| Doorstep callers are being banned from parts of the region in an attempt to stop elderly and vulnerable people being fleeced of their cash. |
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| And then White walked off with millions, while investors were fleeced and the workers discarded. |
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| But when the visitors get to Pattaya, they are fleeced when extra charges are tacked on when they arrive. |
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| The council often seems to think that New Yorkers are unsophisticated rubes, continually fleeced by crafty and unethical businesses. |
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| If you're a dad at an amusement park, you will be fleeced and frightened, humiliated and exposed. |
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| It begs you to leave behind corporate life for the simpler, more peaceful pleasures of raising this fleeced livestock. |
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| Both pieces portray the wealthy as guilty, eager to please, easily fleeced babies swaddled by all that money. |
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| The result is that amiable but gullible Arthur finds himself fleeced by friends and strangers alike. |
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| Lambsdown is a heavy knit fabric that has a spongy fleeced nap on one side. |
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| I feel a measure of guilt, though I know how easily fleeced tourists tend to be in these parts. |
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| The bottom line is that we are all being fleeced and are being conditioned to accept less and less every year and pay more for it. |
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| Barely three months later in New York, while narrating the story to a group of friends, did I discover that I had been fleeced again. |
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| Heavily fleeced sheep hunkered down behind tussocks of tawny grass for shelter. |
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| One merchant offered pleated, washed, embroidered and fleeced linens. |
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| On the other side they passed flocks of sheep, fleeced with snow. |
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| The guides who aided and fleeced the pioneers who moved West were struck by how clueless many of them were about the wilderness they were entering. |
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| The flocking industry produces fleeced fabric and plush objects for use in the manufacture of upholstery, clothing, carpets, automobiles, and novelty items. |
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| Iron Maiden also have the kind of loyal lifelong following to whom they mean a lot, and who deserve not to be fleeced. |
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| Here an innocent rich youth is being fleeced by cardsharps – a scene the artist could witness every day in the area around Rome's Piazza Navona. |
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| We all seem to know a story from one individual or another who continues to get fleeced at gas stations. |
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| What does the member think we can do in this bill to make it better, to help northerners from getting fleeced by big mining and oil companies? |
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| Why are Canadians being treated like sheep to be fleeced for the convenience of the Liberal Party? |
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| There we saw an investment by the people of the day ending up being fleeced. |
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| Recently shorn animals may need higher environmental temperatures than fleeced animals. |
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| Yesterday, no changes were made to the tax position of those poor people who have been fleeced by the Earl Joneses of this world. |
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| It is not our intention to encourage calculating citizens who can afford it to shop around for health care, while care at home is being fleeced. |
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| In Quebec, there have been two cases of flagrant fraud where small investors were literally fleeced. |
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| In contrast, Canadians were lined up at local gas stations getting fleeced by record high fuel costs. |
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| Ducharme says that not only are Canadians being fleeced, they're being fleeced in secret. |
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| Why are we not getting that action now, especially when consumers across the country are continuing to be fleeced by the oil and gas companies? |
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| They no longer see taxpayers as robbers or somebody to be fleeced and they even help them benefit from their rights under the law. |
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| Basildon police and immigration officers are hunting a Nigerian conman who has fleeced several banks and may be creating false passports for other criminals. |
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| Taxpayers are being fleeced to save the government in its pursuit of power. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the half measures announced by the government will do nothing to stop Canadians from being fleeced by credit card companies. |
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| Why is the government sitting by and letting consumers get fleeced? |
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| The work is sometimes dangerous, and workers can be poorly paid or fleeced by unscrupulous agents. Singapore's huge influx of migrant workers is a hot political issue. |
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| Yes, Canadian taxpayers are tired of being fleeced by the government. |
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| Yet with lightning speed, these same governments are willing to use our money to bail out those who, through greed and incompetence, have mismanaged the financial system and fleeced working people. |
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| What Bonilla had in his hand was a gun — a tiny.22-calibre revolver that looked like the sort of gun that a gambler at the Long Branch Saloon might have pulled out of his sleeve when threatened by a cowhand he'd just fleeced. |
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| A GREEDY home help who fleeced a vulnerable pensioner out of his savings has been ordered to pay PS10,000 back to him. |
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| Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps. |
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| These measures are a direct result of Member State decisions and therefore should be funded by general taxation, not by the passenger, who is already fleeced when travelling by air. |
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| Meanwhile, the people fleeced by the EI system are living in great difficulties and expressing their discontent, as they did yesterday in Forestville. |
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| These poor individuals are being fleeced by companies. |
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