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by fair means or foul literary or humorous Using whatever means are necessary: they were determined to win, by fair means or foul...- They are in competition with each other, trying to capture the ‘emerging markets' of developing nations by fair means or foul.
- The script begins with the internal voice of Standish declaring: ‘I made up my mind there and then that I had to have her whether she was free or not, with or without her consent, by fair means or foul.’
- The key question facing the country now is this: will the existing regime allow this process of democratisation to gather momentum, or will it seek to arrest its development and entrench itself in power by fair means or foul?
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