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The click is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

That splendid music, the coming in music The Elephant March from Aida is the music I've chosen for my funeral and you can see why. It's triumphal.

However, Charles de Gaulle, who favored a presidential system, quit the government in 1946 and henceforth remained in the opposition until his triumphal return during the May 1958 crisis.

During a triumphal surprise visit to Baghdad on May 22, he said he expected Iraqi forces to take responsibility for territorial security in much of the country by the end of the year.

The pretext for these charges is participation in a mob about to perform a criminal act , the act being damaging cultural heritage objects. The objects in question are the Ministry of Culture building and the Triumphal Arc in Skopje, and property damage in Bitola.

I won't feel anything, but if I could, I would feel triumphal at having lived at all, and at having lived on this splendid planet, and having been given the opportunity to understand something about why I was here in the first place, before not being here.

The most unpopular American president in recent history thus relished his recent triumphal welcome in Jerusalem, where he was the guest of honor of the International Conference planned and devised by Israeli President Shimon Peres on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Jewish state.