Sentences with phrase «less in hock»

Liddle cites constitutional issues and a European policy «much less in hock to Murdoch».

After less than a month in office, the new Government are already improving our constitution to make it more local, more responsive to the people and less in hock to unelected, unaccountable quangos.

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With large segments of the population now deeply in hock, central bankers have far less latitude to raise rates to combat inflation.

A young author, Amanda Hocking, rejected by major publishing houses, has become a millionaire in less than a year, by taking her writing into her own hands.

Unlike some established authors such as J.A. Konrath, who have done well with traditional publishing deals before moving into self - publishing their own e-books, Hocking has never had a traditional publishing deal — and yet, she has sold almost one million copies of the nine e-books she has written in less than a year, and her latest book appears to be selling at the rate of about 100,000 copies a month.

There is another, less serious, condition in the hock that poses no special problem in regard to veterinary bills and very little interference with leading a fairly normal life.

Beyond Slaw, House of Butter, whose Sean Hocking, in my view, has been in many ways most instrumental in opening the legal publishing industry to critical scrutiny, is perhaps a little less prolific than before in challenging the major law publishers.