"It's a smear campaign by these self-appointed consumer advocates and plaintiffs' attorneys, " says Curt D.
Even the father of theme parks proved no match for the earth's self-appointed guardians.
But the young man also brought a rare collection of qualities to his self-appointed task.
He's executive director of the self-appointed border guards, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
Outside the negotiations, two entirely different groups had also assembled, with a self-appointed brief of keeping the negotiators on track.
Even when the French revolution finally came, its self-appointed guardians had no place for the philosophy of the true radicals.
Diminishing polling figures and the vicissitudes of popular thinking will likely not matter to al Qaeda, given its self-appointed transcendental mission.
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a major photographer, a pioneering gallery owner, a generous collector, a self-appointed cultural commissar and a compulsive polemicist.
She had been ejected from the Minutemen, a self-appointed border patrol group, and started her own splinter group, the Minutemen American Defence Fund.
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The good news for Republicans is that Romney sagely chose to ignore the campaign grand strategy of his self-appointed foreign policy brain trust.
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On the downside, the excitement surrounding this sort of research can attract self-appointed experts with a limited knowledge of the realities of voting.
These are the self-appointed guardians of Saudi Arabia's dominant Wahhabi faith, a puritanical strain of Islam from which the royal family derives its legitimacy.
Who else but Byron, the self-appointed proprietor of Curmudgeonly Arms, could paint this charming picture of "Chainsaw Al" Dunlop's first marriage on a slow night?
The status of "self-appointed community gatekeepers" may be built up "at the expense of more legitimate community and political voices who don't associate with violence".
Mr Bourguignon has been labelled "France's self-appointed Mr Fixit" after turning round the fortunes of Euro Disney as its chief executive between 1993 and 1997.
He believes the Enlightenment is incomplete, betrayed by its self-appointed guardians.
All of which suits Abdel Moneim Aboud, Najaf's unpopular, self-appointed governor.
Mark Hulbert is the editor of the Hulbert Financial Digest, which tracks the recommendations of a wide range of investing newsletters written by self-appointed market experts.
Baseball also added wild card teams, giving its playoffs a dimension that creates excitement for every fan other than self-appointed baseball maestro Bob Costas of NBC.
In June, acting as self-appointed guardians of the country's secularism, Turkey's generals in effect removed from office the coalition government led by the Islamist Welfare Party.
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In the post-Enron era, these self-appointed do-gooders are granted breathless audiences by Congress, extolled on national television and lauded by Time magazine as Persons of the Year.
Some are already timidly criticizing the International Monetary Fund, the speculators, the capital flows across borders, the right of the self-appointed market forces to discipline elected governments.
"The worst that anyone can accuse Tony Ridder of is failing to meet the standards of some self-appointed arbiters of what constitutes responsible journalism, " says Ken Marlin.
But that hasn't stopped a cottage industry of self-appointed consumer advocates, reporters and plaintiffs' attorneys from fingering corn syrup as the sinister source of the nation's widening waistline.
In 1927, as floodwaters threatened New Orleans, a self-appointed committee of businessmen persuaded the government to dynamite a downstream levee and release the pressure of the swelling torrent.
Notwithstanding the determined and persistent efforts by shareholder advocates and corporate governance watchdogs, most shareholders act sheepishly in the face of the self-appointed board members and executives who monopolize power.
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For years we forgave Liam Gallagher and his swaggering, self-appointed rock-god role because - hey, he was the lead singer of Oasis and he sang 'Roll With It' and 'Wonderwall'.
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After he fled abroad in 1994, Soyinka became a self-appointed diplomat who campaigned against Abacha's regime and encouraged Western countries to impose sanctions on the Nigerian government and its allies.
There are letters received as well as letters sent in this collection edited by Barry Day, the self-appointed scholar of Coward's life and work, and they are grouped thematically rather than chronologically.
But it is certainly true that, precisely because of those links, Iran remains influential in Afghanistan, notably in the area around its border, ruled by the self-appointed governor of Herat, Ismail Khan.
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