But when we both saw the costumes, a really flamboyant looking Roman Centurion, he bowed out.
And then, when they had, he bowed, I bowed, he squeezed my hands, let go, and walked away.
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He bowed to labour and environmental activists last summer by cancelling the privatisation of Hydro One, which operates one of North America's biggest transmission grids.
By the time he bowed out with the sound bite "I came into sport on top and I want to leave that way" in 2001, his place in the history books was sealed.
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He bowed out after 19 seasons with the Red Sox at age 42 and after a season in which he hit .316 with 29 home runs, the last one coming in his final at-bat.
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Bergoglio, who as a teen lost a lung to infection, showed that humility on Wednesday, saying that before he blessed the crowd he wanted their prayers for him and then he bowed his head amid the silence from the crowd.
In return, he bowed to a plan stitched up between pan-European socialists and the European People's Party, the main conservative block in the EU, to give the council presidency to someone from the centre right and the foreign-policy job to the centre left.
But given Obama's basic suspicion of US allies, to the extent he has bowed to pressure to take action in the Middle East, he has always done so to the detriment of US allies.
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He has since bowed to pressure to pipe down in public (though he denies having done so), confining himself to encouraging peacenik Jewish dissidents not to turn their backs on the mainstream community.
Stuart McCall expressed his surprise at the timing of Vogts' resignation, insisting that he should have bowed after last month's disappointing 1-1 draw with Moldova.
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He's made so many memorable films but he hasn't bowed out on stage yet to pick up a golden statue.
The MP said he had been "bowed but not broken" by the NEC's move to end his career as a member of Parliament.
So while there was plenty of contrition on show -- "the most humble day of my life" he said with head bowed, early in proceedings -- perhaps more significant were the real signs of waning authority.
Strolling along the narrow street, you may glimpse a chandelier maker tinkering with a frozen crystal fountain, a cobbler fetching moulds from a shelf, or a bookbinder buried in rows of bookshelves, his head bowed as he works at his desk.
Lazio jumped into the race mid-stream when Giuliani bowed out, announcing he had prostate cancer.
But when Carlos Alberto Renteria, the man accused of heading the Colombian Norte del Valle drug cartel was extradited, he remained silent with his head bowed, denying the cameras the chance to take images of his face.
Wilson, his son, takes a summer job at a scandal rag, where no amount of ink on his sleeves lives down the day he arrives at work wearing his bowed dancing shoes from debutante balls on the ritzy North Shore.
Later Hanawa bowed out gracefully, and he is now honorary chairman.
He laid red roses on the banks and bowed his head in silence for one minute.
In 1990, the former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere bowed out of mainstream politics when he quit as chairman of the ruling CCM party.
Not wishing to be bowed down by performing Chekhov, he pays for a silvery quack (David Strathairn) to remove his soul and then, a while later, replace it with that of a poet.
Does Mr Blair seem bowed down or wearied by these great burdens as he begins his holiday?
When I called mortgage broker Mike Sikora for help, he made an inquiry or two on my behalf and then bowed out, insisting none of the problems were his fault.
John Allen, bowed out Tuesday and announced his intention to retire for what he called personal reasons.
Or maybe it's part and parcel of a deliberately creative ambiguity fostered by both London and Dublin in which the spectator is invited to read whatever he or she wants into a President and a Queen standing, heads bowed, before the undeniably impressive Children of Lir statue at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance.
By the time Perot had bowed out and waltzed back in and said some loopy things, he still was able to persuade 19% of the voters to embrace him.
Holwell, Anil Kumar, the McKinsey consultant, walked to the witness stand, where he stood for a moment, in a dark suit and tie, and bowed his head, his hands clasped before him.
He would tread, a little bird-like man with hands folded and head bowed, along narrow paths that threaded through the jungle-forests of central Cambodia.
"He could have sold out more nights than Liza, " observed Mr. Francesconi, who, at some point bowed to the fact that while making music was well and good, his future lay in Carnegie's past.
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