| Laois were very much alive and kicking and all other pretenders to the crown sat up and took notice after a superb performance at O'Moore Park. |
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| Today there are two pretenders to the title of headmaster, each self-appointed. |
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| I saw myself protecting poetry against the pretenders, the charlatans, the fakers. |
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| As a result, attempts to dethrone Henry were poorly supported in England and the Yorkist pretenders failed to carry conviction. |
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| These pretenders offer new notions of the Deity, new doctrines, commands, ceremonies and modes of worship. |
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| Can't we just get rid of the young pretenders and instal him as King of England? |
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| Yet, they keep winning, whilst certain pretenders have experienced a few slips. |
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| The few pretenders who remained were a disappointing assortment of dim, second-class felons and impotent thugs. |
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| When a company is naturally monopolistic, the monopoly company is in a position to chase away all other pretenders. |
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| We can gossip, as professionals are apt to do, about incompetence and nincompoops and pretenders and impostors. |
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| To help make your decision-making a little easier, here are 25 capsule reviews that separate the essential cinema from the pretenders to the throne. |
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| Now the debate is more urgent because Ascot, like other summer staples—Henley, Wimbledon and the like is being challenged by new pretenders. |
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| Perhaps KB the wise old bird saw through the manipulation and the scheming of the pretenders, fakes, and exploiters, and was determined to keep the wolves away. |
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| And unless it is all deception, the project should be able to challenge the boundaries of recent releases of pretenders, intenders and contenders. |
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| For a more accurate forecast of which teams are contenders and which are pretenders, however, a different set of standings is catching the attention of fans and front offices. |
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| This account of seemingly genuine claimants, reckless pretenders, daffy charlatans and patently mad pretenders to the French crown is the stuff of high farce. |
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| Britain had long been a bolt-hole for pretenders to the imperial purple, and in times of crisis it had a history of seceding from the empire and looking after its own affairs. |
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| The European Union has a lot of pretenders and contenders for that position, but they don't have it yet, as evidenced by the debates they had over the constitution last week. |
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| They had to come from behind, but their 3-1 win over Nigeria sent out a strong message of intent to the pretenders to their crown. |
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| Its spokesmen should be only those who adhere to its tenets, not poseurs and pretenders. |
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| Not to be confused with lightweight Radio 5 chat shows hosted by young pretenders like Nicky Campbell. |
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| This process created several problems, because there could be several pretenders for the post, which divided the elected members. |
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| Ultimately, it's the driving experience that distinguishes contenders from pretenders in most people's minds. |
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| This is true, in particular, of the relations between our two countries, both pretenders to European hegemony. |
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| But Caron, like Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse before her, was dancing her way into the hearts of millions years before these young pretenders ever put on top hat and tails. |
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| All of these market behemoths have pretenders to the throne, and in the case of eBay, one of these is Salt Lake City-based Overstock. |
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| But the conventional music companies' struggle with the new competition has turned out to be futile, because the young pretenders have the consumers on their side. |
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| With 1,400 miles to the finish, the last four days of racing are likely to be particularly tense for these eight crews, all legitimate pretenders to victory. |
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| This massive military structure, built with adobe and flanked by four towers, helped to protect the town against several sieges at the hands of various tribes and pretenders to the throne. |
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| The idea is to separate the contenders from the pretenders. |
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| We armed our supporters with theoretical and polemical propaganda, including a special issue devoted to polemics against the various pretenders to Trotskyism. |
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| Toward the end of the Umayyad Caliphate it came into the possession of Count Sancho García for his military support for the pretenders to the throne of Córdoba. |
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| As they approach the Cape Verde archipelago, which corresponds with the midway point of the race, Safran's crew remain one of the great pretenders to victory. |
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| With no claim to scientific accuracy, Game Theory presents four possible pretenders to the unwanted crown. Start with the obvious, to an Englishman, anyway. |
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| He proposes that this change apply only to marriages enacted after a new law takes effect, presumably because a retroactive change could lead to a queue of pretenders outside Buckingham Palace. |
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| Intel was able to see off earlier pretenders to its throne by increasing the performance of its Pentium chips, and by exploiting its economies of scale as market leader. |
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| During the middle of the 3rd century, the Roman Empire was convulsed by barbarian invasions, rebellions and new imperial pretenders. |
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| It is traditional amongst monarchists to continue to number their pretenders, even though they have never reigned. |
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| However, there were several pretenders for the Ming throne, and their forces were divided. |
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| Finding no institutional alternative to the autocracy, discontented Russians rallied behind various pretenders to the throne. |
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| During this time a series of civil wars were fought between rival kings and pretenders to the throne. |
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| It maintains that only if we model rationalizers as pretenders can we make sense of the rationalizer's distinctive relationship to the evidence in his possession. |
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| The film was excellently soundtracked with hits from Van Morrison, the Pretenders, the Pogues, Fine Young Cannibals, and The Who. |
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| This acoustic version by chrissie Hynde, lead singer of the Pretenders, is a powerful early tribute. |
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| Pretenders who had themselves named king, but are not counted in the official line of kings are written in italics. |
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