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  • From there the year had its high points - two Masters Series titles in Miami and Rome helped with that - but the Grand Slam events continued to pose a problem.
  • Ask yourself if you would rather have a free press, or a press at the whim of political masters? Times, Sunday Times
  • But the NFB gave me the opportunity to make new masters of all of my films, so I went in with a colourist to make them visually perfect.
  • Masters is happy to return the compliment. Times, Sunday Times
  • The figures of his angels are elongated, with wings stretched upward as if they were sculpted by the Gothic masters.
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  • Some webmasters will simply link to any website that links back to them.
  • The aircraft is flown by five crew members: the pilot and co-pilot, flight engineer and two loadmasters.
  • It is high time someone kicked back at our new Establishment masters.
  • They're complete masters of camouflage and deception.
  • Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters
  • Universal are just churning our 'remasters' this year and I've yet to hear an album that's been improved by it. The Line Of Best Fit
  • They have become the masters of false equivalence. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are part of a circular series of trades populated by sellers, buyers, buffers and ringmasters.
  • Wash it down with some micro-brewed beer that rivals the brewmasters' of Germany.
  • It's happening everywhere, coincidently, at a time when our ruling lords and masters have borrowed themselves broke. Times, Sunday Times
  • Recently, itinerant workers - some illegal immigrants - have moved into the trade, at the risk of being exploited by gangmasters.
  • The Church hopes that providing rent-free or subsidised facilities will cut the overheads of running a rural post office and persuade the Post Office to replace postmasters.
  • Their earnings brought them almost 30 percent more than the value of the subsistence provided by their former masters. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • In particular we heard no evidence to satisfy us that the alleged subcontractors had agreed with the labourers or their gangmasters, in advance, as to the terms and conditions on which they were hired.
  • In four days of diving last summer, I often spotted colorful stoplight parrotfish, doctorfish, sergeant majors, trumpetfish, four-eye butterfly fish, squirrelfish and school masters. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • There are certain inescapable realities that teach us humility, that force us to acknowledge we're not really masters of the universe. Tomatoes Under the Hammer
  • They listened, with eager attention, to the complaints of their captive children, who had suffered the most cruel indignities from the lustful or angry passions of their masters, and the same cruelties, the same indignities, were severely retaliated on the sons and daughters of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Matthew Risch, lately of "Pal Joey," is smooth and debonair as Sky Masterson, the high-rolling sharpie who wins the heart of Miss Sarah Brown Morgan James, the dishy Salvation Army doll who longs to save the souls of all the heels on Broadway. Joy in Runyonland
  • Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.
  • The Masters 'highest-rated Sunday coverage in the overnights was a 15.8/32, set in 1997 when Tiger Woods won his first Green Jacket. Variety.com
  • One doesn't expect Iraq's new colonial administrators to make things difficult for their paymasters, guarantors and securitors.
  • They see a one-year masters in computer sciences as a way of making that transition. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 12 - inch Masters mini - putter in the Augusta National pro shop.
  • Having studied the Palestinian refugee situation in detail during her Masters Degree in Forced Migration at Oxford, she is looking forward to returning to the Middle East to work in an advocatory capacity. Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • They felt that they were the masters in their own workplace, responsible people. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
  • To some people, the parallels between the Michigan motormouth and the masters of the blues are not immediately clear.
  • The old masters of surrealism aren't the only ones popular with today's art collectors, though.
  • In many libraries in North America, librarians in charge of the website aren't just "webmasters" anymore but "branch managers. OLA 2007: Top Trends
  • One can well forgive an author for relying on internet blitz chess to research openings grandmasters hardly ever play.
  • The technology force our center of critical care is so rich that we have 2 Doctors, 6 Masters, 1 chief physician, 3 associate chief physicians, 4 attending doctors and a few of resident physicians.
  • To be fair, with hindsight I would not have done the masters which is currently making my life a misery.
  • Moreover, contrary to some earlier decisions by masters, an interim award does not depend on need.
