The Orthodox Church reveres its martyrs, and Father Dimitry seemed to relish the prospect.

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And in a culture which reveres strong personalities, that counts for a lot.

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Juan Diego Florez is a rising Peruvian opera star who reveres Pavarotti.

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It reveres the Islamic scholars, known by the Arabic term ulama or the Javanese term kiai, whose influence remains strong in east Java.

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It is perched uneasily between the Old World values it reveres--invest early, stay late--and the New World frenzy of venture capital that the firm would once have abhorred.

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These secure, successful, and comfortable people living under the protection of a society that reveres freedom of religion above religion itself would never dream of inflicting misery on others.

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But with the monarch whom the Orange Order reveres meeting Martin McGuinness and speculation about a fresh IRA apology, perhaps at the end of July, could the ground on which the Order stands be shifting?

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He reveres knowledge, facts, and analysis.

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Yet China reveres Sun Yat-sen.

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