Gradually, the left hooks and right crosses of the champion began to miss their target and it was time for Burns to send a shudder of panic through the visitor.
Dahl's books are full of the grotesque, from Mrs Twit substituting worms for her husband's spaghetti, to child-eating giants in the BFG, and the hero of Danny the Champion of the World drugging pheasants so that they're easier to poach.
As an honoree of the Champion of Change, I can personally attest that this is one of my highest honors ever, and I encourage others to always be passionate about their community values and understand that this is what makes America the greatest country on the planet!
Meanwhile, Mr Brown is these days in danger of becoming the champion of both the Labour left and the anti-European Tory press: a strange political base for the party's arch-moderniser.
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And he subsequently built his political life on themes of redemption, reform, and became the scourge of lobbyists, the champion of campaign finance reform and so on, yet according to some of the people who know him best, he can be surprisingly careless about his reputation.
In March 2012, Bernie was a recipient of the "Champion of Change" award which is part of President Obama's "Winning the Future" initiative in honor of leaders like Cesar Chavez who have dedicated themselves to improving the lives of others in their community and across the nation.
They would send a disastrous signal to the rest of the world: the champion of open markets is going it alone.
Irony of ironies: the principal champion of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is the United States Navy.
Mrs Thatcher's three successive election victories so changed the nature of politics that even the Labour Party, traditionally the champion of the working classes, came to adopt a similar view of the world, competing for a tiny number of swing voters while reasoning that its traditional working-class base had nowhere else to go.
"My admiration for the steadfast mission of the Festival to champion the international language of movies is second to none, " he added.
It is no accident that a nation with scores of companies under investigation for sales of equipment and know-how directly relevant to weaponry of mass destruction is the preeminent champion of the pending, wholesale gutting of export controls.
For many cycling fans and observers of Mr. Armstrong, their biggest criticism of the fallen champion hasn't been his doping, but his persistent attacks of those who spoke the truth about doping or chose not to participate in doping.
They were the last survivors from a field from a field of 281 contenders who arrived to compete for the title of champion speller of the English language.
The first member of Congress to champion the abolition of software patents would attract a significant amount of attention and support from these prosperous and well-educated voters.
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Time magazine in 2002 named Spitzer "Crusader of the Year, " a champion of the little guy.
That has allowed him to shower tens of billions of dollars on social programmes, and to deploy largesse in order to pose as the champion of the downtrodden throughout Latin America.
With his pledges of income equality and more jobs, Mr Kilicdaroglu seems bent on appropriating the role of champion of the underdog from AK, so eating into its traditional base in the shanty towns that encircle the big cities.
Both companies claimed victory in the latter part of the year, although Sony remains the champion of total sales -- for now.
The University of Manchester has become only the second team to retain the title of University Challenge champion in the programme's history.
In Formula One, Lewis Hamilton secured the title only on the last corner of the last race, becoming the youngest ever champion at the age of 23.
The English anthropologist is an expert on real-world social networks and the champion of the Dunbar number.
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He replaces Youssef Zouaoui, who was sacked after the club failed to reach the final of the African Champion's League.
Tuesday's winner will earn the distinction of world champion for the first time in the three-event history of the WBC.
For this reason I am blessed and honored to be a recipient of the White House Champion of Change award.
On the local sports scene, even Larry Bird of the NBA champion Celtics took a backseat in 1984--Boston belonged to Doug Flutie.
Also to be renegotiated were the eligibility requirements for presidential candidates, which had excluded the champion of the north from two elections.
They said they were family friends of the rally champion and his wife, and their sons attended the same primary one class at school.
Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks, attended Indiana.
Anschutz Entertainment Group, owner of the defending champion Los Angeles Kings, is not only paying fans up to 5% interest on their season ticket accounts.
Seconds before the bell sounded to mark the commencement of battle, the champion gestured to the challenger that he was about to have his throat slit.
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