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Examples of gravy train


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People who say that this institution is just a 'gravytrain' are wrong.
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It must not be allowed to become a gravytrain.
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Only yesterday, we heard that there have been about £3 billion-worth of inefficiencies/fraud and that the gravytrain is speeding out of control.
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On top of that there is fraud—about £7 billion of it—or what is known as the "gravytrain".
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For four years we have had a coalition gravytrain for a large number of industries, some of which are of very dubious long-term value.
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It is in the interests, therefore, of the profession to ensure that the gravytrain keeps rolling.
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For many, that sustains a gravytrain that they have been riding all their lives.
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We are reassuring people that it will not be a political gravytrain.
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Those least able to pay are to be clobbered to benefit those who are already on the gravytrain.
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Those involved in the redundancy in the metropolitan counties are not on a gravytrain.
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Those around him also are on the gravytrain.
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They did just that, and told him that he was to join the frozen food gravytrain.
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There is something in what those who refer to "a gravytrain" say.
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I do not accept the description of the gravytrain and bureaucracy.
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Does anyone think that it will remain at £35,000 when, six months ago, 30 more schools were wanting to get on to this education gravytrain?
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It is seen as remote and bureaucratic, and as providing a convenient gravytrain for unaccountable officials.
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I shall now discuss the film industry, which is also on the gravytrain.
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More and more tickets on this gravytrain are being negotiated for even as we debate.
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The gravytrain is not running as fast as they would like; it is not as heavily loaded as they would like.
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Are we not agreeing to a gravytrain for the rich and nothing for the rest?
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It delivers a clear message to absent parents that they must get off the gravytrain, because the easy ride is over.
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I certainly do not want to see it turn into just yet another gravytrain.
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They should not be able to join the gravytrain and get their hand-outs.
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In particular, he raised matters relating to the cull and the gravytrain that is operating to the benefit of a few slaughterhouse owners.
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How do they get access to the council gravytrain?
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Is the gravytrain already loaded and on its way?
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The gravytrain is still on track and has not been affected by the fuel dispute!
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With 126 more schools joining the gravytrain, the figures involved are enormous.
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Unless dockers choose to leave the scheme, they are in the scheme and on the gravytrain for as long as they want.
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Spanners are being put in the works of that gravytrain.
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An unconsultative document has been rushed out to seek suggestions about which lucky area will house what some see as a gravytrain.
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That may sound reasonable, but it has effectively become the developers' gravytrain.
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It is no good saying that pension funds are awash with money and that everyone is on some great gravytrain once they retire.
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The plain, unvarnished truth is that the vast bureaucratic structure of socialist local government has become one gigantic gravytrain.
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I have set my face against any gravytrain.
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There is to be no reward, no "gravytrain", for the persons who are appointed by the two main political parties.
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Perhaps we shall be spared those rather tired gastronomic metaphors we heard last year, such as "gravytrain for the rich".
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But the cover-up happens, because the civil servant who recommended it is on the gravytrain himself.
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That is a gravytrain that lacks any controls whatsoever.
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Let us forget that gravytrain and concentrate on what will happen on abolition.
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It is a big industry because the tax system is complicated and there is a large "gravytrain" related to it.
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What we have is an account of a great uncontrollable colossus which is both a scandalous gravytrain and an appalling way to spend public money.
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To use the cliché, the system is a gravytrain for certain companies to make a vast profit at the taxpayer's expense and without due accountability.
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It was perhaps that monopoly of interest and experience of sequestrations on the part of certain firms which led to their being accused of "gravytrain" practice.
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It is no gravytrain.
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The gravytrain of property development has passed and it may be that planning does not attract the bouquets it might have attracted at one time.
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There is still time to clamber aboard the electricity privatisation gravytrain if you have already had one go and fear you may not get enough.
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What a gravytrain it all is.
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It is attractive for civil servants to be able to say that they have a bigger and better gravytrain behind them than people in other areas.
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They are on a gravytrain.
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It is on the gravytrain.
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This is not a gravytrain.
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That would be simple enough, but perhaps it has always been considered a non-starter because the "get-rich-quick" brigade would lose their pickings from the export gravytrain.
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We are no longer prepared to tolerate a gravytrain from which people demand things to which they are not entitled and which they do not even need.
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As soon as another 30 schools leap on the gravytrain, the figure will move up to £100 million, taken out of the state sector and given to rich schools.
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I can see the old gravytrain.
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It has gravy trains, but it is not straight and narrow.
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I know that they could make the money up by fact-finding tours, gravy trains and junkets or whatever, but someone might argue that they cannot get as much.
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What about the gravy trains?
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Frankly, it looks like a gravytrain of the first order.
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