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Simple sentences
The sun is the torch, the lamp of the universe; if it is situated in the central region it's because this is the best place to illuminate the planets.
Tom is using the blow torch.
Tom extinguished his torch.
I fumbled for the torch.
I felt for the torch.
My torch has stopped working.
The elation at having successfully escaped was short-lived: Tom awoke in the beam of a policeman's torch.
Take the torch. We'll need it.
Take the torch. We'll definitely need it.
Take the torch-that we'll definitely need.
Do not show a torch to a blind man walking in the dark.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Do you need a torch?
Rick and Carol broke up two months ago, but he's still carrying a torch for her.
It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
Who is holding the torch?
Movie subtitles
The head coach. so tough he shaves with a blow-torch.
Get away with that torch.
Here, give me that torch.
It's like the hottest torch song that was ever sung.
And, like a torch, enlighten a younger generation inspired to follow him.
I'll put a torch to that fort myself, if I die doing it.
I'm sick of watching you try to put out that torch you carry for her with a lot of cheap hooch.
Still carrying a torch for that dame, huh?
Little Miss Liberty, carrying the torch.
Light the torch now, if you will.
You need a blow torch on your stubble.
The one who put the torch to the Hollisters' was Will.
Need a torch to keep them lit out here.
And with the same torch, drive her people into the sea and Richard with them.
You could've cut that open with a torch.
Take that torch outfit with you, Butch.
I've carried many a torch, but never on such a large scale.
Still carrying a torch for her, aren't you?
Little Miss Liberty, carrying' the torch.
Raise the invisible torch and pass it along. Keep it burning, keep it forward on the road that has no turning.
Raise the invisible torch and pass it along. Keep it burning.
Oh, by the way, don't forget your torch.
That's why I let you take the torch first.
Here, you better take this torch.
You'd be sporting a whack-job, too. if you were carrying a torch like him for that little cookie.
But I warn you if Manuela is not brought to me here in 10 minutes, unmarried I shall set torch to your town.
Just a little gal who sings torch songs in a naughty nightclub.
Hold the torch over.
He used it like a torch against all the dark, unscrupulous things that men like Dawson and Frisbee do.
I say burn this infidel! And with the same torch, drive her people into the sea and Richard with them. - No!
Wait a sec, I have a torch.
What a moment in history it must have been when Man lit his first torch! When he first conquered fire!
You be the cogs that fit my wheel. the gunpowder that takes my torch.
All I can see is the torch.
I remembered how that old lady drove off that joker last night with the torch.
If any of them do show up, you hold them off with your torch.
That torch can set us afire.
I'm going to pick up that torch.
A torch would seem odd.
Shine your torch on Denis, who'll calm folk down.
News and current affairs
Unfortunately, however, Gore was not successful in carrying the torch on global warming when he was a politician.
Conspicuously, it is no longer the British, but France's government under President Nicolas Sarkozy, that is carrying the torch of a possible attack on Iran's nuclear installations.
A new generation of politicians is ready to carry the torch onwards.
But is the torch still burning bright?
Indeed, Chinese President Hu Jintao's recent trip to Washington was seen by many - particularly many Chinese - as the passing of the torch.
Following the disturbances in Tibet and the troubles affecting the Olympic torch's progress around the world, some voices abroad are showing a greater inclination to dismiss, vilify, humiliate, or even split China.
Then came the riots in Tibet, which caught the government off guard, followed by embarrassing protests over China's Olympic torch relay in several Western and Asian countries.
On the government's part, the more open media in Sichuan may be mere posturing to appease critics after the Tibet upheaval and the scuffle over the Olympic torch.
The US eventually had to abandon its fantasies about Western-style Arab democracy, but it ironically left the Iranians carrying the torch of democracy in the region.
One got a sense of this when China's reputation and the Games' status came under attack during the Tibetan demonstrations and protests against the Olympic torch as it made its tortured progress around the world.
The Tibet-related protests at several Chinese embassies around the world and during the Olympic torch relay merely provide a glimpse of what is likely to follow.
The big French retailer Carrefour has seen protests at its stores all over China by nationalist activists incensed by the protests that took place in Paris when the Olympic torch passed through the city.
Today's China is the leading bearer of the mercantilist torch, though Chinese leaders would never admit it - too much opprobrium still attaches to the term.
As the Olympic torch relay - itself a creation of the Nazis, first employed in the Berlin Games - makes its way down Speer Jr.'s avenue of power, the world will once again be made to witness a triumph of the totalitarian will.