  • All these ships being of notable and approued seruice comming neere to the mouth of the Straights hard by the coast of Barbary, descried twelue tall Gallies brauely furnished and strongly prouided with men and munition, ready to seaze vpon these English ships: which being perceiued by the Captaines and Masters thereof, wee made speedy preparation for the defence of our selues, still waiting all the night long for the approching of the enemie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The worst of them all, though Jewish, were ready to do anything to please the "Boche" masters, just to save their own hides. Turkey and the EU
  • The nursery school had taught the old masters a lesson. The Sun
  • Only a privileged few elephant seal bulls will become beach masters, controlling dozens of females and reproducing abundantly.
  • The council's political masters would rather watch while York chokes than get serious about exhaust fumes.
  • Come on man it was on the table! definetely baglike tendencies and he is lucky my asian buddy didnt sucker punch him in top chef masters. Ajc.com - News
  • Both Jones and Roberts left indelible impressions on the Masters and on the world of golf.
  • Other well-known writers emphasize not the failures of servants, but the tyranny of masters.
  • When we got there, there was a long hallway with portraits of the past headmasters and headmistresses hanging on the walls and an oak doorway at the end of the hall.
  • I should much prefer a _tenson_ of the twelfth century, when two or three masters of the _Gai Saber_ discussed questions of love and chivalry. Gryll Grange
  • Pets growled and barked at their masters instead of licking their hands and wagging their tails.
  • This is as it should be, for the _Misses_ ought to have an equal chance with the _Masters_ -- at least so say we, -- _plaudite_, clap your little hands, and _valete_, good bye! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828
  • Even freed slaves carry the taint of their hereditary status, and their former masters or parents' masters may claim some or all of their income, property and dowries.
  • Suppose a man to have been trained in the palestra and to be a skilful boxer-he in the fulness of his strength goes and strikes his father or mother or one of his familiars or friends; but that is no reason why the trainers or fencing-masters should be held in detestation or banished from the city-surely not. Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments
  • But yesterday she pulled off a masterstroke when she stepped on to the stage. The Sun
  • It's impolite for petitioners - or novices or even journeymen - to question their masters. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • And when this fierce way prevails, it masters and subdues all other ways and works; for it wills to be wayless, that is, without manner. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
  • I guess some people just need, and demand, masters and are unwilling to tolerate those who do not gladly submit to the collective as represented by the coerciveness of the state and its agents. The Volokh Conspiracy » Deadly Force in Self-Defense Constitutionally Protected, Nondeadly Force Unprotected?
  • Nothing, though, will compare with competing in the Masters.
  • They were obsequious and servile and did not presume to talk to their masters as if they were their equals. The Secret Garden
  • You might call it tilting at windmills, but don’t say that to Neal Saiki, who holds a masters degree in aeronautical engineering and worked as a project manager at NASA developing high-altitude research vehicles, before founding Zero Motorcycles. Zero Motorcycles Electric Offroad Motorcycle
  • The student first masters manipulation of the single sabre, then at a more advanced level, the twin swords.
  • I'm always disappointed when I see our governors, our supposed masters, gallivanting about with the rich of the world.
  • Within each colonial prebend tribal jealousies and differences were exploited by colonial masters to maximize political power and economic advantage. Matthew Bergman: The Obama Manifesto
  • Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters.
  • While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things.
  • I actually even think he had ultimately forgiven his persecutors and the slayers of his family -- and that would be a mastership that one can only view with awe. Mike Schwager: Remembering My Father: His Greatest Lesson to Me Was His Life
  • We could have at some more Republican hacks now, like Steven Milloy, the Junkman of Science, who says he has a masters in biostatistics from Johns Hopkins, but to judge from the ISI Web of Science, not a single peer reviewed scientific publication. BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University
  • The saddhu or enlightened Hindu masters are taken care of, even deified, so that they may continue to apprehend the Absolute and astonish us mere mortals with their insights.
  • Servants and masters are one of the great themes of opera buffa. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some think they are masters of their fate, others believe they are merely passive floaters on the river of fate.
  • Academic dress for masters is a plain black stuff master's gown, a black trencher cap with a black silk tassel and a hood of black silk lined with the colour of the faculty, school or professional grouping and academic dress for juris doctor will be the same except that the tassel on the trencher cap is white silk rather than black silk.
