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  • The Olympics, Stuntmans Hall of Fame, having been "Knighted"!!!! and being sponsored by "Wells Fargo Corp. and using their copy righted material without their permission .."

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Rhythmically, she and Mr. Bennett (who, in his other career, is a Knighted composer of film scores and classical music) are even able to articulate the subtle difference between syncopation (as on the earlier songs like "When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam") and swing (as on the later songs).

    Visionaries on a Mission Will Friedwald 2011

  • In the same year, Mr. Holden also claimed that he was Knighted by the Queen of England.

    WILLIAM HOLDEN 2010

  • May ye be Knighted and given the empty seat, “barren” of Thrombosis on September 9, 2009 at 9: 26 pm Phil

    Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Knighted in the 2004 New Year's honours list, Woodward resigned as England coach the following September and later took charge of the ill-fated 2005 Lions tour to New Zealand.

    Sir Clive Woodward tipped to take RFU elite performance director job 2011

  • Follows this with BBC sports personality of the year title, has Scotland's Commonwealth Games velodrome named in his honour – and becomes brand ambassador for Kellogg's Bran Flakes2009 Knighted in the new year honours, rustles up an autobiography and receives a second honorary doctorate, but on the track crashes at a World Cup event in Copenhagen and misses the world championships2010 Gets married in April.

    London 2012: It's all in the detail as Sir Chris Hoy focuses on gold 2011

  • Knighted in 1982, Cleminson and his wife Helen were active in his adopted Norfolk, where he was a deputy lieutenant, vice chairman of Norwich Union and a director of Eastern Counties Newspapers.

    Sir James Cleminson obituary Martin Adeney 2010

  • I just found out on Friday that he was Knighted on Dec 31, 2008.

    Influence « Write Anything 2009

  • I've been in fights that scared me to death and done responsible things for others enough to be Knighted, and even that was to better do the duties demanded of me.

    Elephant in the City 2010

  • He was not only cleared of piracy charges, but Knighted for his courage to come back and demonstrate his good faith on those orders.

    The Guantanamo Bay military prison meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions. Ann Althouse 2009

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