Too many journalists now find themselves in hock to the charities that fly them around free.
The Democrats, reluctant to seem in hock to big business, have largely banished corporate sponsors.
Some of the opposition groups are genuine, but others are in hock to the EPRDF.
In most respects, however, the government did not seem particularly in hock to the populists.
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Nor will it help those in hock to loan sharks, whose lending is beyond the government's reach.
They know that the Democratic Party is just as deeply in hock to special interests as the Republican.
Brazil, next door and also deeply in hock, at least is managing to export under its new socialist chief.
And the Ministry of Finance is wary, thinking politicians will just put the state in hock, with unlimited debts.
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Because a loan is secured by the piece in hock, risk is finite.
Though unchallenged at any ballot box, the royal rulers of Saudi Arabia remain in hock to a deeply intolerant clerical establishment.
But Obama can't afford to be seem as a soft touch, in hock to the Middle Kingdom for the national debt.
And there are also, obviously, those who think that such talk is purely from wild-eyed denialists undoubtedly in hock to Big Oil.
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Not only does government, in hock to tree-huggers, block drilling and the expansion of nuclear power, it also taxes petrol too much.
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Apart from Singapore, where state capitalism is strong, politicians are usually in hock to fundraisers, which tends to reinforce the advantages of asset-rich insiders.
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He rejects the idea that Americans are living beyond their means, suckered by teaser mortgages and in hock to makers of 60-inch flat-panel TV screens.
He should urge the creation of a new electoral system that would bring about a more bipolar parliament, less in hock to the whims of small parties.
That they will find life much harder when they get there and themselves even more in hock to bossy Euro-monitors does not seem to put them off one wit.
Beginning in the late 1990s Allen became one of the biggest payroll spenders in the NBA, despite the fact that Portland was the eighth-smallest market and deep in hock on the arena.
Preach long enough and the Republican hope is that the Democrats will appear as outdated exponents of big government, in hock to the unions and out of touch with the middle class.
The Democrats will charge that the Republicans, by limiting malpractice suits, are still in hock to big business (although the health-care industry opposes the Republicans' plan just as it does the Democrats' one).
By breaking the post-war consensus and emasculating the unions, she paved the way for a new Labour Party more in tune with the British electorate and less in hock to the union bosses.
Forgiving the debts of these countries would tell those other borrowers who have made faithful attempts to honor their obligations that their probity was a fool's game, that if they were to get deep enough in hock, they could write off their debts and start all over again.
Rudolph Penner, a former CBO director, predicts that the federal debt (excluding debt owed to other parts of the federal government) will soar from 38% of GDP this year to 55% at the end of 2010, the highest since the early 1950s, when the country was still in hock from fighting a war.
It is too early to say whether Mr Sarkozy is a failure at home: thanks to his doublespeak on so many issues, we will only know on his last day in office whether he was a reformer using populism to change France, or just another French ruler in hock to the country's vested corporatist interests, and paralysed by fear of public opinion.
Most deep-in-hock countries have no genuinely independent judiciary and treat their citizens capriciously and cruelly.
The trillions of dollars in debt to pay for the war has left us in deeper hock to China and other foreign creditors.
Leuluai made amends for his earlier error with a neat pass to put Gareth Hock in for his first try of the season.
Then Hock, in his 100th Super League match, broke to allow Carmont and Thomas Leuluai to send Colbon over.
You now have a new way to repay your debts with your cellphone other than letting people make calls on it until you're out of hock, in the form of a new service called TextPayMe.
Hock signed a new contract in May 2008, keeping him at the club until 2011.
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