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- adjective Having a
compulsion tosteal , as akleptomaniac does.
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Examples
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On competition among states for firms and migrants: The main point is that if the politics of one state become sufficiently kleptomaniacal, productive people and firms can relocate to escape the plundering.
The Volokh Conspiracy » European Libertarians and Federalism 2010
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On competition among states for firms and migrants: The main point is that if the politics of one state become sufficiently kleptomaniacal, productive people and firms can relocate to escape the plundering.
The Volokh Conspiracy » European Libertarians and Federalism 2010
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On competition among states for firms and migrants: The main point is that if the politics of one state become sufficiently kleptomaniacal, productive people and firms can relocate to escape the plundering.
The Volokh Conspiracy » European Libertarians and Federalism 2010
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On competition among states for firms and migrants: The main point is that if the politics of one state become sufficiently kleptomaniacal, productive people and firms can relocate to escape the plundering.
The Volokh Conspiracy » European Libertarians and Federalism 2010
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Donors are understandably cool to the idea of giving money to the government in light of its kleptomaniacal tendencies, but there are ways to avoid the central bank.
Peter Navario: Zimbabwe's Second Wave? Peter Navario 2010
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On competition among states for firms and migrants: The main point is that if the politics of one state become sufficiently kleptomaniacal, productive people and firms can relocate to escape the plundering.
The Volokh Conspiracy » European Libertarians and Federalism 2010
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Last September, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon -- a second-tier South Korean bureaucrat kicked upstairs to succeed the kleptomaniacal Kofi Annan -- proclaimed that absent an immediate ten-trillion dollar [yes, $10-trillion] "contribution" by guess-who Planet Earth would transform into "a baking desert" by New Year's 2010.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Bennie Salazar first makes a one-sentence appearance as the music-producer boss of Sasha, the kleptomaniacal protagonist of the first chapter.
Friend This Novel! 2010
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On competition among states for firms and migrants: The main point is that if the politics of one state become sufficiently kleptomaniacal, productive people and firms can relocate to escape the plundering.
The Volokh Conspiracy » European Libertarians and Federalism 2010
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Mebbe teh pplz dat tayked teh gnu lol tayked owr kleptomaniacal frend azwell?
DEVINE ORDER OF CATZ - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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