Her defenders attribute these charges of arrogance to racist fears about uppity black women.
And in any case, the government has no intention of letting the interim Lords get uppity.
All to punish an uppity company that owned too much of a highly publicized (though fading) industry.
Businessmen can sack uppity employees and deny access to pesky reporters, but politics is a rougher game.
For all the unrest around its edges, Iran's heartland remains strong, centralised, and unsympathetic to uppity minorities.
In most countries, however, the uppity backbencher rails against the party leaders, and leaves it at that.
"And when he gets really kind of uppity he would always, like, would pointedly say, 'George, ' " Bartlett said.
Leighton Meester plays uppity Blair Waldorf in the TV series Gossip Girl.
And if blacks still got uppity he could wrestle them to the ground like a steer before branding, one knee lodged tight in their stomach.
She dismissed that, saying Mr Ashdown only had to look at the "ghost of Dr Owen to see what Liberal Democrats do to leaders who get too uppity".
At the same time, Japanese institutional investors are getting uppity.
It is known, though, from experiments on other species that if those at the bottom of a dominance hierarchy show signs of getting uppity, those at the top react both quickly and aggressively.
For many Canadians that is hardly controversial: they are the descendants of those North Americans who did not side with uppity George Washington and Co but instead remained loyal to the British crown.
John McCain can't be all that crotchety if he's cool enough to joke about his days as a POW. Barack Obama can't be all that uppity if he's busting a move with Ellen DeGeneres.
The findings are in harmony with what conductors knew all along: that baton-toting despots, like the late Herbert von Karajan, do add value but only if they rein in the uppity musicians in front of them.
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Mr Putin's installation as president in 2000 was probably the real beginning of Mr Khodorkovsky's fall, though the new president was so opaque that his attitude to the uppity tycoons he inherited from his predecessor was not immediately clear.
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