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Simply, Le Guen believes every coach has a shelf-life of three or four years at any one club before he grows stale and people turn against him.
It will take more than the force of ideas to convince most Democratic officeholders to turn against the teachers unions.
At some point, spying, vindictiveness, cruelty, manipulation, and rudeness turn against the one dishing those things out.
Having claimed the legitimacy given him by huge support in the streets, al Sisi banned demonstrations that might turn against him.
He said the party had impoverished its supporters and predicted that they would turn against the ruling party, no matter how the constituency boundaries were gerrymandered.
One solution is to let it out in another way, to avoid letting these destructive emotions turn against someone else or against oneself.
If we try and do this, it will only mean that the environmentalists will turn against biofuel.
We need to make the claims, but at the same time, we need to commit ourselves to quality otherwise the claims will turn against us.
I definitely do not let these destructive emotions turn against someone else or against myself.
He added that if one does not respect nature, in the end it will turn against you.
Leverage is an excellent tool but it can also turn against you in case you don't understand how it works.
We must not turn against this righteousness of God to pursue our own righteousness.
In this way, none can on its own make the weapons of war to turn against the other, as in the past.
This book examines how local radio and print media were used as a tool of hate, encouraging neighbours to turn against each other.
Imagine a world where public opinion takes a sharp turn against say, fracking.
Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation.
Photographs helped America get on board with civil rights and turn against the war in Vietnam.
Actually, movement conservatives who turn against Wall Street are on the verge of breaking important new conceptual ground.
He is drawn into the chaos as the residents, cut off from society by their self-containment, turn against each other in tribal class warfare.
Otherwise, this study will turn against us and only increase our egoism.
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My plan is to start marching as if I didn't know that the Turkana were going to turn against us.
And she was just as angry that the friend should turn against her for her conduct to her husband.
But although his adopted city turned against him, he refused to turn against it.
Why, you simp, I wouldn't turn against Mr. Prale for a million dollars!
We inoculate in him a bad spirit whose effects then turn against us.
You can manhandle me, but you can't make me turn against Sidney Prale.
Have I done anything that should cause them to turn against me?
It seemed to turn against his hands in spite of all his efforts.
To her surprise she discovered that she could not even turn against the high wind, which rocked and buffeted the frail craft.
No doubt Erik was at that time contemplating some decisive step against Raoul, but he had been wounded and had escaped to turn against poor Christine instead.
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