| After September 11, he bestrode the city like a colossus, miraculously raising the spirits of its citizens. |
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| If all this busy-ness meant we bestrode the world economic stage like a colossus, then it just might be worth it. |
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| And in their day, they bestrode the pop charts like two Antipodean colossi. |
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| He bestrode the worlds of scientific research and education with a zeal that even death could not vanquish. |
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| For a century, they bestrode court and country, privy to the innermost controversy. |
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| The Father of the Nation, who once bestrode the world like a colossus, had left us orphaned. |
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| But for four weeks last summer Ronaldo bestrode the World Cup like a colossus. |
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| One of them was tackled and, once on the ground, cuffed by an officer who bestrode him. |
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| Not since the mighty man bestrode the oche had Scotland threatened to furnish such an unlikely sporting hero. |
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| Many of these men were to die, bringing a grief which bestrode the town all that summer and autumn, and which is still remembered today. |
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| It's pointing to as close a finish as that nerve-shredding middle-distance rivalry between the two men when they bestrode the athletics world. |
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| The kind of small-town hostility to European monarchies comically depicted by Mark Twain then bestrode the world stage. |
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| He moved on to the national stage, bestrode it, and then let his talents run away into the sands of Liberal Unionism and Tariff Reform. |
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| The party that once bestrode British politics like a colossus has arrived on the Lancashire coast in timid, uncertain mood. |
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| Both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair bestrode their nation for periods in excess of two U.S. presidential terms. |
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| He has bestrode morning television like an unnaturally tall colossus for almost a decade, and has a wealth of knowledge across every conceivable discipline at his fingertips. |
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| Edmund Morgan, 97 Diminutive, almost elfin in appearance, he bestrode his field like a colossus. |
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| For one thing, those who have bestrode their organisations for decades can often decide their own departure date. |
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| The equaliser arrived like a dove from above, a divine free kick from Graham Kavanagh, whose all-round game bestrode this contest like a colossus. |
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| What most people don't know is that after World War I, and particularly in Austria where the Hapsburg empire had bestrode Europe like a colossus, things were very, very tough. |
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| He looked up again at the portrait of Big Brother. The colossus that bestrode the world! |
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