After almost 14 years in office, more than any other governor in the state's history, Tommy G . Thompson bestrides Wisconsin politics like a colossus.
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I looked out in the pasture last Sunday morning and saw a tom turkey, fully inflated by his sense of self and genetic duty, bestriding a hen.
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The so-called Queen City, bestriding the Merrimack River about 55 miles north of Boston, is an improbable place for a film star to hail from.
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Chris Riley writing in " The Daily Telegraph " observes how the charismatic figure of G�ring bestrides the entire series as he did at the trial itself.
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Americans like to think of themselves as people who spurn empire _ benevolent rulers who bestride the globe not by force but, darn it all, by popular demand.
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The great hope of the Christian right who was toppled by a dead man and his widow in a Senate race has re-emerged as a colossus bestriding the country.
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They do not exactly bestride it like colossi, more like a couple of late-show performers pretending to have a conversation, with Kuralt prompting Schwarzkopf to deliver blustering banalities.
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However, with its focus on a figure who bestrides this age and the next, the exhibition has a timeliness that lends an uncanny edge to its serene and subtle beauty.
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He studied the landscape, he said, spotted no other Democrat poised to derail the GOP's welfare-reform juggernaut and concluded that he alone must bestride the tracks.
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An oil painting of his father, who was killed in a plane crash three years ago, hangs over his desk; Julian, in clouds, bestrides caravans of trucks.
