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  • It would present everyone with a simple, gloriously capitalist, choice: pay to queue-jump or get paid for waiting.

    Vandalising an old master is bad, but not quite as evil as queue-jumping | David Mitchell 2011

  • This principle rightly or wrongly assumes that MPs are busier and more important than the rest of the people in parliament so they can legitimately queue-jump, preferably whilst uttering the words: Don't you know who I am?

    Members Priority Service Kerron Cross 2006

  • If you tried to queue-jump, one of the girls 'protectors pimp isn't a word they like would step in and give you a good spanking with his belt, like as not, and that was how things were.

    Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

  • The article contrasts these with the Disney parks' FastPass system, which requires you to go to each ride you want to queue-jump and use a machine to get a time-stamped pass that's good for a no-wait ride later in the day.

    Boing Boing: June 30, 2002 - July 6, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Persuading desperate people to pay to queue-jump on to land that was unsuitable for housing would never solve the housing crisis, it said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • He was fired from the newspaper this year for embarrassing Mugabe with a report that he had tried to queue-jump other heads of state as they waited for clearance at

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The report stated that Mugabe had tried in vain to queue-jump the South African president as their jets waited to touch down at

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Mugabe tried to queue-jump South African President Nelson Mandela when both were due to land at Maseru airport for the funeral of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • He was sacked for carrying a Reuter news agency report that said Mugabe had tried to queue-jump ahead of other heads of state waiting to land at Maseru airport in January.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • So in January this year, when the Gazette carried a Reuters report saying Mugabe had tried to queue-jump the planes waiting to land at Maseru airport for the funeral of Lesotho's King Moshoeshoe

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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