Everyone knows Powell for what he is: a pothunting timeserver. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
It would be unfair to say that Göran Kummel is a conscious timeserver. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
I suspect your label “Vichy policeman” is code for “timeserver”. From Wordnik.com. [An Ex Traffic Biker Writes: « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the timeserver, and believed that "men should be what they seem.". From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session] Reference
Cassiodorus may seem a timeserver, but his tenacity was based on a constructive, optimistic view of Ostrogothic rule. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference
All premised on the the entirely lunatic notion that the removal of just one more high profile timeserver will somehow usher in the reign of the Godly in the Commonwealth. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference
Seth Ward taught mathematics, already noted as an astronomer, and hereafter to be less honourably noted as so supple a timeserver, that, “amid all the changes of the times he never broke his bones.”. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Dr Owen] Reference
In "Prince of Darkness," Powers introduces us to the inner life of Father Ernest Burner, an entirely mediocre timeserver, a glutton, a cynic, adolescent in his desire to be on the opposite side of whatever position is taken by the younger curate. From Wordnik.com. [The Priestly Comedy of J. F. Powers] Reference
· Once set up, the host computer can serve as a timeserver to any size LAN. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Once set up the host computer can serve as a timeserver to any size network. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
If he was a timeserver and leagued with my Lord Warwick's faction in the Company, he was a jovial sinner. From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
Keep it synchronized with any NTP timeserver using Beagle Software's ClockWatch - the best time on the Web. From Wordnik.com. [News from www.muscatinejournal.com] Reference
He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the timeserver, and believed that “men should be what they seem.”. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H F Lee]
None but an Episcopalian could sit in the Scottish Parliament, or could even vote for a member, and in Scotland an Episcopalian was always a Tory or a timeserver. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
Even the most incompetent, lazy timeserver (and there are plenty) in the Public sector would be on well more than €23,800 after five years, never mind 40 years. From Wordnik.com. [Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52] Reference
An ambitious timeserver like Loménie, or a contented adherent of use and wont like Morellet, might well regard such considerations as the products of a weak and eccentric scrupulosity. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot] Reference
It would be unjust to think of Hilary as a timeserver, but we must admit that there is something almost too businesslike in this dismission from his mind of former hopes and friendships. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
The world which offers gifts and tacitly undertakes to ask no questions as to the real state of the timeserver's inner mind, loses no less than the timeserver himself who receives the gifts and promises to hold his peace. From Wordnik.com. [On Compromise] Reference
Saintly in his professions, unscrupulous in his dealings, zealous for nothing, bold in speculation, a coward and a timeserver in action, a placable enemy and a lukewarm friend, he was in every way qualified to arrange the terms of the coalition between the religious and the worldly enemies of Popery. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
Or the narrow-minded timeserver -- the man who would sacrifice any thing, even the liberties of his country, for a selfish end -- the legal oppressor of the widow and the fatherless?. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Penny and Other Stories] Reference
And that I no timeserver am. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
Oh, England, never name us the timeserver!. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of War] Reference
If ever there was one, he was a timeserver. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference
"But Captain Solis is a nobody ... a timeserver.". From Wordnik.com. [The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution] Reference
Remember to choose a timeserver nearby. From Wordnik.com. [PCLinuxOS-Forums] Reference
Simonides, a timeserver. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
A courtier and a timeserver. From Wordnik.com. [Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc] Reference
· set system time according to timeserver. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
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