Facial expression at a 9 on the sycophancy scale. 3.
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And he has maintained the president's confidence without adopting sycophancy.
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The news, which was embraced with peak sycophancy by Gov.
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The exchange is striking for the sycophancy Zelensky displays toward Trump.
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The good news is that Graham's jaw-dropping sycophancy isn't going unnoticed.
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Displaying a level of sycophancy that would even give Sean Hannity pause,
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She's weak, and is pulled back in every time by wormy sycophancy.
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China's restraint, tolerating Bolsonarian bluster while ignoring Venezuelan sycophancy, does not signal impotence.
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Also, Bartiromo's facial expression is at a 7 on the sycophancy scale. 2.
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Jimmy Fallon's hair-ruffling sycophancy, on NBC's "Tonight Show," was becoming a turnoff.
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Since then, the Valley's most notable contribution has been sycophancy at Trump Tower.
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A public 'show' Sycophancy -- and narcissism -- are threads running through the political system, Durvasula said.
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Who can forget the June 2017 cabinet meeting, which opened with a round of competitive sycophancy?
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Bartiromo swooped in to help, but her face registered a 2 on the sycophancy scale. 5.
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Sycophancy in politics is often hard to see, something done behind closed doors, away from public scrutiny.
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"It seems to me that bandwagoning, sycophancy, toadying are all becoming much more fundamental," Professor Naughton said.
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But the fund has also been described as an environment of sycophancy and harassment, reports Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Effective negotiators need less ego and sycophancy, more humility and coordination with members of their own side.
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But while new media has changed the dynamic of flattery, it cannot contain the corruption that sycophancy engenders.
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But the sycophancy we've seen on display during the MBS visit to America has reached a new level.
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Unprotected abroad by the force field of Fox News and Republican sycophancy, he flees early, sniveling and humiliated.
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It's worth considering just how Trump's impersonation of a Trump flatterer changes the effects of this act of sycophancy.
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We refuse to engage in this vile sycophancy, this collective brown-nosing of the planet's most successful football team.
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As Young wrote in "The Politician," inside the campaign there was "a cult-like atmosphere" that encouraged extreme sycophancy.
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The early endorsement of Trump alienated other party leaders, and the sycophancy of his campaigning has led to widespread mockery.
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Some said it was a display of sycophancy and an online petition against the decision has more than 30,000 signatures.
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Carried away by their sycophancy, reveling in her novel popularity and buoyed by a healthy lead in opinion polls, Mrs.
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Grenell, in a previous life, was an infamous right-wing troll, a "partisan propagandist" elevated solely for his Trumpian sycophancy.
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Such sycophancy revolts a lot of older, educated Chinese, reminding them of the personality cult around Mao that so harmed China.
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The thing is, Britain's leaders risk going beyond engagement and realpolitik to something more craven, something closer to knee-jerk sycophancy.
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Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who exchanged a reputation for moderation for a reputation for Trumpist sycophancy, was even crisper.
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Politics and sycophancy have a long association, ranging from the ingratiating punctilio of diplomacy to the pomp and fatuity of state visits.
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While this seems strange, even inexplicable at first reading, his reasoning is particularly cogent, as we endure the new publicity of sycophancy.
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Clearly, they take their cues from their boss, who famously enjoys sycophancy and demeaning his subordinates, up to and including top officials.
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"So sycophancy is having the effect is always does: It is telling our enemies that they can behave with impunity," he wrote.
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Sycophancy and flattery may buy one a place in his court but the evidence suggests it comes at the cost of real influence.
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There are implications to consider here: When Trump shuts out his critics, he withdraws further into the bubble of sycophancy he already enjoys.
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Mr. Zelensky is a subtler performer; he seems to have read "The Caretaker" and "The Homecoming," Pinter's brilliant anatomies of domination and sycophancy.
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That's why you see this sycophancy, as you put it, or this need to please and scheme and kind of watch your back.
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He shows his aides no loyalty and—judging by the frightened sycophancy of many of his underlings—has no interest in hearing harsh truths.
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When it comes to sycophancy, "it's not like the source is always evil or thinking about his or her own self-interest," said Martin.
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Sycophancy is the order of the moment, as it's more important to be on the Trump train no matter the offense or wanton cruelty.
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Its dealings with America will now be viewed through the prism of the leaked conversation between the presidents, and of Mr Zelensky's unfortunate sycophancy.
