qui es in coelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum, that is as much for to say: Father that art reigning in heaven thy sweet name be blessed. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
  • It is the first time a reigning monarch and consort have appeared on opposite sides of a UK coin. The Sun
  • If this was boxing, Wexford would now be the reigning champions, having dethroned Kilkenny.
  • Reigning Queen of the Humblebrag must have completely forgotten about her promise to become more private, because she couldn't wait to take to Twitter.
  • In a surprise development, reigning Leinster and All Ireland champions Louth took the dreaded drop.
  • It is my decision that to be fair to the last two reigning champions of record, Hogan and Andre, and to furthermore be fair with the number-one contenders who would have faced either Andre or Hogan as champion, I now declare the title vacant. WWE Championship
  • The ageing fighter comes out of retirement to take on the reigning heavyweight champion. The Sun
  • She's the reigning queen of crime writers.
  • The Uruguayan is the reigning WBC Latino bantamweight champion and ranked number 11 in the world. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • That sure won't make King or Vander Plaats happy; they're more in mind of the phrase reigning back "judicial activism. Undefined
  • 'Too old' for little boy's bug box and feeding kitten with an eyedropper; then again, juxtposed against my husband's halting Parkinsons, the reigning chaos of new life seems worthy of celebration - the rest is details. Canard - French Word-A-Day
  • Jonathan Koomey of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and Stanford is one of the world's reigning experts on "dematerialization," which he defines as two things. WebWorkerDaily
  • For your chance to win these prizes just answer this question: Who is the reigning speedway world champion? The Sun
  • The reigning Four Continents champions also executed a serpentine lift followed by synchronized twizzles, two curve lifts (one in combination with a rotational lift), a spirited diagonal step sequence, and a nice rotational lift.
  • I think Jay Cutler was at his best, but it wasn't good enough to dethrone the reigning Mr. Olympia, Ronnie Coleman.
  • Apparently, the top city official may be its reigning crime boss as well.
  • Despite being his own tough act to follow, the reigning AL MVP and undisputed leader in the clubhouse is among the league leaders in batting average, slugging percentage, home runs and RBI. USATODAY.com - All-Star players' picks
  • Coughlin, the world record holder and reigning Olympic champion, had to settle for third.
  • I mean, who knows what calamities await us if we “go too far” in reigning them in. Matthew Yglesias » Never Fear — the New Democrat Caucus Is Here
  • The group was founded in 1997 by Piers Adams, who the Washington Post has called the reigning recorder virtuoso of our day. Red Priest: Defying Baroque Boundaries
  • He had achieved a quiet self-effacement, pouring his unmistakable voice out to the smallest of die-hard audiences, reigning in no-fi poetry with the help of a few stray guests and the blessings of modern boombox technology.
  • A score draw or better will see the Gunners through at the expense of the reigning European champions. Times, Sunday Times
  • It should be pointed out that 14 teams have only one player in the game, including the reigning NL champs, the Astros.
  • This president has not just done nothing, he has worsened the cause of reigning in predatory non-constr The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Particularly when the party elected partly on a platform of “fiscal conservationism” apparently does no better at reigning in the debt than their opponents, the picture ismurky. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mothers Against Debt
  • Tattle: GMA gives its viewers a short-term mammary REIGNING RAP diva Nicki Minaj channeled Janet Jackson on "Good Morning America" yesterday when she experienced a full-on nipple slip. PhillyDeals
  • The only happinefs Was, that arms were never yet ravifhed from the hands of the barons and people: The nation, by a great con - federacy, might Mill vindicate its liberties: And no - thing was more likely, than the character, conduct, and fortunes of the reigning prince, to produce fuch a general combination againil him. The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ...
  • Leicester City are the first reigning champions for more than 50 years to lose three consecutive away league games by at least three goals. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reigning world 5,000m champ tumbled again in Boston this month during the mile. The Sun
  • The result of His thus reigning is the durability of the world. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Then up came Tom Dolan, the reigning champ in the 400-meter individual medley, preparing to swim his heat.
