If anything, this was close to whistle-blowing: the person did not put their name in the data (in a self-important way), and in fact released a memo suggesting a clear whistle-blowing mentality in the second round of revelations.
And it remains exactly the same organisation: a self-important body that treats its members like demi-gods and requires a super-majority of 60 votes even to break a filibuster.
These participants ranked things -- friends, family, a hobby or a religious value -- that were important to them and wrote down a few sentences about why their top-ranked value was important (this is a standard self-affirmation exercise, Creswell says).
Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter depicted Rolland as a self-important popinjay, contemptuous of any palate other than his own.
But if anyone can take blogging from an almost obscure hobby for self-important would-be pundits to a revenue-generating phenomenon, it's Google.
But the chocolate that Emmy Award winning Today Show co-host Hoda Kotb picked as her favorite thing was not a new, trendy, or self-important brand.
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"While it's important to treat your internship as a job interview, it's also important to make it a learning experience coupled with self-exploration, " says Holly Stroupe Vestal, a human resources consultant for Bank of America's Banking Center Channel, who was hired full time after her own internship.
" 'Punching-above-our-weight' is a nice self-image for small countries, but it is much less important in world politics than being the heavyweights, " said NYU law professor Benedict Kingsbury.
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That is a welcome contrast to the self-important style of many lesser journalists' books about great events.
This kind of modesty has often held women back in organizations, but the need to use social media professionally makes it overcoming a reluctance to self-market more important.
He told the BBC that questions of national sovereignty and self-government were just as important and the EU needed a "new, looser template of membership", based around trade and political co-operation, that could appeal to the UK and other like-minded countries.
Subsequent experiments showed that stress played an important role in the loss of self-control across a spectrum of behaviors, including gambling and the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and food.
Rising inflation could prove to be an important obstacle in the way of a self-sustaining recovery, with its effects more likely to be seen in the second half of the year, according to equity strategist Mark Lamkin.
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It plays an important social role by offering a chance for self-expression in a communal setting.
Knowing how to take a good smartphone self-portrait has been an important professional skill for Ms. Craig.
It's important to have enough self-discipline to hit the pause button and appraise a situation.
More important, however, nationalists seem to have gained a political self-confidence that unionists now lack, born of both war-weariness and faith in the leadership of Sinn Fein and the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, the largest nationalist party.
They are what is fundamentally important to us and give our lives meaning and a sense of self-worth, and that can quickly get scary.
Midnight calls, clandestine meetings, threatening e-mail messages, not to mention cell phones used as obsessively as lances and shields in a jousting epic: the circuits never stop burning in this self-important but juicily entertaining public-affairs melodrama about big-time journalism and corporate villainy.
However, similar symptoms may also occur if there's an injury, swelling or infection of various parts of the male anatomy, so it is important that a physician make the diagnosis if something abnormal is found on a self-exam.
Call it the "Bono Conundrum"--reconciling whether the great press a celebrity can garner for internationally important causes can outweigh their potentially shallow or self-serving reasons for getting involved in the first place.
But more important than paychecks, a great teacher instills in his students character and a passion for self-instruction.
For businesses that plan to aggressively utilize their blog as their primary website, or as an important marketing tool, it may be worth a bit of time and money into the self-hosting version.
Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.
Whether we like it or not, motherhood is now only one important aspect of women's identity, no longer the key to achieving a sense of self-fulfillment.
He recognised that a key motivator for many people is the desire to feel important, the nourishment of their self-esteem.
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