You play the martyr when asked to do something beyond your job description.
Almost overnight, a legend was born: Wilde the homosexual martyr, Wilde the moral rebel.
The comparison with the Christian martyr pierced by the arrows of the unfaithful may not quite fit the senator.
The Metric Martyr group's appeals against conviction were rejected all the way up to the House of Lords and, in February 2004, by the European Court of Human Rights.
One chilly night, I went to Sayyida Zainab, a neighborhood centered around the shrine of the sister of Hussein, grandson of the Prophet and the central martyr of Shiism.
Last month the annual commemoration of the death of Shia Muslims' favourite martyr, the Imam Hossein, was unusually subdued.
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The other saints to be named include Frenchman Jacques Berthieu, a Jesuit who was executed in Madagascar in the 19th century, and another Catholic martyr in the Philippines, Pedro Calungsod, as well as Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Maria Carmen Salles y Barangueras and Anna Schaffer.
But it is El Greco's studied, and more naturalist style here, as captured again in breathtaking details, that compels us to believe in miracles: Who could doubt the presence of the early Christian martyr St.
Emily Davison became a martyr for the suffragette movement, which turned radical around the beginning of the 20th century.
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In this new universe, you learn that you, DeWitt, also existed, and were killed as a martyr for the cause.
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Without a hint of irony, he says he expects to become a martyr to the cause, just like Mandela and Gandhi.
While hardly a sympathetic figure, Duggan has become a martyr in the erupting violence in London as police there are unable to control spreading riots and looting in Tottenham, a district in the northern part of the ciy.
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Silent treatment A year ago we argued that the U.S. federal government had overreacted when it sentenced the computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, 36, to five years in jail--more time than most plea-bargaining killers serve (" Kevin Mitnick, the hackers' first martyr").
The ceremony to confirm him as a martyr was carried out by Sikh leaders at the Akal Takht, the religion's Golden Temple headquarters.
Most devout Shias, in Najaf as well as elsewhere in the country, may venerate his father as a martyr, but will probably continue to look to the senior clergy for spiritual guidance.
"She's a martyr, suffering the trials and tribulations of being married to a filmmaker!"
His office was crammed with souvenirs of his peregrinations: sphinxes, skulls, obelisks, a bright-green wall clock bearing the likeness of a Shia martyr.
Like Batman walking away, all martyr-like at the end of The Dark Knight, Bezos too can take it.
The deposed Iraqi president did not allow Shiites to walk to the Tomb of Hussein, a Muslim martyr who was killed more than 1, 300 years ago.
When he picked him up after the treatments, the expression Obie wore was that of a martyr, his eyes misshapen and dark with pain.
One legend contends that Valentine was a Christian martyr executed for standing up to the Roman emperor who wanted to ban soldiers from getting married.
But because of the commission's reluctance to make an Afrikaner martyr of him, nobody expects him to suffer serious punishment.
One such martyr is Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of the Sunday Leader in Colombo until his still unsolved murder on Jan. 8.
In the Roman Catholic Church, a person was traditionally declared a martyr if they died for refusing to renounce their faith.
Mr Hussein is not much liked in the region, but he is feared more as a potential martyr than as a hobbled dictator.
Karbala is where Muslim martyr Imam Hussein bin Ali -- grandson of the prophet Mohammed -- was killed and entombed more than 1, 300 years ago.
Mr Karbaschi may personally be martyr to his own forthrightness, but his courage shows the way for others.
The mayor can no longer reap easy popularity by presenting himself as a martyr.
Poles are a messianic people, many of whom see their country as having been a martyr among European nations, crucified over and over so that the continent could be purified and saved.
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