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They are allowed and will be allowed to go on in this country battening upon the sorrows and sacrifices of the men of their country.
In the case of slum property, where landlords have battened on the housing problem, the property should be taken over and site value paid.
Where extensive war damage had been done to roofs, these were to be covered with tarpaulins, or roofing felt well battened down.
Would he do something about these parasites who are battening on the public?
Areas of the prison are literally battened down at night and nobody ventures in.
A block grant battening down the activities of local authorities makes the possibilities of expansion difficult for them as time goes on.
Battens disease is extremely rare, and its prevalence is not precisely known.
The result is that the mails are put in position, and battens put above, and the remaining cargo placed on board.
Such a spectacle is obscene, like a lot of flies battening on a carcase.
Meanwhile, we have battened down the hatches and the ship remains on course.
Tiling battens and scarcements are cut out altogether.
They told him that the battens were rotten.
We are certainly slimming down in our company, but we are also putting our heads down, we are battening down the hatches.
There is an imaginary idea that they are people of bloated wealth battening on the lives of the people.
We were told that the greed of the shipowner was battening upon the food of the poor.
