beggar-my-neighbour

How To Use beggar-my-neighbour In A Sentence

• This is not the time to return to the beggar-my-neighbour policies of the past.
• In Europe governments have casually played beggar-my-neighbour politics, with countries launching deposit-guarantee schemes that destabilize banks elsewhere.
• The capacity to look at a problem through the wrong lens and then advocate what are, in effect, go-it-alone, beggar-my-neighbour economic policies in the name of free markets and political sovereignty is breathtaking. Don't blame the euro for the ills besetting Ireland's economy
• They say it is wrong and sad that six towns should have been set against each other, under the review, each engaged in a beggar-my-neighbour strategy to keep its hospital.
• We played Beggar-My-Neighbour and Donkey, two simple card games.
• We should be offering to play our full part in any world deal to buy time for the US and China to change, while making sure we can act fast and flexibly to respond to a climate of beggar-my-neighbour trade and currency policies. History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
• So when Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director, acknowledged that the language of a recent IMF summit communique was "ineffective", that the time for "real action" had come and that he feared "a race to the bottom" as the major countries began to outdo each other in beggar-my-neighbour currency wars, you should sit up and listen. History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
• So when Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director, acknowledged that the language of a recent IMF summit communique was "ineffective", that the time for "real action" had come and that he feared "a race to the bottom" as the major countries began to outdo each other in beggar-my-neighbour currency wars, you should sit up and listen. History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
• There would have been a 1930s-scale slump, the break up of the EU and a rise in beggar-my-neighbour devaluations and trade protection. The ailing euro is part of a wider crisis. Our capitalist system is near meltdown | Will Hutton
• She wanted to tell her so, but the game of beggar-my-neighbour had reached an exciting phase and she decided not to interrupt it. MURDER MOVES IN