Not that the top civilian post in the 19-member alliance is a poisoned chalice.
For one thing, there is no credible replacement willing to grasp the poisoned chalice.
Two new books disagree on whether the hedge-fund managers' golden chalice is half-full or half-empty.
Their most substantial brief, that held by Mr Laws, is the ultimate poisoned chalice.
He said he did not want to leave a "total poisoned chalice" to future children.
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Croft also described the position of West Indies captain as a poisoned chalice.
On the altar there is a receptacle (traditionally a large chalice) covered by a plate (a paten).
Many sales leaders feel they have no choice but to take up the chalice for customer experience.
The use of the plate makes it difficult for a cardinal to drop two ballots into the chalice.
As the SLD celebrates its stunning election victory, its leaders may find they have won a poisoned chalice.
Government mismanagement has handed our elected commissioners a poisoned chalice, and it remains unclear how they can overcome it.
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The chalice and paten are the implements used to celebrate the Eucharist, the holiest act of the Catholic Church.
Which means the job of Italian prime minister could become a poisoned chalice.
No one wants to take on this poisoned chalice, at least until after the upper house elections in July.
Paul Newman, for instance, is just as riveting in Nobody's Fool as he was forty years earlier in The Silver Chalice.
To call Rangers a poisoned chalice is a bit like calling a mug of radioactive chemicals a nice cup of coffee.
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On Wednesday evening he invited Mr Kutan for a chat but not, as it turned out, to offer him the chalice.
"It's outreach programme is a poisoned chalice, Muslims don't want to be seen talking to Prevent workers of any kind, " he said.
The next year he made his first Hollywood film, "The Silver Chalice, " a bomb that he mocked for the rest of his life.
In my novel "The Chalice, " I try to oblige by propelling the main character Joanna Stafford, a former Dominican novice through the Reformation-torn England of 1538.
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Each cardinal then places a folded ballot containing his choice onto a small disc made of precious metal and drop it inside a chalice.
The Chalice workers in Missoula use Gregorian chant partly because it is unmetered and so can be carefully matched to the dying patient's breathing.
The nomads realize, at the last possible moment, that the man offering them a chalice to drink is blind: the waters offer immortality but at a price.
There are also props from the show, like a crown of thorns used on location in Morocco in the spring of 2012and a chalice from the same set.
Shaking the chalice to randomize the ballots is smart, but putting the ballots in a wire cage and spinning it around would be more secure -- albeit less reverent.
The complicated paten-and-chalice ritual ensures that each cardinal votes once -- his ballot is visible -- and also keeps his hand out of the chalice holding the other votes.
Kneeling on the stone floor as the 12 youngsters sat above him, the 76-year-old Francis poured water from a silver chalice over each foot, dried it with a simple cotton towel and then bent over to kiss each one.
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