Sentences with phrase «as underhanded»

According to Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters and a public school parent in NYC, «The Parent Trigger was devised as an underhanded trick by the charter lobby to manipulate parents into letting them privatize more public schools.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile employs business practices that would come across as underhanded even in a free - to - play game.

But your constant whining and having your fanbase «attack» his site is just as underhanded and immature as the tactics you opine about.

She won election to the park board, protesting its actions as underhanded and secretive.

Our ordinary historical documentation comes almost entirely from a class of scribes, generally those concerned with fiscal matters, for whom the official praises of hired annalists are as suspect as the underhanded slanders of apocryphal memorialists.

Not exact matches

And the decisions were underhanded, as the group wasn't even informed that such decisions were being made.

And shall not memory be able to remind him of that time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that time that he deserted his post, in order to let the storm pass over; of that time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»

The AMERICAN PUBLIC better wake up soon... those EVANGELICALS are slowly going to turn this country into a THEOCRACY... YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW DEVIOUS AND UNDERHANDED THEY ARE using their army of 12 year olds... you better educated yourselves as to what they want... and are slowly getting.

As shown by the Dover trial, creationists will use any underhanded, sneaky, backdoor attempt to get their religious views accepted as on par with sciencAs shown by the Dover trial, creationists will use any underhanded, sneaky, backdoor attempt to get their religious views accepted as on par with sciencas on par with science.

They were severely underhanded on Sunday Night and it showed as they just couldn't keep up in the second half on Sunday Night against Team Bulwa..

I obviously wouldn't dare to suggest that Wenger has has concealed this news until after the transfer window shuts, as he would never be so underhand would he?

Coppy involved in backdoor, behind the scenes, underhanded, shady, nefarious, illegal (meh... possibly... depends how it is perceived & / or defined as such... more on this later), etc. dealings.....

Comparing rates of severe morbidity is typically used as a marker instead, it isn't something uncommon or underhanded at all.

The devil is undoubtedly in the detail as Wesselius is critical of the view, often voiced in Brussels, that because the sector is small no player has an incentive to use underhand tactics.

i have faith that obama will find the words we need to respond not only to underhand or negative electoral campaign tactics, as he proved over the past months, but to terrorist atrocity, economic depression or natural disaster.

The company has suspended its CEO, Alexander Nix, who was filmed as part of a Channel 4 investigation giving examples of how the firm could swing elections around the world with underhand tactics such as smear campaigns and honey traps.

«As opposed to seeking the Women's Equality Party official endorsement, this underhanded strategic approach enabled her to evade signing the Women's Equality Party's require pledge to support their issues,» Strough said in a statement issued Friday.

Despite the underhand tactics of leaking confidential materials and orchestration of media trials of suspects by EFCC, Magu nevertheless has an intimidating profile as a fearless and courageous anti-corruption fighter who had investigated and prosecuted many high - profile cases since the inception of EFCC.

The underhand ways unions are adding to their political funds are quite shocking and demonstrate how they and the Labour Party are prepared to treat union members as cash cows.

«I think the White House would have been better served to simply say that they appreciated his concern and that they would work with us to fix the problem, rather than a personal attack, which came across to me as absolutely underhanded and inappropriate,» de Blasio said.

PoliticsHome has a piece from Ukip MEP Jill Seymour describing Stoke as «one of the nastiest by - election campaigns ever» and Nuttall as the victim of «disgracefully underhand personal attacks».

I don't think any of us wants to get involved in the underhand personality politics that the media sometimes invent; and as I've said, whoever wins the leadership contest I will back 100 % so there is no doubt about that.

«To go ahead and systematically and intentionally empty out facilities under the guise of a policy shift, and then use that as a reason for closing those very same facilities is deceptive and underhanded,» Donohue said.

Had he been in the audience, Nicoletti would have heard an angry Councilor Khalid Bey denounce Nicoletti's council supporters as «charlatans» who resorted to «underhanded» manoeuvers in pursuit of «cronyism.»

While the youngster's friends liked to shoot their foul shots, or free throws, in the respectable overhand style, the old man wanted Barry to toss them just as he did — underhand.

