1. Maximum use might be made by supplicants and petitioners of the distance between them and Rome.

2. The Supplicant is chased, harmed or otherwise threatened by the Persecutor and begs for help from the Power in Authority.

3. He is depicted as a supplicant to gods, or in the protective presence of the ram deity Amun, or as a sphinx himself, or in a warrior's posture. Most statues were defaced by his rivals.

4. Instead, Nixon turned up in Beijing as a supplicant, waiting anxiously to be summoned to the emperor's side, listening to tutorials in strategy.

5. They want AI 5 as a supplicant client, rather than as a well - disposed but independent ally.

6. He flung himself down in the flat submissive posture of a mere supplicant.

7. Whether they came on foot or in polished Ambassadors, the stream of guests sat before Nagji like supplicants.

8. More than one lord lieutenant told me almost apologetically of the number of supplicants who sought his intervention with the democratically-chosen authorities.

9. Most newly-appointed Prime Ministers are embarrassed by a plethora of well-qualified supplicants.

10. But finally she is apparently moved by the piteous sight of the distressed supplicant and laboriously counts out 995 roubles change.

11. Berkshire'a supplier of liquidity and capital to the system , a supplicant,'he wrote.

12. 'It may seem like an all-powerful creditor and weak, supplicant debtors, but the debtor countries and the surplus country are locked in a mutual embrace that is problematic for both of them.

13. Her rendering of it fell somewhere between that of teacher and supplicant.

14. A bad deal may well be worse than no deal, if it lets Mr Mugabe stay in power, with Mr Tsvangirai's lot as supplicant partners in a government of bogus unity.

15. The merest sliver of it upon the tongue of the Supplicant will make him or her forget all the horrors they are enduring, and deliver them to a place of paradisiacal calm.

16. The outdated categorizations of First and Third Worlds, donor and supplicant, leader and led, no longer fit.

17. It is time we put old concepts of First and Third Worlds, leader and led, donor and supplicant, behind us.