Inevitably, they are an ideological rag-bag, which will make it hard for them to co-operate politically.

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Years ago, those companies owned a rag-bag of industrial businesses, rather as Anglo does now.

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Marconi still has some of the rag-bag of smaller industrial interests from its past, such as medical electronics systems, petrol pumps and retail automation.

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At several points he describes it as a home-grown religion, a bit of a rag-bag where different followers, none of them learned, believed different things and saw different visions.

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Still, one motive for this week's announcement by Dai-Ichi and Yasuda (both affiliated to Mizuho banks) might be to show their intention to lead consolidation among Mizuho's other rag-bag of insurers.

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Lord Henley, for the Tories, said the bill was a "rag-bag" of provisions and said that, because of late changes, almost a third of its clauses had not been debated in the Commons.

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In the 30-odd soccer-loving localities she visited, in countries from South Africa to Ivory Coast, balls are spun into being with whatever's at hand: rag or sock, tire or bark, plastic bag or inflated condom.

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