Begin this exercise with the exact same position as the normal barbell row, with the only change being an underhand grip instead of an overhand grip.

Take a close - grip, underhand grip on a lat bar attached to the high pulley of a lat pull - down station, and keep your chest up and lower back arched as you pull the bar down to your chest.

In a front squat, the barbell rests on the front of the shoulders, held in place by crossing the arms over the bar or with an underhand grip, as shown.

I prefer a close, underhand grip but you can do wide - grip as well.

A fully underhand grip should never be used when performing the deadlift as this increases the load on the bicep muscle as well as increasing risk of rolling.

Doing underhand scoops, throw the ball as far as you can; with overhead throws, do the same thing.

Pull ups are considered by many as the best back exercise, but not everyone is strong enough to do pull ups, so inverted underhand rows are a great alternative to build up your strength.

Thanks to the underhanded work of industry front groups like the Center for Science in the «Public Interest», in the 1980s Americans had partially hydrogenated oils foisted on them as health foods.

If all you have is a pull - up bar, you can get a good biceps workout by doing underhand pull - ups (chinups) as shown here.

As my bending progresses, I will continue to work all three styles of bending: double overhand, double underhand, and reverse style.

As mentioned above, I started to bend double underhand and then switched to double overhand.

It is executed in the same manner as the standard pull up, except the palms are the hands are positioned so that they are facing toward you, instead of away from you; in other words, you are performing a pull up with an underhand placement.

It can odd viewed as women personals or underhanded as burned - shale.

This type of underhanded propaganda delivery system could be construed as evidence that we are living in an age of reverse - engineered misinformation, or at least message - loaded rhetoric.

As written by the TV veteran Robert Carlock, Kim's rise - and - fade arc is sympathetically rendered, with humor and the urgency of an underhand pitch.

In its spare moments it takes time out from its busy doings and of pointing out how lonely the queen is to clumsily try and bring in some irresolute contemporary overtones, such as reminding us that we are once again involved in a holy war against another foreign fundamentalist group of extremists and that the war between Spain and England was entered into in an underhanded way just as was England's latest war in Iraq.

At times, she is as scheming and underhanded as social studies teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), whose dislike for Flick culminates in him using unsuspecting jock Paul Metzler (Chris Klein) as a pawn in his vicious campaign to take her down.

Even so, Cameron Diaz, whose sleek, ostentatious attire and spotted tattoos evoke the same dangerous beauty of the pet cheetahs, with Malkina's desire to chase and devour dumber, slower people like little jackrabbits, plays the role in too obvious, conniving a way to ever see her as much more than an underhanded «Medea» from the get go.

Universal Pictures has debuted the first clip from Black Sea, director Kevin Macdonald's (The Last King of Scotland) submarine thriller, which stars Jude Law (The Grand Budapest Hotel) as a submarine captain on an underhand mission to uncover lost Nazi gold.

Academy Award winner James Cagney stars as the manager of a Caribbean banana plantation who would do anything to get away from the tropics and his underhanded boss — until he meets a woman hot enough to keep him in the Torrid Zone.

Don't confuse self - imposed limits such as «no underhanded tactics allowed» as built - in features and challenges of the game itself.

While the controversy around Battlefront 2 is more than legitimate, as the original approach was utterly underhanded and botched, increasing the scope of said controversy to unreleased games, the economies of which we know nothing about, is needless.

Using a variety of disturbing torture techniques, including electrical shock and near drowning, the quiet Jamal continues to insist his claim to the top prize is not from underhanded means, but as a result of his combined life experiences.

Tom has bigger problems than his and his wife's misery, as Chip starts an underhanded but obvious scheme to try to win over Sofia and mess over Tom.

As his tasks become more and more underhanded and quite possibly illegal, and as he finds himself doing the very things that were done to him in order to get the money to get his house back, Dennis must decide how far he is willing to go to help his familAs his tasks become more and more underhanded and quite possibly illegal, and as he finds himself doing the very things that were done to him in order to get the money to get his house back, Dennis must decide how far he is willing to go to help his familas he finds himself doing the very things that were done to him in order to get the money to get his house back, Dennis must decide how far he is willing to go to help his family.