"We all live in Mr Punch's shadow and what a strange shadow it is, " laughs Mervyn Millar, UK director of Handspring - the puppet company behind War Horse, which is soon to unveil a new show Crow based on the poems of Ted Hughes.
Could they have built Facebook into even a shadow of what it is today?
FORBES: Your Idea Is Worth Nothing: A Rant, Sparked By The Snapchat Lawsuit
What survived would be a mere shadow of the combat-vehicle industrial base that America once had.
FORBES: Threatened Site Sustains Most Of U.S. Combat Vehicle Industry
Meanwhile, the market for auction-rate securities is a shadow of what it was.
However, he said Bangor was now "a shadow of what it once was".
Krieble's foray into the ad world is apparently just a shadow of what she plans in the months before the election.
Manchester is a shadow of what it was in the 19th century, with its cotton mills and trade links across the world.
Since they are now only a shadow of what they used to be in entertainment value (and are grossly expensive), perhaps they should be shorter.
FORBES: Are Political Conventions More Than Just Expensive Infomercials?
Neither golden nor very tasty, the hash browns are a shadow of what they used to be, and only look good insofar as the scrambled eggs quite simply look inedible.
FORBES: McDonald's In Denial: An Open Letter to CEO James A. Skinner
It is widely known that snooker has suffered financially following the government enforced withdrawal of tobacco sponsorship, while TV viewing figures are a shadow of what they were during the 1980s.
BBC: SPORT | Other Sport | Snooker | Snooker's future rests in Sheffield
The focus on EPA is a diversion and casts a large shadow on what FDA is doing.
Wolfowitz said the suicide hijack attacks of September 11 were a pale shadow of what would happen if terrorists used weapons of mass destruction.
The problem is, once you consider due process, you have to give it some meaning--and the meaning you choose will cast a long shadow over what the term means everywhere else.
WSJ: Best of the Web Today: Not the Drones They Thought They Knew
That includes a contribution from what is known as shadow banking, lending by non-bank institutions or bank credit that is kept off the books.
When he set to building his own empire, he proved beyond a shadow of a doubt what he had learned from his time at both those organizations: he had seen the way a story travels through the internet, and he understood how to make people say what he wanted whether they knew it or not.
FORBES: Andrew Breitbart Wielded The Internet Like a Shotgun
You can see what Clooney and Papamichael were aiming for: a shadow-hatched chamber piece, with men and women battling head to head.
Mr Crawford told the committee the bill was a "pale shadow" of what it could have been but the Scottish government was committed to make it work "in the interests of Scotland and will make every effort to get it into shape".
That's what led me to work in the shadow of a shuttered steel plant on the South Side of Chicago when I was a community organizer.
But the Brotherhood, although legally banned in Egypt for decades and living in a shadow world politically, was nonetheless a major factor in what happened next.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: How to make Egypt safe for democracy
Shadow chancellor George Osborne blamed the government for what he called a "catastrophic failure of bank regulation", contributing to the "longest and deepest recession" since the 1930s.
During the Labour-led debate, Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said what had happened was "nothing short than a national scandal" and workers deserved honesty.
The paper publishes leaked documents which it says reveal how the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, took part in what Gordon Brown described as a "brutal" plot to replace Tony Blair.
BBC: Newspaper review: Archbishop of Canterbury in headlines
There will be much talk about how the eurozone crisis can be solved, what the next step should be in the US where a debt ceiling still casts a dark shadow over optimism, and about how income inequality has become a problem for all - rather than merely an advantage for haves over have-nots.
What is highly likely is that at some time the still youthful backbencher will be given a senior shadow cabinet and, eventually, cabinet post.
The gameplay unfolds both with a traditional overhead map and in a story mode told with shadow-puppets in which the player must make choices about what has already happened.
FORBES: 'Unwritten: That Which Happened' Reaches Its Last Hours On Kickstarter
But there are also a variety of other possibilities, such as allowing students to shadow you at work, offering summer internships, or even speaking to a school about what your career is like.
What he has not done yet, and what he must do now, is to convey a clear idea of what he wants to do with the power that, in Mr Blair's shadow, he coveted for so long.
应用推荐