Almost overnight, a legend was born: Wilde the homosexual martyr, Wilde the moral rebel.
Many people described Mr Hassan as a martyr who was killed trying to protect his country.
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Clutching photos of dead relatives, mourners observed a minute's silence at the Martyr's Monument in Halabja.
His answer was to fight the Americans and hope he would be killed as a martyr.
"She's a martyr, suffering the trials and tribulations of being married to a filmmaker!"
"And all parties must say clearly that a murderer is not a martyr, " he said.
The mayor can no longer reap easy popularity by presenting himself as a martyr.
Far from silencing Father Jankowski, his suspension seems to have made a martyr of him.
"We can have ... a suicide martyr that can kill 5, 000 in one mission, " he said.
He believed he would become a martyr when police killed him, they added.
"Harvey Milk was victimized and became a martyr for a cause, " Weiss said.
At best she might end up as another Republican martyr a more sympathetic, shoulder-padded version of Kenneth Starr.
Like Batman walking away, all martyr-like at the end of The Dark Knight, Bezos too can take it.
To decide that this man is a martyr or not a martyr, it is a pure religious matter.
Mr Karbaschi may personally be martyr to his own forthrightness, but his courage shows the way for others.
In the Roman Catholic Church, a person was traditionally declared a martyr if they died for refusing to renounce their faith.
In prison, some political operators say, he could have served as a useful martyr figure to rally the opposition.
You play the martyr when asked to do something beyond your job description.
" In truth, Mary was a martyr to her own imprudence, Mr. Massie concludes: "Her political folly was .
"This is his gun, this is my martyr brother's gun, " Abu Wasfi says, gesturing at his AK-47 assault rifle.
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The Yarmouk Martyr's Brigade doesn't appear to be among these councils, experts said.
The comparison with the Christian martyr pierced by the arrows of the unfaithful may not quite fit the senator.
Emily Davison became a martyr for the suffragette movement, which turned radical around the beginning of the 20th century.
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Last month the annual commemoration of the death of Shia Muslims' favourite martyr, the Imam Hossein, was unusually subdued.
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Al-Wifaq, Bahrain's main Shia opposition party, called the youth "a new martyr due to the brutality of the regime".
Allende's death made him a symbol, a martyr for both democracy and socialism.
In this new universe, you learn that you, DeWitt, also existed, and were killed as a martyr for the cause.
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For now, the Indian public is portraying the victim in the Dec. 16 rape as a martyr for the cause.
The number of Rizal admirers could rise further when movies and TV specials on the national martyr hit the screens.
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