It made me an honest worker, unconcerned about promotions, or about bootlicking my superiors. |
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But, as with pure naturalistic theories of evolution, your task is to shut up and bow to your superiors, not ask obvious questions. |
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Peters waited and then, in a fluster, excused himself from his superiors and left. |
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They argue that municipal judges may make judgments that brown-nose their superiors to keep their jobs. |
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He is suspected of having reported the bugged conversations to his superiors on a regular basis. |
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It is unlikely that you will ever be asked to adopt the role of chairman involving a meeting of your superiors. |
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Most had spied for money, but some spied out of ideological motives, and others because of grudges against their superiors. |
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My superiors however are fickle and dance to a different drum than I do, so it would pay for me not to get my hopes up too high. |
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The disgraced Capt. Rolf Mueller is blackmailed by his superiors into helming a merchant ship packed with rubber cargo from Japan to Bordeaux. |
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Maintain social status by winning at least as much as your inferiors and climb the ranks by winning more than your superiors. |
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They are independent from their superiors because they are personally responsible for any losses that occur. |
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His superiors, knowing that boys his age were two a penny, did not even bother to follow him. |
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Their superiors expected them neither to analyze information nor to synthesize and explain raw data. |
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When we all got back to camp, our General communicated by heliograph from a distant mountain top with his superiors. |
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What they objected to was the possibility of students having equal parity with their superiors on issues such as hiring and promotion. |
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They wore trousers or pants as opposed to the knee-britches of their social superiors. |
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Middle managers had come to rely on their superiors for guidance on decisions big and small. |
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This attitude towards his superiors would be mere insolence if it did not have political overtones. |
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Resistance is likely to be directed at management from superiors and employees. |
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Greg is a corporal in the army but he never seems to obey orders or even to address his superiors as anything other than equals. |
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For Paul, life has always been about following orders and listening to your superiors. |
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They were astonished to find stacks of gold ingots higher than their heads and reported this to their superiors. |
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Recently some staff refused to collect taxes when one of their superiors tried to proscribe bribery in the ranks. |
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He stood there with a distant look in his eyes holding a radio in his hand that was spattering incomprehensible messages from his superiors. |
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Would his superiors be angry with him if they found he had made so weighty a decision in their absence? |
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I will be recommending to my superiors that he is put forward for an award. |
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If the teacher refuses to do so, he will be open to public censure and criticism from his superiors, further warnings, and potential expulsion. |
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After months of gathering research and outlining a plan of execution, Gooden was ready to sell the idea to her superiors. |
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He's aced parts of the army physical fitness test and was admired by his superiors for his work ethic. |
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How are we supposed to feel a sense of accomplishment and achievement when our superiors deem these successes worthless? |
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In three minutes he was off the ship in his own craft to deliver another negative report to his superiors. |
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Underlings, superiors, competition among contemporaries, you name it, this has it. |
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As a rule of thumb, it is safe to assume that your subordinates, peers and superiors do not lie awake at night thinking up ways to do you dirt. |
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Status symbols highlighting the distinction between superiors and subordinates are also very important in such an environment. |
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At best, they had to await their turn at the food hoppers and not get in the way of their superiors. |
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Various groups of rigorists began openly to accuse their opponents of laxity in the observance of poverty and even to disobey their superiors. |
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The story turns rote, like a billion spy novels where the rogue agent has to meet his superiors and turn the tables. |
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Where among modern writers can you find their superiors in clearness and vigour of literary style? |
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When one soldier fired a rubber bullet lower, into the crowd, I saw one of his superiors grab his gun and berate him. |
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I have on occasion met some of my superiors on assignment, but they are usually in disguise or there is limited light. |
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To get a favourable rating, employees may endorse every action of their superiors without analysing its merits and demerits. |
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Despite his frequently tense relations with his superiors, he engendered fierce loyalty among many of his subordinates. |
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Nor does it seem like these folks felt they had a lot to fear from oversight from superiors. |
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Yet he is being criticized, even threatened by his superiors for refusing to make financial considerations the overriding factor. |
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The salary discrimination permits the superiors to fix the salaries of their employees on an arbitrary basis. |
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On Saturday he conscientiously completed his paperwork and reported to his superiors. |
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There was nothing sheltering this base creature from the eye of his moral superiors. |
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Clawing for tenure in a savage competition, the upwardly mobile learn subservience to superiors. |
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That doesn't mean they aren't guilty of vile abuses, but their superiors shouldn't get a free pass. |
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Nowhere were the demands imposed by social superiors subject to any significant restrictions or checks. |
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In free governments, the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns. |
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Aside from thinking, Simon also does the necessary chores and obeys all commands from his superiors. |
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His philosophy in being an official was to gain the good opinion of his superiors by boasting about his achievements. |
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For all the mystery surrounding him, he had a very formal personality, especially in the presence of his colleagues and superiors. |
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The commanders reporting to their superiors explain they are undermanned and are doing the best they can. |
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Others are the victims of tactless, heavy-handed criticism from superiors. |
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Indeed, the same could apply to rugby where there is little precaution to shield juniors and juveniles from being exposed to the habits of their superiors. |
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As he turned to leave under the withering gaze of his disappointed superiors, it was discovered that he had not received the decryption code that accompanied the exercise. |
