Dole Out

OB is wrong to think we will just march on to the next dole-out, with a new promise of transparency. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As Senator Manuel "Mar" Roxas, a former member of the Arroyo cabinet and frontrunner to win the presidency next year if elections are held, explains, "The system created by the Arroyo administration has made corruption, official opacity and the dole-out culture almost endemic at all levels." ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the grapevines which are critical on this new move of the administration of PGMA downplayed the dole-out as cheap gimmick which is actually could not even mitigate the growing problems of the masses caused by the soaring prices of basic needs. ❋ Nomadicasian (2008)

So, I think that they are really trying, as they often do when they don't want to talk about a story, to control and, you know, dole-out the words one by one. ❋ Unknown (2001)

He was the one in a position to do what any lender of last resort could do - negotiate concessions from AIG in exchange for the dole-out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lousy five thousand dollars is a miserable dole-out by BP greedy killers and polluters of Louisiana shorelines that earned 5 billion dollars in this reckless deep water drilling. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You mean like someone whose "single issue" is finding one more office with a government dole-out? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The dole-out isn't as much because of a new found love of their neighbour, but because by helping Greece they are, at least in part, bailing their banks out of immediate trouble. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Under the guise of "aid" there will be thousands of troops (to shoot Haitians "looting" food and water from stores that have been abandoned, to feed themselves and others who are starving) and "aid" organizations to dole-out crumbs to those who will betray democracy, with even bigger crumbs for those who will actively work to hunt down its last die-hard adherents. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"a dole-out to people who don't want to work", spent his campaign making ever more absurd promises of expanding the programme in numbers and amounts - without raising taxes. ❋ Rodrigo Nunes (2010)