| But in the course of unmasking them, the novel's hero, Justin Quayle, becomes ever more the white knight, superb and incorruptible in his quest. |
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| Disney could look for a potential white knight to rescue it from unwanted bidders and up the ante for Comcast. |
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| I too recall when Kerry rode into Washington as the white knight of the peace movement. |
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| Press coverage portrayed him as the white knight coming to the aid of the millions of people at risk of being denied medical treatment. |
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| Many see Kerry Group boss Denis Brosnan as a white knight who will come to the rescue of Irish agribusiness. |
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| The novel's hero, Justin Quayle, becomes ever more the white knight, superb and incorruptible in his quest. |
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| The tenants believed that Delgadillo was the white knight who would step in and save them from evictions. |
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| We are pleading with people, this is really the last chance now and we need a white knight in shining armour to ride in and save us. |
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| Then Steve Archibald, the former Barcelona and Scotland striker, came over the horizon as a white knight. |
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| We want that Mr. Right to come in our lives on a white knight as much as that's not politically correct nowadays. |
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| Eventually it found its white knight in the Manchester-based developer Urban Splash. |
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| Deliver us a white knight, a true and brave soul who can rid us of scoundrels, scalawags and in-it-for-themselves special interests. |
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| The trick we have to do is live up to the image of the white knight in shining armor. |
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| I do not say the FSA is always right, and I long ago ceased to see it as a shining white knight rushing to the public's rescue. |
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| Some politicians have even talked about Volare as a white knight to save the larger carrier. |
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| The French government itself, however, could already have made the white knight idea a difficult proposition for Aventis. |
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| Amegy, so the story goes, sought a white knight in Zions Bancorporation of Salt Lake City, whose chairman has known Johnson for years. |
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| A potential acquirer who outbids a white knight in an unfriendly takeover attempt. |
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| So the white knight that Southcorp's chairman Brian Finn and the markets are anticipating may not arrive. |
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| He stepped into a takeover battle as a white knight and emerged as majority owner of an old and underperforming mine in Ontario. |
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| Wu is riding a crest of support from recession-weary Hong Kong citizens who are looking for a white knight to lift their spirits. |
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| This craft was carried 50,000 feet by the so called white knight aircraft, before they separated, and then rocketed into the stratosphere. |
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| By unhorsing the only white knight around at the time, the government effectively caused the group to collapse. |
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| The OS vendor is certainly looking for a buyer or a white knight. |
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| A white knight is a person who is asked to acquire a company as an alternative to an unwanted black knight, who is the investor initiating a hostile takeover bid. |
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| Probably not, but don't expect the market power argument to get a run in the face of patriotic fervour surrounding our Aussie white knight fending off the dodgy Swiss raiders. |
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| No white knight arrived for inViso in the fall of 2001, however, as it also ran out of money in the absence of customer orders and had to close its doors. |
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| It exudes an idealistic peppiness, especially regarding its white knight of a hero, that confines it to the era whence it came. |
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| Meanwhile France, the white knight of peace and conscience of Europe, has only very recently ceased its overt efforts at trying to protect the Sudanese government. |
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| In 1994, Saudi billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal acted as Euro Disney's white knight, taking an almost 25 per cent stake in the company to avert a financial crisis. |
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| A Serbian woman who spent more than a year hiding from authorities in a church basement came face to face Sunday with the man her supporters hope will be her white knight. |
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| Recently, a white knight rode in to rescue the damsel in distress. |
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| In a largely moribund game, he represents vibrancy, rising like a white knight as his club were plunged into the potential darkness of administration. |
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| They even managed to fight off a bid in 1999 from the fearsome Mr Arnault by enlisting François Pinault as a white knight. |
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| But with the search for a white knight investor unlikely to be successful, the directors of Ansett met yesterday to formulate their response to the crisis. |
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| Business insolvencies: private equity the white knight? |
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| He is the man who was the white knight as the finance minister who had this big reputation for balancing the books, although when we look at it closely we know what it was. |
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| The coat of arms are depicted by a white knight on a red background. |
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| New developments, be it the announcement of a white knight by Arcelor, an improvement of the Mittal offer e.a. could of course have an impact on this assessment. |
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| She is not a white knight arriving to rescue a failing company. |
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| Yet any white knight is bound to face similar scrutiny. |
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| Now, Potash seems to have exhausted its white knight chances. |
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| But a white knight has not yet materialized. |
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| Are the bureaucrats thinking this through or are we just going in there being the white knight and signing all these international agreements while our producers here in Canada take the hit? |
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| If the way to become a white knight is by putting forward flawed legislation that would put whistleblowers in more danger when they come forward, then the government wins the prize. |
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| If we cannot clearly say yes to these three questions at least, then this great rousing media show, with the generous white knight coming to the aid of Africa, will have been, once again, no more than a sham. |
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| The Regulator knew the foundations of Equitable Life were ramshackle but hoped against hope that all would come right with time, or else a white knight in shining armour would buy them out. |
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| Then, it wants to ride in like a white knight waving cheques to compensate for the hike in energy costs, and with minuscule bogus tax cuts which are likely to be even smaller once all is said and done. |
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| Capt Joe Oakley: Mr. Chairman, is there a white knight out there? |
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| After a nasty fight, an unlikely white knight emerged. |
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| Then 50 minutes after takeoff, the spacecraft separated from White Knight and rocketed into the stratosphere. |
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| The rocket plane made its maiden launch in June from a specially made jet, named White Knight, at an altitude of 15 km. |
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| Thus, returning to Through the Looking-Glass, we find the White Knight, a supremely funny, mock-heroic character. |
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| The White Knight is checking the Black King, attacking the Black Queen, and also attacking both Black Rooks. |
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| The White Knight turbojet aircraft climbs over the Mojave desert with SpaceShipOne attached to its underbelly. |
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| Along the way, she meets a cavalcade of kooks and strange creatures including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwocky. |
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| Crosslee plc, south of Hipperholme on the A644 towards Brighouse, is Europe's largest independent tumble dryer manufacturer, under the White Knight brand. |
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| Mike Melvill, who flew SpaceShipOne's two previous space flights, piloted the White Knight mother ship that lifted the rocket plane to more than 40,000 feet for its launch. |
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| Headquartered in Kamas, UT, White Knight Fluid Handling manufacturers air-operated double-bellows pumps, air-operated double-diaphragm pumps, and metering pumps. |
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