  • In so moche that Ptolomeus Lagus reigning in Egipt, when there chaunced a cowe to die in Memphis for very age: he that had taken charge of the kepyng of her, bestowed vpon the buriall of her (beside a greate some of mony that was giuen him for the keping) fiftie talentes of siluer, that he borowed of Ptolome. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • ' His Highness is not a reigning Prince, nor ever likely to be, ' answered Dimmock.
  • It did so fail in the case of the Rosetta Stone, whose wordings are versions in triplicate of a decree instituting a cult of the then - 196 BC - reigning Ptolemy.
  • Yesterday's result means that Africa is the only continent where the most populous nation are the reigning football champions. Times, Sunday Times
  • We are the reigning champ and the odds reflect it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ageing fighter comes out of retirement to take on the reigning heavyweight champion. The Sun
  • 'Services' made a certain sense because the term ably conveyed a difference from then-reigning object technology. Hottest News Articles
  • Today, on the back of two World Cup triumphs, the reigning Tri-Nation champions dwarf the thistle's playing resources.
  • The sport's reigning grand champion, or yokozuna, is a 25 year-old Mongolian named Hakuho (birthname: M nkhbatyn Davaajargal). Sumo Fans Shrug Off a Scandal
  • But perhaps I was being clever, using “reigning” as a once removed pun for the monorchid treatment of Lopez monorchid meaning one testicle. The Volokh Conspiracy » Inaccurate legal claim from the Democratic Governors Association
  • His comments about the reigning champ came at a Festival preview night. The Sun
  • In less than 15 minutes of play either side of the interval they had conceded 22 points to the reigning world champions without managing a reply.
  • (20-1-1, 16 KOs) avenged his only loss and claimed the WBA interim mini-flyweight title with a fourth round TKO over reigning champ César Canchila (27-2, 21 KOs) on Saturday night at the Palenque del FEX in Mexicali. Fightnews - Boxing News Updated 24/7
  • However, more recently Steffi Graf and reigning mens' champion "Pistol" Pete Sampras have dominated the tournament.
  • With the institution of the family so beleaguered, it would be highly desirable for the reigning House to set an example.
  • If the conventional wisdom reigning supreme for the past couple of years is to be believed, the era of tiny bonuses, timid profits, and layback practices has been irremediably unleashed in financeland with no possibility for a turning back. Pablo Triana: Paul Krugman Voted for Bush
  • The reigning champion didn't just beat his opponents - he annihilated them.
  • The apostle nextly advanceth farther with his design, and saith, “He that is born of God cannot sin;” that is, that sin which he sinneth not he cannot sin; he cannot fall under the power of reigning sin unto death. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • For hundreds of years, reigning sovereigns have amassed large quantities of the best paintings, historic artifacts, contemporary master crafts and books, just to name a few, for personal enjoyment and self-aggrandizement.
  • It is one thing to live life as a movie star, under the constant glare of one kind of spotlight and restrictions in one's private life but quite another to be the consort of a reigning Prince and representing the citizens of an entire nation.
  • There are certain art historical opinions that might as well be established fact: reigning opinions about Goya, for example.
  • Unusually, it changes its name with the gender of the reigning monarch. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said it was about time another service took out the honours as Service champions, with the Victoria Police reigning winners for the past five years.
  • The resigned designer is designated to an assignment of reigning the foreigners.
  • But the reigning 400 metres champ insists gold is not on her mind. The Sun
  • Lymington sends two members to Parliament, and this and her salt trade is all I can say to her; for though she is very well situated as to the convenience of shipping I do not find they have any foreign commerce, except it be what we call smuggling and roguing; which, I may say, is the reigning commerce of all this part of the English coast, from the mouth of the Thames to the Land's End of From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"
  • England were reigning champs after lifting the trophy four years earlier. The Sun
  • The reigning African Footballer of the Year was persuaded to play on by his team-mates, helping them to a 2-0 victory.
