| These raids were made possible by Operation Refresh, which will also be targeting street drinking, begging and ticket touts. |
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| Bad experiences of haggling with illegal touts on the street or in dodgy minicab offices are rooted in people's minds. |
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| At the entrance, fans without tickets pleaded for spares, but apologetically, lest they be mistaken for touts and beaten to death. |
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| Music fans have been rocked after hundreds of tickets for this year's V Festival were snapped up by touts trying to make a quick profit. |
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| It significantly helped with the touts and didn't cause any significant problems with the queuing. |
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| Near the tourist zone foreigners are hustled by touts selling black-market cigars. |
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| God forgive me, I should have been out there queueing at 4am, along with the ticket touts and scalpers, and the diehards. |
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| The residents of 711 flats just don't fill the streets like 38,000 fans plus ticket touts all arriving at once. |
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| They lived together in a room apartment in a chawl owned by the local touts. |
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| Private adoption agencies' touts hunted for vulnerable, expectant families who already had one or two daughters. |
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| I was there when people were re-located out of this country in the name of Ireland as touts or informers. |
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| With fewer signs, the Yoon campaign instead touts its expertise with online tools and social networking to reach voters. |
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| And, to ensure against dummy candidates, the touts entertained only students with valid admission cards. |
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| We've got some information from touts, but no one knows how much explosive they have. |
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| There's a good Internet center, an excellent grocery and general store, and street-traders and touts in abundance. |
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| But such is the widespread use of touts, some locals are reluctant to contact the Gardai. |
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| Great Dane also touts its capacity for multiple temperature items, available through its SuperSeal XLT reefer. |
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| I stopped off at Na'ama Bay, the heart of the resort, on the way, and it seemed a nice enough place, with no hassling touts to trap the unwary. |
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| Instead of real life's morlock tobacco bootleggers and DVD touts, Pantoland has sweet Aladdie, a boy so poor he does not have a name. |
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| Within a matter of nanoseconds I was fending off over-eager hostel touts keen to win my business. |
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| They can meet you when you arrive in each area, which makes dealing with the inevitable scrum of touts distinctly less daunting. |
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| Uncertain body language is like blood in the water for robbers, touts and con artists, all of whom lurk outside Customs like skycaps. |
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| Almost from the moment you step off the plane, you will be accosted by touts, hawkers and rogues. |
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| The office is full of touts and bureaucrats who are out to make the process as lengthy and complicated as they can, in order to induce you to resort to a bribe. |
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| That is what the horse race touts said, and that is why I will vote for this bill and why we should all vote for this bill. |
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| This is despicable behaviour from a government that touts itself as being accountable. |
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| Canada often touts itself on the international stage as being a proud defender of human rights. |
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| Thecus touts the N4100PRO as the NAS server with unmatched speed and total security. |
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| There is no mind-jarring pop music to shred your thoughts and, more importantly, no irksome rash of timeshare touts badgering you to buy a dream in the sun. |
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| Jeffries touts his law enforcement background as assistant attorney general. |
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| And the system eliminates touts because the doormen will check, visually rather than by computer, that the barcode message has been sent directly from the ticketing agency. |
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| After a bit of staggering between bars and buses, we were missing the attention of the local hasslers, and were plotting on better ways of dealing with touts and hustlers. |
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| The capital, Tripoli, is a pan-African city of Italianate squares and Arab souks where visitors can wander without being hassled by touts or pushy shopkeepers. |
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| If you can handle Delhi's touts, beggars, street-chaos, noise and hard bargaining, then the rest of India will feel like a bit of a walk in the park in comparison. |
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| They're worse than track touts, but certain ideas have crossed my mind. |
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| The law was aimed at deterring unscrupulous boardinghouse touts who jumped aboard arriving ships to ply gullible sailors with cheap liquor and comely prostitutes. |
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| He said at this stage, touts were trying to buy tickets from anybody they could, mostly Portuguese people, so they could sell them on to the English. |
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| He also touts the CIA's record in helping to stop nuclear proliferation. |
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| The state's economy now one of the country's strongest could sputter, costing Mrs Gregoire popularity, even as she touts for trade with countries ranging from France to China. |
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| Lane Leather has launched a television and print campaign in which Jack Palance raspily touts the American Ranch collection. |
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| Carly has to appease the Ignorati, so she touts a nonexistent fetus-harvesting video. |
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| This has nothing to do with the crimes and the blackmail of Bush, who now touts the declaration as proof of the success of his policy of genocide. |
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| How can Javid legitimise touts, making access to the arts prohibitively expensive for many, and yet also be the culture secretary responsible for the simple act of getting people through the doors to see stuff? |
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| I managed to track down the individual touts selling tickets for my London run of shows, and then banned them from further purchases at the theatre. |
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| The touts may have Sajid Javid in their back pocket. |
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| A feeding frenzy of taxi and hotel touts descended. |
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| Only me, 46 plain clothes cops, 91 touts, 28 soldiers and the entire membership of the CIRA Drug Dealing Division have them. |
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| It was so obvious ticket touts were going to make a lot of money out of the London Olympics. |
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| It is true that the Left tends to prioritize human welfare over the loaded concept of free trade, but The Economist itself claims the same moral interest when it touts such trade as the antidote to world poverty. |
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| I AM disgusted at the low-life ticket touts who have put tickets for Manic Street Preachers' gig at King Tut's, Glasgow, on eBay. |
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| While roller-coaster design has grown increasingly daring in recent years, the theme park touts X as a coaster unlike any other. |
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