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3) China has thereby rid itself of an irksome "martyr" and his influence on the country.
But if Witt is ultimately an ethereal martyr, Welsh turns out to be a Bogart-like romantic who can't stop feeling pain in the face of an absent God.
In the apse of the Greek-columned interior is a delightful mosaic of St. Apollinaris, Ravenna’s first martyr and bishop, surrounded by 12 sheep representing the Apostles, with Moses and Elijah in the clouds above him.
In the coping-with-children department, the message changed from advice to mothers on, say, avoiding "martyr complexes," to advice on lobbying for child care and avoiding gender stereotypes with sons and daughters.
A catcher is something of a baseball martyr.