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For those works often explore how sycophancy clouds the judgment of great men, especially when pride prevents them from seeing that they are being gulled.
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"When Trump shuts out his critics, he withdraws further into the bubble of sycophancy he already enjoys," she wrote in an opinion piece for CNN.
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Whether that means Trump will pull the nomination is a very different story since he appears to value two things above all: loyalty and sycophancy.
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That can be positive for moving quickly and forcefully, but the downside risks are significant if subordinates tend towards sycophancy instead of real policy debate. 3.
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And the trouble with Trump's selective doling out of punishment isn't the harm it inflicts on corporations, it's the incentives this regime creates for political sycophancy.
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In truth, the press's current sycophancy rises from a hinterland of intimidation, trimming and currying favour dating back to Mr Modi's rise to national power in 2014.
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While some of the news hours have a rightward bent, the anchors generally don't display the pro-Trump sycophancy that's a signature feature of the opinion shows.
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The purpose of his work is essentially to protest the atrocities of British rule in India and oppose the sycophancy and greed of Indian merchants and politicians.
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The answer, embarrassing but at this point known to Trump's staff and to any foreign government that might want to curry America's favor, is flattery and sycophancy.
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Others mix conspiracy and sycophancy, as when Amr Adeeb worried that "[foreign] intelligence officers who are trying to ruin our country" might kill Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the president.
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Even his resignation letter was filled with cloying sycophancy: My desire in service to you has always been to bless you as you make important decisions for the American people.
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Accustomed to a level of deference and sycophancy when he sits in that yellow chair in front of the fireplace, the President was not ready for what was to come.
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The message of his presence was not only that we can all laugh at his service and sycophancy in the Trump administration, but that he's welcome to laugh with us.
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"Erdogan is stuck in such a bubble of sycophancy," said Rubin, who prior to AEI worked on the staff of the secretary of Defense and in other government-related roles.
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But when he went to the United Nations yesterday and told an obvious lie in front of the leaders of the world, they had a much more appropriate response than sycophancy.
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Mr. Iannucci is particularly good at the theater of sycophancy and at all the ways in which supplicating faces, hands and bodies can quiver in fear and with a terrible love.
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His polar opposite, and abiding frenemy from school, is Peter Keating (an ideally lumpen Aus Greidanus Jr.), who compensates for his lack of talent by general sycophancy and stealing Howard's ideas.
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Watch: Style & Error: the Power Suit Luckily, they have both glommed onto women for whom the allure of sycophancy is enough to excuse—or obscure—increasingly bizarre behavior, at least for a while.
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But that would require the press to acknowledge the inherent flaws—passivity, narcissism, sycophancy, the urge to cling to "objectivity"—that stand in the way of it telling the government to go fuck itself.
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Not only is Navarro proudly declaring that he's a propagandist, not a policy analyst — that his role is solely to confirm Trump's prejudices — he's also engaging in an utterly un-American level of sycophancy.
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Would his Treasury secretary and chief economic advisers coolly analyze the problem and formulate a course of action, or would they respond with a combination of sycophancy to the boss and denials that anything was wrong?
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It was the final nail in the coffin of a strategy he's been crafting for months, one that relied on flattery and sycophancy to earn Trump's good graces to maximize the odds of a reasonable immigration deal.
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"Almost any other British leader would have let himself be overcome by boredom, embarrassment, good manners or sycophancy towards his powerful hosts," Moore, in his characteristically laconic style, observes of one such occasion at Camp David in 1984.
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Between his sycophancy, which moved George Will to say that Pence could be "America's most repulsive figure," and his widely noted absences, Pence has established a record that would make him blameless but also acceptable as a successor.
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"The good news is that Graham's jaw-dropping sycophancy isn't going unnoticed," Filipovic wrote, "#LindseyGrahamResign is trending on Twitter..." Donald Trump Jr. eventually reached an agreement to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, while his father continued to dodge House investigators.
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AMID the spicy anecdotes, superficial insights, sycophancy, score-settling and casual loutishness displayed in a new memoir of Donald Trump's election campaign, "Let Trump be Trump", by Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, the two essential characteristics of Trumpland shine through.
