But most of the truly career-minded will try for an old master, by hook or by crook.

ECONOMIST: Violin-making

And, those who opposed ObamaCare when it passed by hook or by crook or both are still opposed to it.

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They have been out to get President Obama by hook or by crook.

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Mr Tsvangirai told AFP he would fight to ensure that "no-one is disenfranchised by hook or by crook" in the elections.

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Small businesses kept their doors open by hook or by crook.

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By hook or by crook, Mr Wilson gets her to Staffordshire.

ECONOMIST: Feat of clay

You name it, they have run a railway up it, by hook or by crook, by rack or by pinion and by Albula and St Moritz.

BBC: Full steam ahead

Few doubt that, by hook or by crook, he will retain majority support in the Duma after December's elections: it was, indeed, the approach of those elections that gave him reason to attack Mr Khodorkovsky now.

ECONOMIST: Russia

Dimon is still delivering, by hook or crook, positive earnings and a healthy stock price to shareholders.

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