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My mother gave them short shrift when they stopped her.

None of these studies looked at why women got short shrift.

You'll all get a short shrift and a long day from me.

In some states even the governor's race gets short shrift from television news.

Their firm had been given short shrift and was passed from one office to the next.

But the series gives short shrift to the country's black majority.

The reader gave her short shrift and went on reading.

Usually, the psychological needs of patients are given short shrift.

And there was very short shrift for anyone who thought otherwise.

There are some who think, on any given day, the paper's home base here gets short shrift.

But too often, a child's choices give health the short shrift.

And skills that students will need in college, like the ability to do research, too often get short shrift.

The kids who do come to the attention of the system frequently get short shrift.

In other words, Bush had given short shrift to diplomacy.

And many of them are annoyed at getting such short shrift.

To be sure, some great discoveries did get short shrift at the time.

For once, a film about jazz does not give the music short shrift.

If it's really about the money, why does the debt get such short shrift?

But in America around 1950 the architectural press gave traditional design short shrift.

Don't you, as editor, feel your own paper and writers get short shrift here?

"I've heard that teaching hospitals are getting kind of short shrift."

Creative ideas from the campaign - like national service - would get short shrift.

"It can no longer be ignored or given short shrift."

"So certainly the area you come from is never given short shrift.

Richard's post led me to wonder what movie I might have given short shrift in recent years.