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The agents include Victoria King (Mandell Maughan), a slick dresser with a ruthless streak; Amir Yaghoob (Dan Ahdoot), whose best skill is sycophancy; and — go ahead, say the name out loud — Chelsea Leight-Leigh (Tawny Newsome), who's addicted to social media.
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Mr. Modi can rely on uninterrupted sycophancy from almost all of India's major television channels and newspapers; "Modi toadies" (Salman Rushdie's term) broadcast uncritically, among other things, the falsehood that Indian fighter jets bombed and killed major terrorists in Pakistan.
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As Trump convened his first full Cabinet meeting Monday, reporters present were witness to an extraordinary display of political sycophancy, with assembled officials taking turns to shower Trump with compliments and express their gratitude for the privilege of being able to serve him.
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" Scaramucci, who wrote a recent op-ed defending the press, suggests that many who work with Trump lose their ability to be critical: "You start to conform your behavior to who you're talking to ... sycophancy is a form of selfishness and self-preservation.
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But the Trump presidency has placed long-accepted Washington folkways under a national microscope, and critics on the right and the left seize on any twitch or tweet by White House reporters that could suggest anti-Trump bias or pro-Trump sycophancy.
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Several parents see the letter-writing campaign as "sycophancy" — a word used more than once in forums and complaints, Haaretz reports — and think the school should have asked them for their approval before encouraging their kids to get involved in political activity.
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Sadly, however, the Senate caucus of cowards missed its moment, and instead of leading his colleagues back to the land of responsibility and integrity, Alexander returned to the peace and security in the land of partisan sycophancy, and declined to endorse the notion of censure.
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This isn't the kind of opinion conformity so evident on the Watergate tapes -- the private, behind-closed-door flatteries of a yes-man vying for favor with the boss -- this sycophancy is done on demand, at a distance, and for the largest audience possible.
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The boys' stage performances and sycophancy toward Jackson are endearing (what 80s child wouldn't fall to pieces when gifted a "Thriller" jacket or "Smooth Criminal" hat?) which makes the graphic and detailed account of their sexual allegations against Jackson all the more horrifying to endure.
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Given that Max Payne 3 boasts perhaps the greatest original soundtrack in popular gaming, it's difficult, at this point, to keep from devolving into useless sycophancy—Los Angeles noise rock group HEALTH has yet to cut a better album than its score for Max Payne 3.
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Clubs will hire 15 or so managers at the start of the season, putting each of them in charge on a week-by-week basis, giving them team tasks while pitting them against each other in an exercise that epitomises the true depths of cringing sycophancy and human avarice.
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If you're searching for a silver lining from this pageant of gaslighting and sycophancy, here it is: by declaring a state of emergency under the Stafford Act, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be able to tap into tens of billions in disaster funding to help with the pandemic response.
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The level of comical sycophancy that an ally—the only country in Europe with a still-smoldering war on its territory—has had to resort to in order to be heard out by the leader of the world's most powerful country is a testament to the double-edged sword of American support.
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Watching longtime anti-Russia hawks — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton — shucking off everything they've said over the years and ignoring Trump's coddling of Putin and his trashing of the F.B.I. in order to grab jobs they'd long coveted is witnessing careerism, sycophancy and cynicism on an industrial scale.
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The lack of courage in so many quarters — journalism, in which the ambitious assiduously avoid writing about topics that might get them canceled; the Republican Party, which has been reduced to Trump sycophancy and apologias for white nationalism; the Democratic Party, which sometimes seems to be taking its talking points from red rose Twitter — continues to blow my mind.
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Now I very rarely get emotional at the movies but I did cry a tad watching the Avengers climax but not nearly as much as I cry inside every time I read yet more sycophancy and ingratiating copy from my peers about companies that have never made money, show no signs of making money anytime soon and who claim to have reinvented the wheel.
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So what we have here is the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives saying that President Trump demands sycophancy from his staff, that the populist administration he promised is filled with Goldman Sachs executives, that he continues to conduct himself in ways unbecoming of a public figure, that his White House is in a continuous state of chaos, and that the way that his top political allies manage all this is to pretend they don't know about it or didn't hear about it or have no thoughts on it.
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The show takes place at the office of the fictional insurance company "Capitol Versicherung AG", (Capitol Insurance PLC) where the trivial day-to-day events take place in an eerie atmosphere oscillating between bullying and sycophancy.