  • The main thing I noticed is that the remasters are a bit louder, but there is no obvious improvement in sound quality. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • The digital graphics department is essentially the company's pre-press operation - turning working files into a set of electronic masters, with exact specifications for color and alignment on printing presses.
  • Perhaps Opechancanough thought his masterstroke would impel the whites to withdraw. Between War and Peace
  • The Jongleurs must have continued long after their masters were stamped out, for their direct successors are with us to-day, and our hand-organ is the descendant of their fearful and wonderful organistrum. Woman's Work in Music
  • The mainland Northlanders all tended to be brutal - shipmasters, raiding the coasts of nearby kingdoms, pillaging and burning.
  • Ludlow's domal inscription, 'Omne solum forti patria,' and sat down free in a country which had been one of slavery for centuries, "he adds," But there is _no_ freedom, even for _masters_, in the midst of slaves. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
  • After his early promise first shown at the Monte Carlo Masters, he cracked under pressure.
  • If you are a candidate for a doctoral degree or masters by research, you may apply for an intermission of studies.
  • Having this man in the Lords on their behalf is not a 'masterstroke' but more like bad luck. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
  • When President Jefferson did not give Callender a postmastership after the election of 1800, he switched sides and became a Federalist, with consequences that still resonate—for it was Callender who first published the story of Sally Hemings. Alexander Hamilton, American
  • In 1714 his attendance at the council on Anne's death strengthened the Hanoverian position, and he was restored to the mastership.
  • As Jesus poses the parable there are two masters and two lords to choose from.
  • The Bible makes it clear that the devil and his forces are the masters of misrepresentation.
  • And probably get some ideas like having "webmasters" pick some of their "favourite ads". Category filtering feature being developed
  • Reaching the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters Series event has been the highlight of his season, so far.
  • There died also messieur Nastasy de Sancta Camilla aforenamed, hauing two hundred men vnder him of the lord great masters succours. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • I honestly don't know how the Japanese managed to get this show looking as good as it does on this set, but they did it without breaking out the DNR machine that has become popular with other "remasters" out there. Mania News Feed
  • In the week a new, bold young Masters champion has been anointed I am reminded of a piece I never tire of quoting by Alistair Cooke in these very pages half a century ago, about another Bobby, another courtly nonpareil, Bobby Jones, who inspired the very foundation of the Masters at Augusta in 1934. My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
  • Tens of thousands in banking knew the deals they were closing made no sense and suspected that flattery and egomania had turned their and their masters' heads. Why omerta still suits the the City's mafiosi | Nick Cohen
  • The telephones ring in empty houses from which masters and servants alike have gone. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was another masterstroke of man-management. Times, Sunday Times
  • A caste system that novelist Alice Walker termed "colorism" has existed within the black community since slavery, stemming from the hierarchy established by slave masters for the light-skinned blacks who worked in the house and dark-skinned slaves who tended the fields. MultiCultClassics
  • It was meant to involve writing heartfelt treatises about why a Masters in Law, and particularly subjects like International And Comparative Commercial Arbitration, would give me mojo.
  • In euery towne ye chosen men" shall see that parents and masters not only train their children in learning and labor, but also "to read & understand the principles of religion & the capitall lawes of this country," with power to impose fines on such as refuse to render accounts concerning their children. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
  • For those masters who were also biological fathers to their slaves, the tacit disinheritance had double significance.
  • Yet this Harry is not merely homage and deference to past works, a pastiche of styles and narrative devices like so many other films that seek to emulate previous masters of the genre.
  • No wonder the ashman is not more thorough: he learns from his masters. The Promised Land
  • He plans to specialize in such masters as Picasso, Warhol, Yves Klein and Sonia and Robert Delaunay.
  • Indians were masters of calcination, distillation, sublimation and preparation of metallic salts, compounds and alloys.
  • Blair was particularly narked by its stinging criticism that his Government had been playing to its masters in Washington.
  • This one consideration, I say, well weighed and applied, will retund the edge and dint of all the Socinian assaults against this great article; whom I have still observed to assert boldly, when they conclude weakly, and in all their arguments to prove nothing more than this, that the greatest pretenders to, are not always the greatest masters of reason. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
  • Men, at soome time, are masters of their fates. 
