| Millions of pounds are pouring into this ever-growing bureaucratic gravy train and it is now an embarrassment to the Government. |
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| The bills started to come in in the eighties, of course, and financial stringency made it necessary to start cutting back on the gravy train. |
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| My reasoning was that nobody wanted to shut down the gravy train of consumer spending that was propping up this economy. |
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| It's nothing more than a gravy train for big business to make huge amounts of money from the public purse! |
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| I went to grad school, a move that both ended my ride on the industry gravy train and robbed me of disposable income for a number of years. |
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| But it's good to see that those stalwart defenders of the public purse, our councillors, are part of that gravy train. |
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| While stockmarkets yo-yo around the world, the gravy train is picking up speed in one sector of the economy. |
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| Let them figure out how to keep the hotheads from spoiling the gravy train. |
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| Everyone knows that getting a Government contract is often looked upon as a financial gravy train. |
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| Be you a public representative at local or national level, the certainty is that you are aboard a financially rewarding gravy train. |
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| This began to take place before the post-1994 procession of ANC cronies riding the gravy train. |
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| They gorge themselves on a gravy train fuelled by our taxes and act as puppets for secret, undemocratic organisations over which we have no control. |
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| It was a gravy train while it lasted, but it was unsustainable. |
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| More people are interested in getting on the gravy train than on stopping the gravy train. |
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| Some think or hope that if they go along with the current paradigm, then maybe, just maybe, they will get onto the gravy train too. |
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| In the EU, Mr Sterckx, the cross-border distinction is irrelevant, and until the EU gravy train finally hits the buffers, it is all unstoppable. |
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| The NDP members are on this gravy train and want the free lunch, which to me seems to be NDP philosophy. |
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| The more people on the gravy train, the fewer people available to offer objective, critical analysis. |
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| The proposal was hastily withdrawn when it became apparent that it was a gravy train for special interests. |
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| Even Karl Lagerfeld has jumped onboard the biscuits and gravy train with his latest shoot of Miss Dirty Martini. |
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| Television income, so long the sport's gravy train, has hit the buffers. |
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| Most of his income comes from unemployment benefit, a far cry from the sums being earned by those who have jumped on the game's financial gravy train. |
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| And did we tell you the name of the game, boy, we call it riding the gravy train. |
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| The gravy train rolls on for senior managers! |
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| Canada, of course, jumped on the gravy train on this one. |
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| Each traveller on this gravy train can tell his electorate whatever he likes in their own language without fear that they will overhear what his colleagues in other states are telling their electors. |
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| It continues to be used by the Government as a gravy train for its close associates, forgetting that it is a contractual savings and investment support scheme for supporting old-age retirement. |
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| A vast gravy train sucking billions of euros from plucked chickens and terrified consumers, to swell the coffers of the multinational drug companies. |
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| Now the gravy train is supposed to come screeching to a halt. |
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| Or will they, like Sir Bore of Birmingham, milk the gravy train by apparently doing two jobs. |
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| Firstly, that you are on the gravy train and you do not really care about ordinary people, and secondly that Europe is not working: there are too many regulations. |
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| It's a beautiful self-perpetuating gravy train. |
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| Previous scandals have taught them nothing and the gravy train continues. |
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| It seems so, because this giant gravy train has a new driver. |
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| Get off EU gravy train ONCE again the present government tell us that they intend to savage the poor and under privileged by slashing billions from welfare benefits. |
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| While some may have genuine reasons to defect, personally, I would not want to vote for a person whose major concern is to keep their fat backsides on the gravy train. |
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| If How considerate, then, of the sharp suits at AWM to go out in style and remind us of the iniquities of the public sector gravy train and its bumper pension handouts. |
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| Hatcher derailed the gravy train by consolidating City Hall operations into five general departments headed by three special assistants and two members of the Board of Works. |
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| The former City trader with a German wife, a man who has enjoyed a first-class ticket on the Brussels Gravy Train for 15 years, wilts under forensic questioning. |
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