Mantle
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139 examples of Mantle in a sentence
So, to defend liberal democracy, we must reclaim the anti-corruption
mantle.
But, in order to displace the US and assume the
mantle
of leadership in Asia, China must do more than pursue its own interests or contain potential rivals.
It is a persistent contradiction that the Chinese state claims the
mantle
of May 4 while repressing the memory of June 4.
It is thus a travesty for today’s self-declared “national conservatives” and far-right populists to claim the
mantle
of Christian Democracy.
Xi, who in some ways has taken up the expansionist
mantle
of Mao Zedong, is attempting to implement a modern version of the tributary system that Chinese emperors used to establish authority over vassal states: submit to the emperor, and reap the benefits of peace and trade with the empire.
The question is how to convince the US to take up the
mantle
of leadership again, whether in January 2021, when a President Joe Biden is inaugurated, or four years from now, after Trump’s second term ends.
In the United States, while President Donald Trump has withdrawn from the Paris accord (and rolled back environmental protections), state governments have taken up the
mantle
of achieving its goals, and Democratic presidential candidates are proposing ambitious climate strategies.
With America absent and China’s credibility dented, there is an urgent need for someone to assume the
mantle
of leadership and start mobilizing a coordinated response, be it through the WHO or in some other way.
Making a public commitment is the first step toward reclaiming the
mantle
of global leadership.
He added: “I will take the
mantle.
It is time to reclaim that
mantle.
When the US decides to take up the
mantle
of democracy and peace again, Russia will be no match for it.
By antagonizing elites, the media, foreign institutions (above all European), and the judiciary, and by violating norms with abandon, they have claimed the
mantle
of “authenticity.”
More recently, Israel’s right-wing prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, took up the
mantle
of “economic peace.”
She stopped a moment and recognized them; it was Madame Hennebeau bringing her guests, the decorated gentleman and the lady in the fur mantle, to see the settlement.
" Tall and fair, a little heavy in her superb maturity of forty years, she smiled with an effort of affability, without showing too prominently her fear of soiling her bronze silk dress and black velvet
mantle.
Then, when he had assisted Madame Grégoire to draw off her thick cloth mantle, he said, in his turn:"Certainly, they have no malice at bottom.
And besides it mattered little, it was her silk dress, her fur mantle, even the white feather in her hat, which exasperated them.
The captain approached and stuck his dagger vertically between the shells to discourage any ideas about closing; then with his hands he raised the fringed, membrane-filled tunic that made up the animal's
mantle.
By leaving the pearl buried beneath the giant clam's mantle, he allowed it to grow imperceptibly.
They were huge stacks of stones in which you could distinguish the indistinct forms of palaces and temples, now arrayed in hosts of blossoming zoophytes, and over it all, not ivy but a heavy
mantle
of algae and fucus plants.
You would have thought it was some ruin enshrouded in a crust of whitened seashells, as if under a
mantle
of snow.
The water, flowing by the grass, divides with a white line the colour of the roads and of the plains, and the country is like a great unfolded
mantle
with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.
The jagged peaks of the Verra put on a
mantle
of snow in the first cold days of October.
An officer stood among the French skirmishers--a tall, lean man with a
mantle
over his shoulders--and as our fellows came forward he ran out midway between the two parties and stood as a fencer would, with his sword up and his head back.
One of our sergeants laid him gently down, and the other stretched the big blue
mantle
over him; and so we left those two whom Fate had so strangely brought together, the Scotchman and the Frenchman, lying silently and peacefully within hand's touch of each other, upon the blood-soaked hillside near Hougoumont.
She wore a delicious grey silk skirt with a large black lace mantle; her face was covered by a veil, and her gloved hands seemed quite small and delicate.
Thence they will lead him, no doubt, to some richly adorned chamber of the palace, where, having removed his armour, they will bring him a rich
mantle
of scarlet wherewith to robe himself, and if he looked noble in his armour he will look still more so in a doublet.
Dorothea then took out of her pillow-case a complete petticoat of some rich stuff, and a green
mantle
of some other fine material, and a necklace and other ornaments out of a little box, and with these in an instant she so arrayed herself that she looked like a great and rich lady.
Behind him, mounted upon an ass, there came a woman dressed in Moorish fashion, with her face veiled and a scarf on her head, and wearing a little brocaded cap, and a
mantle
that covered her from her shoulders to her feet.
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