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The effect of this deal on other companies also raises the hackles of economists and trade experts.

The success of high-speed rail in other countries raises our competitive hackles.

Among those he ministered to were two female prisoners, one of them a Muslim, which raised some hackles in the Vatican.

Scottish hackles had been raised enough by the suggestion that they - winners of the past four meetings - would be bullied out of the game.

“If I were going to tell you one thing that really gets my hackles up, it’s a persistent weak layer,” said Mace, the avalanche forecaster.