| From a human interest point of view, these are people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. |
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| The whole system being proposed by Ashcroft is actually the equivalent of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. |
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| As Cosby pointed out, at some point you have to pull up the bootstraps and take some responsibility for yourself and family. |
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| If this means pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps and taking on historically new work, so be it. |
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| Those in poverty, and they were numerous, were buoyed up by constant evidence of people pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps. |
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| It was a formal visit that he made and so I tagged along on his bootstraps. |
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| The former tycoon remains the mould for any young Scots entrepreneur wanting to hoist themselves up by the bootstraps. |
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| And besides, wealth disparity on campus can to a certain extent motivate students to work harder and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. |
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| As a result, LinuxBIOS has a sequence of bootstraps, each bootstrap being invoked when additional CPU resources are activated. |
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| The original program performed bootstraps, but we developed additional permutation and resampling options to improve statistical testing. |
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| It's a bleak view proposed by the Dardennes, and one that flies in the face of old homilies about pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. |
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| He is a wealthy man who became wealthy by pulling himself up by his bootstraps, working hard and having a better idea. |
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| The self-made success, who pulled himself up by his own bootstraps, is at the heart of the American dream. |
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| This was a woman for whom pulling herself up by the bootstraps was a reality, which meant a heavy dose of strong-mindedness was essential. |
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| Button up your bootstraps, tie on your bonnet, and throw your cabin door open wide for this wholesome tale from the heart of America's 18th-century homeland. |
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| He pulled two small daggers from his bootstraps and shrugged. |
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| It's what politicised him, he says – having to pull himself up by his own bootstraps. |
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| The same people who once mocked her for her Style sense are now clinging onto her bootstraps for advice about how to avoid a Style faux pas. |
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| They had no choice but to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, as the right-wing Conservatives are always prone to say. |
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| A character had fallen part way down a manhole, and pulled himself out by grabbing his bootstraps, and lifting. |
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| Since she pulled herself up by her bootstraps, it rankles her that Sonan has achieved command so quickly. |
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| It's a shame, because if we want to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and join the global village as peers, we must be able to hold our heads high with our literacy skills. |
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| If the little people want to keep up with what goes in Parliament they can jolly well pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get themselves elected, like our Peter did. |
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| The obvious ability for the transitorily poor to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps means that policy interventions on their behalf are not needed. |
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| But he pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become a businessman. |
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| Gee, good thing you learned to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, but please have a little consideration for some who didn't quite make it to your neck of the woods. |
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| And I remember Grandma saying that when I was a little girl, and I pulled myself up by my bootstraps and I marched right into the shopping center. |
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| Today's mass media deliver proof that they can make their dreams come true in the form of success stories which glorify celebrities who have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. |
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| In other words, a regional security organization cannot hoist itself by its own bootstraps into a legal power to use armed force that it does not have under the charter. |
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| We can't get a loan, so we'll just have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. |
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| After three years of turmoil and sliding incomes, his insistence on discipline, pulling up bootstraps and hard work resonates strongly among the pinched middle class. |
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| It is the old philosophy of pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps. |
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| We Americans are taught to stand on our own two feet, pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, be rugged individualists, and all that other Ayn Rand tommyrot. |
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| There might be 1,000 reasons for it, and I am not making excuses here, but believe me the reason is not that people are not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, as some critics would have us believe to be the case. |
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| We have to recognize that energy is so pervasive in the economy that essentially we come to a certain point of trying to help people affected by high costs where the government is trying to pull itself up by its bootstraps. |
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| Rather, we believe that when a nation is able to lift itself up by its own bootstraps through homegrown initiatives, visible change will come as a logical consequence. |
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| Mastracchio walked out to the CMG worksite, and Williams joined him by climbing onto the end of the Canadarm2 and, bootstraps secured, was flown into working position by the station's robotic crane. |
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| More recently, falling prices have been taken as a signal to flee, even though shares are much cheaper than they were not so long ago. Asset prices pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. |
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| Spacers and supports of bootstraps are possible on inquiry. |
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| People cannot pull themselves up by the bootstraps if they have no boots. |
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| Even so, in the backrooms of Parliament Hill, whisperers claimed that passage of the Access Act had little to do with pulling Canadian democracy up by its bootstraps and even less to do with transparency. |
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