| There are a lot of carpetbaggers and scam-artists operating in southern Africa and by telephone from offshore bases. |
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| The recent fight with carpetbaggers cost policyholders several million pounds. |
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| After all, these people could not be portrayed as carpetbaggers or outside agitators. |
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| If there was any deception it was the way the highly organised carpetbaggers manipulated these polls to influence the outcome. |
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| I had always been convinced that previous building society carpetbaggers were being paid for their work. |
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| They say that they are not accepting members now because there are carpetbaggers coming in to get their share of the spoils. |
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| Serious carpetbaggers with money to invest long-term may decide that they can play the waiting game. |
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| We have had our share of itinerant carpetbaggers who had dubious magistrate credentials. |
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| A convincing vote in favour of mutual status would have deterred future carpetbaggers. |
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| The carpetbaggers who streamed into the South for political and economic gain aggravated the wounds which the war had opened. |
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| The carpetbaggers have given no business reason to demutualise. |
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| And you had the carpetbaggers and all that, but as occupations go, it wasn't so brutal. |
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| It is often said that these carpetbaggers take the money and do not pay it back. |
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| Bust times inevitably recall repressed myths of gallant cavalry laid low by Northern treachery and an economy ravaged by carpetbaggers and scalawags. |
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| A Facebook campaign sent celebrities, carpetbaggers and young urbanites eager to be jasmine revolutionaries all flocking to Jantar Mantar. |
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| Obviously, the banks and the financiers and the carpetbaggers and everyone else in the money market sees this as a great financial bonanza potentially and it is. |
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| Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers. |
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| The company even raised the proportion of policyholders needed to vote in favour of demutualisation to three-quarters in order to deter carpetbaggers. |
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| We're tired of the unnecessary hardship being caused by robber barons and carpetbaggers who have no allegiance to workers or their families and communities. |
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| Carpetbaggers already in situ to cash in on the wasted and exhausted city. |
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