beggaring

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Spanish politicians should know this, and perhaps they are merely playing to the galleys, but this kind of neighbor-beggaring talk is not part of solution to the global crisis and will only make things worse although, as I have said many times, we should not be at all surprised if trade civility continues to deteriorate.

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  • Here was nothing but fining, heading, hanging, quartering and burning, taxing, levying and beggaring, and losing our strongholds abroad. —  TheChildrenof
  • They're beggaring their own factory workers to stay solvent. —  Маркетинг В Маленьком Городе
  • So it's not just the logic of the tax cuts on their own merits but the degree they're beggaring the spending side of the ledger .... —  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
  • Back to the terraced houses, and we can see that many inhabitants are trying to improve their lot by "beggaring their neighbours". —  SYNTAGMA
  • We've destroyed our social cohesion, squandered our wealth and bankrupted our nation, while simultaneously abandoning the sickest in society to the vicissitudes of Harney's marketplace, and beggaring our young families on lifetime long mortgages for piss-poor accommodation. —  Politics in Ireland - Irish Politics
 

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