| Their modern-day equivalents are merely bureaucratic nonentities completely remote from everyday life. |
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| They are mediocre nonentities who demand to know your tax history, your type of business, your social status. |
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| We know nothing about him, and isn't that better than knowing everything about most of the nonentities on football's centre stage? |
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| Irrespective of last week's triumphs over some continental nonentities, who really cares? |
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| That's why these two political nonentities are stuck in the political quagmire of Vietnam. |
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| And how can a healthy Baker not be better than the negligible nonentities Boston used for an inside attack last season? |
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| Restricting access marginalizes youth, defining them as social nonentities at best, irritations at worst. |
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| They are not in the gift, or at the discretion, of a passing parade of political nonentities. |
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| It was said that the candidates besides Rybak were political nonentities, lacking both in campaign resources and public recognition. |
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| They are not in the gift or at the discretion of a passing parade of political nonentities, here today and gone tomorrow. |
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| Well, it is about time we had some celebrities honoured and it is about time that the self-seeking nonentities who inhabit City Hall acknowledged this and honoured some. |
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| I have seen it before where big teams have lost to nonentities. |
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| They are commodities or nonentities, items to be consumed and ignored. |
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| While some of us may or may not adhere to these beliefs, those out of step become nonentities, dismissed as right-wing, misguided, and unenlightened. |
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| Now, it seems, in order to cease being politically led nonentities, councillors aspire to become politically led somebodies by virtue of paying themselves more and more. |
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| Celebrities and nonentities alike will have the right to be out of the limelight when it suits them. |
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| We are nonentities at birth, and we only become persons when we acquire status in a group and a conception of our place among our associates. |
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| These nonentities often beat more popular candidates from less favoured groupings. |
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| But on a political stage peopled by interchangeable nonentities, Mr Hashimoto's entry has had a galvanising effect. |
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| He appointed nonentities to many ministerial posts and is keeping the more impressive ones on a tight leash. |
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| The presidency since Lincoln has generally been a succession of nonentities. |
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| But with reality TV fast becoming the most popular genre on our screens, an ever increasing number of nonentities are demanding more than their quarter-hour. |
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| The noble person take care about virtues, and nonentities about things. |
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| But a system that propels nonentities to the front does not lend itself to dictatorship either. In the authoritarian parts of East Asia, India's democracy is sometimes blamed for its relative backwardness. |
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| The most deadly of all ghosts are wandering over Britain and medicine, apartheiding people into superiors and nonentities. |
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