Her English teacher, Mrs. Tates, prided herself on always letting the computer randomly pick the seating assignment. |
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He prided himself on, you know, correcting people, on knowing things like that. |
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Since the end of the Second World War, Canada has prided itself on being a force for international justice. |
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They were the fellow travellers who prided themselves on their cultural cultivation and their disdain for the brutish loyalty of party members. |
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We have long prided ourselves as being an exceedingly pragmatic and practical people. |
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Of course, the company has always prided itself on being that little bit different. |
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I have prided myself on the quality of my students and consider most of them lifelong friends. |
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For 600 years, the cathedral city of Rochester in Kent has prided itself on its status. |
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The lingerie department of Billier's prided itself on the elegance of its offerings. |
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Serfdom did not reach them, and they looked on European Russians as lickspittles and prided themselves on their lack of deference to the centre. |
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The friendliness and atmosphere in their pub is something they have always prided themselves on. |
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The one thing I always prided myself on, besides my good looks, was my ability to control my anger and not say things that I would regret. |
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The Southern Railway has always prided itself in its turnout and kept the rack section running despite the revenue deficit. |
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He might be a snitch, but he prided himself on providing good information to those who needed and would pay for it. |
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Haven't they always prided themselves on doing better than the Stock Exchange through all kinds of markets, bear or bull? |
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He had prided himself on being a strong swimmer, even for an elf, but this girl was easily outdistancing him. |
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Helene employed household help, but Cullman's German housewives prided themselves on their industriousness and housekeeping without servants. |
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Freedom of expression and social cohesion are under severe threat in a society that once prided itself on tolerance and civic liberty. |
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The government prided itself on the various industrial and agricultural advances that put it on par with and even ahead of South Korea. |
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The old Tophams prided itself on being a home from home for its visitors and the renovated hotel is trying hard to do the same thing. |
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And yet this is the very same nation that has long prided itself on being a beacon of multiculturalism, of tolerance and of civil society. |
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It was a devastating blow to a country that had always prided itself on its sporting values. |
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Nora prided herself in knowing how to do things, where to get them, what was good and in what way it was good. |
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The crews had landed their aircraft in difficult conditions before and prided themselves in their ability and professionalism. |
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Over the years, Veterans Affairs Canada has prided itself on making steady progress towards improving services and benefits for its clients. |
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Switzerland has long prided itself on attracting multinational enterprises by offering a favorable corporate tax structure on a cantonal basis. |
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Canada has prided itself on being a country historically open to immigrants. |
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For more than 10 years, Novo Nordisk has prided itself on creating a sustainable approach to business. |
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It turned out their previous teacher had been a Miss Barwell from the Home Counties, a former elocution mistress who prided herself on her cut-glass vowels. |
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For the two founders, who prided themselves on being well-informed, it would be a harsh lesson in the dangers of being too clever and too cloistered. |
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New York Fashion Week attracted crowds who prided themselves on their knowledge of the latest and greatest in high fashion. |
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Today, a people that prided itself on rugged self-sufficiency during the war depend on the steady flow of trucks carrying sacks of grain donated by the World Food Programme. |
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I'm a former ballet dancer who prided myself on being in shape. |
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The mountain people of the Valais, who formed the majority of these elite troops, prided themselves on having these qualities. |
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Liberals prided themselves on the leanness of a state that ruled India with a few thousand bureaucrats. |
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When she was at home, however, she prided herself on being a good wife and mother. |
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I prided myself on having a mouth like a sailor, imagined myself unshockable. |
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He had always prided himself on never stooping to such slang. |
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She prided her self in loving everything neat, tidy and organised. |
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Co op housing representatives have prided themselves over the years with offering governments suggestions and solutions that work, as opposed to simply reciting the problems that exist. |
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I had always prided myself on being creative, but in the sexperience department I was coming up dry. |
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The pilot prided himself in keeping the helicopters he flew clean. |
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The Conservative government has prided itself on standing up for farmers and developing programs like Agri-recovery and other policies to assist farmers during crisis situations. |
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The Pythons prided themselves on the depths of the historical research they had taken before writing the script. |
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Until quite recently most of the leaders of the territories in contention in the gulf crisis have prided themselves on their bedouin heritage and tribal traditions. |
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Within psychology, principles of social justice and social responsibility are slowly being recognized in a profession whose members have often prided themselves in their emphasis on the individual. |
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Countries that prided themselves on respect for democracy and the rule of law and proudly claimed to champion human rights could not condone such a situation. |
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Since its inception, Electro has prided itself on providing customers with the best service and product quality in the industry. |
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Indeed, Boston prided itself on its connoisseurship and produced a number of talented composers, who sought to adapt the great German tradition to American themes. |
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The couple prided themselves on the quality of their ploughman's lunches which were so popular that people travelled miles to sample them. |
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The Umayyad caliphs, particularly Hisham bin 'Abd al-Malik prided themselves on their capacity to transform deserts into lush pleasure gardens for courtly pursuits, such as hunting game. |
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The four prided themselves on their sense of style, sense of humour, and appreciation of beauty. |
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But the BBC has always prided itself on being a good engineering company. |
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This shift began in Texas, a place that has long prided itself for its toughness towards offenders, then spread to more than two dozen other states. |
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California has long prided itself as a center of invention, and Pavely expressed confidence that the state could find progressive ways to meet the increases. |
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The religion of the newly independent church was for its head to settle: for the rest of his life, Henry, who prided himself on his theological learnings, was to give much time and thought to the nature of the true religion. |
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At Long-Term Living we've always prided ourselves on our topicality. |
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She saw that Velvin, if a stubborn man, was a very simple and very goodhearted one, and she prided herself on her skill in sweetly reasonable persuasion of the lower classes. |
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Mallaig prided itself at that time on its famous traditionally smoked kippers, but today only one traditional smokehouse remains, Jaffy's and Sons. |
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He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post. |
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Charles II was a man who prided himself on his wit and his worldliness. |
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He prided himself on his largeness when he granted that there were three kinds of women... Not that he pigeon-holed Frona according to his inherited definitions. |
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I have always prided myself on fairness and equitability in all things. |
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