Sentences with phrase «as pilfering»

They also want to winnow out those who might engage in such unseemly behavior as pilfering, harassing, and time wasting.

However, the absence of necessity or consistency has its appeal; it guarantees that the movie stays unpredictable even as it pilfers shamelessly, piling cliché upon cliché, but rarely in a way that makes a lick of sense.

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And let's not forget Yahoo's confession that hackers actually managed to pilfer data for all 3 billion of its users in 2013, followed by the international Appleby law firm announcing the loss of 13.4 million legal documents known now as The Paradise Papers.

It was just over a year ago that Mayer pilfered de Castro from Google - her old stomping grounds - to serve as the company's «top ad executive and liaison to marketers on Madison Avenue,» reports The Wall Street Journal.

LOS ANGELES (AP)-- It's a story almost as old as Hollywood — stars taking their parents to court over money they earned as child actors that was pilfered or mismanaged.

6Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.

They often find ways of pilfering from their jobs, or they hustle as entrepreneurs.

I pilfer paint chips as well, I love that your crafts are always so inexpensive and recycle what we have.

Indeed, as we've recently seen, even people like James Purnell have started pilfering Sen for ideas.

«Gone are the times when a minister can pilfer billions of dollars as easy as plucking a piece of candy from the table,» he stated.

Instead, he has encouraged the parochial view of European negotiations as a zero sum game where confected «red lines» protect our sovereignty from bureaucratic pilfering.

If you don't give your lab space a final clearing - up session you risk someone else discovering just what a messy worker you were as they sniff around your former freezer drawer for anything worth pilfering.

Once a pitcher starts «aiming his pitches,» as the commentators call it, their voices heavy with foreboding, it usually isn't very long before he's back riding a tractor near the house he was born in, cursing his mental apparatus and simultaneously using it to figure out how much he can get for the sweat - stained athletic supporter he pilfered from an all - star teammate.

The book's main character is a black marketeer who breaks into the zone and pilfers alien objects such as a metal ring that defies the laws of physics and batteries that provide seemingly endless energy.

The biggest obstacle is that dating apps rely heavily on personal information and will look to link into your social profiles into order to pilfer as much detail about you as possible.

Accompanied by two spear - wielding warriors (Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong» o play members of the Dora Milaje, Wakanda's elite female fighting force), a tuxedo - clad T'Challa attempts to go incognito while South African gunrunner Ulysses Klaue (a suitably thuggish Andy Serkis, ever the chameleon) makes ready to pass the pilfered treasure to a CIA agent (Martin Freeman, who may as well be playing 007 ally Felix Leiter).

He'll be the first to tell you that there plenty of other pilfered aspects of his past in the mix as well, ranging from Greta Gerwig's older art - school mentor to Elle Fanning's late - night confidante.

Multiple other smaller elements are pilfered from other stuff such as the gun (see judge dredd's lawgiver).

Later, the same FBI doesn't anticipate that the rogue robot is looking to get «home,» and then doesn't have the foresight to examine wreckage of their recently pilfered super-jet as it rains down bits of fiery debris across what I can only imagine is someone's backyard.

And while he allows himself to be led around by the loins, he soon lands on the radar of her jealous boyfriend as well as a policewoman (Marlene Longange) and an angry Angolan crime boss (Hoji Fortuna) determined to recover his pilfered petrol.

When it rains it pours, as Larry's loser of a brother (Kind, The Wild) won't leave, his son (Wolff) can't keep out of trouble, and his daughter (McManus) is repeatedly pilfering money from under his nose — and then even his tenure is in question when anonymous letters start coming in questioning his character, made murky by the fact that a student may be trying to bribe him into giving him a passing grade and threatening defamation for the accusation.