  • As long as the world was content to take our manufactures as we chose to make them -- when, no other nation having entered the lists with us, we were without competitors, and absolute masters of the commerce of the world, this make-all save-all principle was undoubtedly the most effective. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
  • But scattered through its half-deserted rooms, state bed - chambers and the like, hung the works of more genuine masters, still as unadulterate as the hock, known to be two generations old, in the grand-ducal cellar. Imaginary Portraits
  • His portraits of country people and their rituals, their hypocrisies and lecheries are certain to remind readers of Edward Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Edgar Lee Masters.
  • They are masters of the marine environment. Times, Sunday Times
  • The principal view in this disquisition is to enable those, who have already learnt to draw, to make themselves easily masters of painting in any manner they may choose; by which assistance many persons of genius, who, from ignorance of the nature and use of colours, might be deterred from it, may be both induced & enabled to attempt painting successfully, and bring those talents into practice, which would be otherwise lost to the public and themselves. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • They used miniature cameras to photograph secret documents and shortwave radios to receive coded messages from their spy masters, prosecutors said.
  • Squires were running hither and thither, or aiding their masters to don armor, lacing helm to hauberk, tying the points of ailette, coude, and rondel; buckling cuisse and jambe to thigh and leg. The Outlaw of Torn
  • Ili educated herself as an artist by studying the work of the old masters during her frequent travels in Italy and elsewhere. Ilona Kronstein.
  • But luckily for him his pet cat has other ideas and, having equipped himself with a snazzy pair of new boots, sets out to make his masters fortune.
  • Anne Marie has always dreamed of riding the world's most radical waves and winning the Rip Masters surf competition in Hawaii.
  • But he drew greater inspiration from studying the old masters in the Louvre, in particular such colourists as Rubens and Veronese.
  • Thus, as potential tantric disciples, we need the strength of character and emotional stability to remain sober-headed despite anything our tantric masters may say or do. Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 7 Establishing a Relationship with a Spiritual Teacher
  • One of the happiest spin-offs of Mickelson's memorable Masters win is that it will stop critics referring to him as a choker.
  • Compared to this, that whole tuition fees business seems like a political masterstroke. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our dzogchen masters may help us to recognize it by introducing us directly (ngo-sprod). Fundamentals of Dzogchen Meditation ��� 2 The Steps of Dzogchen Meditation
  • It is not as if it is a tactical masterstroke. Times, Sunday Times
  • They had to act according to the dictates of the political masters.
  • To ensure that the people are the real masters of the country, that state power is really in their hands, we must strengthen these institutions and give them (ital) full (unital) play. Nathan Gardels: China: From Democracy Wall to the Shopping Mall, And Back
  • But as for chimney-sweeps, and collier-boys, and nailer lads, my sister has set good people to stop all that sort of thing; and very much obliged to her I am; for if she could only stop the cruel masters from ill-using poor children, I should grow handsome at least a thousand years sooner. The Water Babies
  • To navigate safely through the waterways of Europe you will need to know CEVNI - the Waterway Code - whose rules, signs and signals are understood by bargemasters of all nationalities.
  • Others said that it was an eatery for Freemasons and masters of industry.
  • In 1614 Hideyori fortified himself inside Osaka castle with over 100,000 troops, many of whom were ronin, dispossessed samurai whose masters had perished in battle.
  • Generally grandmasters survey the chess board and forecast the pieces only one move ahead.
  • One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert 
  • Not by way of putting yourself upon the frivolous footing of being sans consequence, but by doing in some degree, the honors of the house and table, calling yourself en badinant le galopin d’ici, saying to the masters or mistress, ceci est de mon departement; je m’en charge; avouez, que je m’en acquitte a merveille. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • It appeared to be a political masterstroke. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a masterstroke of casting, He plays Vanya as a bored and disappointed man who entertains himself by playing the Glasgow wind-up merchant.
