bear aloft

Stand at the base of the single-passage arch and look up, and the scene in bas-relief ripples to life with almost cartoon clarity: Straining porters, trudging along what is plainly the route of a Roman triumph, bear aloft the golden menorah and other sacred loot plundered from the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

However, one group of workers has not accepted the deal: the intermittents du spectacle, temporary show-business workers, who create the plays, films, television programmes and other performances that bear aloft the banner of French culture.

During his incarceration, though, it fell to others, like Mr. Goniwe and his comrades, to bear aloft the twin torches of confrontation and resistance, feting their distant leaders in prison or in exile, and chanting the slogans and anthems that evoked such figures as Mr. Mandela and Oliver Tambo, then the exiled head of the A.N.C.

But armoured fleets bear aloft on their decks a rampart of towers, so that fighting may like place even at sea as from the walls of a fortress.

Their king and their cross were captured, that cross before which they bow the head and bend the knee; which they bear aloft and worship with their eyes; they say that it is the identical wood to which the God whom they adore was fastened.