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  • But that would be personally ignominious, and the public would be ill-served.

    How to Be an Honest Whistleblower Gabriel Schoenfeld 2011

  • Would Egyptians be ill-served if they were to pursue some version of those models?

    The Way Forward in Egypt Bret Stephens 2011

  • Well, let's see: that Senna was a daring driver who leaped at gaps other drivers were too timid to shoot for; that Senna was at his best in the worst rainy conditions; that he was ill-served by his sponsoring team, which put him side-by-side with his chief competitor, Frenchman Alain Prost.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Senna Marshall Fine 2011

  • Having been often ill-served on screen, Thompson's literary misanthropy is distilled in this tale of a psychopath who batters and kills those who love him with utter detachment; no wonder Stanley Kubrick called the book the most believable first-person depiction of the psychopathic mind.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010

  • Since then, incorrect diagnoses, needless infections, drug mix-ups, and surgical mishaps have piled up as doctors face an onslaught of patients, an abundance of imperfect information, and an ill-served tradition of shaming and blaming individual practitioners when things go wrong.

    Do No Harm 2010

  • Well, let's see: that Senna was a daring driver who leaped at gaps other drivers were too timid to shoot for; that Senna was at his best in the worst rainy conditions; that he was ill-served by his sponsoring team, which put him side-by-side with his chief competitor, Frenchman Alain Prost.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Senna Marshall Fine 2011

  • The members of that union are being ill-served by the leadership of that union.

    A decisive moment: Public employee unions or the common good? 2011

  • "(Obama) has been curiously ill-served by a press short of useful criticism, with liberal America prepared only to debate what sort of water he walks on best, while conservative radio hosts argue over when exactly he became a communist." bsmith171

    Liberal groups continue to target Democratic senator 2009

  • Malone suggests that students around the world are often ill-served by professors at second and third-tier universities who “haven't had an original thought since their graduate studies.”

    Global Voices in English » Update from the Harvard Forum on ICT4D 2009

  • But that would be personally ignominious, and the public would be ill-served.

    How to Be an Honest Whistleblower Gabriel Schoenfeld 2011

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