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Example sentences for: anointed

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Now that most have made it, the ethnic remnant that once ruled Tammany Hall, Albany, and Boston, and anointed the governors and presidents, has retreated into victimology.
David Westin has been anointed Roone Arledge's successor as head of the news division, but Arledge seems reluctant to cede his power.
Law & Order executive producer Dick Wolf's latest law-enforcement drama is anointed the best among the midseason shows.
' It bothered me, this image of a man having his head bathed in oil in a very French barber shop (where men have their heads massaged in oil to prevent baldness) instead of the image of the making of a king, like David, who was the anointed of God.
Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one.