Upstarts

I generally fly on major carriers -- one of the things that's really distinguished old-school airlines like United (which I usually fly) from the upstarts is that loyalty is rewarded. ❋ Unknown (2007)

O'Neal powered his way to 36 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks as he lifted the Lakers to a 99-94 victory and delivered another very rude introduction to the upstarts from the Eastern ❋ Unknown (2002)

The gap between the big boys, such as Brazil, England, Spain and Germany, and the upstarts is no longer as wide as a goalmouth. ❋ Unknown (2002)

A couple of states not usually known as upstarts took matters into their own hands last week. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If gentlemen of family would allow the rich upstarts to spend their money profusely, which they are ready enough to do, and not vie with them in expence, the upstarts would soon be at an end, and the gentlemen would remain: but if the gentlemen will vie in expence with the upstarts, which is very foolish, they must be ruined. ' ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

The eight piece funk-soul-dub upstarts get the Rusty Garden tent steamed up with their groove laden bass lines, funk brass hooks and body politic delivery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some one is getting to sensitive on being called the upstarts from the SB, take it as a complement dear ... ❋ Unknown (2008)

According to former Farm resident Michael Traugot, they were regarded as "upstarts" because their psychedelic spirituality lacked the gravitas of Asian religious traditions (Traugot, Short History, 8). ❋ Unknown (2007)

'Not all your Young Kingdom "upstarts" are quite as unsophisticated as you believe, my lord.' ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (1977)

He did not at all like the appearance of the young commander, for he was of the type of officers known as "upstarts," who like to show their authority, but are without the ability to successfully fill even the post of corporal. ❋ Harry Castlemon (1878)

David Maxwell -- for it was he -- passed out with an angry scowl, and as he strode with noisy tread across the hall, said something uncommonly pithy to the footman about "upstarts" and "puppies," and "people who thought they was made o 'different dirt from others," accompanied with many other words and expressions which we may not repeat. ❋ Francis B. Pearson (1859)

If gentlemen of family would allow the rich upstarts to spend their money profusely, which they are ready enough to do, and not vie with them in expence, the upstarts would soon be at an end, and the gentlemen would remain: but if the gentlemen will vie in expence with the upstarts, which is very foolish, they must be ruined.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)

June 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - After the fall General Motors, "once the embodiment of US economic might," Americans should get used to the fact that "upstarts" like China and India are "ready to rule world economy," a US commentator said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Splits, schisms, upstarts—this is typical of all Protestantism, and Black Protestant churches have been no exception. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Because it produced very little profit for big mill operators, they were only too happy to cede the market to mini-mill upstarts in the 1970s. ❋ Inder Sidhu (2011)