Their self-appointed role in life seems to be to treat their spouses as though they were small, mildly irritating but endearing children. |
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The last thing on anyone's mind should be having to deal with a mindless, self-appointed, unaccountable mob holding the country to ransom. |
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The western leaders confidently pose as self-appointed custodians of democracy, an expedient ploy to win over public opinion. |
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Charles's self-appointed role on these occasions was to look for any guardsman who swayed in the heat and then report them to their officers. |
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Don't these peasants realise that their self-appointed moral arbiters have already decided what they should think? |
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What gives these self-appointed activists the right to try to shut down the meetings of democratically elected leaders? |
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While the groups are forming, some students take charge as self-appointed leaders. |
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The committee met in an unofficial capacity eight years ago as self-appointed community leaders. |
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The fashion-challenged among us will be relieved to hear that even the self-appointed commissars of style haven't got a clue. |
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I feel pity for a people who let some self-appointed cult leaders do their thinking for them. |
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Because they are otherwise remarkably robust, death among Aboriginal youth often proves to be self-appointed. |
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How to interact with camp committees that may be self-appointed rather than representative. |
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I dealt with a lot of self-appointed experts on a range of subjects. |
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The problem is that self-appointed statesmen cannot create a nation. |
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The representatives of the relatives or patients appear to be largely self-appointed and it is unclear how accurately they reflect the views of others. |
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Real blogging is telling it how you see it and not conforming to what either the media or the self-appointed leaders of the blogs tell you is acceptable. |
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Many self-appointed experts believed that sending in the bombers at low-level was basically unsound and too dangerous. |
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There have always been self-appointed experts on the subject, of course. |
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For decades now self-appointed grammar mavens have railed against the use of hopefully as a sentence adverb. |
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There was a time when self-appointed wise men predicted the outcome of events, for good or ill, based on the position of the stars in the night sky. |
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It would be good to know if this is how he came across during his famous attempts to moderate American behaviour, in his self-appointed role as your best foreign friend. |
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As grown-ups we are able to exercise choice. These self-appointed moral guardians seem to think they have the right to ban that choice. |
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The official candidate was greatly overshadowed by the other four self-appointed independent candidates. |
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There are large segments of the international community not represented in the self-appointed Quartet, including the Arab shareholders. |
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Now is the time our people must reclaim self-determination and the right to dismiss self-appointed, unqualified leaders. |
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States are also those who are self-appointed to sign a social contract that binds them to other states through the UN Charter. |
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Today there are two pretenders to the title of headmaster, each self-appointed. |
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As self-appointed guardians of public sensibility, these organisations get to draw the line on what is acceptable. |
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Over the course of his political career, Amand Landry's self-appointed mission was to give voice to the interests of the Acadian people. |
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Whenever these self-appointed guardians of alcoholic and architectural merit get involved, an elitist macho tone taints proceedings. |
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It's easy to dismiss the jingoists, the English-only paranoiacs, the self-appointed culture police. |
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He was on a self-appointed mission to save the Alaskan grizzlies, and every summer he would camp among them and film them. |
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No one in Pakistan wanted the self-appointed savior, and he is now under house arrest. |
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For the self-appointed inquisitors of internet, it is always easier to accuse than seriously to inquire. |
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These publicity-seeking, self-appointed guardians of our morals have no right to dictate to us what we shall or shall not do. |
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But, typically, more than a few self-appointed culture mavens and media snobs were snickering under their breath. |
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On more than one occasion, a self-appointed individual would take it upon himself to give me a severe trouncing. |
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More than enough to hold a conversation with a self-appointed expert in any pub, I think. |
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Instead the over-taxed, ripped-off and victimised motorist is forced by self-appointed traffic commissars into an ever-diminishing number of already clogged traffic arteries. |
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I suppose every society needs its self-appointed professional disapprovers, but they really wouldn't be much fun to sit next to at a dinner party. |
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Like many self-appointed saviors, Haftar spoke with a certain self-admiring fatalism. |
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Those self-appointed commentators enliven and give form to the Lebanese community's introspection. |
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Mushnick, a self-appointed griper about the debasement of sports and the decline of civilization, prefers to find fault. |
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We are in favour of greater flexibility, but we have no use for a self-appointed avant garde to take the decisions on our behalf. |
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Who was the fraud, the vicious self-appointed censor, or the artist who toiled daily to transmit to future ages his graceful and winning reveries? |
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But it is just like any other year, and things predicted by self-appointed prophets and prophetesses will not occur. |
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The loyalty and protective instincts of Australian Cattle Dogs make them self-appointed guardians of herd, herdsman and herdsman's property. |
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It runs the risk of being seen as a vigilante approach to non-proliferation by an eleven-strong posse led by a self-appointed world sheriff. |
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It is vital that we look to science to help us here, and not to the various scaremongers and often self-appointed bodies that tend to spread stories of doom and gloom. |
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Their self-appointed mascot resigned from his self-appointed post. |
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He's the USA's self-appointed cheerleader. |
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The irresponsible attempt by various self-appointed clean-up operators to depict as fiddlers the generality of MEPs who keep to the rules and are guilty of not one single breach of them can no longer be tolerated. |
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Instead, the masses were supposed to submit to the leadership of a self-appointed band of petty-bourgeois radical intellectuals become guerrilleros who took to the hills. |
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Many self-appointed reformers who never engaged in business fail to see that changes are not wrought by words and slogans but by thoughts and acts. |
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The Group of Twenty is a self-appointed body, in which a huge portion of the world's population, those living in the developing and least developed countries, is not even represented. |
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The predictable consequence of such personal and cultural losses is often disillusionment, lassitude, substance abuse, self-injury and, most dramatically, self-appointed death at an early age. |
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The result is that few Kenyans are sure which one among the self-appointed intellectual and civil society activists and leaders can sustain a committed struggle for democracy for long. |
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The EU welcomes the agreement reached on 26 August in Praia, Cape Verde, between the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the self-appointed Military Junta, transforming the previous truce into a cease fire. |
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Pinker is not a self-appointed enforcer of arbitrary rules, and he has little patience for purists, prigs, and pedants. |
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Is the world's self-appointed Tantric sexpert answering anyone's calls? |
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Through its overemphasis on democratic accountability in the name of transparency, the present social system stands in the way of the emergence of such a self-appointed elite. |
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You'll have seen them on TV, usually with a double-barrelled name, a hoity-toity accent and a self-appointed mission to keep Scotland in the Dark Ages. |
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The only antidote to groupthink is for the leader to encourage debate and to publicly deflate the guardians, because they themselves are getting an ego rush in their self-appointed role of protector. |
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EastEnders BBC One Wales Max Branning continues in his role as self-appointed ghost at the feast. |
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A few self-appointed guardians of the past who want the built environment to remain preserved in aspic? |
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Hanging chads and recounts are bothersome, but I prefer that to Martinez's self-appointed authority to tidy up after the voters. |
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He sang his role mechanically and perfunctorily, without even the passion that a self-appointed advocate of reason should bring to bear on his words and actions. |
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Foreign customs are not the same as Canadian customs, and it is not well to make yourself a self-appointed ambassador, teacher, critic or proselytizer to change them. |
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Donohoe, the self-appointed president of the American Standard Dry Martini Club, might not even recognize Cooper as a coreligionist. |
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We know where such self-appointed self-importance ultimately leads. |
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The point is that Tehran has met its various obligations and it is the self-appointed bullyboy members of the Security Council that have a lot of work to do. |
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