Moreover, high officials, especially the principal judges, were notably successful in pocketing rich sinecures for their offspring.
The next day he had retrieved it and, pocketing some of its pages, he had cut the rest into pieces, burning some and discarding others.
We are specifically interested in three saving motives : the acquisition of real estate, the wish to bequeath wealth, and pocketing state subsidies.
The transition from command to market economies offers some segments of them particularly favourable opportunities to make a fortune quickly and easily by pocketing state assets.
He was thought to be pocketing 10 or 20 rupees a day just from unclaimed property recovered from the streets and supposed to be sold for the public purse.
Did we need any further evidence that the brewers are pocketing the money by short-changing the customer?
We are all guilty of pocketing tickets from time to time and the system does not lead to an efficient allocation of seats.
Are not some of the dangers the possibility of pre-knowledge of people on the inside pocketing shares and thus getting a corner in them?