  • It is fiercely vigorous, but in its execution there is no attempt at gracefulness; no attention to positions, of which the old dancing-masters told us there were five; there was little attempt at step—it was simply ‘jigging’ or as sometimes called clog dancing. A Renegade History of the United States
  • All the young chess masters have been coached by titled players and most began regular instruction of one or two hours per week soon after learning the game.
  • She developed her early attraction to painting after discovering the Renaissance masters during a childhood trip to Italy.
  • Two years ago he added to it the Furstenberg collection of Old Masters, so preventing its dispersal.
  • Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters
  • The masters of this sort of visual foolery are of course the people who post here.
  • One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert 
  • Children unable to go on to higher education were absorbed into the government sectors as postmasters, stationmasters, clerks and other white-collar jobs.
  • Spirit priests and Taoist masters are usually men who study religious texts to learn their specialty.
  • Order and discipline have been placed in the hands of headmasters and governing bodies.
  • Which seems less like a masterstroke than a tricky compromise hastily designed to quell a rebellion. The Sun
  • And unlike the anti-marketing Masters Tournament, which limits ads, the USGA doesn't shackle the networks.
  • The Old Masters owed their designation not only to superlative technique but also to their ability to represent the right subject.
  • Of course, there is a way that the new viaduct plan might fairly be called a masterstroke and a bargain. Crosscut
  • In the Antilles, the masters, from father to son, have been professing the Christian religion ever since slavery was established there.
  • Over their 5-year study, Masters and Johnson treated only 29 women with vaginismus compared to 342 women who were treated for orgasmic disorders.
  • I went to graduate school at one point, and stopped 12 hours shy of getting a masters of science in economics.
  • During the 1840s Melun hoped to resurrect the corporative system in a new form appropriate to nineteenth-century conditions, by bringing together Christian masters and their apprentices in a patronage.
  • This year, visitors can enjoy works by Surrealist masters such as Andre Masson and Giacometti, as well as work by Picasso.
  • In the typical Tibetan home, there are photographs displayed of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other incarnate masters.
  • In her view ‘doctors, schoolmasters, bank managers and parsons were all respected members of the community’ and she was determined that her son should join them.
  • We will invite some experienced Toastmasters members to serve as group discussion leaders.
  • There he studied with both Canova and Thorvaldsen, the leading masters of Neoclassical sculpture.
  • He went on to tell me Shubal (as they call him) is a rare old-school kirtan wallah who has studied for over 30 years with many masters. Sandy Henson Corso: My First Kirtan
  • He censures the cruelty of slave masters, the dodges of legacy hunters, and the meanness of the wealthy, but the targets of his criticisms are normally anonymous.
  • Yet some workers still managed to rise out of the ranks of apprentices and journeymen and acquire masterships themselves.
  • By 1640 the social structure of the island consisted of masters, servants, and slaves.
  • When it comes to finding such Australian sweetmeats as witchetty grubs and honey pot ants, Aboriginal women are masters at divining underground hideouts.
  • Webmaster Central provides high quality information: "What I have enjoyed most of all, is reading Google's guidelines for webmasters, which is on-point with what I have been telling customers about SEO. Google Webmaster Central Blog
  • Slavery brutalized its victims, but it also corrupted its masters.
  • The Government has committed over £200m in funding for payments to outgoing sub-postmasters and improvements to remaining offices.
  • Most of their tapes are masters from Japan so you get the best audio and video quality.
  • When we do not use our time distinctly then intemperance, intolerance and imprudence turn out to be our masters.
  • She'd run afoul of her masters, trying to keep Commander Bell-Fairfax herefrom getting killed. The Life of the World to Come
  • The loadmasters wouldn't unpack personal bags because they were supposed to be leaving.
  • It's about the creation of a kind of oligarchic state between masters and serfs. Hedges Laments The 'Death Of The Liberal Class'
  • I'm doing my masters in Economics, the kind of maths tools used in the course are calculus (including integrals), Linear and Non-Linear Programming and Stats tools like Time Series, Regression, Probability etc. Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The nursery school had taught the old masters a lesson. The Sun
  • In response to the spate of armed robberies, the Post Office told postmasters and postmistresses warning them to be extra vigilant.
  • They have been sold and resold by their masters only within a radius of five kilometres.