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Moreover, Badoglio was an opportunist well known for his sycophancy towards those in power, which led the king to choose him as Mussolini's successor as he knew that Badoglio would do anything to have power whereas Caviglia had a reputation as a man of principle and honor.
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Illustration by Peter Newell for the poem "The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven" in Fables for the Frivolous, by Guy Wetmore Carryl The charge of sycophancy against a litigant was a serious matter, and the authors of two surviving oratories, "Against the Grain Dealers" (author Lysias), and "Against Leocrates" (author Lycurgus) defend themselves against charges that they are sycophants because they are prosecuting cases as private citizens in circumstances where they have no personal stake in the underlying dispute. In each instance, the lack of personal involvement appears to have been the crux of the accusation of sycophancy against them, the merits of the cases being separate matters from whether they had a right to bring them.
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It also lost its "noble features of the Doric character". "Argos became such an unsettled state of public affairs, sycophancy and violence became prevalent:…"The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Karl Otfried Müller, 2nd ed. rev. 1839. Vol II, pg 149. Tarentum was also a Doric state, a colony in Magna Graecia.
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He claimed to have been a Desert Rat and constantly complains about the unruly behaviour of Hedge's class 5C. He is fiercely loyal (to the point of sycophancy) to the headmaster but a thorn in the side of the rest of the staff. His various comeuppances provide much of the ongoing humour of the sitcom.
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Brad D. Follmer is portrayed by Cary Elwes. Follmer was an assistant director at the FBI. He had a romantic history with Monica Reyes that he brought up while trying to keep her away from the X-files. His true motives were more political in nature and part of his sycophancy to Alvin Kersh.
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In modern English, sycophant denotes an "insincere flatterer" and is used to refer to someone practicing sycophancy (i.e. insincere flattery to gain advantage). The word has its origin in the legal system of Classical Athens. Most legal cases of the time were brought by private litigants as there was no police force and only a limited number of officially appointed public prosecutors.
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Shah treated the urban middle class, the managers, and technocrats with an iron fist; as a result his state-owned industries remained unproductive and inefficient.Barry Rubin, Paved with Good Intentions, pp. 14–5. The bureaucracy fell apart, since officials preferred sycophancy, when anyone could be whisked away to prison for even the whiff of disobeying his whims.Rubin, Paved with Good Intentions.
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This grand consensus, however, was not the product of slavish sycophancy of courtiers, but of a genuine intellectual agreement in Dutch government circles that this was the right policy to follow, at least in the foreign policy field. It did not necessarily extend to the domestic policy field in all respects, and this may explain the course of events after William's sudden death in early 1702.
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Efforts were made to discourage or suppress sycophants, including imposing fines on litigants who failed to obtain at least one fifth of the jury's votes, or for abandoning a case after it had begun (as would occur if the sycophant was bribed to drop the matter), and authorizing the prosecution of men for being sycophants. Statutes of Limitation were specifically adopted to try to prevent sycophancy.
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The album opens with the intro "Aquarius", which features a "spacey" production with a whispery soul aesthetic, followed by "Bet" which features Dev Hynes. "Bet" is a "mystical" with "ride-or-die" lyrics, that brushed off "haters". The song closes with Devonté Hynes performing a guitar outro. "Cold Sweat" is a dynamic song that sees Tinashe observing fake friends and overall sycophancy that comes with stardom.
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They were often badly managed prior to the involvement of the court because complex systems, influenced by both nepotism and sycophancy, dramatically affected the rental income of the ruling families. The bureaucratic system introduced by the Court, whose appointed officials had no ties to the area, resolved the issue although, being focussed entirely on what was best for the owners, it did so without considering the consequences for the tenants.
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That year, he made news for a controversial statement he made comparing President Robert Mugabe to Jesus. In his first speech before Parliament, he said, "This country and its people should thank the Almighty for giving us His only other son, by the name of Robert Gabriel Mugabe." Gara's statement was criticized by churches and individuals within Zimbabwe, with letters to local newspapers accusing him of blasphemy and sycophancy.
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In addition, guanxi and nepotism are distinct in that the former is inherently a social transaction (considering the emphasis on the actual act of building relationships) and not purely based in financial transactions, while the latter is explicitly based in financial transactions and has a higher chance of resulting in legal consequences. However, cronyism is less obvious and can lead to low risk sycophancy and empire-building bureaucracy within the internal politics of an organisation.
