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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Persuading desperate people to pay to queue-jump on to land that was unsuitable for housing would never solve the housing crisis, it said.
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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
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The report stated that Mugabe had tried in vain to queue-jump the South African president as their jets waited to touch down at
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Mugabe tried to queue-jump South African President Nelson Mandela when both were due to land at Maseru airport for the funeral of
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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.
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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
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