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  • verb Present participle of beggar.

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Examples

  • The only way to stop countries 'systematic manipulation to gain competitive advantage by beggaring their neighbors is if the nations which engage in it less than others -- principally the U.S., the Commonwealth nations, and most European countries -- alongside with international organizations including the World Bank, WTO, and the International Monetary Fund agree to cooperate to fight it.

    Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.: Ending Innovation Mercantilism

  • The only way to stop countries 'systematic manipulation to gain competitive advantage by beggaring their neighbors is if the nations which engage in it less than others -- principally the U.S., the Commonwealth nations, and most European countries -- alongside with international organizations including the World Bank, WTO, and the International Monetary Fund agree to cooperate to fight it.

    Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.: Ending Innovation Mercantilism

  • Economists call this "beggaring thy neighbor," but it might better be thought of as beggaring thyself.

    Europe and Its Money

  • Not one CEO of a major financial institution or bank has, so far as I know, been indicted, tried and convicted for criminal acts committed causing the Great Recession and the beggaring of America.

    Ed Koch: If This Be Class Warfare, So Be It

  • No, we'd like to see a system put in place to stop us ever again having to hand over billions to irresponsible capitalist parasites and beggaring ourselves and the next generation who've done nothing to deserve it.

    The budget: Of rhetoric and reality | Editorial

  • Their looting and beggaring of the state and the society—something about which we now possess even more painfully exact information—was having the same effect.

    Notable & Quotable

  • And most disappointing for me that these jackals who were responsible for beggaring America have not been held criminally accountable.

    Ed Koch: If There Ever Was a Moment When a Third Party Would Have a Chance to Win, This Is It

  • And most disappointing for me that these jackals who were responsible for beggaring America have not been held criminally accountable.

    Ed Koch: If There Ever Was a Moment When a Third Party Would Have a Chance to Win, This Is It

  • Hasn't the Bank of England been recklessly bolstering prices and beggaring the very thrift it should have been encouraging?

    BOE's Monetary Gamble Nears Its Endgame

  • Not one CEO of a major financial institution or bank has, so far as I know, been indicted, tried and convicted for criminal acts committed causing the Great Recession and the beggaring of America.

    Ed Koch: If This Be Class Warfare, So Be It

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