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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After it's been dished out the paymasters ride on to take the pay to the men cutting down the forest.
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And with no financial paymasters we avoid the compromises.
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As paymaster he was responsible for the organization of the finance required in the restoration of the neglected royal palaces.
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In a payroll robbery at a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, the paymaster and his guard were killed.
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It is further evidence that its policies are merely the result of what its paymasters, the trade unions, say.
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Like priests, paymasters in the Salomon empire followed a time-honored pattern.
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They want to see an end to the image of trade unions as Labour's paymaster and, by implication, policy-maker.
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Yet he is a survivor, sticking to his sobering material and plain aesthetic no matter who his paymaster is.