| He believes passionately that operators are fleecing the tourists and killing the Greek tradition of open warmth and hospitality. |
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| But those who rarely speak in the House of Commons or vote in the division lobbies are letting down their constituents and fleecing taxpayers. |
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| Its holders see no beauty in the Universe, only scheming business people fleecing the commonweal. |
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| It is about fleecing people blind and taking money on any pretext without any real sense of sensibility around it whatsoever. |
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| It is also the only music station which is not intent on fleecing 16 to 24-year-olds. |
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| Here I played with great success a long while, and shared in the fleecing of many raw young cullies, who had more money than wit. |
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| The Government is deliberately fleecing young people by charging them an outrageous poll tax on their first home. |
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| Usually, when you see him on television, you get the impression that just minutes before, he was fleecing the tourists, running a crooked shell game in the alley. |
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| This misinformation serves only the purpose of fleecing investors once again. |
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| For blackface hill sheep fetching around £20 at market, that is quite a fleecing. |
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| Mr Schröder's popularity has taken a dive, while a song accusing him of fleecing gullible voters by raising taxes is top of the pops. |
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| From an Armenian perspective, the Soviets had robbed their nation of Nakhichevan and was slowly fleecing it of Karabakh, too. |
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| The poor oil companies will rake in 13 times more money as they carry on fleecing people in the regions by increasing the price of gas. |
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| He even remembered to thank the voters and admonish cellphone companies for fleecing his fans. |
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| A terminally bored family throws itself at the mercy of a slick parasite, Leo, who is making love to both mother and daughter while fleecing them in the bargain. |
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| That is why New Democrats in the House today are asking the federal government to stop targeting and fleecing people who are working flat out to survive. |
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| Summary: It's high time to call a halt to fleecing and rot. |
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| Unsurprisingly this has not gone down well in all quarters, with Bournemouth being variously accused of cashing in, fleecing their fans and spoiling everyone's holiday fun, though chairman Eddie Mitchell is unrepentant. |
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| As others have said, voluntary modulation of agriculture payments is not voluntary at all for the farmers who lose out, only for the Member States who are fleecing their budget. |
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| Secondly, it accentuates inequality across Europe and distorts the market, with only the United Kingdom, it seems, committed to fleecing its farmers through voluntary modulation. |
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| There were endless stories of Mexicans as people who were fleecing the healthcare system, sneaking across the border, being arrested at the border, that sort of thing. |
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| It is conceivable that these could become dotcom show trials, with former gurus being accused of fleecing the public by championing the likes of Amazon and Priceline. |
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| I simply charge what it costs me to buy plus VAT and a small credit card handling charge to show that garages are not fleecing customers. |
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| They should have been a welcome alternative to domestic brokers, who had been fleecing customers for years encouraging them to buy and sell shares and mutual funds rapidly to earn extra commissions. |
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| The merchants took pleasure in music and dancing, in their concubines and in fleecing pilgrims. Arabian history, in which rulers and conquerors come and go with numbing frequency, is not always fun. |
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| Mr. Tony Martin: Mr. Speaker, one of his colleagues said that a category five hurricane in the U. S. had given rise to a category five fleecing of the consumer at the pump. |
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