  • Such membership then permitted the dominant society to make the slaves ‘rightless.’ The slaves were also designated by masters as ignorant, backward, lazy, and untrustworthy, among many other negative characteristics.
  • No family as a family is either a church or any part of a church, (in the notion that church is here spoken of;) and though masters of families be governors in their own houses, yet their power is not ecclesiastical but economical or domestical, common to heathens as well as Christians. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
  • Fire and water are [may be] good servants, but bad masters
  • In the late 1920s and through the 30s, Ron Masters was excelling off the springboard and highboard. The Advertiser
  • Pilotshark says: but the real one is a masters in bovine scatolgy Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.
  • At the end of the Recruitment, the Masters and Mistresses and I will decide which of you are qualified to be initiated into the League.
  • They were found alongside the remains of mammoth, reindeer and polar fox, and they appear to have been eaten by their human masters.
  • No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre, a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), a Kerry calf and Ulysses
  • He proposed that he should return to Norway with two transmitters, using the second one to send genuine information to the British without the knowledge of the German spymasters.
  • They're both tough taskmasters, but Stephen is much more supportive.
  • The young people looked at all the animals flying away, at the dogs that bit their masters and were surprised at their pet's behavior.
  • George Condo: A Collection of Etchings | Condo is typically known for bold paintings so brash as to be referred to as gonzo "artificial realism," the term the artist uses to describe his works, which by turns are meditative, wry, irreverent and fantastical, reflecting Condo's now-iconic surrealistic mash-up of old and modern masters. Bill Bush: I Shot Andy Warhol: This Artweek.LA (June 13-19)
  • { Some loremasters say that this figure signifies great blessings no matter into which house it falls - save the I louse of Salt. A TIME OF WAR
  • The ground began shacking with such great force, not even the lifeless roots obscured in the grey soil were tough enough to hold up their dying masters.
  • Once in place, the loadmasters had to chain the heavily armored vehicles securely to the floor.
  • Many sub postmasters and postmistresses have pulled out because the recent changes to the payment of welfare benefits have hacked away at their profit margins.
  • She tried to have him appointed to the postmastership, which, since all the work was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity. Main Street
  • He hopes to be fit to defend his Masters title at the end of next month and has begun light training.
  • In other words it took a total of 5 yardmasters per shift to run the yard.
  • Whereto I add that they may not be called _masters_ and _gentlemen_, but _goodmen_, as Goodman Smith, Goodman Coot, Goodman Cornell, Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • An expert Latinist, he translated all the works of the 12th-century monastic masters. Meditations Of A Man With An Uncaged Mind
  • Your great interest in drawing anime characters demonstrates to me that if you try hard enough and simply apply yourself you can paint with the masters!
  • In this they were standing upon the high ground taken by Richard Baxter, an authority among the Puritans, who, denouncing the use of the slaves as beasts for their mere commodity, said, that their masters who "betray or destroy or neglect their souls are fitter to be called incarnate devils than Christians though they be no Christian whom they so abuse. The History of the Negro Church
  • I had a place at the university to begin a masters in romantic literature. Times, Sunday Times
  • Headmasters and school boards have control over budgets, the curriculum, staffing and salaries, and as a result are free to innovate and adapt to local needs.
  • In response, Washington spymasters tried to unofficially "impound" his investment in the Nepalese casinos. Cui Bono Mumbai?
  • Enrolled unripe plan 2010: Arabic character, Arabic learns and Arabia is Mohammedan culture 3 direction, recruit 4 Masters graduate student.
  • Most of us thought that during the past few years Janet Reno's antitrust czar and his prosecution team were turned on by lawyerlike stuff like consent decrees, special masters and making Bill Gates's lawyers look like crash dummies in court. Joel Klein, Entrepreneur
  • Yet Maugham was one of the great masters of clever narrative and construction, with a surprising range when it came to characters.
  • But enlisting Ms. Yingluck as what he describes as his "clone" seems to be a masterstroke, analysts say. Fugitive's Sister Leads Thai Polls
  • Conservative leader William Hague today urged sub-postmasters to march on London for a rally against the threat to their businesses.

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