We have only two right wings in Washington and both are peopled by time-serving puddknockers of the worst sort, President Obama included. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The former is headed by someone called Graham Dalton, who, it seems, is a time-serving apparatchik from the DoT, which, as we all know, is headed by that limpet-like nincompoop, Geoff BuffHoon, one of new Labour's 'Jack of All Trades & Master of None'. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I must be kept alive for the hanging, or else will the public be cheated, the law blackened, and a mark of demerit placed against the time-serving warden who runs this prison and one of whose duties is to see that his condemned ones are duly and properly hanged. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As a result, union labour possessing an important political significance at the time, the time-serving politicians at Sacramento appointed a senatorial committee of investigation of the state prisons. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Why do you defend the time-serving parasites that IG describes here? on October 9, 2008 at 10: 13 am | Reply Bob ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)
And now he knows that he is in the right, an ordained and crowned king, riding out against an upstart, a pretender, whose cause was lost in the last reign, whose affinity have stayed at home, whose support depends on foreign convicts and mercenaries, and who has attracted only the most disloyal and time-serving lords to his side—and possibly not even them. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)
The exiting BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward has become rich as a time-serving employee, working his way up a huge corporation over three decades, profiting from the brand and infrastructure of a company that was created three years before he was born. ❋ David Bolchover (2010)
He was a time-serving Labour smugster who, with occasional moments of self-doubt, basically wanted to look as good as possible with minimum effort. ❋ Alix Mortimer (2009)
Never deviating, he was disgusted by what he saw as the time-serving pro-royalist tendencies of the once fierce republicans Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is only controversial if you're a time-serving, dull-brained, timid bureaucrat whose sole joy in their otherwise slab-grey lives is causing trouble, inconvenience and hurt to other, innocent, members of the public. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This would be bad enough if the MPs involved in these scandals were merely time-serving backbenchers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Most math teachers in this country are time-serving hacks who have no interest in guiding students to the relevant intuitions, mostly because they have never had those intuitions themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But Labour people believe in entitlement and time-serving as qualifications for leadership so they wait until they are all doomed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Invited to choose between having my kids educated, my car fixed, or my elderly relatives cared for by (a) people of character, spirit, and dedication who believe in pseudoscience, or (b) unionized, time-serving drudges who believe in real science, which would I choose? ❋ Sean (2008)
(And as he became more prominent outside the academy, his tongue loosened, calling out his Princeton department as "ghastly," his colleagues in analytic philosophy as "time-serving bores.") ❋ Unknown (2008)
His time-serving disposition was well-known, and excited the contempt of the more daring leaders of both factions in the state. ❋ Unknown (2008)
[Peppino] said, "For every one day I spend [in the slammer], it will count [for three] days of time served." ❋ Bruce Citron (2006)
