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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
micromanage .
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Examples
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One of our soldiers gets killed because we have "micromanaged" our soldiers to the point of being a target for every bad guy who wants to take a day off and kill a westerner.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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One of our soldiers gets killed because we have "micromanaged" our soldiers to the point of being a target for every bad guy who wants to take a day off and kill a westerner.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Prime Minister David Cameron has called on banks to pay smaller bonuses but said they should not be "micromanaged".
BBC News - Home 2011
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Mr Cowen insisted that the Irish government would refuse to be "micromanaged" by the EU or the IMF but admitted that the country was indebted to the international community for its
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Taken to its conclusion, the acceptability of DRM and the legitimization of this kind of micromanaged control would eventually have DRM-like systems showing up in many industries, even those that do not depend on copyright law.
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What is truly shocking, though, is the picture that was painted by her staff about how Glenda Stone - this great adviser on equality - 'micromanaged' and controlled her underlings from day to day.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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Hostages on Algerian soil, micromanaged by the Polisario, is quickly becoming an untenable situation.
Elizabeth Blackney: Truth in the Sahara: Refugees and Hostages Elizabeth Blackney 2011
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Virtually every aspect of the tour appears to have been micromanaged by Villas-Boas – from training schedules to the players' commercial commitments – with the side showing signs now that they are starting to click.
Marcel Desailly: André Villas-Boas must hit the ground running 2011
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Agency heads privately complained that the White House was a 'fortress' that was unwilling to accept input and that micromanaged their departments.
Wonkbook: Democrats' demands and other economic and policy news 2011
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Hostages on Algerian soil, micromanaged by the Polisario, is quickly becoming an untenable situation.
Elizabeth Blackney: Truth in the Sahara: Refugees and Hostages Elizabeth Blackney 2011
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