  • But the aulnager, the weigher, the meter of grants will not suffer us to acquiesce in the judgment of the prince reigning at the time when they were made. Paras. 40-59
  • This ignorant attitude reigning supreme is unfounded and discourteous.
  • The match, at RFK stadium in Washington D.C., featured two giants of European football, Barcelona and reigning European champs, A.C. Milan.
  • The reigning champion was not at his competitive best.
  • Since Sen Mitchell and the GOP do not want govermental intervention in reigning in the "evil doers" in the banking sysytem who do the GOP want to assume the role? GOP Senators united in opposition to current financial reform bill
  • A score draw or better will see the Gunners through at the expense of the reigning European champions. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reigning champion will defend her title tonight.
  • It is also expected that the reigning World Ploughing Champion will take part.
  • Leicester City are the first reigning champions for more than 50 years to lose three consecutive away league games by at least three goals. Times, Sunday Times
  • To FJ, there are still some of us Italian daughters, working at our homecraft in obscurity, reigning over our homes and serving up the sauce! Round Altered Box/ Inspiration
  • Twice within eight months the film studio was sold, both times to firms headed by disciples of its former executive, the Street's reigning evil genius.
  • This set of furniture was, therefore, certainly not made for a reigning monarch or consort, as has usually been assumed.
  • The Clintons'cat, Socks, has replaced the Bushes'dog, Millie, as reigning First Pet.
  • To keep it manageable, readable and above all, entertaining, I've confined myself to reigning British monarchs only, not their various consorts and children; saving a few mostly present-day exceptions.
  • The reigning world champion also slower than his teammate Heikki Kovalainen throughout Friday.
  • We are the reigning champ and the odds reflect it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Twigg, the reigning world champ in pursuit, should strike gold again.
  • The reigning World Junior bronze medalists left a good impression, but their twizzles were a bit out of control.
  • According to one episode, Jamshid, the Iranian equivalent of King Solomon, after reigning for 700 years was overthrown by the tyrant Zahhak.
  • In 1954, Mr. Etaix's skills as a gagman and clown brought him to the attention of France's reigning king of cinema comedy, Jacques Tati, who employed the younger man to help him develop his film "My Uncle. Still Clowning Around
  • He was easily beaten by the reigning world champion.
  • He turned professional two years ago after reigning as Britain's amateur champion for four years from 1998 to 2002.
  • It should be noted that Orchid's character is based on Tzu Hsi, who was China's longest-reigning female ruler and its last empress.
  • Writing the official life of the much-loved mother of the reigning monarch cannot have been easy. The Times Literary Supplement
  • A 24-year-old Brazilian, Junqueira is the reigning Formula 3000 champion.
  • Perhaps they will munch on him, hounding him down as he runs for his car, disembowelling him in the parking lot and leaving Wimbledon without its reigning champion. Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June
  • In 1984, we beat the Philadelphia 76ers - the reigning champion 76ers - in a great five-game series.
  • Guiseley made up for the previous week's disappointment by taking four points from a drawn game with reigning champions Bilton.
  • Meanwhile, Australia has lost two more members of its squad, with the reigning discus gold medallist Scott Martin forced to pull out due to a chest injury. Commonwealth Games 2010: Arrival of electronic-timing equipment delayed
  • As confused dreams, frightful and perplexed, and such as disturb the sleep, are an evidence of a hurry of business which fills our head, so many words and hasty ones, used in prayer, are an evidence of folly reigning in the heart, ignorance of and unacquaintedness with both God and ourselves, low thoughts of God, and careless thoughts of our own souls. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • We have only the permission for that use and disposal, and then only so long as we dutifully serve the reigning mobocracy in the manner it deems desirable.
  • In the men's event, reigning gold medalist Hunter Kemper of the United States will not be in attendance to defend his title.
