In the UK you can only become a king or queen through birth or by marriage, unlike in Cameroon, where you can be
anointed by way of a "sacred" ceremony.
She added: "To be
anointed is something I was told is extremely rare.
In the baptismal rite the oil is used with the words "as Christ was
anointed priest, prophet, and king, so may you live always as a member of his Body, sharing everlasting life.
The congregation comes forward and creates a chain of hands upon the person that is being
anointed.
Despite the IPL Twenty20 competition being embroiled in allegations of illegal betting and spot-fixing, including against Srinivasan's son-in-law, BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel confirmed that Srinivasan would go to Melbourne and was expected to be
anointed ICC chairman.
Since the time of Gregory the Great, Western church tradition has conflated the four anointing stories, typically resulting in a narrative in which Jesus is
anointed immediately before his death by Mary Magdalene, who is depicted as a prostitute.
His diagnosis can be aptly summarized by his felicitous phrase "the vision of the
anointed," the title of one of his previous books.
I had to remind Michael that I am one of God's
anointed people.
In the Sacrament of the sick, parts of our body are
anointed with oil.
After all, he was personally
anointed by VW's uber-leader, Ferdinand Piech, who controls VW's Supervisory Board and also happens to be the automaker's largest shareholder thanks to his pedigree as the scion of the Porsche family, which now controls 21.
We loved him with kisses and
anointed him with our tears,'' she said of his final moments.
The only
anointed head of the Church of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Once you identify someone as heir apparent, it puts undue pressure on the
anointed one and discourages those who haven't been
anointed," says Robert MacDonald, chairman and former CEO of Allianz Life Insurance of North America in Minneapolis.
If you are concentrating hard you eventually come to the conclusion that the bewildering negatives in this passage are to do with establishing the impartiality of the 'quiet but kindly determined' Sorensen when, as you learn in a later passage, he
anointed Andersson as his successor at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
More than a decade ago, Chalabi was
anointed by Washington to be head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), that nation's government-in-exile.
