He is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward. |
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But what's wrong with having a bully pulpit, using that kind of forum as a bully pulpit to talk about these economic issues? |
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So one might become, for example, an alcoholic, violent, or an hysteric, or a slattern or a bully, if that is what a parent was like. |
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She trembled in fear, and watched, as her angel, and her bully began to fight. |
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My boss, who had been a respected filmmaker, turned out to be a sleazebag and a bully. |
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It's hard to imagine how a drunk bully of a father is likely to remember a law that bans smacking. |
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They climb over each other, snatching spaghetti, Irish stew and bully beef from the air and each other. |
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And so, in classic bully fashion, he and his gang of lickspittles have decided to pick on the weaker kids instead. |
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What's worse is that the slow-motion fight sequence in which Peter fights a bully slides almost into a parody of that film's innovative effects. |
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Why is it a manly diversion to bully others whereas sexual deviation is unmanly and deserving of moral and criminal censure? |
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He dealt fair as you come, always paid his source, always gave respect to the Bosses and didn't bully small-timers like me. |
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To Asser, Offa was an imperialistic bully whose progeny alone surpassed him in unsavoriness. |
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My line manager, who was very unsupportive, turned out to be my second bully. |
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In The Hill, he nicely untangles the web of money contributions and Washington hardball that led thirteen Senators to bully him into backing off. |
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Ronnie was a bully and a braggart, and the fact he was bright and entertaining did not mitigate the fact he was a murderer. |
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Take one last look in your rear-view mirror at that muscle-bound, angular-featured SUV bully breathing down your neck. |
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They're just a bunch of veggos trying to bully the tame non-veggos into what they want. |
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Perhaps he could not harm the bully, but the bully's favourite toy could be broken. |
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McCarthy was a state-backed bully and demagogue who harmed many innocent people. |
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The kid who was bullied becomes the bully, taunting, beating up fellow students, and intimidating teachers. |
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Dealing with a bully without becoming a thug yourself is not wimpish, negative passivity. |
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It's similar to a kid joining sides with a bully just so the bully doesn't pick on him. |
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Did they think they had some right to bully me, to intimidate me, to own me? |
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They may also try to intimidate or bully us by threatening our communications networks and power distribution centers. |
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They can bully people and shove their ideas around because there is no support for those who challenge them. |
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Just because the people in your old school bullied you, doesn't mean people will bully you in your new school. |
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Her main strength is her hypocrisy, which she uses to bully the other teams into giving up luxuries that she herself uses daily. |
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Pester-power is an amazingly strong force, and children know how best to bully their parents into buying them what they want. |
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It's been used not only for fraud, but to bully people and give them a bad name. |
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There was no discernible reason for what you did other than your violent temper and your arrogant desire to bully other people. |
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This has become a crusade by a single judge attempting to bully other people into accepting his beliefs. |
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You have made us see the light and we recognise that we're a bunch of bully boys who think we can get away with anything. |
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The union claimed the Royal Mail was trying to intimidate and bully workers into agreeing unacceptable working practices. |
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I may enjoy even less security than people in offices, but no boss can bully me, and I don't have to pretend to worship any company. |
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Jurors and the public in general doesn't want to see lawyers bully people unless, as I say, they kind of just feel the first punch. |
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The new Minister is acting like a bull in a china shop, and prefers to bully everyone into submission. |
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Some folks would really like to see the late night comedians use their shows as bully pulpits to advance certain positions. |
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We had bacon too, bully beef, endless tea, and biscuits which were very hard. |
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Bernard rides around the town in an ostentatious sports car and behaves like a cowardly bully. |
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More than that, this nation needs a president who uses his bully pulpit to seriously promote responsible behavior by corporate executives. |
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But as part of a broader cultural argument from the bully pulpits of government, churches, foundations, and academia, it is essential. |
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You know, after a setback, most presidents use the bully pulpit to go speechifying. |
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But the individuals with the bully pulpit must be out in front, making the case to all citizens that their vote makes a difference. |
