So it's good we're starting to learn to get on the good side of some of those games.
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People would make offerings of food in order to get on the good side of these spirits and departed ancestors, according to the Mirror.
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He's prone to trying to get on the good side of law enforcement by saying he's in law enforcement, too, even though he's just a security guard.
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Storyline example: JJ's parents try to get on the good side of their insurance agent in order to get coverage for all the equipment and medication JJ needs.
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The leaks show specific tactics that Facebook used to get on the good side of politicians and push for favorable legislation, including lobbying European politicians to ease up on the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), using COO Sharyl Sandberg's memoir as an in to buddy up with female politicians who weren't exactly friendly to Facebook, and telling politicians they wouldn't invest in their countries if they went against Facebook's desires, according to The Guardian.
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Achille Talon is a bourgeois who likes to think he's an eloquent (others say voluble) intellectual. He is vain to the extent that he builds a giant statue of himself in his front garden and desperately tries to get on the good side of the local gentry. That being said, Achille Talon is a gentleman, an intrepid traveler and an animal lover. He values etiquette and sometimes resorts to activism (e.g.
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"The Killer's Wife," written by Patterson and Max DiLallo, is about a detective's quest to find what has happened to four girls who have gone missing. To do this he decides the only way to find them is to get on the good side of the wife of the man suspected of abducting them. He is knows he is walking a fine line and his plan could go all wrong. "We.Are.Not.Alone." is written by Patterson and Tim Arnold.
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Hoping to get on the good side of the new truant officer (Dick Elliott), the gang goes out of their way to impress the man's cute daughter (Marianne Edwards), even unto making such sacrifices as taking baths, combing hair, shining shoes, and washing behind the ears. Both Spanky and Alfalfa pay a social call on Marianne, and before long, the two lifelong pals have become romantic rivals. Ultimately, Spanky and Alfalfa stage an athletic competition to determine who is the better man, an undertaking with prickly results.
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The King was able to get on the good side of Amar Singh, who was Upananda's military general, by ordering his own military general Virabhadra to give his daughter in marriage to Amar Singh. The marriage between Amar Singh and Chandrakala was successful, despite protests, and Singh maintained a good relationship with General Virabhadra. Singh managed to persuade the Kuki Chiefs, the border guards for the Tripura Raja just south of Brahmachal into raiding Raja Upananda's palace in the dead of the night. The plan was successful; the Kukis massacred most of the palace's inmates.
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Private Zeng Zhi-Xiang (Jimmy Lin), is a self-appointed fortune teller master and wizard who can put a curse on someone. A master at courting girls, he has two wives back at home. He was transferred to the "Special Squad" unit because while trying to get on the good side of his previous captain he gave his captain a few lucky numbers to gamble with which didn't work and caused his previous captain to lose a big sum of money. His previous captain put him through intense training as punishment for giving him phony lucky numbers, while yelling at Zhi-Xiang, the captain suffered an epilepsy seizure.
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