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Many political Sikh organizations such as Dal Khalsa, Khalra Mission Organization, Punjab Human Rights Organization, Khalsa Panchayat and Niarye Khalsa Organization. Former SGPC secretary general Manjit Singh Calcutta argued that this award is given posthumously. In response, Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh cited the example of Master Tara Singh, who was given this award during his lifetime. Dal Khalsa leader Kanwar Pal Singh termed it sycophancy, as Badal indirectly controls SGPC.
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After a few days, she married a doctor in London with the acceptance of Chandrababu by a letter communication. In a business mired by sycophancy, he chose not to mince his words and this restricted his opportunities from the 1960s onward. After this, he had decided to take a temporary break from his film career, and he went to Delhi without informing even his close friends. He spent those days consuming alcohol.
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Probably there was no alternative during those years: simply no > humanitarian or ideological schools existed outside of the party camps. Both > the schools fabricated the contemporary history in their own way, supporting > the all-nation "victim" myth. Conservative historians hid Leopold Kunschak's > anti-Semitism, social democrats were silent about Renner's sycophancy before > Stalin and Hitler. The competing groups never tried to expose each other, > they continued to mutually respect the party legends and taboos for three > decades.
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In 1986, he was promoted to General and appointed Chief of Army Staff (COAS) after the assassination of General A.S. Vaidya. After taking over as COAS, he wrote a letter to his soldiers warning of deteriorating standards, and the evil of sycophancy. His operation at Sumdorong Chu in 1986, known as Operation Falcon, was widely praised. The Chinese had occupied Sumdorong Chu and Sundarji used the Indian Air Force's new airlift capability to land a brigade in Zimithang, north of Tawang.
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They presented their efforts as indispensable for the Germans in managing the Jewish community, in order to improve the resources of the Jews and to move the Germans to repeal collective punishments. This had, however, very limited positive results. The generally difficult situations presented often led to perceived unfair actions, such as personality preferences, sycophancy, and protectionism of a few over the rest of the community. Thus, the members of the community quickly became highly critical of, or even outright opposed their Judenrat.
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Building the nation and other poems, published by Fountain Publishers in 2000, is a collection of 76 poems by Ugandan poet Christopher Henry Muwanga Barlow. The poems are divided into seven sections: "Politicians, servants and sycophants", "The jungles of humanity", "Arguments with God", "Random portraits", "Of nature", "The rich live amalgam", and "Of love and all that". The poems deal with diverse themes like political opportunism and sycophancy, war, the paradox of God and the richness and beauty of nature.
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Arruntius was one of the most highly respected members of the senate of his day, much admired for his learning and integrity. He is further described as "a man of stainless virtues",Tacitus, The Annals 6.7 "rich", "daring", and having "brilliant accomplishments, and corresponding popularity".Tacitus, The Annals 1.13 Arruntius was a man who was not disposed to sycophancy. In his last conversations with Tiberius, the Roman emperor Augustus described Arruntius as "not unworthy of (ruling) the Empire and would have boldness enough to seize it should the opportunity arise".
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Appearing first in Metal Meltdown, Scorponok and Glowstrike express displeasure at Kickback's sycophancy and Sabrehorn's failure to procure equipment to rebuild the Alchemor. Lamenting at the quality of the troops they have, both Decepticons are surprised when Steeljaw appears and introduces himself. In Misdirection, having been promised by Steeljaw that he will provide them with elite warriors, Scorponok goes to rendezvous with him at a drive-in theatre with the Mini-Cons Bludgeon and Clout. Also meeting up with Crazybolt, Scorponok was irritated by the other Decepticon's speed philosophy and lack of patience.
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The A.V. Club listed Kenneth on its list of television "Showblockers," writing "[...] Kenneth has been wrung especially dry in recent seasons, made into an ever-more-outsized caricature of sycophancy, fundamentalism, and hickdom". Dustin Rowles, of Pajiba.com, listed Kenneth as a television character that should be killed off, writing "He was a great character for a few seasons, but Kenneth is useless to the show now". At the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, McBrayer received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series his portrayal of Kenneth in the episode "The Bubble".
