Word: doormate
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...colleagues as much as it thrills the French public. When Sarkozy prepared to greet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2007, for example, a visibly disgusted Yade - then serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights - warned that "Gaddafi must realize our country isn't a doormat upon which a leader, whether terrorist or not, can come to wipe off the blood of his crimes." And while Dati knuckled under to Sarkozy's order to run for the European parliament, Yade flatly refused...
...Crimson first got wind that RPI was no longer a conference doormat on Nov. 11, when the Engineers contained the Harvard offense enough to force...
...obscure locations. However, with five tenth-place finishes coming into the last weekend of the season, the Crimson was determined to prove that it +has been making gains on some of the top skiing teams in the country with which it competes and should not be viewed as the doormat of the northeastern skiing circle for much longer. While the Harvard squads did not show significant progress this weekend in Sugarloaf, Maine, they did finish a season-high ninth place at the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Championships. The improved performance left the squads in good spirits heading into next year...
...After two glorious months, my weekly ritual of abusing my column-writing privileges by ripping Dartmouth’s football team for its self-loathing, doormat style of play came to a close on that date. With the end of the Ivy League season, I was left with no contemptible Ancient Eight athletic program to unleash my misguided fury and disgust upon...
...this case, Emma has some buried resentments; she has long been the tender caretaker of Liv's aggressive, obnoxious alpha. Or as some might put it, her willing doormat. Emma's fiancé has a particularly cruel spin on things. In an American Idol analogy, he says Liv is Simon (Cowell); Emma is peppy Paula (Abdul). "But everyone listens to Simon," Emma says with dismay. "I wouldn't marry Simon," Fletcher tells her. "I'm marrying me some Paula." Then he licks his chops...