In the Wild West, when law enforcement was spotty or nonexistent, vigilantes sometimes stepped in.
The cats form groups and begin to search the town like bands of vigilantes.
Privacy lovers in Germany have egg on their house faces, thanks to a crew of Google-loving vigilantes.
We wait almost hopefully for a warning shot from bond market vigilantes that might scare Washington into downsizing.
The vigilantes withdrew from Tierra Colorada after local authorities suspended the police chief and agreed to investigate him.
Hundreds of armed vigilantes have occupied a town in south-western Mexico after one of their leaders was killed.
Yet, Federal Reserve market interventions would have trouble containing a full blown revolt of the bond market vigilantes.
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If the debt ceiling were a truly serious matter, the bond vigilantes would have shown up in droves already.
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Rather than gnashing their teeth over the deficit, the Bond Vigilantes will rejoice that we have found the True Path.
Now that the new market structures are being placed in line with legal measures, the bond vigilantes should be satisfied.
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The smaller the region the virus is located in, the less likely virus vigilantes are to notice and combat it.
The best hope for equity investors in 2012 is that both the gold bugs and the bond vigilantes are wrong.
Troops and federal police were brought to the town, and the vigilantes agreed to withdraw after negotiations with the local authorities.
Web vigilantes are doing their best to make sure facial recognition technology gets a fair shake in the London riots, though.
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"My officers need to focus on rioters and looters, not those vigilantes, " said Steve Kavanagh, deputy assistant for the London Metropolitan Police.
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Based on a 2008 comic book, Kick-Ass tells the story of a group of high school vigilantes who dress up as superheroes.
And when the cops aren't functioning, vigilantes emerge to expose potential frauds.
The privacy vigilantes now have in their sights an airline-passenger screening system and an interstate network to share law-enforcement and intelligence information.
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Quiet-car "vigilantes, " as some railroad workers call the self-styled enforcers, step in.
In his speech, delivered at Alcester town hall, Mr Hague insisted he was not supporting vigilantes but responding to genuine public concerns.
And Mr Bahceli is widely credited with having prevented inter-communal fighting between Turks and Kurds by keeping MHP vigilantes off the streets.
Just as the news media focused on the bond vigilantes taking down Ireland, the retail muni bond vigilantes took down the muni market.
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Vigilantes are going through the aisles of supermarkets and applying their own warning labels, examples of which may be found at www.labelityourself.org.
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The options vigilantes include Christopher Davis, the portfolio manager for the Davis Advisors fund group, and William Miller, the portfolio chief for Legg Mason funds.
Little surprise then that the leader of the Pink Vigilantes is such a draw in an area that's often described as the badlands of India.
This offers hope for those who despair of the SEC's bungling, suggesting that in the internet age forensic vigilantes and bloggers may fill the gap.
Not that this news has stirred the bond vigilantes this week.
My point is not that the digital frontier is ungovernable, or should be left a kind of Wild West ruled at gunpoint by vigilantes and posses.
So, the question is: how much more negative will the Fed be able to send interest rates before the bond vigilantes wake up from their suspended animation?
Meanwhile, our friends across the Atlantic are feeling the pressure as bond vigilantes continue to train their fire on the weakest members of the European Monetary Union.
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