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Keitel (far left) and other members of the German high command with Adolf Hitler at a military briefing, (c. 1940). Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist labelled Keitel nothing more than a "stupid follower of Hitler" because of his servile "yes man" attitude with regard to Hitler. His sycophancy was well known in the army, and he acquired the nickname 'Lakeitel', a pun derived from ("lackey") and his surname. Hermann Göring's description of Keitel as having "a sergeant's mind inside a field marshal's body" was a feeling often expressed by his peers.
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The friendship between the three heroes sworn, Avtandil, Tariel and Pridon, a clear narrative of the entire epic, binds them together and at the same time it binds their peoples. These three men belong to different nations, they find themselves with the same aspirations and the same goal and that is their union of forces that can and will destroy a tyranny and evil what is represented by the Kajs.Baramidze & Gamezardashvili, p. 23 This friendship, full of honesty and courage, free of cowardice and sycophancy, must go to the death if necessary.
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This was characterised by servility and sycophancy towards the family which later turned into a hereditary succession of Gandhi family members to power. Her actions in storming the Golden Temple alienated Sikhs for a very long time. One of her legacies is supposed to be the systematic corruption of all parts of India's government from the executive to the judiciary due to her sense of insecurity. The Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India which was adopted during the emergency can also be regarded as part of her legacy.
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"Can-Utility and the Coastliners" is the fourth song on Genesis' fourth album, Foxtrot, released in 1972. "Can-Utility and the Coastliners", written mostly by guitarist Steve Hackett,Hackettsongs - Genesis Revisited II is based on the legend of King Canute, who supposedly ordered the seas to retreat to mock the sycophancy of his followers. An early, longer version of the song found its way into pre-album live sets (as heard on certain bootleg recordings); known as "Bye Bye Johnny" or "Rock My Baby", it featured an extended instrumental section in which the Mellotron string sound dominated.
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Uriah Heep, from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, is synonymous with sycophancy The word "sycophant" entered the English and French languages in the mid-16th century, and originally had the same meaning in English and French (sycophante) as in Greek, a false accuser. Today, in Greek and French it retains the original meaning. The meaning in English has changed over time, however, and came to mean an insincere flatterer. The common thread in the older and current meanings is that the sycophant is in both instances portrayed as a kind of parasite, speaking falsely and insincerely in the accusation or the flattery for gain.
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In the first scene, Oedipus encounters his father Laius, knowing that if all goes according to the book the two will get into a brawl, and he will commit the serious sin of killing his own father. Aware of this, Oedipus is very deferential to Laius, only to find that the father is extremely touchy and hostile to anything that smacks of sycophancy. Despite Oedipus' continued deference and protestations, Laius becomes increasingly angry and finally suffers a fatal heart attack. In the next scene, the Sphinx energetically tries to wheedle him into answering her riddle correctly, which Oedipus does not want to do.
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His enthusiasm for Anglo-Saxondom knew few bounds when it came to their social and political institutions, and to his greatest heroes. These included Alfred the Great, Earl Godwin and Harold Godwinson, though he also began increasingly to admire William for his policy of protecting his revolution by retaining Old English institutions wherever possible. Freeman placed much greater faith in Anglo-Saxon historical writings than in the Norman chronicles, which he considered vitiated by sycophancy to the Norman court. He had learned from Thomas Arnold a belief in the continuous and cyclical nature of history in general.
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Of Brome's sixteen surviving plays (including The Late Lancashire Witches, his collaboration with Thomas Heywood), the vast majority are comedies; only three are tragicomedies. (Along with The Queen and Concubine, the others are The Lovesick Court and The Queen's Exchange.) Brome may have chosen the tragicomic form for Queen and Concubine because it allowed him to make, in a limited form and degree, a political commentary. Critics have noted that Queen and Concubine is a critique of royal tyranny and courtly sycophancy,Ira Clark, Professional Playwrights: Massinger, Ford, Shirley & Brome, University Press of Kentucky, 1992; pp. 15, 162.
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A career military officer from the department of Cochabamba, Melgarejo slowly climbed the hierarchy of the armed forces, aided by his sycophancy, willingness to participate in rebellions, and feats of personal valor. Having participated in an 1854 military revolt against long-time dictator Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Melgarejo was tried for treason but pardoned, as he had begged for his life and blamed alcohol for his participation in the ill-fated coup. Belzú would come to rue having spared Melgarejo's life. General Melgarejo originally supported the Linares dictatorship (1857–61) and then fought on the side of the rebellious General José Maria de Achá, who became President in 1861.
