Unfortunately, as Malawi shows, it is liable to be snaffled by crooks.
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Vantiv snaffled Moneris USA, the American arm of a Canadian payments-processor, for $425m.
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But from 2018 a greater proportion of earnings should accrue to shareholders rather than being snaffled by regulators.
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Numerous subsidies for fertiliser, power, water and so forth are snaffled by better-off farmers or go into officials' pockets.
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It proved so popular that almost all the head-rest covers on the seats were snaffled by passengers on the first day.
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In February Activision Blizzard, a Californian firm, snaffled up King Digital (maker of Candy Crush and other mind-numbing games) for $5.9 billion.
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In parallel, and against their better judgment, Ry provides Stein with body parts snaffled from the hospital, laying them at his feet like a cat.
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It snaffled up Barclays stock when its own shareholders shunned a capital call in July 2008, giving it a stake of just under 6 percent at present.
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In a pioneering history of corruption in Peru, Alfonso Quiroz reckoned that between 1820 and 2000 it snaffled up to 40% of government spending and 3-4% of GDP growth per year.
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That's good for user privacy (there's no chance of data being snaffled in-transit), but also increases the device's battery life (because it doesn't have to maintain an internet connection at all times).
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He fell 15 runs shy off his fifth test century when Lyon got a little bit of extra bounce to a delivery which caught the opener's glove and was snaffled up by Steve Smith at slip.
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The Chinese government's response is to declare its support for cyber-security and the protection of intellectual property, though American firms which have had their technology snaffled say that Chinese courts make no pretence of upholding the same law for all.
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But by the time Tate Modern emerged, YBAs (for Young British Artists) like Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, who had been snaffled up by Charles Saatchi in the 1980s and 1990s, had finally created an appetite for contemporary art in a city which, thanks to Margaret Thatcher's financial deregulation in 1986, was becoming very much richer.
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Next, he clean bowled Neil McKenzie for 11, snaffled Andrew Hall (caught by Marcus Trescothick) for 0 and caught and bowled Paul Adams for 15. Finally, he dismissed Mark Boucher (caught by Alec Stewart) for 52, as the South Africans crumbled for 131. Finishing with match bowling figures of 8-114, Kirtley was awarded the player of the match award.
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Hollister is impressed by the in-depth report, and Rimmer (using information from the confidential reports) continues by giving Hollister one of his favourite foods snaffled from the cargo deck and some pile cream. Hollister gives Rimmer an envelope and asks him to post it. Rimmer seals the envelope before noticing that it is addressed to him. Hollister tells Rimmer that he is inviting him to the Captain's Table that evening.
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In the summer of his first test match, Amar Singh hit an unbeaten 131, against Lancashire, coming at no.10, a position from which he had scored his 51 against England in his first test match. In the light of his bowling performances, another aspect of his game that had been overshadowed along with his batting was Singh's fielding an catching. In 92 first class matches, Singh snaffled 77 catches, and according to Rusi Modi, he was easily as good as Bob Simpson or Wally Hammond in terms of slip catching.
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Having recognised that, "The quality of the acting ensured much of this portrait of a stiff- backed patriarchy producing unhappiness in women and children rang true. Greg Wise in particular was convincing as Lewis’s emotionally vacant father, while Nathaniel Parker snaffled up the chance to embody a cold-hearted bully in a blazer", Rees added that, "And yet something in the storyboarding fatally depleted the atmosphere of accumulating tension. The plot frogmarched disjointedly from one crisis to the next, giving important scenes insufficient room to breathe and bringing a psychological coarseness to fine-grained undercurrents of feeling".
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Jerry Pournelle in 1985 reported that Avalon Hill's Incunabula and By Fire and Sword "snaffled off more of my time than I could afford". Computer Gaming World that year noted the resemblance to Avalon Hill's Civilization board game and wondered why the company did not call the video game Computer Civilization, and cautioned that because of the lack of map variations or difficulty levels, "the probable solitaire life of the game could be rather limited". It nonetheless concluded, "Incunabula is an interesting and enjoyable multi-player game. The combination of combat, good trading, and diplomacy will give a wide variety of gamers something worth a closer look".
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Bonnor was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, and made his international debut in the first match played in England in 1880. Being very tall for the 19th century at 6 foot 6 inches he was also exceedingly strong and made the most of it with some powerful hitting, however at times his cavalier attitude led to some periods of poor scores as well. Two anecdotes testify to his enormous strength. First, during the Oval Test match of 1880 between England and Australia, he was out caught for two to a ball he had hit so high that by the time GF Grace had snaffled him, waiting directly underneath it on the boundary, he and his partner had almost completed their third run.
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