You have no use to the system except as a cog in the machine.

I'm merely a cog in the machine that both sides are working.

He wasn't a monster, just a cog in the machine.

They want to work as a team, not as a cog in the machine."

I am but a cog in the machine.

In New Jersey, he is just a cog in the machine.

Parliament is once again acting as a cog in the machine of urgent demands from the college in Brussels.

Hume felt like "a cog in the machine" and grew so disillusioned by the job he quit suddenly one day, without anything to fall back on.

And the truth was, no matter how much I denied it, I was still a cog in the machine.

In this model, a programmer is a cog in the machine: a typist who carries out one part of management's orders.

The number on my wrist says I m a cog in the machine and the sign above the front gate tells me work will set ...

The reviewer felt the "just a cog in the machine" story-telling approach left him apathetic towards the non-player characters and missions in the game.

In December, while chatting at the law school, Professor Hill bet a colleague that within a year she would be back to being "a cog in the machine."

The colleague, Prof. Shirley A. Wiegand, said that she flipped ahead in her purse calendar and marked the date next December with a question, "Is Anita just a cog in the machine?"

To her, filling the roles of mother, nurse, governess, dressmaker, housekeeper and valet was far easier for her to bear than the humiliation of seeing her husband as a cog in the machine of a government organization.

If a cog in the machine gets stuck (perhaps by a rejected order of overcooked halibut), it is up to the expediter to urgently grease it, by repositioning problematic tickets into their own panic section where they will receive special attention.

Everyone knows that you can't be a cog in the machine if you work from your living room.... A younger -and, of course, hipper -version of Free Agent Nation was articulated in a special work issue of Details magazine.

And if women, under current circumstances, are less likely "to think of themselves and others just as a cog in the machine," as the former maintenance officer put it, this becomes, given the lessons of Nuremberg and My Lai, an argument for an all-woman military.

Motivated by a desire to secure the import of Ruhr iron at favourable rates, a number of diplomats began petitioning for a general strike on the grounds that German managers were "quaffing Dortmund beer by the gallon, whilst Ruhr workers toiled: merely a cog in the machine of the industrial revolution."

"It makes you stand out and shows you're not a cog in the wheel."

"Children need to feel as though they're a cog in the wheel.

A cog in the wheel of the place.

But for now he is a cog in the wheel - though a crucial one - in the selling of his drama.

I am a cog in the wheel.

Any girl, after attending these, should find her job, however humble a cog in the wheel of industry or commerce, more interesting and more understandable.

I don't want you to be a cog in the wheel of an obstruction of giving the grand jury the opportunity to hear the truth.

They were so vociferous in their demands that the authorities considered them as a cog in the wheel of its plans for the institution.

Inspector McCabe, who describes himself as "just a cog in the wheel, a good soldier," has little doubt where his final loyalty lies.

But in the S.C.E., he'd just be a cog in the wheel.

On the other hand, what about the teammates who are left behind (like Republican Senators) when a cog in the wheel decides to roll off on his own?

Qusay killed, too, but did so as a cog in the wheel, at the service of his father's state, as the head of his Praetorian guard.

Behind the love triangle of the principals, the supporting cast is always present and accounted for, each member a cog in the wheel that drives the infernal machine.

Efforts to develop this potential may have the effect of regenerating mismanaged croplands and be a cog in the wheel of a decentralized, multi-dimensional renewable energy industry.

"Durrani candidly admits that he sold arms to Iran, but claims to have been a cog in the wheel turned by Lieut. Col. Oliver North and Vice Adm. John Poindexter," the appellate decision said.

He is a cog in the machine of imperialism.

Or be a cog in the machine.

In this model, a programmer is a cog in the machine: a typist who carries out one part of management's orders.

Everyone knows that you can't be a cog in the machine if you work from your living room.... A younger -and, of course, hipper -version of Free Agent Nation was articulated in a special work issue of Details magazine.