| But her anointment by Mr. da Silva, who has steered Brazil through one of its greatest periods of prosperity, automatically made her a contender. |
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| He wasn't alone in being unsure exactly what it was supposed to mean, but it was clearly an anointment for the future. |
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| When the country introduced the constitution of 1849 and thus became a constitutional monarchy, anointment was also abandoned. |
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| His public anointment of his granddaughter was seen as another swipe at his daughter. |
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| In Biblical times, oil was used for the anointment and appointment of kings and priests. |
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| Hundreds and thousands of people line up for him to do anointment. |
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| By Subano custom and tradition, which I am aware of, the title of Timuay is transferred by a father to a son by anointment. |
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| Will a putsch lead to the anointment of the most unlikely prime minister of modern politics? |
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| An anaesthetic anointment of the Emla type is often sufficient to make the injection painless. |
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| It is the anointment, it is the gift of the Spirit who alone can instil life in our good intentions and plans. |
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| The government's approval rating is around half that of Mr Putin. Or the president might choose what, pre-Ukraine, was the favoured means of succession across the former Soviet Union: the anointment of a trusted successor. |
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| Meanwhile, given the reportedly fragile state of Kim's health, and the recent anointment of Kim Jong-un as the il's heir apparent, the theme of the imperishability of North Korean socialism is very timely. |
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| Several foreign leaders even cautiously welcomed his anointment. |
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| The aura that surrounds him is a kind of anointment. |
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| If this was supposed to be the anointment of Jonathan Sexton as the peerless king of European rugby, a few Welsh peasants were positively revolting. |
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| In its efforts to explain Britain's subsiding economy, the government of Gordon Brown another leader installed by opaque anointment rather than open choice seems to have adopted a similar approach to crisis management. |
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| In 2002, when Bob Willumstad was picked as president of Citigroup by Sandy Weill, his longtime boss, it was widely deemed to be his anointment as heir-apparent. |
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