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Example sentences for: mantle

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In retrospect, Reaganism had been less a period in which the United States reassumed the mantle of empire than one in which new empires--Japanese finance, the European Community--began to take their proper role in the world.
(Gore himself tried to claim this mantle by imploring Larry King Wednesday evening, "I think in many ways you ought to count me the underdog in this race now.
Last Sunday, the great sage David Broder declared that Gore was struggling and conferred the mantle of electability on Bradley.
This is an untamed landscape, rugged and stunningly beautiful, with narrow valleys incised between limestone peaks that wear a mantle of snow until the early summer months.
* Yes, it's odd that we should be struggling for the mantle of Ronald Reagan.