Maintain a division between your professional and personal life.

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The Premier League, governing body of England's top soccer division, and the Professional Footballers' Association, the trade union for all professional players in England and Wales, were immediately unavailable for comment.

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When you try to have this division between your personal self and your professional self, what you really are is stiff.

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COM, the NBA, Major League Baseball, the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, professional golf, PGATOUR.

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"Foreign workers complement the resident workforce in certain sectors, such as the construction and marine sectors, by taking on lower-skilled jobs that support higher-tier professional jobs held by Singaporeans, " the Ministry of Manpower's National Population and Talent Division said in a report.

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He said the division lay in pressure groups and "sensationalist media reports, " as he attacked a "professional pressure groups who exist for the purpose of defending every line item, either of the entire benefits system or of a particular benefit".

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