Exempel på pocketing

• 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?

• This would allow racketeers to plead innocence through ignorance and to proceed without prosecution, pocketing their ill-gotten gains on the way.

• I suggest that somebody somewhere is pocketing the difference.

• That means that they are taking the money from youngsters, pocketing it and disappearing rapidly into the sunset.

• If it is not already pocketing the money, that is the moment when it begins to do so.

• But we all know from our correspondence how often improvement grants lead to the landlord getting rid of the sitting tenant and pocketing the profit.

• I would extend it to the unskilled labourer, who is pocketing £6, £8, £10 or £12 a week, while the skilled craftsman considers himself lucky to receive £4.

• Secondly, he talked of companies pocketing some of the corporation tax benefits which have just been given.