The glories of getting rich have overwhelmed the deprivations of patriotic self sacrifice.

All that is left is to restore the fortunes of England s national football and cricket teams.

Step four The older members of the Taliban, the fighters, start talking to the younger boys about the glories of martyrdom.

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay.

Pragmatism with a Leninist face is the order of the day. The glories of getting rich have overwhelmed the deprivations of patriotic self sacrifice.

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay. As he put it, These massive columns now rise with shabby dignity from the tangle of scavenging dogs and sprawling, ragged bodies at their base.