The number two at the ministry was sacked; on August 17th the minister, Wagner Rossi, a sidekick of the vice-president, Michel Temer, resigned.
"In the old cowboy movies I used to see as a boy, all the heroes had a sidekick. The sidekick was never as smart or handsome or brave as the hero but he was always there to help out in times of danger."
Everywhere they go, he has to take his sidekick with him.
Its authors are self-proclaimed “rogue economist” Steven Levitt, of the University of Chicago, and his swashbuckling sidekick Stephen Dubner, a journalist.
There are elements of a sharp hero/sidekick inversion here: Kato is the handsome, brilliant inventor and karate expert; Britt is, well, rich enough to pay the salary of someone like Kato.
The generator has a sidekick: a water-purification machine, called Slingshot.
But the pipe-puffing, opium-dabbling detective and his note-taking sidekick share the spotlight here with a very moody third character, the city of London itself.
There are elements of a sharp hero/sidekick inversion here: Kato is the handsome, brilliant inventor and karate expert;
Unless you're his sidekick, he won't let you pass easily.
But in refusing to make any back-room concessions to Mr Ozawa, and in seeing off Mr Ozawa's sidekick, Yukio Hatoyama, the former prime minister, he has started to earn back the public's respect.
'Cause me and you, we're like a crew. I was like your sidekick.
Jon Favreau, who directed both Iron Man movies (and who plays Tony's driver and sidekick, Happy Hogan) barely conceals his impatience with the action sequences.
Whether you're heading into the wild or down the road, it's hard to find a better electronic sidekick than a GPS.
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