Sentences with phrase «by crooks who»

The minute your child is awarded a Social Security number, they are at risk of having their credit compromised by crooks who can easily open a credit card or line of credit in their name.

In The Drop, Tom Hardy offers a subdued performance as a bartender in a two - bit dive that gets held up by crooks who apparently don't realize that they're stealing mob money.

Not exact matches

Photo of Michael Cohen taken by my NY colleague Lawrence Crook - who reports that he's sitting outside the Loews Regency now with a group of friends smoking cigars pic.twitter.com/5DzcHpOvE 5

In a fifth place mixed methods may be adopted, and by probational release, for example, the rich, the bourgeois intellectuals, the crooks and hooligans who are corrigible will be given an opportunity to reform quickly.

Religion is for people who care only for themselves, and never think about how they are harming others by giving money to these crooks.

I thought that he had finally learned that he had been misused by Nixon, the biggest crook who ever held the office.

Villicana will be joined by Jim Crooks, Master Blender at Firestone BarrelWorks, who will explain how his brewing team's experiments grew into a valuable extension of the Firestone Walker brand and Paul Scotto, co-founder of Pacific Coast Ciders, who works in tandem with his brother to develop a dedicated line of handcrafted, hard ciders.

We believe boxing should be supervised by a federal boxing commission, with its own investigators and licensing power, and with the right and duty to call in the FBI, Treasury agents and anyone else who can catch the crooks and get rid of them.

someone told me we shouldn't get carried away by wenger's comment cause he's always been a crook, if he buys lacazette and he becomes our best player that Giroud who's currently our best striker will be sold... buys Gotze and if he becomes our best AM, wenger will quickly cash in on Carzola..

He was a crook who curried favor by spreading other people's money around his backyard [literally in the case of his pool cover], presided over ribbon - cuttings that oft times included unveiling something with his name on it - all in the name of serving his constituency.

His opponent is the son of Adam Clayton Powell who was himself ruined by his inablity to stop being a crook.

These lines are available for researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in San Francisco, says Jeremy Crook, a stem cell biologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia, who led the team that made the lines.

At that stage, I was mainly recommending Dr. John Pagano's Diet (Healing Psoriasis) to those with psoriasis, but then discovered that I could improve even more on his recommendations by including elements of the work by Dr. John Trowbridge (The Yeast Syndrome) as well as Dr. William Crook (The Yeast Connection), two doctors who specialized in candida yeast infections and who also recognized the candida / psoriasis connection.

Another bone of contention hindering the online dating reputation is the fraud and scam element that exists today, which is fuelled by desperate gangs of online crooks who strategically and calculatingly disguise themselves as worthy adversaries.

It's not uncommon for crooks who peddle stolen credit cards to seize on iconic American figures of wealth and power in the digital advertisements for The legality of prostitution in Europe varies by country.

Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery.

Set in in 43AD, Gen Aulus Plautius (David Morrissey) leads the Roman Imperial Army to conquer Britannia only to find not only druids led by a mage named Veran (Mackenzie Crook) but other Celtic tribal leaders like Regni's Queen Antidia (Zoe Wanamaker) and the Cantii's King Pellenor (Ian McDiarmid), who will not bend to Rome's will in this historical drama created by Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth and James Richardson.

The film is structured around conflicting accounts of the same events told by Harding and her former husband, Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), with occasional interruptions from Harding's pitiless, abusive mother, LaVona, brilliantly played by Allison Janney, who can strike terror (and steal scenes) with little more than a long pause or the wily crook of her half - grin.

(In Cantonese with subtitles) Ladron Que Roba a Ladron (PG - 13 for profanity and sexuality) Crime caper about a couple of career crooks (Fernando Colunga and Miguel Varoni) who come out of retirement to rob a TV infomercial guru (Saul Lisazo) who has made millions by selling worthless health products to poor Latino day laborers.

Nicholson plays Mac McMurphy, a small - time crook sent down for statutory rape who by playing up his natural craziness gets what he thinks is a cushy transfer to a psychiatric facility, where he leads a revolt of the patients against the system.

This reasonably solid B movie, one in the continuum of bizarre Harrison Ford vehicles that combine high - stakes action with household horror, stars Ford as a man whose family is being held hostage by a homicidal crook (Paul Bettany), who needs Ford's help to rob a bank.

Ryan Gosling stars as a movie stunt driver who moonlights as a by - appointment - only wheelman for crooks who lack their own wheels.

His second directorial effort, The Driver (1978), couldn't be more different — a contemporary drama of cops and crooks in the modern city locked in a struggle that has become (for no explicable reason) personal, all loners with temporary alliances at best — yet we're in the same Hill universe of tough, terse professionals who define themselves by their abilities and express themselves in action.

Still, nothing will deter Kelly, who's adamant that he will lay his hands on that gold, by hook or by crook.