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I don't care if we like it or not, the Republicans are the ones with the money and the bully pulpit and they're going to hammer on it. |
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And basically using the authority of my office, and the bully pulpit, to campaign for them up and down the state. |
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And he has been nothing but a gentleman compared to the big oaf whose been trying to bully him. |
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All of these are valid questions, because in order for a bully to succeed he or she must have victims. |
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It almost looks as though they are bully boys, deliberately trying to get political parties to fight among themselves. |
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To bully, both players simultaneously strike first the ground then each other's stick over the ball. |
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The lone superpower can bribe, bully, or impose its will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its potency wanes. |
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But I don't respond well to threats, and I was not going to let this schoolyard bully intimidate me. |
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He often played the bully, terrorizing players young and old alike to improve his team's chances of winning. |
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Because once the law goes order collapses and the rule of the gun or the bully prevails. |
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With snake eyes and a bully like laugh, he devilishly teases his son in a friendly game of tetherball. |
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Psychological bullies must also have their quota of sycophants, always ready to massage the bully 's ego. |
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In imperial literature British rule meant law and British force signified the protection of the weak against a barbarous bully. |
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Everywhere you look, there are thickset bully boys in tight-fitting suits, ready to dish out punishment. |
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He is a clever bully, brutal in his criticism of others but so thin-skinned that he resorts instantly to the libel laws to cow his own critics. |
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You must thrive on the knowledge that you can bully someone and get so many sycophants to follow suit. |
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In school, Jane would bully classmates, lie, steal, and exhibit oppositional behavior in the classroom. |
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He was corrupt to his core, a liar, a megalomaniac, a misogynist, a bully and, like most bullies, a coward. |
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My mother told me I must have been doing something wrong to make them bully me. |
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That's how awful I felt when I was a little kid and this bully headbutted me. |
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He was a shameless toady to those above him and a vicious bully to those below him. |
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So, in a one-on-one situation against the local tough guy, can a judo person subdue the bully? |
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I mean, we met in the third grade and bonded over our mutual hate for the class bully, Johnny Donovan. |
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This woman is a bully and does not have an ounce of caringness in her for anyone. |
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He had the reputation of being a bully and arrogant but only his intolerance of sham made him feared. |
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There's the shrill nagging wife, the unbelievably smug former friend, the obnoxious bully and some tart in a negligee. |
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If Bush hoped his visit would dispel the image of the US as a warmongering bully, he was mistaken. |
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Travelling at the same speed as lorries, we lost count of the number trying to bully us out of their way. |
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Usually I wouldn't listen because I'm very strong-willed and I like to bully him. |
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As I got older, I decided it might kill him to know that his only son was a vicious, nasty bully. |
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I want to make all bullies disappear and turn into little weedy shrimps, so they can't bully kids smaller than themselves. |
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He is the typical office bully who throws his weight around because he is the boss's man. |
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Some in the industry used the opportunity as a bully pulpit to lecture the media. |
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Use the bully to put the ball into play when play has been stopped for injury. |
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His was a conception of the presidency in which there was little room for the bully pulpit. |
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Unexpectedly friendly at first, he soon starts to show his true colours as a loud-mouthed bully with psychopathic tendencies. |
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The difference is, of course, that in the classroom the other kids don't side with the bully. |
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This doesn't mean I was a bully, it was just that people couldn't get me down the way other teens would be cast down. |
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And The Taming of the Shrew without a shrew and a bully is like Hamlet without the Prince and the King. |
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It was a bit like watching one of your best friends being slowly beaten up by the school bully. |
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After all a bully is somewhat similar to a stalker, they follow you, taunt you, frighten you. |
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Nick Stahl does a good job portraying Bobby as a vicious, detestable bully. |
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In typical Top Model form, the answer to this is to badger and bully the girl to toeing the line. |
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The loudest voices are those of the blustering schoolyard bully who crudely masks his own inadequacies by calling others sissies and punks. |
