| It is often the hard taskmaster who alone succeeds in instilling mistrust of primrose paths. |
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| He is said by colleagues to be a hard taskmaster who does not tolerate failure. |
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| Martin, the course director, is something of a harsh taskmaster when he wants to be. |
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| He seemed a hard taskmaster, but he did it all for what he saw to be the ultimate good. |
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| Soden has been portrayed in some quarters as a hard taskmaster who doesn't suffer fools gladly. |
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| Generations of children in the town have grown up knowing her as a hard taskmaster in her role as a swimming instructor. |
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| Not only is it a hard taskmaster, insatiable in the demands it makes on its followers, it often saves the best till last. |
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| He was my first guru and was a hard taskmaster, adamant about me getting the basics of my training in Carnatic music right. |
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| She was then employed by Howard, a changeable character, easygoing one day, an unforgiving taskmaster the next. |
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| Taylor considers himself to be something of a hard taskmaster but he has been delighted with the response of his players. |
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| Gilbert is a hard taskmaster, but Murray certainly knew that before they got together. |
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| Robbins's disciplinarianism won him a reputation as a harsh and cruel taskmaster. |
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| Mars is a hard-driving taskmaster, so you've probably been overdoing things again recently. |
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| I'm a hard taskmaster and there is still room for improvement. |
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| Having come face-to-face with the king of political interviews on his other show, University Challenge, she has nothing but praise for the hard taskmaster. |
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| Like Jobs, Amazon's boss is a demanding taskmaster and micromanager who does not suffer fools gladly. |
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| Faced with such hard times, people yearned for some empathy and warmth from their taskmaster but Mr Kubilius remained aloof. |
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| I have no problem with your being a tough taskmaster, Mr. Chair, but we need our five minutes. |
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| In the 50s, I had an excellent taskmaster in the field of the right approach: my boss Maria Aab. |
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| Might it have drawn a lesson from the experiences of its European mentor and taskmaster? |
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| Since his arrival, the Colombian taskmaster had made it clear that places in his team are awarded on merit alone. |
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| Since Saturn is the taskmaster who teaches you the difficult lessons, it's no wonder that so many struggle with that period in their life. |
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| CrossFitters work out in groups, moving to the demands of a benevolent taskmaster. |
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| It involves hard choices and you have to be a hard taskmaster. |
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| The novel and the film tell the story of a piano instructor, Erika, a demanding taskmaster who embarks on a dramatic affair with a younger music student. |
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| Ravel took few pupils, and was known as a demanding taskmaster for those he agreed to teach. |
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| As an orchestra conductor, Sargent had already been known as a hard taskmaster. |
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| The Minister of Finance is a hard taskmaster and we do not have the opportunity of spending money on roads right, left and centre as that party seems to believe we should. |
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| My role ranges from taskmaster to den mother to head chef to quality-control maven. |
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| The head of finance can now take on the responsibility and thus importance to the company—of watchdog, conscience, taskmaster and strategist all at once. |
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| That taskmaster central processing unit is a PortalPlayer chip. |
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| She is a caregiver, like a Mutti, not a taskmaster, like her Irish or Greek caricatures. By temperament, Mrs Merkel tries to slow political processes down. |
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