| 单词 | timeserving |
| 例句 | Dionne Jr.’s March 5 op-ed, “The cost of our war on public life,” was an excellent commentary on how, unfortunately, public servants are often considered “timeserving ‘bureaucrats’ ” by many Americans. Opinion | How to give military service its proper due 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Such senators as Benton, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, and later on Douglas, Seward, and Sumner, fairly towered above presidents like the obscure Southerners, Tyler and Polk, or the truckling, timeserving Northern politicians, Pierce and Buchanan. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z I promised to explain this to you, as Ernest was distressed lest he should appear to be timeserving, and I said I was sure you would understand it. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 The antecedents of its principal members are those of timeserving politicians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 We have learned to distrust the responses of their timeserving oracles, and to laugh at the ignorant pretensions of their literary artisans. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 A hireling ministry will be a feeble, a timid, a truckling, a timeserving ministry, without faith, endurance, and holy power. The Revelation Explained The treaty was rejected by an overwhelming vote, although Buchanan led a few of his timeserving comrades from the North to the support of the extreme Southern element. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all timeserving and temporising statesmen! The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 Thusnelda, however, sympathized far more with the heroic spirit of her lover than with the timeserving policy of her father. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) Whether this charge was true or not, at any rate he wrote a letter to a friend, a Madrid editor visiting Havana, in which he characterized McKinley as a vacillating and timeserving politician. The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power The next biographer we open accuses him of being too calculating, cunning, timeserving; and so forth. Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time Hypocrisy and timeserving above are accompanied by hypocrisy and timeserving below. Character |
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