| These robber barons operate in Central America, where workers' rights are savagely suppressed. |
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| Great fortunes have usually been built by industrial tycoons, sometimes known as robber barons. |
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| The progressive impulse brought down the original robber barons, and reined in corporate greed. |
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| Then the country's emergent civil society collapsed beneath post-communist repression and the kleptocracy of regional robber barons. |
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| It would move us back to the late 1800s and 1920s when the grain robber barons and the railway monopolies were able to take advantage of farmers. |
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| Thereafter, there was great accumulation of wealth and power in the hands of a few, the robber barons. |
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| Aggressive businessmen have at different times been praised as captains of industry and scorned as robber barons. |
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| A time when criminals and gangsters and robber barons plundered the Russian state and preyed on the weakest in Russian society. |
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| After all, the 21st century should not go down in history as having robber barons still practising in Europe. |
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| Old apparatchiks and new robber barons have plundered on a grand scale many states created in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. |
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| Multinational corporations have moved to a level that was never imagined by even the most brazen of the robber barons. |
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| The reality is that if you monopolists would stop thinking like the robber barons of old and start thinking like the entrepreneurs of today, you would encounter another path. |
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| This was an era of robber barons and child labor, hobos riding the rods. |
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| Many of the speakers painted the bondholders as a greedy group of robber barons who only wanted their unreasonable demands, while leaving thousands of pensioners to starve. |
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| The robber barons of the Middle Ages were perfectly sure that civilization would go to the bow-wows if they were interfered with. |
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| We have robber barons buying the government. |
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| A modern society is not only a society that is not traditional, that is not particularist, that is not defined by the privilege, that is not dominated by an oligarchy of aristocrats, robber barons or bureaucrats. |
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| We're back to the robber barons taking over the government. |
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| He's trying to warn the country about evil robber barons. |
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| A description of the stages of government as being a morphosis from corporate cabinet to robber barons was used to illustrate the traditional inertia of governing politicians. |
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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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| In the post-Soviet time, the economy fell into the hands of robber barons, and patronisation by politicians and government officials in an essentially collusive framework. |
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