Peter, a man who his friends described as a pillar of the London tango community, says that "there is just nothing like the tango".

BBC: Forever Tango

Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.

NPR: An Author's Companion in Rage, Exile and Return

His hockey stick, which purported to demonstrate the link between man-made carbon emissions and catastrophic global warming, was the central pillar of the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report, and it brought him near-legendary status in his community.

WSJ: James Delingpole: Climategate 2.0