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One told me that she was not at all respected there, that she had a huge temper, and that I should not have crossed her.

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unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge

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One told me that she was not at all respected there, that she had a huge temper, and that I should not have crossed her.

In fact I am quite fierce and get huge amounts of good work done, when I believe that what I am doing is important.

Am I the only one who hasn't noticed this huge drop in quality that has everyone bitching and moaning lately?

"The problem we face is pretty huge, because it will take a dramatic cultural change in order for us to start catching up.

The computing world owes a great vote of thanks to Judge Alsup: the cause of interoperability has won a huge victory.

Starting in about 2004 there's been a huge push to increase monitoring of prisons, offenses, guard abuses, and to help parolees stay out of jail.

As they gather huge amounts of power, their purpose in life becomes to guard that power jealously and to increase it as opportunities permit.

Many people today do not even give pause over the idea that the government claims huge amounts of unchecked power, whether it is to fight terrorists or to expand social programs.

By choosing to make an example out of his punishment, the US has struck a huge blow to its claims of moral superiority and American exceptionalism.

During that time, the female arresting officer would periodically come by to taunt me, and tell me that I shouldn't have questioned her, and then threw a huge tantrum when I requested not to be touched by her for fingerprinting.

The locker-room atmosphere that stuff like this creates is a huge barrier to entry for a lot of people, women especially, who infer that on top of all the technically difficult stuff that everyone has to learn to be CS types, they'll also have to deal with a constant barrage of "you're not our kind" flung at them by the in-group.

But in a Europe coming out of feudalism where they were trying to define national loyalties and borders, worried about losing territory to the neighboring country, worried about all sorts of things that look foolish from a modern perspective, well, if Jews weren't going to care if they were Polish or Russian, that was a huge problem.