Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
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Cattle dragged and choked...Knocking ‘em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they’re stunned they come back to life, and they’re up there agonizing. They’re supposed to be restunned but sometimes they aren’t and they’ll go through the skinning process alive. I’ve worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They’re all the same. If people were to see this, they’d probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn’t mean anything.
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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
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But popular rage, Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down....
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Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
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James 1:14:
But each of you is tempted when you are dragged away by your own evil desire and enticed.
(NIV)
But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions).
(AMP)
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
(KJV)
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