Over the course of history, self-anointed healers have included magicians, mediums, apothecaries, barbers and priests.
Pets such as Boo, the self-anointed " world's cutest dog, " are typically classified as Public Figures.
Pentecostals believe that when people are anointed by God, nothing evil can hurt them.
HMOs will occasionally direct patients to self-anointed dermatologists who actually trained in other fields.
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This year, they anointed Rojjana one of the four faces of Allure, their perfume.
Underwriters are trained and anointed with the authority to give final approval to your loan.
By spring 1982, Kaufman anointed himself as the Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion of the World.
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Atal Behari Vajpayee, the Indian prime minister, this week mocked General Musharraf as a "self-anointed king".
Such destructive norms couldn't be sustained if there weren't people anointed to enforce rigid adherence to them.
Not long after Coi's debut, in 2007, Michelin anointed San Francisco the second guide-worthy city in America.
How does the local authority decide which pub will be anointed as the last one to close?
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He is set to be officially anointed as the Republican nominee at the party convention in Florida in late August.
Rating firms have become an anointed oligopoly (with margins to match) because they are embedded in regulations.
After all, before being anointed CEO, Cook was the supply chain guru behind Apple's remarkable rebirth and success.
Romney is behaving as though he already is the anointed Republican candidate and is fighting the presidential election.
Republican voters have already displayed a propensity this year for rejecting establishment-anointed choices in favor of insurgent conservatives.
Plus, Rupert Murdoch appears to have settled the succession question, which has vexed the market, and anointed son James.
Fearing the worst, I checked in and was informed that I had been anointed Commissioner of our office League.
Now, for the first time since 1920, the self-anointed inheritors of the old Montenegrin Church have conducted the liturgy.
The European Union may not be anointed the next Silicon Valley anytime soon, but venture capitalists are definitely sniffing around.
Yahoo needed a star leader, and they got one when they anointed Mayer, a veteran of Google, its CEO.
The dishonest part is the way in which today's self-anointed arbiters of "conservatism" cast these disputes over strategy in ideological terms.
And many of the male wunderkinds showing at New York Fashion Week have been prematurely anointed fashion geniuses by the press.
But it's folly to think that some anointed class can ever be counted on to warn of all potential default dangers.
Policy resolutions, too, have a tendency to appear from nowhere, as happened at the executive board meeting that anointed Dr Brundtland.
Venture firms, which are often heavily involved in running their anointed companies, get the big payoff when these tyros go public or get acquired.
The day after he was anointed, Mr Medvedev made a televised statement.
The idea isn't totally new--everyone from Gingrich to Bill Bennett to the self-anointed compassion queen Arianna Huffington has tried to peddle it.
Today the self-anointed "Consumers' Champion" has too many disparate causes to support.
But why, you may ask, should we go through this whole thing again, given the seemingly inevitable fate of an anointed American soccer savior?
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