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Your constituents - and I know Glasgow South well - will just see a way over-promoted career politician who has milked the system for years (even before he became Speaker), getting found out.

Archive 2009-05-01 Alan Smart 2009

Your constituents - and I know Glasgow South well - will just see a way over-promoted career politician who has milked the system for years (even before he became Speaker), getting found out.

My Message to Tom Harris Alan Smart 2009

Complicating the situation, this person said, is that because of the talent drain over the last few years, UBS has "over-promoted" some of its remaining talent, which makes it difficult to hire them at an appropriate level.

No Relief for Banker Blues Dana Cimilluca 2011

Our ridiculously over-promoted Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, banned the elected Dutch MP Geert Wilders from entering the Country as she deemed that his presence in the UK would pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society.

Geert Wilders banned but Ibrahim Moussawi welcomed Not a sheep 2009

Sure, we condemn this idiocy, but we do appreciate that the vast majority of officers below the exalted ranks of over-promoted scoial-workers/politicians feel worse than we do, because they have the extreme frustration of being directed on a day-to-day basis by these wazzocks, and have to do their bidding instead of doing the job properly.

Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

But she proves to be infinitely more than an over-promoted soap star, and, with her stunning looks and physical poise, has a real future before her.

Pygmalion - review 2011

BD: Well, the problem with a lot of artists now is that they just get shoved down your throat, they're just over-promoted.

Mike Ragogna: Exclusive AC/DC Live EPK, Plus Conversations with Plan B, The Feelies' Glenn Mercer, and Bronze Radio Return's Chris Henderson Mike Ragogna 2011

BD: Well, the problem with a lot of artists now is that they just get shoved down your throat, they're just over-promoted.

Mike Ragogna: Exclusive AC/DC Live EPK, Plus Conversations with Plan B, The Feelies' Glenn Mercer, and Bronze Radio Return's Chris Henderson Mike Ragogna 2011

If anyone were to sit through back-to-back speeches by this grotesquely over-promoted pair then many of us, quite literally, could find ourselves sleepwalking towards independence.

Little wonder Alex Salmond looks so smug | Kevin McKenna 2012

James Cook a more enthusiastic flogger than Bligh, the author notes, but Bligh had been, I think, over-promoted.

Bounteous Misperceptions 2011