As for Porthos, he had supped very agreeably off a roast leg of mutton, two pheasants, and a perfect heap of cray-fish; he then directed his body to be anointed with perfumed oils, in the manner of the wrestlers of old; and when this
anointment was completed, he had himself wrapped in flannels and placed in a warm bed.
"This is a very special award and
anointment given so rarely to the chosen few who are headed to lead this country," Mzee Philiph Ledida said.
'This selective and discriminatory stance augurs the
anointment by the supermajority of the next minority leader, a practice reminiscent of the 17th Congress where the leader of the so-called opposition was twice handpicked by the House leadership,' Lagman said.
"The President's
anointment may either be through a whisper or in a public pronouncement," said lawyer-solon, who serves as spokesman of the 61-member PCFI.
"The presidential
anointment will stop persistent rumors in the House of vote buying and expectations that moneyed powerbrokers would influence the election of the next speaker," he said.
He further said: 'Clearly by the two provisions , only the 109 senators-elect and 360 Hon Members of the House of Representatives - elect , are empowered to decide who their leaders as regards the positions of President of the Senate, Deputy Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Deputy Speaker, should be at any given time, particularly at the commencement of a new Assembly 'Therefore, for any other person or group of persons outside the 469 constitutionally empowered persons to by way of pontification,
anointment, selection, appointment or endorsement, saying Senator A or B , is the one for this or that position is not only wrong but making clear affront on democracy itself.
" Paine
anointment was in difficult circumstances when captain Steve Smith and his deputy David Warner were handed year-long bans for their roles in the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa last March.
class="MsoNormalMUSICAL LINES It is a direct
anointment from God.
Anwar, along with Sharad Pawar and PA Sangma, had in 1999 broken away from the Congress to protest against the
anointment of a 'foreign origin person' -- Sonia Gandhi as the party president and floated NCP.
With her recent
anointment, Carlson has come full circle in what must feel like justice for this Stanford graduate and world-class violinist.
In between are a world of prizes, a limited critical capacity to appraise, and the
anointment of exhausted writers.
JOSE MOURINHO'S Old Trafford
anointment was delayed by a row over image rights.
anointment - the act of applying oil or an oily liquid