middlers

That's another hallmark of the middlers: being far more concerned with the tone of the debate than its outcome.

Craig Aaron: Net Neutrality's New Enemy: The Mythical Mushy Middle 2010

After all, they were thwarting the FCC chairman's effort to "broker a consensus" -- a consensus being the Holy Grail for mushy middlers, even better than a compromise.

Craig Aaron: Net Neutrality's New Enemy: The Mythical Mushy Middle 2010

That's another hallmark of the middlers: being far more concerned with the tone of the debate than its outcome.

Craig Aaron: Net Neutrality's New Enemy: The Mythical Mushy Middle 2010

After all, they were thwarting the FCC chairman's effort to "broker a consensus" -- a consensus being the Holy Grail for mushy middlers, even better than a compromise.

Craig Aaron: Net Neutrality's New Enemy: The Mythical Mushy Middle 2010

There are always leaders, middlers, and tailers, each insisting on its own place in the order of going.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

Still the yellow fire stabbed out into the faces of the middlers -- for now the leaders were already piling up mangled and dying in the rocky river-bed -- but, past each side of this island of expiring creatures, thundered a vast, heaving stream, turbulent, silent, irrevocable.

The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

Sheep on the march have one invariable position, either among the leaders, middlers or tailers, and until each animal has found his exact post, nothing whatever can be done with him.

The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

Other dogs got the middlers in motion, and still others attended to the tailers, so that in five minutes from the time

The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

Meantime the two middlers had shoveled out the road down to the mail-box on the street so that I ran up on bare earth, the very wheels of the car conscious of the love behind the shovels, of the speed and energy it took to get the long job done before I should arrive.

The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

I think that right now, with the current oppression of the middle class, we need a few more citizens who have the courage to stand up to power and demand fair treatment from those who make decision everyday that keep the middlers in the bondage of debt, and threaten to make the United States of America turn into "The United Corporations of America".

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