As mutant Laura Kinney, a Wolverine clone and tiny powder keg of rage, the bilingual 11 - year - old (in her film debut) manages to pilfer scenes from co-stars Sir Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman — as well as shred some serious ass — with barely a spoken worAs mutant Laura Kinney, a Wolverine clone and tiny powder keg of rage, the bilingual 11 - year - old (in her film debut) manages to pilfer scenes from co-stars Sir Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman — as well as shred some serious ass — with barely a spoken woras well as shred some serious ass — with barely a spoken woras shred some serious ass — with barely a spoken word.

Of course, some objects are more effective than others — I'd much rather take a halberd pilfered from a medieval shop shelf into battle than, say, a food court tray — but anything Frank can carry will eventually kill a zombie if you just keep using it as a bludgeon.

If I may pull a few adjectives from the faint - praise playbook, while «Bolt» isn't as funny, memorable or inspired as the animation classic from which it pilfers, it's still beautifully animated, cleanly told, professionally voiced and makes you smile without insulting your intelligence.

Starting with the most fun, the Chevy SS Sport concept — or SSS, as we've been calling it — is slathered in a color called Some Like It Red Hot, pilfered from its Australian paint bin.

stupid Buick thinks because they copped out on doing the real Avenir that they can just pilfer the name as a trim package and redeem themselves.

Unfortunately, not much info of the new Tablet has pilfered into the public domain as of now and whatever doing the rounds is few and far between.

However, everything is being kept under wraps as of now with the only few aspects of the upcoming tablet that has pilfered out are this: the tablet will be in the 7 inch category and will run Android 2.2 Froyo.

The opportunity to wander through the fields and watch the birds as they attempt to pilfer rice grains from immature stalks is an enriching experience.

Apple, not console makers Microsoft and Sony, has become Nintendo's closest competitor in recent years, the American computer giant pilfering the latter's staff and carefully marketing the iPod Touch as a handheld game system to rival the Nintendo DS's turf.

This of course has opened up its own can of worms, as keyboard warriors are now pilfering the poultry prizes through familiarity alone.

And so it goes in this roguelike that liberally pilfers game mechanics from sliding puzzlers such as the masterful Threes!.

Born in New York City in 1919, the artist was raised in Los Angeles, studied at the Academia di Belle Arti in Rome, and then served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a Monuments Man — tracking down master art works that had been pilfered by Nazi soldiers.

As her works hint, the reality was often less dream and more nightmarish; though with some brilliant «tell the grandkids» type anecdotes: Tillman recalls pilfering beetroot and potatoes from fields, and scavenging for firewood on the beach.

The artist Kurt Perschke, who for the past 13 years has been placing 15 foot red balls in unexpected public spaces as part of his RedBall project, has accused the oil company Shell of pilfering his idea for their latest... Read More

At a time when it is crucially important that green energy be pushed forward as hard as we can, one of the most effective ways to promote solar and wind development — tax breaks — are being pilfered.

Wrap the duct tape around your luggage, tucking the zipper pulls under the tape, as a way to deter baggage handlers and other transportation officials from pilfering your bags.

Though accused years ago of pilfering the innovations of Cisco and others, Huawei gets credit these days for breakthroughs in complex technologies such as radio access networking that lets mobile carriers support multiple communications standards on a single network.

However, since T - Mobile's lawsuit against Huawei regarding pilfered robot technology is still well underway, it might be the case that this no - damages settlement could serve as either an olive branch or leverage to encourage the Uncarrier to lay off the heat.

However, it's far harder to launder digital currency than the media and world governments would have you believe, as can be seen in the case in mid-July where $ 60 million of ether was pilfered.

This way, the perpetrators can pilfer sensitive information, such as your passwords.

The method that underlies our work is to seek the underlying reason for maladjustment whether a boy has bed - wetting, pilfering or aggression as one of his symptoms is not the matter of fundamental importance in his cure.

And, as new properties come on line, stories of new competitors pilfering existing staff from incumbent properties are rife.

I handed her the treat — pilfered from high tea at a fancy hotel — as I was frantically getting ready for lunch at a friend's place.