If a director doesn't like that, well, the director isn't the top dog at the opera.
When you're the top dog, you do what you have to do to govern.
Yorkshire's two big cities, Leeds and Sheffield, vied for more than a century to be top dog.
It is better to be number two in a fast-growing world than top dog in a stagnant one.
But in this specialized area of collecting, subject matter is top dog, while quality often plays second fiddle.
It may be that to be the top dog economically, we may never be the top dog academically.
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Former Andersen Consulting head George Shaheen got headlines for leaving to become top dog at Webvan Group last September.
MacBooks: For the past three months, MacBooks achieved 27% market share in the US, making it top dog.
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Used to being top dog in almost everything in Africa, South Africa has been slipping down the league tables.
Time to fuel up for Chevron by heading out for a late-night visit to Top Dog on Durant Avenue.
In its day, this 340hp with V12 engine was the top dog of sports-car racing (Carroll Shelby himself drove one).
This was a strategy that worked before but it certainly will not work again if Apple wants to be top dog again.
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The question for boxing now is whether Pacquiao (48-3-2) can wear the mantle of top dog as well De La Hoya did.
When it came to who was top dog on the baseball side, the talent evaluator was out, the numbers guy was in.
Of the 2, 721 entries in America's top dog event that begins Monday, more than 500 are from the New York-New Jersey area.
At other times focus was on reaching into retail channels to better compete for U. S. consumers where Dell was not top dog.
We're just out to get the best, most lust-worthy car (or SUV), and that makes the Range Rover top dog in our book.
It certainly appears that way and, if so, the Big 10 has put itself in a position to be the top dog among those behemoths.
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In recent years billions have flooded into the more-than-5, 000 private-equity firms that focus on China (see chart), but Hony has emerged as the top dog.
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At the new Citigroup, employees spend much time trying to work out whether Sandy Weill of Travelers or John Reed of Citicorp is top dog.
Also, the supplement business is very competitive and new innovations and claims of better mousetraps are always trying to knock the top dog off the pedestal.
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You'll be the top dog as you nosh on creamed chipped beef, traditional eggs Benedict, or shrimp and grits prepared with prawns culled right from the Chesapeake.
The BlackBerry is still arguably the top dog, but the sniper hit from Apple and the global economic recession have taken quite a toll on RIMM shares.
Apple and Google, the latter riding on a Samsung partnership, continue to play an escalating game of units versus revenues to determine which is the top dog in mobile operating systems.
It is true that, while many lawyers do have principled concerns about the independence of the legal profession, they also fret about who would be top dog in an integrated firm.
For openers, he's the chairman and chief executive--top dog--and majority owner of the company, Track Data (nasdaq: TRAC - news - people ), in whose stock he purportedly trafficked.
Mayor of New York is perhaps the only job in town that would allow him to remain the family's political top dog, rather than his wife, who by then may be a senator.
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In March 1998 Wasserstein installed Pollak, the 43-year-old former head of circulation for the New York Times, as top dog and charged him to exhort newly acquired local publications to expand their regional franchises.
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