The government could collect its pound of flesh later or just a few ounces now.
So even if you are off the floor, CEA still gets its pound of flesh.
On average fish gobble 2 pounds of feed to produce a pound of flesh.
Typically, lenders demand a pound of flesh for every 20 or so pounds they lend.
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Visa is just the one who markets it and processes it and takes their pound of flesh.
Various branches of government have been able to claim a pound of flesh.
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Some indebted businessmen have done a runner, abandoning their homes and firms rather than parting with their pound of flesh.
But such creditors are just as keen on extracting their pound of flesh (in terms of economic reform) as the private sector.
Yet Hennessy worries about taking a pound of flesh from young companies.
Attempting to exact a pound of flesh from a company without evidence of consumer harm would delegitimize the FTC for decades to come.
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Microsoft, still demanding its pound of flesh, has extracted license fees from a number of these companies, claiming infringement by Google on basic patents it owns.
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The EU wants a bank contribution to bailout costs and it is focusing on the bank levy, which would set aside a pound of flesh to cover prior or future bank bailout costs.
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The Treasury and the Fed extracted their pound of flesh of course, but at the time were justly criticized for being too generous to shareholders facing the deserved loss of their whole hide.
With redcoats on one side and a wild frontier on the other, colonists want the ability to determine their own fate without the crown taking its pound of flesh (or, for that matter, tea).
Are you going to recommend that seeking to extract their pound of flesh from these parties is a better approach to strengthening their mental health than doing the hard work of examining their own attitudes and behaviors and empowering themselves to make the needed changes?
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From a selfish point of view, the Assembly group will be fervently hoping that the voters take their pound of flesh (if the opinion polls continue as they are) at the General Election and then are able to approach them on their own merits a year later.
There will likely be some sort of new federal settlement that involves the payment of some money that likely will not be very material to JPMorgan Chase earnings, along with promises of regulatory safeguards that sound good but can be circumvented, as an end to all this, so that federal authorities can try to make it seem like they got their pound of flesh.
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But if the funding or data scandals deepen, Mr Brown may yet be forced to offer up a pound of ministerial flesh.
They got their pound, make that ounce, of flesh, but so what?
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