| These robber barons operate in Central America, where workers' rights are savagely suppressed. |
| 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. |
| Great fortunes have usually been built by industrial tycoons, sometimes known as robber barons. |
| Then the country's emergent civil society collapsed beneath post-communist repression and the kleptocracy of regional robber barons. |
| The progressive impulse brought down the original robber barons, and reined in corporate greed. |
| Aggressive businessmen have at different times been praised as captains of industry and scorned as robber barons. |
