Sentences with phrase «once lined their pockets»

Instead they continue to double down on policies that once lined their pockets, but are now no longer valid.

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A federal prosecutor said Sen. Dean Skelos «abused his power» to «line the pockets» of his son Adam as opening statements began Tuesday in the closely watched federal corruption trial of the once - powerful former Republican majority leader in Albany.

Once the teeth have been thoroughly cleaned, a periodontal probe is used to check for pockets below the gum line.

Once teeth have disease around the gums and significant pockets of infection around gum line, the damage to the ligaments holding the tooth in the jaw is usually irreversible, which is why sometimes teeth need to be removed.

Yet, even if the experts» grand social experiment is well intentioned and not a plan to line their own pockets, I'm reminded of what Dr. Thomas Sewell once said: «Intellectuals are the last people to realise their own vast sea of ignorance surrounding the small island of their knowledge.