Examples:

• We are trying today to support economic interests by hook or by crook.
• Today, an attempt is being made to assert economic interests by hook or by crook.
• I am against a model thought out in Brussels that must, by hook or by crook, be implemented across Europe.
• That is why it was crucial for the Annan plan to be approved, by hook or by crook, and the Greek Cypriots were intimidated from all quarters in order to accept this half-hearted proposal.
• Mugabe wants - by hook or by crook - to pursue his ill-fated policy which has led Zimbabwe to the brink of starvation, where 80% of the population live beneath the poverty line and 60% are unemployed.
• I'm gonna get that job by hook or by crook.
• The government wants the bill passed, by hook or by crook.