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Inevitably, bully boy Elvis is a nailed-on certainty for the role. |
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Sadly, Groupon Government is one area in which bipartisanship rules like a schoolyard bully. |
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During the bor, the department attempted to label me unsuccessfully as a bully. |
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And when we have been spared such tragedy, it has happened precisely because presidents have stood up to the bully caucus. |
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But as a true anti-bullying champion will tell you, a bully is no less a bully simply because his victim seeks to excuse him. |
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Mostly, he recounts his adventures dodging bombs, meeting brave men, and eating a lot of bully beef. |
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Looks like the bully pulpit still has some value, despite what the political scientists say. |
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And using the bully pulpit to push for broader legislative change at the federal and state level? |
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He needs to make better use of his bully pulpit by really explaining this crisis to the American people. |
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And so Emmert, unable to rely upon the NCAA's rulebook for justification, took to the bully pulpit and bullied, righteously. |
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They walked with their webbing packed full of ammunition and in their haversacks they carried five days' bully beef and biscuits and a minimum of personal gear. |
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Your rantings read like the crazed utterings of a woman-hating bully. |
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Crucially, the little boy inside him came off as a runtish bully. |
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I would spend hours in a delightful daydream where the school bus bully would be thrown around like a sack of potatoes with his coterie laughing their heads off nearby. |
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The bully we mentioned in number 2, who has grown up a lot and become mates with my brother, notices this, and gives the lad a talking-to, and let's be honest, a thump. |
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Lozada is known to reality-TV fans as an attractive bully with a penchant for throwing wine bottles and stiletto pumps. |
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If it sounds as though I mock the sport, the truth is I am just like the third-grade bully who teases because of his or her own debilitating self-hatred. |
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Then he left school, an unqualified bully, and joined the merchant navy. |
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Most people knew of a schoolyard bully when they were younger and always hoped bad and awful things would befoul the bully and maybe even his family. |
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The work was wonderful, but my boss was a bully and a belittler. |
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This whole summit is about a survey that they release, saying that one in five kids are sexting, one in three kids bully or are being bullied over the internet. |
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He's the player who makes it work at the sharp end, a finisher who can hold the ball up, nick the odd penalty, and bully a centre-half with the best of them. |
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The coach of the William McKinley High School Cheerios is a ruthless bully, tormenting both students and teachers alike. |
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Some say this is tough love, others say Philip is a bully who is skilled at justifying his behavior. |
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Elizabeth becomes the grade grinder, Marianna the party girl, and Howard the bully. |
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The tribune of adolescent sensitivity and longing has suddenly transformed into a macho bully. |
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The more details emerge, the more it looks as if Martin was hunted and killed by a trigger-happy bully. |
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You might hurt the bully and get sued or in trouble with the police. |
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Uno puts such an onus on smoking students that it ultimately seems like a bully, even more than a nanny. |
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But it was still an unorganized effort, while Limbaugh has a powerful bully pulpit, he does not have a political machine. |
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When it came to Haiti, France was first a brutal colonizer, and then a usurious bully. |
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All along, he was an audacious mountebank and a mendacious bully, who knew almost nothing about actual existing communism and who never identified a single Soviet agent. |
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You see, this isn't much different than when your child comes home, muddied, bloodied, and aching because some bully decided to beat your little angel. |
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He was a muscleman and bully and often he used to terrorize the people. |
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A school bully might push you out of your seat, kick you when your back is turned, demand lunch money, threaten or insult you, call you names, or make jokes about you. |
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They want to bully people like Jordan did, but without his results. |
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That is why this franchise is the closest yet to possibly, maybe, being that bully team the NFL has lacked since the Cowboys faded almost a decade ago. |
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Bully for her, and bully for you if you have a similar situation. |
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She opened the back door only to see thrown down on the lawn an empty can of her bully beef and, to make matters worse, an empty tin of her cat's food! |
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The ball is put in play in midfield in a face-off, known as a bully. |
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But the position has also become a bully pulpit, letting the occupant rattle everyone from underperforming CEOs to the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. |
