Sacre


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Sa´cre


n.1.See Saker.
v. t.1.To consecrate; to make sacred.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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SACREs therefore need Humanist involvement to help them support schools in this regard; the alternative is another committee!
Sprinter Sacre beat his rival by three-and-a-half lengths at CheItenham last month and it looks match between the pair again.
Un De Sceaux (right) was sent off odds-on at Cheltenham but didn't run to his best and Nico de Boinville (left) and Sprinter Sacre put him in his place.
And Sprinter Sacre is one of three so-called bankers on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival.
NOT many people know this but SACREs (Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education) are the bodies in England and Wales responsible for advising local authorities and schools on matters connected with legally required RE and collective worship.
In the wake of him pulling up with an irregular heartbeat at Kempton last Friday, Sprinter Sacre was sent to Newmarket for further treatment under the supervision of equine cardiologist Celia Marr.
The husband-and-wife team of choreographer Millicent Hodson and art historian Kenneth Archer created all three reconstructions, starting in 1987 with the Joffrey Ballet production of Sacre. They first resurrected Till in 1994 with the Paris Opera Ballet, and Jeux in 1996 at the Opera Ballet of Verona, with Fracci as the senior woman (a role originally danced by Tamara Karsavina, the Ballets Russes star whom Fracci played in the 1980 Herbert Ross feature film Nijinsky).
Massine created his first version of Sacre in 1920, just seven years after Nijinsky had shocked audiences with his revolutionary response to Stravinsky's score.