He also contemplated a thorough-going reform of the ferme generale, but contented himself, as a beginning, with imposing certain conditions on the leases as they were renewed - such as a more efficient personnel, and the abolition for the future of the abuse of the croupes (the name given to a class of pensions), a reform which Terray had shirked on finding how many persons in high places were interested in them, and annulling certain leases, such as those of the manufacture of gunpowder and the administration of the messageries, the former of which was handed over to a company with the scientist Lavoisier as one of its advisers, and the latter superseded by a quicker and more comfortable service of diligences which were nicknamed" turgotines."He also prepared a regular budget. [Please select]
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In the girls' opinion Miss Bowes shirked abominably. [Please select]
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People said she was no fit person to have charge of Maggie, but everybody shirked the unpleasant task of interfering in the matter, except Mr. [Please select]
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Similarly, vice produced its natural consequences in the case of Black Ned, for that selfish man, being lazy, shirked work a good deal. [Please select]
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"I know I've shirked sometimes, but I'm not going to this time."' [Please select]
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I've shirked the hard parts and quietly assumed anything I couldn't prove. [Please select]
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He had a voice, though not a remarkable one, but he had shirked the labour of trying to improve it by practice. [Please select]
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He had more respect for an out-and-out rebel than for one who shirked his duty to his country as he understood it. [Please select]
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Had there been any chance to get them both safely away, she would have shirked the fight, for their sakes. [Please select]
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It was a pilgrimage he had shirked on his first trip to that country, a neglect for which he afterward reproached himself. [Please select]
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Again the clock mocked him, and the postman shirked him, and the janitor forgot him. [Please select]
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