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resigned ostensibly because England refused to send
The veteran Admiral, who had already passed his seventieth year, resigned, ostensibly because England refused to send him the reinforcements for which he asked, [23] but in reality because he had had a "personal quarrel with Lord Spencer, then the head of the Admiralty."
— from The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815 by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman

rules of business expediency rather than social
That occasion has its own etiquette, and one which the business man or woman readily fashions for himself or herself, and which follows the rules of business expediency rather than social life.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway


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