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  • s  as claimed by and for yourself often without justification
    the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind

  • With Kato's implosion, the manand they are all menconsidered the most prime ministerial is Junichiro Koizumi, a self-styled maverick who once ran the postal .
  • Unaware of the investigators' true identity, Barasch, a big Chicago landlord and self-styled "business broker," guided them every step of the way, telling them the hour inspectors .
  • A self-styled truth-teller (his full name anagrams to Acted Candor), Caden manages to exasperate or repel the fascinating women (including Catherine Keener, Jennifer Jason Leigh .
News & Articles

  • Curtis Strange on Merion: "You need an accepting mentality"
    By John HugganARDMORE. Pa. -- Almost all of the seemingly endless pre-championship chatter in the lead-up to the 113th U.S. Open has been centered on the condition and length of Merion's famed East course: Too difficult or too easy; too hard or too soft; too short or really too short? But not much has been uttered about what it takes to win one of these things, the self-styled "toughest test in ...
    June 12, 2013 - GolfDigest.com via Yahoo! Sports
  • Commentary: On the meaning of ‘natural’
    Like nuclear power, whale hunting and the use of preservatives before it, genetic modification has become a cause célèbre among the self-styled ecoscenti who care oh-so much about how far humanity has strayed from what’s “natural.”
    June 12, 2013 - Dairy Herd
  • Teacher contract talks begin this week in Minneapolis
    Self-styled reformers, teachers’ union may be in for some clashes.
    June 10, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Quotes

  • Kevin Rudd in Aljazeera.net
    Australia now faces an increased terrorist threat from people born or raised in Australia who take inspiration from violent jihadist narratives,Rudd said. "Prior to the rise of self-styled jihadist terrorism fostered by al-Qaeda, Australia...
  • Tom DeLay in CNN
    It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle,DeLay said, adding that true statesmen...
  • Saparmurat Niyazov in Forum 18
    In July 2005, President Niyazov stated that "we have one religion and unique traditions and customs, and there is no need for people to look beyond these. Otherwise," he continued, "there will be self-styled mullahs, each one of whom will...

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