Since then, governments have been nothing less than ingenious in creating ways to bestow largesse on the business world. |
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But it remains to be seen whether Bank of Scotland account holders will also benefit from such largesse. |
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So wouldn't it be better to live in Scotland and benefit from such largesse rather than live in England and have to pay for it? |
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I heard it too and it's not just coppers who are benefitting from this secret largesse, but politicians as well. |
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But a select group of eight York bigwigs have selflessly enjoyed Buckingham Palace largesse on our behalf. |
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In the UK, with our more traditional culture of charity and state largesse, time banks have taken a while to establish. |
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The problem with affirmative action, it seems, is that it is dependent upon the largesse and consent of those who have no stake. |
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Beneficiaries of her largesse have included the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Art Gallery. |
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Their mistakes were made all the more unpalatable by the largesse with which our cash is dished out to undeserving causes. |
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He wasn't an alcoholic, but he liked to play hard, and be the dispenser of largesse. |
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Orange County was a prime beneficiary of Cold War largesse, and the enemy in Washington was their prime economic supplier. |
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In reality, of the legions of aspiring writers, directors and producers, only the tiniest minority have benefited from Lottery largesse. |
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As beneficiaries of government largesse, these individuals have somehow hijacked the American Dream. |
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The GFT has been one of the beneficiaries of business largesse in the last year. |
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But the rather malleable populace here seems to be quite pleased at this governmental largesse. |
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The eccentric drunk's largesse solves the girl's problems, but when the scatterbrain forgets he gave her the money, she is arrested for thieving. |
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There are bagmen who continue to dole out largesse, including brown bags of cash to certain helpful officials at Christmas time. |
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This largesse is the latest in a series of rescues for a museum that has periodically been desperate for its next financial fix. |
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Thanks to the largesse of the airline caterers, they have lived like kings ever since. |
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So the developing countries, the main beneficiaries of US largesse, are digging in against other UN reforms unless they get the extra cash. |
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You know the big lavish parties with corporate largesse paying a lot of money. |
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He was quite happy, in fact, to rely upon US training and largesse less than twenty years ago. |
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This incredible Federal Reserve largesse did not go unnoticed by the leveraged speculating community. |
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This may be because the PLP may use this fund as a mechanism for handing our largesse to their friends. |
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Unfortunately, he said, this government was more interested in distribution of largesse on the basis of patronage. |
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Of course, I had never seen a weighted, jangling, belly-swollen giant flop down a chimney and gaily dispense his largesse under a Christmas tree. |
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You liked new engines, but management was scrupulous in its distribution of such largesse and your share was minute. |
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Can no longer function except to distribute billions of taxpayer largesse to politically connected corporations? |
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This conjures up the image of Pentagon suits running around with briefcases full of cash, dispensing taxpayer largesse to anyone who asks for it. |
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This largesse is heaped upon them by the car company PRs in the hope of keeping the journos on side and writing nice things. |
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If they dispense largesse for any other reason, they are literally wasting the money of their shareholders. |
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We have a fairly patrician government that in the past handed out largesse that kept us going. |
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The image reinforces the notion of them as twin spoilsmen, nourishing themselves on government largesse. |
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It counts on the largesse of the largest financial pockets in the city, both private and corporate. |
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He is in trouble again for sharing his largesse with two young paramours that he claimed to have ditched in favor of his wife and four kids. |
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And, largely thanks to the largesse of Lord Ashcroft, there are an unprecedented number of constituency-level polls available. |
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There is no longer a bottomless pit from which largesse can be dispensed. |
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But as St. Paul teaches us in 1 Corinthians and elsewhere neither largeness nor largesse holds sway in the kingdom of God. |
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Hicks and Gillett discovered they could not compete with that kind of extravagant largesse. |
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His well-managed service-delivery is lubricated by Western largesse but also by the collection of electricity bills. |
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Rich people need to play-act their financial largesse, so we can hate them for it. |
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Unlike so many diplomats and corporate heads who have a duty to be seen to be distributing largesse in impoverished rural areas, Grant was more than merely visible at events. |
