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Entrenched interests -- both politicians on pelf row and big businesses nurtured on the licence-permit-quota raj -- were concerned, and marshalled all their resources to prevent long-term damage to their interests.

www.firstpost.com

Experience has shown us that these mainstream politicians, when in power, spend time and energy in exercising permutations and calculations aimed at bare survival, to enjoy power and pelf.

www.greaterkashmir.com

His motive was free access to information, not to score pelf.

commonwealthmagazine.org

His is the perfect poverty to pelf tale.

www.thehindu.com

That power and pelf bring in its wake an abominable arrogance is old knowledge in our nation.

www.dailymail.co.uk

He had no interest in power and pelf.

en.wikipedia.org

Realising that the pleasures of the flesh and pelf are fleeting, she commences on her spiritual journey.

www.thehindu.com

They can get drunk on power and pelf, but the masses have nothing but drink.

www.hindustantimes.com

Still, he has an ascetic mindset -- no craze for publicity, pelf or award.

www.thehindu.com

This habit of impinging upon the artist and trading quality for pelf has recently formed a terrifying pattern across a range of art forms.

www.independent.co.uk