Sentences with phrase «backhanders by»

My brother, yet again demonstrating his ability to reduce everything to a ridiculous joke, commented on the very serious matter of Lords allegedly misusing their position and allegedly taking backhanders by writing a frivolous parody Lord a Leaping.

Again, I know and respect both parties (hence the anonymity here, which shouldn't be too hard to decipher) and believe they were both right and wrong; the dealer should not have been surreptitiously getting backhanders by the galleries he patronized, nor should the collectors begrudge him for pocketing $ 1 million over the course of ten years for his efforts.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday night, he flashed his skills by circling the wagon and making a nice move before burying a backhander past Calgary Flames goalie Karri Ramo.

If you actually think that a few backhanders warrants the punishment dished out to City in 1905 then you'll also surely agree that someone as bent and corrupt as Norris (and by extension Arsenal FC) should have been similarly punished.

It isn't only lobbyists being targeted in Reitman's somewhat scattergun approach, however, with Hollywood execs copping a backhander in an amusing scene in which Naylor and Jeff Megall (Hollywood producer, played by Rob Lowe) compete to see how low each is prepared to go in their search for the perfect star - powered vehicle to reform the image of cigarettes.