To lay hands on foreign currency, Mr Mugabe has no choice but to rob exporters.
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Witnesses told the local newspaper that he was the first person to lay hands on the man.
With terrorists conceivably able to lay hands on ever-more-advanced missiles, the key to defence clearly lies in prevention.
They are not the traditional weapons that anybody can lay hands on.
That could be a terrible hardship, unless the recipient can lay hands on a fancy derivative that turns illiquid stock into cash.
The top rankings are reserved for insurers that can quickly lay hands on enough cash to cover all possible policy redemptions two to two-and-a-half times over.
Intelligence indicates that he is angling to obtain some on the international black market, but it's not something that your friendly neighborhood arms smuggler can lay hands on right away.
This sort of information, in much fuller form, is available in the encyclopedias that most atlas-owners will have on their shelves, or in specialist books they can quite easily lay hands on.
Magnum seemed to have an uncanny ability to lay his hands on personnel files.
When you talk about the interest of shareholders or some group you can lay your hands on it.
He has taken a broom not only to Setneg but to whatever his office can lay its hands on.
Because hedge funds were liquidating their office furniture and anything else they could lay their hands on to meet redemptions.
Mr Davis is likely to use this and any other weapon he can lay his hands on to preserve his moderate reputation.
For example, the world now knows for sure that Saddam will never lay his hands on weapons of mass destruction.
Shanghai babies are forced to come up with peculiar methods in order to lay their hands on desired new stuff.
If you can lay your hands on an early one (the miniature camera was invented by Leica in 1925), so much the better.
The U.S. ambassador used every weapon he could lay his hands on to try to force the country to restore Mr. Zelaya to power.
During a five-hour visit to the (birdless) Paris agricultural show, Mr de Villepin tucked into as much chicken as he could lay his hands on.
Silver has received a lot of good press recently because well-known U.S. investor Warren Buffett bought all the supply he could lay his hands on.
Now that large companies are shedding jobs and losing lustre, small companies should for the first time be able to lay their hands on talent.
With the director's access to BoB's internal workings, the pair were able to disband the corporation and steal all the assets they could lay their hands on.
This is what Christmas should be -- a holiday free of mall Muzak and the frantic need to lay your hands on the superstore's last Tickle Me Xbox.
I've yet to lay my hands on one, but after reading Brad's and Myriam's impressions of the device, I knew it was something I could purchase sight unseen.
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If you've yet to lay your hands on a Chromebook or Chromebox, that could change shortly, as the computers may soon find a new life in libraries, hotels, retail stores and even the break room.
We still do not know how much of this money was actually transferred from the six countries under study (since the Nazis were very active in looting the assets they could find, and especially wanted to lay their hands on foreign securities).
Because if Iraq is not effectively disarmed not only could she use chemical and biological weapons against her own people again, other rogue states would be encouraged to copy her, the spread of those weapons would multiply the likelihood that terrorists would lay their hands on them.
Rum: I write a lot on rum and this is a hard to choose category with many great contenders, but if you can somehow, some way lay your hands on a bottle of Ron Abuelo Centuria, literally the best rum I have ever tasted, do so.
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So there you have it: despite the world's anger at North Korean provocations in 2006, the regime's head, Kim Jong Il, and his cronies can still lay their hands on a case of cognac when they feel like one, easily obtainable like so much else from the cross-border trade with China.
He and his team went all out to "chime with the time" says Daran Hill and that meant using the antipathy towards Mrs Thatcher and the most Thatcherite minister campaigners could (metaphorically) lay their hands on - John Redwood - for all it was worth to squeeze that narrowest of victories.
The post-cold-war world differs from the disciplined bipolar world of the years between 1945 and 1989 because, among other things, it contains quite a lot of countries which may be able to lay their hands on weapons of mass destruction and whose rulers may be less carefully calculating than a Nikita Khrushchev or a Leonid Brezhnev.
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