  • The empire held together, because Augustus and Tiberius had created a centripetalism in the provinces; and these continued in the main through it all to enjoy the good government the first two emperors had made a tradition in them, and felt but little the hands of the fools or madmen reigning in The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
  • Last year Waterford travelled to Thurles to face Cork, as reigning Munster Champions after that memorable victory over Tipperary in Cork in '02.
  • Ivan, indulging in sensual pleasures, became more and more brutified; and Clotilda, yielding up her soul to the dominion of pride, hatred, and violence, became so embittered against her unfortunate husband that she compassed his death by violence, and seized the crown, reigning in the name of her infant son, Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
  • But perhaps I was being clever, using “reigning” as a once removed pun for the monorchid treatment of Lopez (monorchid meaning one testicle). The Volokh Conspiracy » Inaccurate legal claim from the Democratic Governors Association
  • Centuries after the city famously locked out the reigning monarch King Charles I, it was a time to forgive and forget.
  • A committed team effort from Kendal was rewarded with a 35-run victory over reigning Northern Premier League champions Darwen at Birch Hall on Saturday.
  • Australia have a nine-man team of riders with different abilities, including reigning champion Cadel Evans, an all-rounder, and two sprinters inAllan Davis and Matthew Goss. Cavendish feeling more optimistic about elite road race
  • Can he defeat the reigning Wimbledon champion?
  • Staying quiet in the face of political strife is the reigning philosophy in Najaf and is known as quietism, or taquia, in Arabic. The Seattle Times
  • Crown Prince Hans Adam has been Liechtenstein's reigning monarch since 1984.
  • Brian Clough's team, who were the reigning champions of Europe, had just lost to Wolves in the League Cup final.
  • The ageing fighter comes out of retirement to take on the reigning heavyweight champion. The Sun
  • The reigning world 5,000m champ tumbled again in Boston this month during the mile. The Sun
  • Nonetheless, when the opportunity arose to have tea at the Regency Hotel Tuesday afternoon with Marge Ternes, the reigning grand dame of Park Avenue's malls, I was hopeful the opportunity would arise to raise the begonia question. Bemoaning the Begonias
  • The terror that is reigning across Indonesia is making everyone fearful.
  • Consider the case of Iqaluit's reigning tax deadbeat champion, who owes nearly $162,000.
  • Writing the official life of the much-loved mother of the reigning monarch cannot have been easy. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Reigning Magners League champions, Leinster, were 'nilled' for the first time in league history on Sunday against Planet Rugby News - Rugby Union News
  • Ben and Tom credit producer Gil Norton with reigning in their pension to over-indulge in what they call the bells and whistles. Gomez: 'How We Operate'
  • There were talks that the game will move into a semi-professional mode this season, but with instability currently reigning in Namibian football, will that goal ever be achieved?
  • Here is this woman retracing the reigning concepts of her life - what a mother is, what a child, a home, a husband are, what happiness is - and yet this man stupefyingly asks her whether she will be happy.
  • The event attracts a large entry of international teams, including South Africa, the reigning champions, New Zealand, Canada, Zimbabwe, and Japan.
  • The reigning champion will defend her title tonight.
  • Now earlier the reigning World Cup soccer champion Germany defeated Sweden 1-to take the bronze medal.
  • It waddled towards the pool, looking less like a predator than like an elderly sumo wrestler tottering uncertainly towards a bout with a reigning champion.
  • With all the mountains reigning high over them not much light can shine through the bulks of rock.
  • That followed another hattrick at Thirsk on Monday for the reigning champ. The Sun
  • His eulogium, however, is scarcely more worthy of credit than Homer's praise of the undiminished personal beauty of Helen, when, twenty years subsequently to the departure of the expedition to Troy, the Ithacan prince found her reigning again at Sparta. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
  • Yesterday's result means that Africa is the only continent where the most populous nation are the reigning football champions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Firman, from Norfolk, is the reigning British formula Nippon champion.
  • With Paul III there was the like family concern, to see his son, Pierluigi, established among the reigning families of Europe.

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