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Is there a collective decision to sit on the financial sidelines for another year in the hopes of another neo-con, anti-government, anti-regulation, devil-take-the-hindmost, let-her-rip administration?
Gary Hart: Who Is Standing on the Airhose? Gary Hart 2011
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Is there a collective decision to sit on the financial sidelines for another year in the hopes of another neo-con, anti-government, anti-regulation, devil-take-the-hindmost, let-her-rip administration?
Gary Hart: Who Is Standing on the Airhose? Gary Hart 2011
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Besides all this, we still have an individual pursuit and a points race as part of the omnium and also included a new one, the elimination race, or devil-take-the-hindmost as we used to call it in my day, again as part of the omnium.
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: Pat McQuaid interview, part 2 2010
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But in any case I was surprised to see Dawkins treating natural selection as a devil-take-the-hindmost process when I thought that he had explicitly endorsed a different view in previous writings.
Herbert Spencer Anti-Defamation League (Part 423 of ???) 2008
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This is not devil-take-the-hindmost in Asia-U.S. diplomacy; this is about building more constructive, useful relationships throughout this region.
Press Briefing By Mccurry And Daley And Brainard ITY National Archives 1998
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This devil-take-the-hindmost local approach is persistently applied despite the certainty that regional disparity can never be solved without economic independence.
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It was a devil-take-the-hindmost race, and the only one I ever saw them engage in through half a score of battles.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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No, we don't want to go back to Gordon Gekko's "greed is good", and we don't believe in devil-take-the-hindmost.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I don't want a return to mass unemployment and devil-take-the-hindmost culture.
Word Magazine - Comments stimpy 2010
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In 2012 a further race, the devil-take-the-hindmost elimination, is to be included, with the racing over two days.
Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk William Fotheringham 2010
bilby commented on the word devil-take-the-hindmost
"Their coldness, egocentricity and deceitfulness corrodes every relationship that they touch, from marriage to business partnership, while their superficial charm, moral flexibility and lack of remorse often allows them to become very successful in today's devil-take-the-hindmost society."
- Robert Matthews, Are you living with a socialised psychopath?, Sunday Telegraph Review, June 1997.
January 27, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word devil-take-the-hindmost
I love this turn of phrase; such a wonderful way to express come what may. "I'll have that blueberry by five o'clock tomorrow, and devil take the hindmost."
January 27, 2010