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It doesn't happen very often that you come across a Bedouin woman from a tribal society, known for its suck-it-up attitude, speaking of her sorrows at venues like Million's Poet.
Fahad Faruqui: Gender Segregation in Muslim Societies: From Jahiliyya to Muhammed to Fatwa Chaos Fahad Faruqui 2010
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It doesn't happen very often that you come across a Bedouin woman from a tribal society, known for its suck-it-up attitude, speaking of her sorrows at venues like Million's Poet.
Fahad Faruqui: Gender Segregation in Muslim Societies: From Jahiliyya to Muhammed to Fatwa Chaos 2010
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Considering the single file; B 0f A CEO Ken Lewis 'suck-it-up face; and the fact that reporters and photographers were eagerly lined up on either side of Lewis, Mack, Pandit and company, one association here is to running the gauntlet.
Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: Obama Puts Bankers On Parade 2009
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Tens of thousands return to inadequate, underfunded veterans' services with appalling physical injuries, crippling post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD, and suck-it-up sergeants who hold to the belief that no good soldier seeks help.
ann jones: "the boys are coming home, and they're not the boys who went away" 2009
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Not to keep hitting on the suck-it-up nail, but crossing into an entirely new realm of experience and work probably requires a bit of sacrifice.
Jump To A New Career With A Killer Resume And Plan | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Tens of thousands return to inadequate, underfunded veterans 'services with appalling physical injuries, crippling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suck-it-up sergeants who hold to the belief that no good soldier seeks help.
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I suspect, Trixy, most beautiful of hostesses, that one should simply suck-it-up rather than complaining.
informed, intellectual debate on Prince Charles 'scandal' 2009
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We do our work, meet our challenges and move our lives forward mostly with the kind of suck-it-up determination that Gruntthink supports.
Rusty Russell: Obama Thinks Like a Leader, And Therefore Might Lose 2008
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When the going gets tough in Iraq's brutal heat and harsh terrain, leaders give special encouragement to our 200,000 troops, reminding them that they have what it takes to be successful, if they will only suck-it-up, be strong, and persevere.
Paul White: Public Education: America's Most Under-Reported War 2008
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I guess we better suck-it-up and get ready to digest the next chapter of this grand canard for Bush's famous war legacy.
Could Iran's New "Oil Bourse" Spark a War with the US or Israel? 2008
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