It was that or become everyone's glorified errand boy, being used where needed. |
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He has been installed as a glorified mayor of the capital while the rest of the country has been abandoned to poverty, neglect, and warlordism. |
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The prize was some small comprehension of the worship of a people, unique because the God it adored and glorified was unique. |
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If men really respected women and want to maintain the dignity of women they would not go to a glorified knocking shop. |
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The Fijian way of life is glorified as the kind of life where people look after you if anything goes amiss. |
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Peter the Great at once commissioned it from Danzig masters and presented it to her with a laudatory poem that glorified her military exploits. |
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He is now living in heaven at the right hand of the Father, in a glorified body. |
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For an inordinate seven minutes, the song lilts and rolls into glorified nothingness. |
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Just lots of people and lots of police, all trapped together in the middle of a glorified traffic island. |
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It's been called one of the great achievements of the new age, and a British magazine said it looked like a glorified house trailer. |
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To save money, they might leave their bikes in those glorified cycle racks in front of the main stands. |
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And, unlike the glorified two-by-fours of the fat-ski past, these sticks have real sidecuts for carving on the groomed stuff. |
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He was left to twist in the wind while the press glorified his editor for having some second thoughts about the explosive articles. |
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The slam-bang boredom created by these glorified grunge grunts is almost unlistenable. |
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Love as glorified by poets draws the common man's inherent curiosity to unimaginable extents. |
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Washington was so glorified in his time that even history cannot unthrone him. |
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Though officially this was a full-blooded hunt, in reality it was little more than a glorified pony ride in the country. |
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After an inexplicable rise, the glorified stock-car chases known as NASCAR now hold the inside track among four-wheeled fanatics. |
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However in my opinion he is nothing but an over glorified peacock the way he struts around the school like he owns it. |
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The university last night hit back by insisting it was not funding students to go on a glorified pub crawl. |
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Of course we do think first of the King, the magnificent monarch of a glorified or idealized medieval realm. |
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A country that does not produce its own goods can quickly become nothing more than a nation of glorified pen-pushers. |
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The analysts and political commentators say the tribunals are a fact-finding mission, but the reality is that they are glorified public trials. |
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It would figure that this great hog, this glorified genre gourmand, would want more. |
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It is an aesthetic glorified by ancient Greeks in their ceramics, Romans in their friezes and Renaissance artists in their sculptures. |
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Over the past two centuries, Hamilton's reputation has waxed and waned as America has glorified or debunked businessmen. |
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Instead of expensive offset printing, which mainstream publishers use, print-on-demand relies on a glorified digital printer. |
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Coming on like a gang of existentialists they glorified degeneracy, nihilism, decadence and alcoholism. |
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A glorified secretary for the local police department, Marvin aspires to be a cop. |
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Since all I ever use the thing for is writing, to me it's just a glorified typewriter. |
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It will always be memorable because we've proven to ourselves that we can live abroad successfully, even on a glorified student budget. |
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I was horrified when I heard the following sound bites during the glorified PR exercise, disguised as a public information meeting. |
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This is a glorified car boot sale and I propose refusal on the grounds of road safety. |
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But those last two shows did dispel any notions that this was just glorified karaoke. |
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A village couple claim the bus service for the disabled is being used as a glorified taxi by people fit enough to travel on ordinary buses. |
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And she, who also has been assumed into heaven and has a glorified body, still has hands that show she was just a working woman. |
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This reminds us that worship will have a prominent place in the glorified church. |
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With all her heart and soul, Mary magnified and glorified the Lord by proclaiming his greatness. |
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In this case, the inquiry is in danger of being seen as little more than a glorified public relations exercise. |
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As someone who has only ever designed websites as an aside to proper work or as a glorified hobby, this is hugely flattering, and something I may just take up. |
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Practically what was really required was a sort of glorified bum-bailiff, with the necessary assistance, the bum-bailiff holding a position similar to that of a magistrate. |
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Those were the days before seatbelts in the back, and we used to bounce around so merrily that by the end of any long voyage our bench was a glorified vomitorium. |
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Wilderness campgrounds in national parks and forests offered much more privacy and seclusion than commercial RV parks, many of which were really just glorified parking lots. |
