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Example sentences for: cardinal

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Thirty-year interest rates are back down near 6 percent, after trading close to 6.5 percent, and they would not be there if bond traders--for whom vigilance about inflation is a cardinal law--thought the Fed was letting us all live high on the hog by printing lots of greenbacks.
By my reckoning, Charlton Heston has played: a CIA director, two prophets (Moses, twice, and Brigham Young), two saints (Thomas More and John the Baptist), an admiral, two generals (as well as six captains and three majors), a cardinal (Richelieu), two kings (Macbeth and Henry VIII), and three presidents of the United States (Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and Franklin Roosevelt's voice).
If so, it was the first and last time that the former Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow had known fear.
Chicago Cub Sammy Sosa hit his 54th and St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire hit his 55th in the race to break the 1961 record of 61 home runs in a season.
Murderous gangs in East Timor, deadly bombings in Israel and the Caucasus, scary tumors in Cardinal O'Connor's head, fugitive financier Martin Frankel in the Holsenglacis jail, runaway parade floats plowing into the crowd and yet not crushing a single presidential candidate--so much news and so little time, the effect of the summer schedule on News Quiz--which, incidentally, you can play all week without paying New York sales tax or showering or even getting out of your pajamas: Such is our end-of-summer malaise.