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• n  a resident of Sparta
• a  of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
• s  resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity
  spartan courage
• s  unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
• s  practicing great self-denial
  a spartan diet
  a spartan existence

• As we prepare to enter his spacious but spartan office, out walk some of Russia's most powerful men: Putin's chief of staff, his ideologist, the speaker of parliamentall of them .
• His executive offices in Mexico City are spartan.
• There, he entered the grueling, spartan world of the sumo stable, and as all professional sumo wrestlers on the rise must, traded in his identity for a new name: "Asashoryu" (Blue .

• Spartan
• severe
• ascetic
• ascetical
• austere

News & Articles

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• Campers get athlete experience in annual Spartan Fantasy Football Camp
  Lifelong Spartan fan Allen Klein has participated in the annual Spartan Fantasy Football Camp since its creation in 2006.
  June 12, 2013 - The State News
• Spartan Race Recaps the Montana Reebok Spartan Sprint and Highlights Inspirational Runners
  Spartan Race, an international obstacle racing series, recaps one of the most challenging Spartan Sprints ever in Kalispell, Montana. (PRWeb June 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/mud/spartanrace/prweb10808382.htm
  June 10, 2013 - PRWeb
• Spartan Race Highlights the Corn Fed Spartans and the Indiana Spartan Sprint
  Spartan Race, an international obstacle racing series, discusses the community of Corn Fed Spartans and the passion they bring to the Reebok Spartan Race. (PRWeb June 09, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/mudrun/spartanrace/prweb10808364.htm
  June 9, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Mark Dantonio in USA Today
  Many experts consider him to rank among the greatest defensive players to ever play the college game,Dantonio said. "His legacy as a true Spartan will live forever."
• Ray Nagin in KHBS/KHOG 40/29
  The city of New Orleans, the people, have gone through so much. I just wanted to represent the 'fighting spirit' we have to save this city,Nagin said. "If you want me to be a gladiator today, Spartan, a Roman soldier -- I just want to...
• Tom Izzo in HollandSentinel.com
  I think that might have been Kalin's best game as a Spartan,Izzo said. "He won't believe that, because he had 15 points and six assists, not 25 and 15, but he did exactly what I wanted him to do. He controlled the tempo, he showed poise...