Sentences with phrase «as shakedown»

The entire scam — essentially blaming Exxon for knowing something about «global warming» it couldn't possibly have known because, hey, nobody did at the time; they don't even know now — was purely designed as a shakedown.

I know that's not much to go on, but much more will be revealed next - next weekend, as Shakedown Hawaii makes its first playable debut at PlayStation Experience December 5 - 6th.

Can not be serious, only john Cahill maybe takes this seriously, and some members of the Albany media crowd, except as a shakedown operation.

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The MCL32 had seemingly ran well and hit the 100 km filming day limit in Spain on Sunday, as Alonso and new team - mate Stoffel Vandoorne gave the car a shakedown.

Drew also said that he expected no problems as a result of the State Elections Enforcement Commission's decision, also on Oct. 18, to investigate a complaint by Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst's campaign manager that Drew attempted a «shakedown» when he sent gubernatorial campaign fundraising letters to Middletown city employees in September.

What's most galling is that the Democrats — led by the union - backed Working Families Party, as usual — are trying to present this taxpayer shakedown as reform, using recent Albany and New York City scandals as a false rallying cry.

The bold particulars — $ 4 million in personal gain, a shakedown to turn cancer patients into fee - generating plaintiffs — unfurled over a three week trial as prosecutors led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara painted Silver as a dry, inscrutable, greedy embodiment of Albany's problems.

It also flew in the face of repeated predictions by the elder Skelos — including as recently as Wednesday evening — that he and his son would be acquitted of the shakedown scheme.

So instead, LIGO leaders opted to continue a shakedown test known as an engineering run for another week.

Inside NASA, the yearlong mission was being casually referred to as a «shakedown cruise,» which is a term used in the Navy to describe a trip intended to test the performance of a new ship, Williams said.

At first billed simply as Michael Vincent, the novice actor's «official» screen debut was the 1968 western Journey to Shiloh, though in fact he'd already had a shakedown cruise, as it were, in the Mexican film Los Bandidos (1967).

Some may recognize Grady Hendrix as the former film critic who ran Variety's superb Asian movie blog, Kaiju Shakedown.

Supporting players Ellen Barkin, Fritz Weaver and Dustin Hoffman show up as those impacted by the magic shoes as the plot dives into a real estate shakedown.

It's still happening, as evidenced by news of in - development films like a Harley Quinn spinoff and Booster Gold solo film, but there have been several shakedowns behind the scenes of -LSB-...]

Rather than hand over his wallet, Nicky calmly laughs and schools the two in the flaws of their little shakedown, such as not waiting until he was naked to try to rob him.

And as you can see in Donut Media's latest video above, that makes for quite a combination, as Ryan - a professional drifter - gives the car its first proper shakedown around Willow Springs International Raceway in California.

Thankfully, Fiat appears to be following through, as a rally - spec 124 was just caught on video performing shakedown runs through the Italian countryside.

The danger with an exercise such as this annual shakedown — aside from driving off a mountain face, careening into a 12 - point buck as it sprints from the underbrush (almost happened), or spinning off the track into an unprotected wall — is that it's all too easy to become infatuated with big money, big horsepower, almost impossibly aspirational items.

Crews are already exploring the stages in Monte Carlo - and as we type, 2016 champ Sébastien Ogier has already proven quickest on the shakedown stage in his Fiesta - where they'll contend with some of the trickiest stage conditions of the entire championship.

In fact, the Eastnor Castle Estate is the last stop for Evoque Convertible testing, as the droptop has already been tested in other parts of the world as part of its factory shakedown cruise after its appearance in concept form at the Geneva motor show earlier this year.

AMG and its racing partner, HWA, might enter the GT4 in a few races this year as a final shakedown test.

Custom suspension components and Brembo brake calipers from the Hellcat ensure the Shakedown's other dynamic qualities are as capable as its impressive powertrain.

The Shakedown's insides include a modern Mopar gauge cluster, as well as a steering wheel and seats culled from today's Viper.

SoHo was home to about 2,000 artists by the early»70s, many of whom had to go as far as Chelsea to get basic groceries and faced police shakedowns as part of failed efforts to clear them out.

ExxonMobil had been carefully selected as the Green Blob's shakedown victim because it seemed to fulfil all the necessary criteria.

Australia is rather obviously on a minerals extraction binge, which is one of the reasons it has not been, as yet, so impacted by the global finance shakedown.

In the United States, the First Amendment typically holds sway in the face of challenges to web content widely recognized as reprehensible, such as revenge porn and mug shot shakedowns.

Levant was successful in demonstrating that some of his posts, referring to the lawsuit as a «shakedown,» would have been protected by fair comment.

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Even Democrats disapprove of those coupon settlement shakedowns, where lawyers make big fees as part of coupon settlements that either sell good cases short, or satisfy the extortive demands that come with a frivolous class action.

Rolls - Royce teamed up with National Geographic to film and photograph the SUV on a daily basis as it conquers the harshest terrain on the planet as part of its shakedown testing.

This news comes as all digital tokens continue to grow despite market shakedowns and scares initiated by Chinese regulators.

Bitcoin price fell 23 % into Friday as a broad shakedown of markets saw every cryptoasset in the top 100 sustain major losses.