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His name is Porter (Mel Gibson), a small - time hood who is swindled out of $ 70,000 and left for dead by fellow crook Val (Gregg Henry) and Porter's own junkie wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger).

Based on the book of the same name by former Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, «Black Mass,» which opens in theaters Sept. 18, is the story of Bulger's relationship with John Connolly, the egregiously corrupt FBI agent who cultivated his boyhood buddy as an informant and then looked the other way as crook became kingpin.

The most atypical of Flynn's WWII propaganda films, Uncertain Gory begins as a crime thriller about a crook who miraculously escapes the guillotine and seeks aide from a partner in crime, morphs into the latter half of Les Miserables where a an escaped convict is hunted down by a ruthless detective, and concludes with the last act of Charles Dickens» A Tale of Two Cities wherein a rogue considers a noble act of redemption by offering to exchange his life to save many innocents from execution.

A loose remake of the 1963 film «Charade,» this romantic thriller focuses on a mysterious American who aids a Parisian who is menaced by crooks after her husband is killed.

As the de facto leader of the band of crooks who can't help but get Scott Lang in trouble, Peña has the same sort of breezy charm he always does (see also: The Martian, American Hustle, End of Watch, etc), but he is at his best when he is pressed by Lang to reveal the origins of his heists.

Fred Ward is spot - on casting for Hoke, not so much a maverick as a slovenly oddball who isn't all that concerned with procedure, but his character is played down in favor of the equally offbeat psychopath of a crook, a freshly - sprung career criminal who prefers to go by the name Junior.

Crook was well used to dealing with vagrants — he used to delight in annoying Rolls - Royce by paying one to sit on their London Motor Show stand — but even he was surprised when a lady arrived that afternoon with a suitcase of money from her boss, the eccentric Australian billionaire who liked to test the mettle of upmarket establishments by stumbling into their premises dressed as a tramp.

So with great deliberations we decided to make it a private group attempting to screen in those who are genuinely interested, and not those who join for promoting their work by hook or by crook, and those who are bent upon stalking vulnerable individuals.

To his credit, I think he was incredibly patient in dealing with someone who kept insisting that the industry he reports on / to was led by a bunch of crooks.

It just shows that even the «reliable» consumer credit reporting companies, who by law are supposed to furnish you with a free credit report each year are nothing but scam artists and crooks that only want your money and do not care who they harm.

Progressing from the humble beginnings of solving petty crimes to infiltrating the meanest gangs on the streets of LEGO CITY, Chase McCain soon encounters one gang headed up by a muscular crook who the rookie will come to know well throughout his career — Rex Fury!

Curated by Lana Crooks (who also appears in the exhibition), the group show runs October 7 - 31, 2016.

this infographic, (an update of a 2012 version which featured only a «90 % consensus» in the left - side third box, basically identical to another 2012 variant) which portrays skeptics as crooks who've been bribed to lie by oil industry money.

In typically vaudevillian manner, Monckton played to the cameras by pointing at the University of Queensland's John Cook — who was there to interview sceptics — calling him a «crook» in French and English.

It is also understandable that they get irritated by those who try to expose CAGW as a sham, since they generally have enough wits to perceive that this would make them somewhat part of the sham, and nobody likes to be called a crook.

And when we state what we do know, we have a group of people jumping up and down and going «we don't believe you we don't believe you» and whatsmore - you are are all crooks with malice aforethought and proper science should be done on blogs by amateurs who know better.

When I'm branded as a crook and a liar by folks who literally can not and will not dispute a solitary detail of what I say about the smear of skeptic climate scientists, it doesn't harm me, it harms them in a way that's obvious for all to see.

The most extensive judgment (and arguably most radical approach) was taken by Deschamps J., who also found against Crooks.

Anybody who says our government is full of crooks and lay - abouts who don't do anything should consider that some 40,000 new laws and regulations were passed by state legislatures in 2013, with many set to go into effect on New Year's Day.

The judge may have been a piece of work — so were a number of old Ontario magistrates, who were notorious, and duly criticized by folks like Farrell Crook and Jack Batten.

Anybody who says our government is full of crooks and lay - abouts who don't do anything should consider that some 40,000 new laws and regulations were passed by state legislatures in -LSB-...]

The owner is a crook and needs to be held liable for every crime committed by the illegals who they sold cars too.

That's a run - on sentence that simply means that crooks (yes, some sellers are crooks, as well as others who by nature aren't crooks, but who may via the vagueness of the SPIS be swayed temporaily to step out of line) will be tempted to use any means possible to fulfill the desire to gain financially, all the while discounting the effect of the negative costs to be borne by those buyers who are helping «them» to get on with «their» lives.

It should be staffed by ex Realtors who hate crooks, and not by bureaucrats without real estate sales experience who simply have another job to do for their salaries.

Private sellers can be confident that the private buyers entering their home will be screened by the Competition Bureau to protect then from crooks who are prepared to help themselves to whatever they can get their hands on.