The position of that these mega-institutions take is one of arrogant entitlement.

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Instead of you encouraging men to not marry women of power maybe you should think of doing more to deal with men's low self esteem so they don't feel they need to be the he-man, the one in charge, the arrogant idiot of yesterday.

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This attitude is arrogant and deeply offensive because of one simple fact: politicians are ultimately accountable to the electorate whereas BBC management and journalists are not.

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After Mancini's sacking, City's former kit man Stephen Aziz, described the Italian as "arrogant, vain and self-centred" in one of a series of tweets that were later deleted from his Twitter account on Tuesday.

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"Of course, you could call us arrogant--it's Google, " says one official.

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Those on Wall Street may deserve the titles of proud and arrogant, but that underlying ego has been the driving force behind one of the most innovative and competitive charities around.

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But of course, there is a difference, and such is Mr Jennings's loathing for the vacuous and arrogant elite (as he finds them) that his whole enterprise threatens at times to slide into one long raspberry of disgust.

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"One minute Bale's Patrick is a cowering corporate geek and self-described empty shell, the next an arrogant, name-dropping smoothie, the next a hysterical wimp unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, " it said.

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