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It is a charge which the upstart organisation has been quick to dispel, stressing co-operation rather than conflict.
Hardly an upstart, Maho Bay is instead a pioneer in small-scale, tent-based ecotourism.
Lydia wasn't about to suffer this indignity at the hands of an upstart brat of a girl.
The clues are in the songs though, these are not the words of some lily-livered upstart.
Those kids worked to get where they are, remember, and modern educational theory won't stand for that sort of upstart presumption.
However, one upstart Edinburgh-based investment boutique has been blowing these time-honoured traditions away.
Bastions of old boy networking and the occasional social upstart, they epitomise everything that makes me cringe about Oxford.
Verizon doesn't want to be bested by Qwest, an upstart fiber jockey that once dared to buy a Baby Bell.
Until that time, the upstart society had gone it alone, taking over as the city-authorized fundraising arm for the tram project.
The media's role in exposing his unfortunate behaviour and upstart arrogance has been highly commendable.
Despite friendly native Kuna Indians, the Spanish were angered by these upstart Scots broaching their main gold route out of South America.
They're even worse than those of the XFL, the upstart football league that barely lasted a season south of the border.
Some religious leaders aren't best pleased either, having lost half their congregations to the new upstart.
This upstart has been getting his pert little nose in our affairs a little too often I think.
Was last night as close as the upstart governor will ever get to beating the patrician Senator?
Bind him fast or by Zeus, I shall see you rotting in gaol alongside this upstart vagabond!
The guitarist leader plays with the intelligent spark of an upstart and the relaxed confidence of a veteran.
Miller, a middle-aged man with gray blonde hair and a compassionate face, didn't appreciate the condescending attitude of this upstart kid!
It is the familiar tale of a weary professional challenged by a cocky upstart determined to prove himself as the top gun.
The laddie from The Lakes is known as a gobby upstart with a taste for the grim things in life.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Others were derided by their contemporaries, as we deride the made-to-order coat of arms of some nineteenth century upstart.
This young upstart Gideon would soon be sorry enough when he butted his head against the experienced Midianite leaders.
Besides, as I said to Francis, you had only to look at this upstart of a Jansoulet to see what he was worth.
It was by their order that the upstart Duncombe had been put in ward.
He was not above giving the haughty upstart a thuggee's twist.
In the French revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart.
Each night another international manager has cried in his beer as his country goes down to defeat to some sniveling soccer upstart.
She could no more think of this man as a clodhopper, a coarse upstart without manners or imagination.
Here was this upstart new boy with an air of questioning his authority.
An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart.
The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune.
He is an upstart, a man of no name, who will only be the tool of a party in France.
There's all that Jenkins gets chaffed about, the gilding and the gaudy colors and all the vulgarity that's supposed to stamp him as an upstart.
That Francesco was an upstart was no longer a matter of surmise with him.
The American Eagle, an upstart at age 70, was a member of the famed Gloucester, Massachusetts, fishing fleet before joining the ranks of windjammers.
You've always been an upstart, and you've always been against me.
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