Garbage piled up in the streets and the place became a byword for dirt and danger. |
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Since he first gained national prominence 25 years ago as an earnest left-wing firebrand, his name has been a byword for probity and decency. |
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But high quality is the byword here, so stay away from those cloudy dime-store magnifying glasses. |
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Community work has become a byword for slap-happy mismanagement of people's sentences. |
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I think most regard such lunges for underdog status, at least in relation to a political contest, as a byword. |
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It has become a magnet for avant-gardists who want to hang out in a place that has become a byword for New York's alternative arts scene. |
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The Government Information Service had long been a byword for incompetence. |
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And so to see a club like York City, once a byword for financial prudence and parsimony, to be staring over the abyss is a mortal blow. |
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The cloak of senatorial courtesy has become a stench in the nostrils and a byword in the mouths of all honest citizens of the land. |
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The American Revolutionary's 1748 remark stands as a byword for industrial capitalism's hurry-up ethic. |
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Scotland could become an international byword for backwardness, intolerance and prejudice if that's what its elected representatives want. |
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This site is becoming the byword for solid, objective commentary on technology companies for the growing number of technology stock investors. |
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His intense, poetic depictions of northern scenery have become a byword for a melancholic, spiritually inspired attitude to nature. |
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It has become a byword for elegant and difficult exercises, especially on the pommel horse. |
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From the outset of operations, pay for performance has been a byword at Novartis. |
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But, instead, the plucky teenager is an academic high-flier and the life and soul of his school, where his name is a byword for good natured generosity. |
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Literate North India, for its part, laments the transformation of a Delhi that was once a byword for elegant poetry, Mughal manners and courtly civilisation. |
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During his two-decade rule, Ethiopia went from being a byword for starvation to a substantial food exporter. |
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Take Lagos, the commercial capital, long a byword for chaos and skulduggery. |
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The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money. |
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Creativity is now a byword for ideas refracted in the lens of ironic self-reference. |
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Years ago, the secret got out and Nixon became kind of a byword for behind-the-scenes vocal stand-ins, of the type that is used less today. |
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With 40 million viewers in the Arab world, al-Jazeera has become a byword for independent reporting. |
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L'Office National du Ducroire: The byword in Belgium for export credit-insurance. |
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Protecting our economies or national agriculture is not a byword for protectionism. |
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In the jewellery, fashion and design market, Swarovski is a byword for spectacular works crafted from precisioncut crystal. |
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The byword in these countries was survival, how to make the successful transition to a global market economy. |
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However, flexibility should not be a byword for a diminution of standards or of the protection of workers' rights. |
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Sustainable growth or development is gradually becoming a byword for future planning. |
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These are the people whose misguided zeal turned the Middle Ages into a byword for fanaticism and oppression. |
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Even far from the crowds and the well-trodden paths, meeting people is easy and hospitality is a byword. |
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He is a byword for dedication and once memorably warned a caddie that he opened up and closed the practice range, routinely whacking 500 balls in a day. |
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For U.S. readers, the galah is a colourful Australian parrot that has become a byword for stupidity because of its suicidal behaviour on some occasions. |
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The company became a byword for excellence, developing a team-based corporate culture, but by the 1990s, the vast company had become weighed down by bureaucracy. |
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It was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France. |
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The judge was a member of the Romilly family, a byword for liberality and compassionate public service, active in penal reform and similar good causes. |
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The orphaned Garden Festival site became a byword in lost opportunity. |
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The former home secretary inherited a department that was a byword for inefficiency and incompetence, and ordered a large scale clear-out of the dead wood. |
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Mercedes used to be a byword for durability but now it's a byword for being on the hard shoulder at four in the morning with steam coming out of the bonnet. |
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Back in 1955, MacKinlay Kantor made the prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville, Georgia, a byword for all of the horrors of the Civil War. |
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Democracy is a byword in just about every corner of the earth. |
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Japan is a byword for classic aesthetics, spirit and poetry. |
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With the help of a friend she branched out in 1953 from creams into Youth-Dew, a bestselling bath oil and perfume combined, and became the doyenne of all beauty. Tactility was her byword. |
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Crystal has been developed through the advanced research and technology that have made GranitiFiandre style famous around the world as a byword for outstanding elegance, distinction, and good taste. |
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Although at times very fun, the sub genre has almost become a byword for faddism and style over substance. |
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Their coming in 1993 became a byword for many things. |
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For exactly 100 years now, what is still the biggest department store in continental Europe has been a byword for luxury shopping, and it has long-since become a tourist attraction. |
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The services offered by transtec are a byword for quality and reliability. |
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Cerruti is a byword for classic Italian chic. |
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We will systematically expand the brand and the packaging concept associated with the cave-matured cheeses and make it a byword for «matured to perfection». |
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Among users world wide, the Macro system is a byword for precision. |
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The Syrian regime has become a byword for intransigence and monopolistic authoritarianism. |
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Even in the early 19th century the river was a byword for pollution. |
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Throughout the organization, quality is a byword. |
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Teuton was the byword the Romans applied to the barbarians from the north and which they used to describe subsequent Germanic peoples. |
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Therefore his Italianized Valencian surname, Borgia, became a byword for libertinism and nepotism, which are traditionally considered as characterizing his pontificate. |
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Since the mid-eighties Lambeth council had become a byword for failure in the public sector and, from the tabloid press's perspective, the gold standard for looniness. |
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