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The press profited handsomely from the financial largesse of one political faction or the other in return for support in public debates. |
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One false move and any one of us could be dependent on Alan Bennett's largesse. |
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At the same time, he sought to demonstrate the benefits of US largesse by initialing a preliminary, non-binding agreement offering to share aspects of US military technology. |
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The distribution of National Lottery largesse is a complicated matter. |
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Instead, they risked being upended by the many people who have felt for some years that there is a lot of largesse sloshing around the nation which has not come their way. |
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This largesse would be repeated in the mornings, with a brew and a bacon sandwich, and tips on good campsites further along the road. |
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So he arranged to meet with a man who had headed a corporation with extensive business ties to Enron and who had been a prime recipient of Enron's political largesse. |
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Some French politicians also have been known to accept the largesse of Arab benefactors. |
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We are able to perceive a tone of gratitude and thankfulness for Carver's willingness to share his scientific largesse with the surrounding community. |
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The problem is how the leader of the Liberal Party thinks he can pay for this largesse. |
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Of course, the farmers are not entitled to the same largesse, unless they move to Turkey. |
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This makes life easier for companies in countries, like Britain, which do not have a tradition of handing out sums in state largesse. |
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Skimming some largesse off the top of massive cash flows in countries with low capacity for state or civil society oversight is easy. |
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The Organization depended not on the shared largesse of its Members, but on their shared responsibility to honour their financial commitments. |
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In many great novels, the multifarious content necessitates a certain largesse of form. |
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With the expanded efforts expiring, there was no move in Congress to continue the largesse. |
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We have managed the Government's finances so well that he has opined that the low debt is crazy, and that National would borrow to dispense largesse to some of its mates. |
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American weapons, troops, and largesse could never bestow legitimacy on a corrupt and incompetent Saigon regime. |
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Although he has no children of his own to inherit his fortune, he does have five nieces and nephews, all of whom benefit from his largesse from time to time. |
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Her transactions and interactions with clients add up to a lacerating portrait of contemporary mores among the wealthy and the legions of us who depend on their largesse. |
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But the recipients of their largesse are unlikely to care if the donors are motivated by altruism, public relations or a guilty conscience. In this section Measuring the measurers Who's the patsy? |
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If we require the Member States to consolidate their budgets in order to comply with the Stability and Growth Pact, we cannot at the same time go around dispensing largesse the length and breadth of Europe. |
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Officials and pundits alike were goggle-eyed at Europe's largesse. |
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A combination of this largesse and government intervention eventually put Louis in severe financial straits. |
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The thresher helps explain why. It was bought with government funds, part of the largesse showered on rural voters during Mr Thaksin's five-year rule. |
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Because in reality Britain's – and to a lesser extent Europe's – largesse was far greater when the bullets were flying and the bombs were exploding. |
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Competing sectors may have questioned this perceived largesse. |
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Mr Martin has travelled abroad almost frenziedly, but a long-promised foreign-policy review has yet to appear. For now, the prime minister can afford all this largesse. |
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It is the largest single donation that the party, already used to the largesse of its most established backer, Sir Brian Souter, the millionaire founder of the Stagecoach transport group, has had. |
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The Court of Appeals noted that the father's largesse could have been a factor in the boy's decision, but the Court accepted that this had been considered by the magistrate judge. |
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Had the beneficiary of such largesse from another team been Alejandro Valverde, Davide Rebellin or one of the other pantomime villains of the sport, would the millions of armchair fans have been so quick to anger? |
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Such largesse is possible because Scotland boasts more courses per head of population than any other country. |
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That said, if you independently luck into a free drink or two because of your charming personality, by all means, enjoy the largesse but don't forget to mention the free perks when writing your review. |
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High officials might distribute largesse to be used for roads. |
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Indeed, his reputation was so great that some monastic scribes later falsely claimed that their institutions had been beneficiaries of his largesse. |
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Whether they be Trudeau Liberals, Mulroney Tories, or Bloquistes, runs this argument, Quebec MPs have used their ability to vote as a bloc to obtain too much federal largesse. |
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