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He responded that he had thought about it, but decided that he can effect a change in the political landscape more thoroughly from his bully pulpit on the air. |
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After all, why didn't he mount his bully pulpit and say so at the time? |
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If conservatives truly believe in a meritocracy, why aren't they busy denouncing this kind of thing, using their bully pulpit to shame rich whites into stopping this practice? |
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This latter role offers considerable potential as a bully pulpit. |
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He has to either compromise with the opposition parties, or else use the bully pulpit of the presidency to sway public opinion which in turn would affect opposition policy. |
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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. |
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Covertly, then with more confidence, he stands up to the school bully. |
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I personally was encouraged from an early age to regard your country as opportunistic at minimum, greedy at best, and the worst bully in the playground at worst. |
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In the First World War this meant a type of canned corned beef known as bully beef, tea, hard biscuits, and stale bread. |
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They were as typical of the British Army as the Lee Enfield rifle, Bren Gun and tinned bully beef. |
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Gielgud had an enforceable contractual claim to the role, but Dean, a notorious bully, was a powerful force in British theatre. |
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I have promised to be with the sweet bully early in the morning of her important day. |
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The White House has the bully pulpit but we have our megaphones. |
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He has no friends, his parents pay him little attention, and a neighborhood bully delights in giving him atomic wedgies. |
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Spitting Image, a British TV show, satirised Thatcher as a bully who ridiculed her own ministers. |
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Clarkson referring to people of different races in pejorative terms tells children that it is ok to bully and make racist comments. |
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Upon his return Colo showed an unsureness, easy to pull round the park and to bully. |
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But this slayer of bullies can often seem, well, like a bully. |
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A DELIVERY man axed for skiving yesterday won pounds 3,000 after claiming his woman boss was a bully. |
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The mayor made it quite clear throughout the entire 'bathroom bill' debate-that she'll use her bully pulpit to bully pulpits across Houston. |
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Any flat-track bully worth his salt would have weighed in with a few goals but Torres spurned the chance with yet another poor miss. |
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Westwood is far more than a mere flat-track bully, but it is worth noting that he went back to number one after winning the Indonesian Open. |
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He needs to deliver against the top teams rather than being a flat-track bully against the top flight's lesser lights. |
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Other poignant reminders include stretchers, battledress buttons, bully beef tins, and army boots. |
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So it worked for me, and if somebody tried to bully my kid, if they didn't destroy the little booger, I would. |
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But I'd rather be slower in my old age than a lager lout and an unfeeling bully. |
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Perhaps they've bought into the idea that Suarez is some sort of flat-track bully. |
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The son of Whitehaven's rugby league coach Ged may be built for it, but he is no flat-track bully. |
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But as if to prove he is not the sort of flat-track bully to take advantage of such benign conditions, he did not last long. |
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There was no fresh food, just bully beef and biscuits every day. |
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There's an element of the flat-track bully about their pack. |
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I don't recommend taking on that bully, since he's bigger than you are. |
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Vaughn is badly beaten up by Hamilton's bully boys and left for dead after causing trouble by pointing out that the croupier is using loaded dice. |
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You really need to stick up for yourself against that bully. |
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The bully is firing snot rockets. He holds his head back and blocks one nostril with his finger, blowing out the other one. Small hard gobs of mucus are flying around him. |
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I noticed you being a bully towards people with disabilities. |
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Moon teaches the friend to live in the wilderness, makes friends with the bully, and hides out in a junkyard courtesy of archetypal rednecks with hearts of gold. |
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Armstrong reaffirmed that he is, above all, interested in making seasonlong use of his bully pulpit to promote the worldwide fight against cancer. |
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Even the troops on the Western Front were given a respite from hostilities in 1914, sharing a tin of bully beef and a plum pudding in No Man's Land. |
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Case in point, many fast fighters have their hands down and have almost exaggerated footwork, while brawlers or bully fighters tend to slowly stalk their opponents. |
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To pinch a cliche from another sport, he was a bit of a flat-track bully. |
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A teacher who's gone wacko and a bully like Johnny Whortle in charge. |
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