Sentences with phrase «chicanery most»

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This is one of the most common examples of intentional - walk chicanery, where professional baseball men who are paid millions of dollars to throw baseballs suddenly throw them like an Olympic curler throwing a ceremonial first pitch.

And Derek Draper and Damian McBride have been creating it in large quantities, and they're by no means the first or the most obvious examples, given the loans - for - peerages scandal, various bits of chicanery around the Iraq war and subsequent investigations (e.g. David Kelly), ministerial expense fraud (or at least it would be fraud if you or I tried the same thing on our tax returns), pretty much anything to do with Peter Mandelson and the various leaks, briefings and spin cycles that have characterised the Labour party for the last fifteen years.

Most accounting chicanery problems would not exist if beating the earnings estimates was not so important.

In reality, the implications of such distortions of the data [due to UHI] go much further than just representing one of the most bizarre aberrations in the history of science... this scary chicanery has given Britain the most suicidally crazy energy policy (useless windmills and all) of any country in the world.

Rather than using the phone's two cameras to create this effect (as most dual - camera phones do), the legwork is done through software chicanery.