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People rightly aren't willing to risk destroying their own careers if they sense there isn't sufficient protection from reprisals by their superiors. |
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This stand-alone thriller features Miles Flint, an unambitious low-level spy, whose job is to watch and listen, and report backs to his superiors. |
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After realizing that we've managed to burn only 14 minutes of the lunch hour, we succumb to that intoxicatingly familiar urge to trash talk our superiors. |
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Yet, I still want to get even, to go back there and blow them away, Smoke 'em, do a number on them, get that supervisor's supervisor in hot water with her superiors. |
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Phillip ordered his underlings, repeating the orders from his superiors. |
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The term feudal is often associated with William and the Normans, suggesting a system whereby a tenant or vassal held land from the King or his superiors. |
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But the moment his superiors in Greater Manchester Police heard about it, the Stockport officer's self-funded trip to America turned into a busman's holiday. |
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There are stern mother superiors, innocent novitiates, jolly sisters. |
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He fumes at his superiors, chews scenery, and stumbles upon some carnage where an infectious virus has calcified an entire boardroom full of lawyers. |
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Their superiors are under constant pressure to retrain marginal performers rather than to discharge them. |
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There is an internal struggle between him and his superiors that takes place almost entirely off-screen and results in a ridiculous, violent finale. |
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Margaret of Oingt was a nobly born French Carthusian nun who, once she had gained approval from her superiors, wrote a variety of works of remarkable vigour. |
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These prisoners faced frequent beatings by superiors, subsisted on an inadequate diet, and lacked the clothing or boots needed for working in the cold, rugged terrain. |
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Whence he is said to have supereminence over all other superiors. |
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Tough but softly spoken, he leads the platoon through enemy lines with an ease that confounds his superiors as they attempt to emulate his advance. |
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Each time he goes to see his immediate superiors, and each time they're completely different people, with completely different power structures in place. |
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Surely his superiors would not want him to pass up such an opportunity. |
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Despite regular meetings, you fail to notify your superiors of problems both with the build and with the budget, putting them in an indefensible public position. |
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Thus, in brief, the basic tenets of Confucian thought are obedience to and respect for superiors and parents, duty to family, loyalty, humility, sincerity, and courtesy. |
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It is deplorable and very dangerous for the civic group to openly incite young soldiers who live on their orders to be insubordinate to the words of their superiors. |
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Even if this guy was a total creep, maybe his superiors would be better. |
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Things don't get better when I ask about dessert at the bar, and the barman confers with his superiors before revealing that all they've got left is hot chocolate fudge cake. |
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His superiors transferred him to another job driving garbage trucks. |
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The constant friction with his superiors probably hastened his downfall. |
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By February, his personal conduct had begun to draw criticism from his superiors. |
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Coaches also have to deal with pushy parents and demanding superiors. |
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This demanded that the subordinates must advise their superiors if the superiors are considered to be taking a course of action that is wrong. |
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It describes the 'ganging up' behaviors used by co-workers, subordinates or superiors, to force someone to leave the work group. |
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Initially, the women's communities took a monastic form of life, either voluntarily or under pressure from ecclesiastical superiors. |
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It took some micromanaging of my behaviors from superiors before the good habits took hold to where I enjoyed success in my sales career. |
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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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In 1928, RAF College Cranwell cadet Frank Whittle formally submitted his ideas for a turbojet to his superiors. |
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In an unprecedented move, Clifford went to Chicago to have a face-to-face with Tony's superiors. |
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They are as disgusted as the rest of us at the actions of a few rotten apples and superiors who have betrayed them. |
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The Louisiana territory was to be administered by superiors in Cuba with a governor on site in New Orleans. |
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This most austere life is only granted to the most advanced monastics and only when their superiors feel they are ready for it. |
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A young Home Guard officer decides to show his Blimpish superiors that the younger generation is fed up with playing old-fashioned war games. |
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One member, RUC officer John Weir, claimed his superiors knew of the collusion but allowed it to continue. |
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In practice, however, the plans were highly aggregated and provisional, subject to ad hoc intervention by superiors. |
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The king was not more forward to bestow favours on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors. |
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However, Nelson's personality was complex, often characterised by a desire to be noticed, both by his superiors, and the public. |
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His scandalized superiors ordered him out of Zealand and held him in the priory at Viborg under close confinement until he should come to his senses. |
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Thus resentment does not arise and superiors and inferiors are in harmony. |
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Servants stand to wait upon superiors, especially the guest of honor. |
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Her no-nonsense way of resolving issues impressed her superiors. |
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He was something of a disciplinarian, but also impressed his superiors by his skill at sorting out paperwork and analysing recent training exercises. |
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Burma Area Army originally quashed this idea, but found that their superiors at Southern Expeditionary Army Group HQ in Singapore were keen on it. |
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De Gaulle called on the military to break with their hierarchical superiors and on the other French citizens to distance themselves from their government. |
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These and a host of other red flags had caused FBI Agent Stephen Butler to press his superiors to take action against Hazmi and Midhar, but they refused. |
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Second, Flinn was hammered for marital infidelity by her superiors in an attempt to give the appearance of being gender-blind in handing out punishment. |
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For the most part, neither superiors nor fellow guards took action when they saw the abuse. Their passive bystandership allowed the evolution of increasing abuse. |
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But whatever the Russians may have felt about Shakespear, his superiors were delighted by the way he had so skilfully spiked the Tsar's guns by liberating his subjects. |
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It charges the official to obey his superiors, limit his desires, and to build roads to smooth the transmitting of directives from the center without modification. |
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