Ireland, often pointed to as a model pupil, has to do more because its primary deficit of 6.7% of GDP last year was considerably higher than Greece's and Portugal's.That will be painful for the Irish, but they can draw consolation from a brighter outlook for recovery.
Determined to meet his family's hopes, Sergei was a model pupil at White Lodge, but once at the senior school he began to kick against its regimental confines.
But Model Pupil (1.50) seems to be on a steeper curve of improvement in their owner's second colours, and looks sure to relish the extra distance.
Suddenly, the Jordan that had come to look like a model pupil of the IMF, thanks to six apparently successful years of economic reform, seems more like a problem child.Nonsense, says the government, there has been no mistake.
Once a model pupil, apparently well adjusted to Dutch society, Mohammed Bouyeri became a holy warrior.
DURING his two decades running Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi almost single-handedly engineered its rise from lost cause to model pupil.
Unlike Greece, Spain appeared to be a model pupil before the financial crisis.
The only initiative Portugal's conservative government has shown is a desire to be a model pupil, cutting and taxing zealously.
Although Copland Perry, Trenchard's instructor, noted that teaching him to fly had been "no easy performance", Trenchard himself had been "a model pupil".
