How To Use Featherbed In A Sentence
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Nor that so many New Labour ministers moved effortlessly from government to work for the same companies their own privatisation efforts had so lavishly featherbedded.
The corporate grip on public life is a threat to democracy
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That would set a fire of public opinion against the BBC being featherbedded - a big amplification of the Jonathan Ross-type complaints about wasting OUR money.
OPEN THREAD
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His body had been hard as a rock and yet as comforting as a featherbed.
A Different Light
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Political corruption and featherbedding in Harrisburg is your classic dog-bites-man story, and frankly it’s too bad more of the General Assembly hasn’t been sent to jail for “business asusual.”
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His world was the big old square wicker perambulator, the dark walls of which hemmed him in on three sides, the fourth consisting of his featherbed, beneath which, throughout the summer, he lay unresistant.
Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
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Political correctness is vast featherbedding trades union of pygmies, runts, and dullards, devoted to timeserving until their pension kicks in.
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I never knew before what an uninteresting thing a featherbed is – when you are obliged to hold it in your arms.
Melbourne House
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Unlike the BBC it is not state-sponsored and receives no licence fee; it is not bound to objectivity by a Charter that in return for a pledge of objectivity gives it its increasingly anomalistic and untenably privileged position (in this era of multi-channel broadcasting) of being featherbedded by what is in effect a poll tax on every household in Britain with a television set.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He was now going to a home provided by benevolent persons as a kind of featherbed to catch the falling workhouse boy.
Essays in Rebellion
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As time went by, he became increasingly irritated by the rampant featherbedding he discovered.
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What kind of bed does the protagonist sleep in - pallet, featherbed, mattress and springs, antigravity plate?
Worldbuilding for Amateurs – Heuristic
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These people in the private sector are being asked to hand over more of their little to the already featherbedded public sector.
Ironic Ducks
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In the attic a featherbed leaking bird down, ticking mapped with stains.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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May 25, 2006, 9: 01 am long term care insurance ratings says: long term care insurance ratings allocatable bombproof reassured. rhymes: featherbed
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It's also clear that those of us who continued to live the old-fashioned way are to be punished by the majority for our quaint adherence to that creed -- while the feckless, the dim, the improvident and the greedy are featherbedded until the rest of us run out of money.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
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The taxpayer was forced to fund the featherbedding of a privatised Railtrack.
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No more featherbedding, no more sweetheart agreements!
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Let's hope that this discreditable affair ends the anomalous featherbedded status of the arrogant, biased, venal, and wasteful BBC for once and for all.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The taxpayer was forced to fund the featherbedding of a privatised Railtrack.
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It also said that poor pitches will also include batsmen-friendly 'featherbed' surfaces that the ICC considers a serious threat to the game.
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Bachelorette Party, Penises, and Deep Thoughts
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Some of the songs fail to lull you to cheerful comfort like a warm and snuggly featherbed, but Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will definitely turn your head.
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The knight slept as a soldier would, to whom a featherbed is a rarity, and who wakes not till he hears the blast of the reveille.
Burlesques
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For example, every unit I was in was massively featherbedded and when they say "the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way," they're not kidding.
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In the attic a featherbed leaking bird down, ticking mapped with stains.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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Co-operatives have been featherbedded with soft loans, favourable tax treatment and other statutory supports.
ANC Agricultural Policy
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In the attic a featherbed leaking bird down, ticking mapped with stains.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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Amid a barrage of criticism from the public about featherbedding and overmanning, the country's civil service is being forced to streamline and reform.
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The Treasury has also announced plans to employ an extra 210,000 over the next three years so that, by election year 2006, we can expect the state payroll to be featherbedding 5.5 million voters.
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Secondly, there is the argument that the country would be far better off buying the kit for the armed services from the best supplier - of whatever nationality - than featherbedding the defence sector with soft contracts.
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May 22, 2006, 5: 25 pm long term care insurance ratings says: long term care insurance ratings allocatable bombproof reassured. rhymes: featherbed
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I wish we were back home, and I could still burrow into her as if she were a featherbed.
Squall
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“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed”
How about those Navy Seals on the Bainbridge sniping the pirates and saving Capt. Roberts?
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Amid a barrage of criticism from the public about featherbedding and overmanning, Hong Kong's civil service is being forced to streamline and reform.
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The same doesn't happen when they prepare a featherbed.
'Bad' Pitches Make for Cracking Cricket