| First, the system's best teachers will resent being treated like robots and are likely to leave, while the mediocrities will follow orders. |
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| Many of the other figures involved in the operation were egregious intriguers and strivers, mediocrities for whom the CIA's money was a godsend. |
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| Insignificant in herself, she stands as a cipher for the famous mediocrities of our time, and they are legion. |
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| The British vicariate could be an important stage in a fully professional career, and the men in the post of whom we know were not mediocrities. |
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| Virtually all those who have achieved prominence or notoriety have been exposed as mediocrities and rank scoundrels. |
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| And it allows low-performing mediocrities to get promoted over and over and over. |
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| Think of the many mediocrities that go through education programs and end up teaching. |
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| But that would make him no different than 10,000 other mediocrities in academia in many other fields. |
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| You can't take power from mediocrities because they work 24 hours a day to keep what they have. |
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| The notion that these people should be subordinated to the welfare of a majority of mediocrities who cannot make it in world markets is repugnant. |
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| The interior ministry, run by a series of APRA mediocrities, has failed to stop Peru from becoming the world's biggest cocaine exporter. |
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| In a Congress of hackish mediocrities, they seemed to get to the top by having truly sterling qualities of hackish mediocrity. |
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| Serving the nation was the language employed by this disparate group of arrogant mediocrities and intellectual fraudsters. |
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| As a result, South Korea suffers from a shortage of happy mediocrities, countercultural rebels, slackers, dropouts and eccentrics. |
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| Top academic salaries in Australia for those who are the outstanding performers are far too low, while mediocrities and worse are rewarded beyond their deserts. |
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| Ambitious mediocrities can be counted on to throw dirt on their betters. |
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| And what sorts of bland mediocrities will end up on the courts? |
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| This is just the scenario the mediocrities were praying for. |
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| He shot almost everyone who was intelligent and thereby ensured that the surviving mediocrities would manage to lose an empire within 40 years of his death. |
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| Much as it may disappoint the flop of mediocrities who have decided to pursue power in Edinburgh, the Scottish executive was not created to be a national government. |
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| We are not stirred to either a greater or a lesser degree by that musical-comedy patriotism which rejoices in the,present-day mediocrities and paltrinesses of Spain and in heavy interpretations of the past. |
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| Gambetta notes that throwing more money at research is not likely to bring good results, at least not in the short term, since the institution is staffed by mediocrities. |
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| Who among today's mediocrities could pretend to be a new Hamilton? Still, the study of America's history and that of Canada, Brazil and even Germany—offers lessons. |
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| The perfection of the photo, the greatest screens, the sonorous one to high fidelity, all this allows the mediocrities to slavishly dub the nature: and this reproduction annoys me. |
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| They are in direct opposition to the classical image of the human body, ready, finished, fully mature, in a way purged of the mediocrities and dross of birth and development. |
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