Original leader and UKIP founder Alan Sked quit before the 1999 European elections, after arguing the party should refuse seats in the "gravy train" of the Strasbourg Parliament.
The company is in a legal dispute with the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, which are trying to get in on the reselling gravy by partnering with Flash Tickets.
My dad used to swing me around the living room while gravy was boiling in the kitchen, and then he used to cry.
He was eating a full meal, something slopped in brown gravy from the center of the earth.
The confit is melt-in-your-mouth, the gravy is full-bodied and indulgent and the onions are beautifully sweet with a touch of balsamic tartness that cuts through the richness of the sauce.
The purpose of the call was to instruct me, the director of a private company with little experience in the ways of Washington, on exactly how one boards the gravy train.
If I close my eyes, I can see my mom's kitchen windows steaming up from the simmering gravy, hear her banging her wooden spoon on the rim of the gravy pot, and smell the meatballs sizzling in olive oil.
Talk of how an Obama presidency might affect Chicago range from the petty (will motorcades mean more traffic?) to the presumptuous (when will the gravy train roll in?).
After stunning the world twice in the last week, FGCU is about to hop onto quite the financial gravy train.
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Actually, the chicken tikka massala, which was for a time the restaurant dish that sold more than any other in the country, was invented purely a a way to give the English some gravy to go with this odd new curry dish that people were cooking.
Black mayors have made strides in giving black constituents a fairer share of the gravy train of city contracts and patronage jobs.
Dozens of rocking chairs adorn front porches where diners idle while waiting for tables and others chew on toothpicks and bask in the afterglow of a plate of biscuits and gravy, chicken-fried steak or similar country-themed cuisine.
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And what does that say about the moral probity of the New York Board of Regents when it deliberately eliminates or weaken exams in order to prop up test scores in a thinly veiled attempt to keep the philanthropic gravy train from corporations, nonprofits, and the federal government rolling right along?
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Even more than in Canada, in Japan projects like this are gravy-laden for the favored few.
We tagged and cleaned it anyway, and later that day ate the tenderloin and a few other tasty bits in wine gravy with mushrooms.
In the pre-digital magazine world, newsstand sales were incidental gravy, subscribers were loss leaders.
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No one should leave Montreal, however, without tucking into the decadent local favourite: poutine (fries smothered in gravy and cheese curds).
Arguably, the top fund managers - those who vote the shares we hold in our pensions or assorted long-term savings schemes - are disincentivised to be too aggressive in limiting corporate pay rises, because they are on the same gravy train.
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In my neighborhood, every Italian-American woman with any pride started the gravy by breakfast so it would be ready for Sunday dinner at 2 p.m.
When push comes to shove, the brothers do the right thing in a climax so stock you could use it to make gravy.
In this scenario, the added value of staying online when the grid goes down is like gravy.
In this scenario, I'd almost prefer to be the latter because, well ... gravy.
Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, characterised this view in a speech in May celebrating chicken tikka massala (a harmonious marriage of subcontinental spices with very British gravy) as the national dish.
Thus corrupted on the public interest in fiscal responsibility, they could be expected to vote for their special interest to keep their gravy train going.
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