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Despite advances in headphone design, the fact is you are still listening to glorified stereo, where the sounds appear to thump uncomfortably inside your head. |
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This may seem like a good idea in theory, but in practice they amount to glorified extra-credit projects and pointless busywork. |
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Ichikowitz said he served between 1992 and 1994 as a glorified gofer for the African National Congress. |
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Over and over, they depict the brutality and avariciousness of Europeans and white males in the United States and present glorified portraits of other nations and cultures. |
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Those things that the nation once glorified it now derides and satirizes. |
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I once had a glorified sales job in a male-dominated department. |
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If we are to make further progress, we need to make use of the theological and scriptural window that gives access to the glorified life of the risen Lord. |
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It has glorified this violence in books, films and newspapers. |
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But without Duval, ranked No 3 in the world, Mickelson No 4, Westwood No 5, Montgomery No 6 and Love No 7, the tournament seems like a glorified club invitational. |
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Often they were little more than glorified police operations against small and ill-armed settler groups who may have intended protest at misgovernment, rather than revolution. |
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Against her better judgment, Aunt Martha agrees to provide free room and board in return for help with the housekeeping in her glorified skid-row flophouse. |
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In art and literature, in folk tales and mythology, the mother, as the personification of love and compassion, has been glorified and put up on a pedestal. |
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After the war they were used to make films which glorified communism. |
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For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. |
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During the Late Period his veneration extended to deification and he became a local god at Memphis where he was glorified for his skills as a physician and a healer. |
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Beyond the Brick, however, escapes condemnation as a glorified infomercial by broadening the scope of what it aims to accomplish. |
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Civil war, revolution, terrorism, and international war are widely condemned by many societies and glorified by others as the acme of patriotic fervor. |
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Or are you just a number at the end of a telephone talking to a glorified clerk who doesn't know you from Adam and is merely looking at some numbers on a computer screen? |
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But instead of having a human stuntman perform the scene, which would have grounded it in reality, it's just a glorified computer sprite doing the hopping. |
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God is primarily glorified not in what you do but what you are. |
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I work my fingers to the bone, and get precious little gratitude for it, and all you can do is treat me like some glorified gofer who's wet behind the ears? |
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Golden Age-of-TV evangelists prate on about which glorified soap operas are most deserving of our rapt attention. |
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But those years slipped into laddishness, embracing only one kind of Manchester, and we ended-up with a culture that glorified thugs, drugs, and thieving. |
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The iconic litigator, glorified by Julia Roberts in a 2000 movie, was arrested for drunkenly handling a boat this weekend. |
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One cannot help but observe that instead of it being used as a travel point, quite often the bus station is being used by the coach company as a glorified coach park. |
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They may live in glorified squats with a computer or be very wealthy. |
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Motherly love was glorified within the ideology of the bourgeois family. |
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It wasn't much more than a glorified typewriter, but it suited her fine. |
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Now it's the venue for a reality TV show starring Sinitta, Anthea Turner and Ritchie from 5ive hurtling down the ice on a glorified tea tray. |
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It glorified Naziism as something great, noble and admirable in the face of genocide and military conquest. |
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The young Socialists had glorified Vera Sassoulitsch, the Russian would-be assassinatrix. |
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A No vote would result in the Assembly working inefficiently and would make it no more than a glorified talking shop. |
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Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation. |
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Christ sends the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father, and the Holy Spirit forms Christ in our hearts, and thus God the Father is glorified. |
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Since glory is as bonifiable as it is intelligible, the saints in glory are glorified as much through bonifying as through understanding. |
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Similarly, while Romanticism glorified nature, Realism portrayed life in the depths of an urban wasteland. |
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Many clans have often claimed mythological founders that reinforced their status and gave a romantic and glorified notion of their origins. |
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Vann Nath escaped execution because he was an artist and took the job of painting and sculpting portraits that glorified the Khmer Rouge, and its leader Pol Pot. |
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If the captain was only a glorified first aid man as he claimed, the emphasis has to be on the glory he deserved for the way in which he did his job. |
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Following this reasoning, the veneration of the glorified human saint made in God's image, is always a veneration of the divine image, and hence God as foundational archetype. |
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote Manifesto of Futurism, called for the use of language and metaphors that glorified the speed, dynamism, and violence of the machine age. |
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