by hook or by crook

How To Use by hook or by crook In A Sentence

• He cannot ram a bill through by hook or by crook if he is to respect the genuine anxiety about the reform. Times, Sunday Times
• To no avail, however, because by then, President Lula had decided he was going to have this dam "na lei ou na marra," as he put it, by hook or by crook. Vicky Shorr: The People vs. the Dam
• I'll pass this course by hook or by crook
• In their opinion, he belonged to that goodly class of persons, who, having by hook or by crook, contrived to spend an hour in the Abbe of Weimar’s presence, afterwards abused the sacred narre of pupil. Maurice Guest
• Don't worry — we'll have the money ready by 4 o 'clock, by hook or by crook.
• Bag a ticket by hook or by crook. Times, Sunday Times
• By hook or by crook make sure that two members of staff make visits during the working day.
• Bag a ticket by hook or by crook. Times, Sunday Times
• Religious institutions claim vast sums of money from their believers, influence many, attempt to impose their dogmatized moral pretensions on others, nations states and terrorists use religious rational for their conduct and however ideal it might be to separate church and state, by hook or by crook, religious institutions are players in the political sweepstakes. Does he or doesn't he, that is the question, history needs to know
• If she set her mind on something, then she had to acquire it, by hook or by crook.