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Within the Congress, Indira ruthlessly outmanoeuvred her rivals, forcing the party to split in 1969—into the Congress (O) (comprising the old-guard known as the "Syndicate") and her Congress (R). A majority of the All-India Congress Committee and Congress MPs sided with the prime minister. Indira's party was of a different breed from the Congress of old, which had been a robust institution with traditions of internal democracy. In the Congress (R), on the other hand, members quickly realised that their progress within the ranks depended solely on their loyalty to Indira Gandhi and her family, and ostentatious displays of sycophancy became routine.
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Tacitus notes that during a long old age of "surly sycophancy to those above him, of arrogance to those beneath him, and of moroseness among his equals", having attained the consulship in 43 (suffect for Claudius) and his triumph in 47, he received the province of Africa, where he eventually died, in accordance with the earlier prediction.Tacitus, Annals 11.21 Pliny also notes in his letter to Sura that he was struck down with illness upon reaching Africa after the same female figure met him upon the docks. Recounting the prophecy, he is said to have given up hope of survival, even though none of his companions were despairing.
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During his time in the Ministry, Hoveyda befriended many elements of Iranian high society, including the likes of Sadeq Hedayat and Sadeq Chubak. His affinity for the country's intelligentsia is clearly observed in his earlier strategy as PM. By trying to consolidate the partnership between the monarchial regime and the intellectual opposition, Hoveyda believed that the incremental reforms he desired would bear fruit. Others like Jalal al-e Ahmad, writer and social and political critic, saw Hoveyda's ‘infiltration’ of Iran's intellectual ranks as a form of sycophancy. On the other hand, Hedayat and other eccentric characters were quick to identify and repel opportunists who were attempting to leech off their social status.
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In 1609 Gladstanes and James were at variance on a question of the perquisites of the archbishopric, Gladstanes claiming that as of old the estates of bastards, the customs of St. Andrews, and confiscated goods pertained to the episcopal see. James wished them for the crown, and Gladstanes humbly tendered his submission, but asked to be heard on the subject. In the same year he projected another journey to court, and wrote to the king in May asking the requisite permission. In September he was far on his way, and from Standford on the 11th of that month intimated his approach in a letter of remarkable sycophancy, calling James his ‘earthly creator’.
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Along with the accusations of prostitution and squandering his inheritance for which Timarchus was on trial, the speech contains charges of "bribery, sycophancy, the buying of office, embezzlment, and perjury". Modern scholars have criticised the lack of evidence that Aeschines put forward in Against Timarchus, for instance by pointing out that he has no evidence that any of Timarchus' lovers ever paid him. Indeed, Hubbard observes that he does not even manage to produce a single witness who will testify that Timarchus had any sexual relationship with the men in question at all, though in his speeches Aeschines says that Timarchus' affairs were well known to the jury. Aeschines won the case and Timarchus was punished by disenfranchisement.
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Man, innocent and unadorned, passed his life in the pleasures of the chase, warring only in the cause of the nation, scorning the supposititious benefits of civilization, and free from its diseases, misery, sycophancy, and oppression. In short, the American wilderness was the seat of serenity and noble philosophy". During the French Revolution, Sylvain Maréchal, in his Manifesto of the Equals (1796), demanded "the communal enjoyment of the fruits of the earth" and looked forward to the disappearance of "the revolting distinction of rich and poor, of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed"."The Agrarian law, or the partitioning of land, was the spontaneous demand of some unprincipled soldiers, of some towns moved more by their instinct than by reason.
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Zamindari estates in the region, including Darbhanga, actually sought intervention of the Court of Wards from time to time because the stewardship of the British authorities, who invested funds wisely, had a tendency to boost their economic position. The estate had in any event been badly run prior to this time: a complex system influenced by both nepotism and sycophancy had dramatically affected the family's rental income. The bureaucratic system introduced by the Court, whose appointed officials had no ties to the area, resolved the issue although, being focussed entirely on what was best for the owners, it did so without considering the consequences for the tenants. Towards the end of the 19th century, 47 percent of the cropped area of the Darbhanga estate was used for the cultivation of rice.
