Trying to coax enthusiasm out of indifferent students was a frustrating chore that taxed my passion for the game and my interest in the business.
She has her headset on and is in the middle of trying to sell an indifferent manager at a big insurance company on the idea of buying a very expensive database software package.
In the background lie a mountain and an indifferent sea, their beauty reduced to a supporting role.
Whether the war is right wrong or indifferent because that's like saying a rainstorm is right wrong or indifferent.
Defending triple-jump champion Idowu, 31, has had an indifferent season but recorded a season's best of 17.25 metres in Birmingham.
Last week's Abu Dhabi winner Paul Casey made an indifferent start, carding a par 72, while Ireland's Paul McGinley finished at one under.
The bottom line is that owners of a company should be indifferent to whether they get their return via appreciation in the share price or receiving a portion of the profits.
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The Council for the Protection of Rural England, a countryside charity indifferent to hunting, is staying away.
When the beast recovered there was just time for a couple of indifferent races before winter set in.
Admirers and critics alike generally agree that Benedict has been a rigorous and often provocative thinker but a poor to indifferent manager.
Pickering, who has had an indifferent indoor season, overcame a sluggish start in the same semi-final as Chambers to grab an excellent third spot.
If all foreign taxes were creditable, a U.S. company might be indifferent to the amount of foreign taxes it pays because a credit offsets federal taxes dollar-for-dollar.
Gone is the dark and dismal interior, the indifferent service, and - a terrible shame this - the legendary doughnut bowl, whose stale contents could once be bought and pelted at fellow patrons for exactly 1, 942 Czech crowns (just over 100 dollars), a homage to an incident in the classic 1942 novel Saturnin, a sort of Czech Jeeves and Wooster.
They have a lot stacked against them: indifferent or corrupt authorities, powerful criminal gangs, long-held traditions about how to make a living.
In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.
Apple Computer billionaire Steve Jobs was an indifferent student at Reed College for a semester before dropping out, and his Silicon Valley compatriot Larry Ellison left the University of Illinois after his second year.
As the title suggests, the themes of this work of fiction are the old ones: the vanity of human striving, divine punishment for overweening confidence in our technological achievement, the futility of human effort in a world ruled by indifferent nature.
Otherwise, the emerging narrative of a down-to-earth man, thrust into power but mostly indifferent to the trappings of his position, driven by a special concern for the poor has proved especially encouraging to many frazzled Catholics, especially as, in a cynical time, it just may turn out to be the tale closest to the truth.
Torres' indifferent start to the season comes after a knee injury, which also hampered him at the World Cup in South Africa last summer.
On Monday, Greuel sent off a final round of recorded endorsements from former President Bill Clinton, in whose administration she once worked, while Garcetti was on campaign stops arguing a simple point to mostly indifferent residents: The election matters.
The users were mostly indifferent about whether the content was delivered by a mobile app or a mobile website.
It is, above all, a damning indictment of ineffectual and indifferent school officials.
Yet as I understand it, Keynesian theory is indifferent between spending hikes and tax cuts as a means of stimulus.
Such a process succeeds at the level of the economy as a whole, while remaining coldly indifferent to the fate of individual firms within it.
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In truth, golfers are part of a new international superclass, largely indifferent to barriers of distance and continent, and able to play their game wherever they are asked to.
"Despite an indifferent performance by us, he stood out as a very good player, " said McCarthy.
Refereeing decisions - good, bad or indifferent - have been part of our football for a good number of years.
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He said in a statement that he is in "indifferent health" and that he had offered his resignation last November.
An indifferent student, Mr Reagan had hoped only for a job selling sporting goods and summers lounging round as a local lifeguard.
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