The crew on board the aging vessel is a mix of Namibians, Cubans and white South Africans, overseen by a martinet whom everyone dislikes. |
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He was a self-disciplined martinet and a control freak who mapped out his sons' schedules, even their playtimes. |
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In the worst sense, he was a monomaniacal martinet whose focus on his bailiwick to the exclusion of everything else is phenomenal. |
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He sits in the court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet. |
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He understands he can't be a martinet with a group of seasoned professionals. |
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It is run by an ex-army martinet absurdly out of touch and absent-mindedly rooting about in irrelevances. |
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To the midfielder, the perception of him as a mirthless martinet is a failure to understand the greatest manager this country has produced. |
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He sits in the Yorkshire court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet. |
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The movie portrays him as a dedicated martinet interested only in victory. |
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There is, perhaps, room for extenuation in the case of Wirz, an ineffectual martinet clearly out of his depth. |
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Frederick's upbringing and education were strictly controlled by his father, who was a martinet as well as a paranoiac. |
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Newspapers indignantly portrayed him as a martinet who had made himself prime minister in all but name. |
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Though a martinet with his soldiers, he won and kept their devotion by his personal bravery and his concern for their well-being. |
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If the judge enforces the Rules, he or she feels a crabbed, vindictive martinet. |
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He was an artist, poet, lecturer, teacher, diplomat and, on any mountain trail, a martinet. |
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Though well meaning, King was temperamental and sometimes ill, a martinet sea dog who did not easily translate to ruling a fractious young colony. |
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Schiano, the former coach at Rutgers, brought a reputation with him as a harsh disciplinarian and a martinet. |
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Bragg was an imaginative strategist and an effective drillmaster and organizer, but he was also a weak tactician and a martinet who was disliked by a number of his principal subordinates. |
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A martinet, he is immensely unpopular among Thais. |
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