Free-for-all
a free-for-all (noun) - a disorganised and chaotic situation
spark a free-for-all
helped spark a free-for-all
the absence of any law helped spark a free-for-all
financially crippled by the free-for-all
financially crippled by the free-for-all in the deregulated American market
a free-for-all competition
a free-for-all competition between different currencies
a free-for-all competition between different companies
a technology free-for-all
damaged by the technology free-for-all
indulge in a kind of free-for-all
the temptation is to indulge in a kind of free-for-all
a lawless free-for-all
an anarchic free-for-all
a pluralistic free-for-all
the free-for-all of war
stop the free-for-all
the free-for-all must be curtailed
the elections were a free-for-all
the airport became a free-for-all with the journalists charging after the Prime Minister, battling to get a good shot and knocking people in the crowd over in the process
a real estate development free-for-all
a real estate development free-for-all which could lead to an over-supply of retail space in the near future
a development free-for-all in the countryside
Example sentences:
* A few American airlines, financially crippled by the free-for-all in the deregulated American market, also want help.
* Yet, within a few years, the whole affair had degenerated into a free-for-all.
* I think it will be a free-for-all.
* The vendor community has successfully prevented the supply side of the industry from descending into a free-for-all by effectively staking out their respective territories and more or less sticking to them.
* The free-for-all of war had to be curtailed.
* In order for the agreement to stick, no single firm must break ranks, encouraged by the prospect of greater market share by lowering its price, or else a free-for-all may develop producing a competitive price, as if the market had been operating smoothly.
* The free-for-all began when the back door of a Wells Fargo armoured car flew open as it hit a bump in the road in Queens, New York.
* All right, you can go back to the vulgar free-for-all and name-calling if you like.
* All calls/actions are logged and recorded in a database, so its not a sort of free-for-all.
* But there will certainly not be another overnight free-for-all. You are not permitted to leave the house on school nights for one month.
* He said that this could lead to a non-statutory monopoly and trigger a free-for-all among farmers with the housewife eventually footing the bill.
* Gone is the Monday's rough and tumble free-for-all of, say, "Wrote For Luck" replaced by the spliffed-out, laid-back groove and surprisingly sexy undercurrent of "Stinkin', Thinkin." (Note: Names of songs)
* I am not proposing a free-for-all, but the admission of children to certain pubs on the application of the licensee and the approval of the local licensing bench.
* Without a regional programme of new settlements there will continue to be sprawl around old market towns and villages, a continuous free-for-all among the house builders, and an excess of appeals for the Secretary of State to consider.';
* Although the sport and television market appears to be a free-for-all to delight the most Darwinist of entrepreneurs, a scrutiny of those top five private networks soon reveals that four of them are in the hands of a holding firm called Finvest, which is itself the broadcasting vehicle of the Socialist-leaning businessman Silvio Berlusconi.
* The present system, involving solicitors who put the interests of their clients first, was being replaced by a free market which will be a free-for-all among a handful of powerful, profit-motivated instititutions serving the financial interests of their shareholders.
* Mr Tim Godfray, director of the Booksellers Association, said: If you have a complete free-for-all, supermarkets will just cream off the top 30 bestsellers.
* The British government will find it even harder to win support for its alternative road to monetary union based on a free-for-all competition between different currencies.
* But critics charge that the NHS shake-up has already been damaged by the existing technology free-for-all.
* With the entire wealth of pop history on hand, the temptation is to indulge in the kind of free-for-all pick'n'mix that has been called retro-nuevo.
* ections of the retail trade itself are also likely to welcome a slow down in what some see as a development free-for-all which could damage the balance of retail provision and lead to an over-supply of retail space in the near future.
* However, the 1977 local government elections were a free-for-all.
* The airport became a free-for-all with the journalists charging after Mrs Thatcher, battling to get a good shot and knocking people in the crowd over in the process.
* Other land may, therefore, be available although the Department is at pains to point out that the Circular does not give the green light to a development free-for-all in the countryside.
* A loophole in the Sunday shopping law has opened the way for a free-for-all on booze.
* The Government, keen to ameliorate dock dereliction, initiated a planning free-for-all.
* Governor Peter Leonard, who launched an inquiry yesterday, said only prompt action by staff prevented a violent free-for-all.
* Above all our information would dispel the notion that such a learning situation was a free-for-all with no discernible structure.
* In the midst of this free-for-all, the state appears as the guardian of the common interest, a force able to check rapacious greed, protect the weak and defenceless and uphold the values of the polity; in short, a set of institutions which, though not neutral, are not allied with any one class.
* Concern was expressed with the results of this free-for-all policy, both as far as the number of solicitors from large firms was concerned and in respect of the quality of advocacy:
* Yet legalisation should not be taken to mean a lawless free-for-all, with no restraint on the supply or use of drugs.
* The moderate pluralism of bargains, balance, and compromise within rules of the game designed to ensure fair play and fair shares for all had somehow been transformed into the perverted and self-defeating hyperpluralism of strong groups and weak government operating on the basis of a free-for-all where might was right.
* I had hoped to have had the privilege of catching your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, on the first day of this debate, when it is acknowledged to be a free-for-all and any subject can follow another.
* Some people think of equality and liberty when the word democracy is mentioned others think of football hooliganism and anarchic free-for-all.
* The University hosted a free-for-all Jubilee Fun Day at the Gannochy Sports Centre on Saturday 1 May in recognition of the University's support from the local community over the last 25 years.