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There have been criticisms voiced by centre-right newspapers in recent years over a perceived left political bias across a range of issues, such as the EU and the Iraq War,BBC report damns its ‘culture of bias’ – Times Online as well as sycophancy in interviews, particularly on the popular morning news magazine Today as part of a reported perception of a general "malaise" at the BBC. Conversely, the journalist Mehdi Hasan has criticised the station for an overtly "socially and culturally conservative" approach. There has been frequent criticism of Radio 4—and Today in particular—for a lack of female broadcasters. In September 1972, Radio 4 employed the first female continuity announcers—Hylda Bamber and Barbara Edwards (an event which caused the Daily Mail to proclaim that Radio 4 had "fallen" to women's liberation).
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Victor Emmanuel stated that he wanted to keep the Fascist system going after dismissing Mussolini, and he was seeking to correct merely some of "its deleterious aspects". The two replacements that were being mooted for Mussolini were Marshal Pietro Badoglio and his rival, Marshal Enrico Caviglia. As Marshal Caviglia was one of the few officers of the Regio Esercito who kept his distance from the Fascist regime, he was unacceptable to Victor Emmanuel who wanted an officer who was committed to upholding Fascism, which led him to choose Badoglio who had loyally served Mussolini and committed all sorts of atrocities in Ethiopia, but who had a grudge against Il Duce for making him the scapegoat for the failed invasion of Greece in 1940. In addition, Badoglio was an opportunist who was well known for his sycophancy towards those in power, which led the king to choose him as Mussolini's successor as he knew that Badoglio would do anything to have power whereas Caviglia had a reputation as a man of principle and honour.
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Kent criticises Oswald as a man unworthy of office who has only been promoted because of his sycophancy, telling Lear that he should be loyal to those who are willing to tell him the truth, a statement that many in England wished that James would heed. Furthermore, James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of England upon the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, thereby uniting the kingdoms of the island of Britain into one, and a major issue of his reign was the attempt to forge a common British identity. James had given his sons Henry and Charles the titles of Duke of Cornwell and Duke of Albany, the same titles bore by the men married to Regan and Goneril. The play begins with Lear ruling all of Britain and ends with him destroying his realm; the critic Andrew Hadfield argued that the division of Britain by Lear was an inversion of the unification of Britain by James, who believed his policies would result in a well governed and prosperous unified realm being passed on to his heir.
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A supporter of Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella in his youth, Ibáñez Martín served as a deputy for the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (CEDA).Richard Herr, An Historical Essay on Modern Spain, University of California Press, 1974, p. 223 He was a leading member of the Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas (ANCP), the propaganda movement that formed the basis for the Catholic monarchist party Popular Action.Carolyn P. Boyd, Historia Patria: Politics, History, and National Identity in Spain, 1875-1975, Princeton University Press, 1997, p. 234 Thrwoing his lot in with the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War, he became staunchly loyal to Francisco Franco, to the point where critics accused him of sycophancy, and he even compared Franco to Fernán González of Castile due to El Caudillo founding a "new Spain".Paul Preston, Franco, Fontana Press, 1995, pp. 497-8 However Ibáñez Martín spent most of the civil war out of the country as Franco had despatched him to Latin America with a mission to promote the Nationalist cause amongst the Spanish-speaking people there.Paul H. Lewis, Latin Fascist Elites: The Mussolini, Franco, and Salazar Regimes, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, p.
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Like WCW's nWo storyline, the WWF began to blur the line between real life and kayfabe: Vince McMahon, taking advantage of fans' genuine dislike for him following the Montreal Screwjob, recast himself as the evil Mr. McMahon, a corrupt businessman who despised his own fans and valued sycophancy over talent. This presentation both mimicked Nitro's "Anything can happen" atmosphere, and acknowledged the growing phenomenon of "smarks," wrestling fans who used the Internet to gain a wide base of knowledge on the real-life, backstage workings of the industry. Stone Cold Steve Austin would start to become extremely popular with the WWF's fan base during 1997, and would often receive the best fan response of the night; despite playing a heel character, many fans would start to see him as more of an anti-hero. During this time, many wrestlers' personas were retooled, and wrestlers who had been growing in popularity were given pushes, often with dark or morally ambiguous alterations to their characters: The Rock, who had failed as a babyface character named Rocky Maivia—a naive young athlete trying to live up to the athletic legacies of his grandfather and father—was recast as an arrogant jock who spouted catch phrases.
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