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It is the technique of all minority dictatorships which, by hook or by crook, seize power.
Somehow or other, by hook or by crook, this company had to be carried into the next generation of aero-engines.
All other sources have failed and people are forced by hook or by crook to buy a house.
It is obvious that that is done for the purpose of getting, by hook or by crook, a particular answer to that question.
Within the next week or two these people, by hook or by crook, have to get blankets, kitchen tables, linoleum, clothing, etc.
That is understandable, of course, because they had, by hook or by crook accumulated this mass of people who had to be kept satisfied.
Yes, he will intervene by hook or by crook—whether they are hooked figures or crooked figures, he will tell me.
It was complex only because the end gain—privatisation by hook or by crook—was the starting point.
It is in that context that, by hook or by crook, we need to find devices to prevent that from happening again.
The board was determined by hook or by crook sooner or later to make this law apply to private clubs, because it is rabid.
He is, after all, proposing to get £750,000 from the co-operative societies, by hook or by crook.
It is utterly unfair, for the purpose of getting revenue by hook or by crook, and that is what we object to.
It is also clear that these minorities will continue their efforts by hook or by crook, by exaggeration and distortion, to destroy the legislation completely.
They have control of the administration of this industry, and they intend, by hook or by crook, to preserve that control within their own hands.
They will have the fuel by hook or by crook.
