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Examples of black sheep


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The blacksheep are those who, at the time they place the order, already know very well that they will never pay for it.
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I hope that, from 2004, the digital tachograph will prevent blacksheep from finding new boltholes!
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We cannot expect it, however, to eradicate criminal practices, slackness and blacksheep; that goes beyond its remit.
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At the same time, one support mechanism after another is being established for the 'budgetary blacksheep', once again involving taxpayers' money.
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They say there are "blacksheep" in every family.
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I do not know whether it was typecasting, but he was playing a blacksheep.
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But there are blacksheep in any profession.
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If we are looking at composition, we have to remember also the very minor question of the blacksheep.
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It has been said that the trade unions were not happy that there should be blacksheep, and they wanted something done about it.
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I could have mentioned several local authorities who are blacksheep in this campaign and who even now are not pulling their weight.
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If there are blacksheep among us, they are soon found out.
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Both have proceeded on the strict line of dividing the blacksheep from the white, in regard to economy.
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You may get a few blacksheep in the trade unions, but you find them amongst every class of the community.
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I spoke of the relatively few blacksheep who bring discredit upon retailers and industry alike.
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There are, of course, the odd "blacksheep" in the flock.
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Of course, on the subject of absenteeism, everybody knows that there are blacksheep among the miners as there are blacksheep in all sections.
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They may have a few blacksheep among them, as in any community.
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I think it is ridiculous to say that capitalism is totally corrupt or wrong and should be replaced because of one blacksheep.
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No doubt there are some "blacksheep" among them.
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The fourth, the blacksheep of the family, went into business.
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And of course there are evils, of course there are blacksheep in every family.
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Even the best families usually have blacksheep within their ranks.
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I agree that among the 190 building societies there are bound to be some blacksheep.
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It is doing its utmost to ensure that the blacksheep are exposed and dealt with by the courts of law.
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There are always blacksheep in every collection of men numbering up to 0,000; but they have proved themselves.
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That indicates the very small proportion of blacksheep in the profession.
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While there are blacksheep amongst the companies there, the vast majority do comply with the law.
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We must now tackle the blacksheep of the industry.
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It may well be that there were some blacksheep among them.
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As we all know, there are blacksheep in every family.
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If there are blacksheep in the family, well, that occurs in every walk of life.
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We cannot organise a family of nations on the basis that one is a permanent blacksheep.
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There might he a few blacksheep, but we are not concerned with them.
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Blacksheep are found in some strange places in these days.
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Every profession has its blacksheep, and in filling your panels you may get in blacksheep —in fact you are certain to do so.
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Most local authorities are good, but there are some blacksheep we remonstrate with them as hard as we can, and very often we succeed.
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There are a few blacksheep in every profession who will exploit any possible opportunity to their personal advantage.
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He is right that at the moment under a guarantee-ship it is poor dad who has to pay, not the blacksheep.
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In every walk of life there are some blacksheep.
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There is bound to be the occasional blacksheep in any group of that size.
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The profession may be treating its blacksheep more vigorously than it was at that time.
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I would divide these blacksheep into two main types, the fraudulent and the feckless.
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I have never known a family where there is not a blacksheep; but we have suffered from gossip.
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They are not going to penalise a large operator just because he has one or two blacksheep among his staff.
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He will behave well in war—with the exception of the few blacksheep which there are in every fold.
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My complaint is not that this country is a blacksheep, but that it is not leading the flock.
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No one is going to deny that there are blacksheep among the shipowners.
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He is complaining that he is undervalued, although he is always doing his bit, when the blacksheep who comes back occasionally is rewarded.
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Although there may be "blacksheep" among them, as is often the case, they should be recognised as men genuinely trying to serve their countries.
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I am convinced that if trade organisations got together, they would be able to wipe out the occasional blacksheep.
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It is a matter of common knowledge that many frauds are perpetrated on the public by the blacksheep amongst solicitors.
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There may be some blacksheep amongst them.
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One blacksheep is enough to undermine safety.
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In all walks of life, there will always be blacksheep who prefer to go the crooked instead of the straight way.
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However patriotic royalty owners and everybody else may be, they are liable to have blacksheep among them, like any other class of the community.
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Every profession has its few blacksheep, and one must maintain constant vigilance.
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We all know that there are good servants and bad servants, and there are always blacksheep among the farm servants and shepherds.
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I suppose that there are blacksheep in every family.
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There are only a few blacksheep among these local authorities, but a few blacksheep can denigrate the whole flock.
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Under private enterprise there is a large number of blacksheep.
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There will always be the blacksheep; but we have laws to deal with the blacksheep.
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Here again it is the blacksheep amongst the shipowners, and when they are black they are of the very deepest black.
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There are blacksheep in every walk of life.
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I agree that there are individuals who may be blacksheep, for one gets blacksheep amongst every large crowd.
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Many are excellent, but there are some blacksheep.
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There are exceptions, of course, but they are rather scarce and one blacksheep does not spoil a flock.
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There are blacksheep in every profession who, no matter what the regulations are, will over-step the mark.
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To ride the motorway now is to go through green fields which before were sooty and grazed by blacksheep.
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The repercussions of the activities of one blacksheep do great harm to the rest of the nation.
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Although the vast majority of solicitors are people whose reputations are beyond doubt, you find occasionally blacksheep in their profession.
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However, most creditors are not prepared to do that, whether with a director or one of those happily rare blacksheep who act as liquidators.
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Of course, there are bound to he some blacksheep among them.
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We have our share of blacksheep and, therefore, we must make certain that we do not have anyone else's share.
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I made it perfectly clear that there are blacksheep, but we are dealing here not only with farmers but with merchants and millers.
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Without product liability, we shall continue to have drug scandal after drug scandal as the blacksheep of the industry pursue their nefarious ways.
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Blacksheep must be named and shamed, as these violations are unacceptable and bring the whole industry into disrepute.
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In the dioxin scandal, we have seen how easily they can be undermined, if individual 'blacksheep' behave in a very negligent way.
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We need rigid controls and, perhaps, financial sanctions to deal with the blacksheep.
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It must no longer pay to circumvent the rules; blacksheep must be branded.
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Yet there are always the blacksheep who can be caught only by strict enforcement of the traffic laws.
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I suppose that they are bound to occur in any large body, for there must be some blacksheep in every fold.
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Of course, there is found the occasional blacksheep, but this happens in any institution or organisation.
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You are bound to have here and there, in a force like that, some blacksheep, and men who may be a little over-officious.
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In every profession there are some blacksheep.
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I do not accept the view that there has been a blacksheep of any kind.
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It would prevent honourable occupations being given a bad name by what is undoubtedly a minority of blacksheep in their ranks.
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Every profession, as we know from experience, has blacksheep within its numbers.
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However, putting aside a little joke of that sort, of course we know, and have always admitted, that there are blacksheep in every fold.
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We say there are blacksheep in every flock, even in the trade union flock.
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If among 640 there is one blacksheep, why should the 639 have to suffer?
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I concede that most farmers would not do that, but we must deal with the maverick or blacksheep farmer.
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Of course, in every walk of life there will be the odd blacksheep who will put up a bad show in some direction.
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There will always be a few blacksheep among them.
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It is absurd to penalise the whole of society for the bad behaviour of a few blacksheep.
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Of course, they have blacksheep among them.
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It would be a most dreadful thing to try to downgrade it because, like so many other professions, it has its own blacksheep.
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You have to deal also with the blacksheep.
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There may be blacksheep amongst the security forces—it would look as if there are.
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