Law in this setting may well be the 'campfollower' of globalisation: seen as relatively unproblematic and effective because strictly limited in social aim and scope.
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Systems of governmental intervention have had their camp followers, who followed in order to pick up the available pickings.
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There was, in the first place, the question of the camp followers, and in the second place, the canteen owners who found their way into the military camps.
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The term 'campfollower' has usually been used pejoratively and dismissively.
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In this letter 'private follower', is taken to mean privately contractedcampfollower.
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And it will not be the voice of a satellite or acampfollower.
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I do not think that she objects to the name of acampfollower.
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She is underpaid and under-fed, and is regarded as nothing but a poorcampfollower.
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He might be acampfollower.
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Venereal disease has been described as thecampfollowerof war, and it may be readily understood how far war circumstances would favour the spread of venereal disease.
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But in his speech today he sounded like a poor old tired and raddled politicalcampfollower, still protesting his virtue—a virtue that no one wants to take from him.
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Over time, they develop acampfollower, a cat.
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Receiving a wage from the army meant that they could earn a decent living as acampfollower.
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They married after he rescued her from victimization as acampfollower.
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A soldier's mistresseven a high-born soldier's mistressis despised as a sheath, orcampfollower.
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