Sentences with phrase «by hiding behind»

What a travesty to allow a small number of Realtors to erode our powerful marketing system by hiding behind the Competition Act!

They detach themselves from others by hiding behind their cubicles, wearing their headphones, and keeping their office doors shut, too.

This is confirmed by recent comments by Home Office minister Karen Bradley who said, «For too long corrupt lawyers, accountants and other professionals have tried to evade justice by hiding behind a veneer of respectability.»

He told «The Times» that although it was not seeking to dispense with LPP, the SFO was preparing to target companies «whose lawyers obstructed investigations by hiding behind the shield of legal professional privilege.

Last year, SFO Director David Green QC, complained that some companies are obstructing investigations by hiding behind LPP, preventing access to all communications with their lawyers.

The leaded gas adventurers have profitably polluted the world on a grand scale and, in the process, have provided a model for the asbestos, tobacco, pesticide and nuclear power industries, and other twentieth - century corporate bad actors, for evading clear evidence that their products are harmful by hiding behind the mantle of scientific uncertainty.

His works threaten to disappear, whether by being situated out of reach, by hiding behind tarps, by dissolving into darkness, or by replacing concrete objects with abstract sounds.

Through fragmenting her body by hiding behind furniture, using reflective surfaces such as mirrors to conceal herself, or by simply cropping the image, she dissects the human figure emphasising isolated body parts.

Depending on how long the character stays within that cone of vision, guards will either grow «Suspicious» or go into a full - blown «Alert» phase: When guards are Suspicious - as indicated by a question mark - they will scout the player's last known location and the surrounding area; Alerted guards will chase the player down until he / she is either captured, or has escaped their line of sight by hiding behind something.

Clementine also showed her displeasure by hiding behind another character when I spoke to her.

The protagonist, Noctis, begins the video by hiding behind boxes and crates, using his teleport ability to navigate around the environment.

Once out into the bay, I spent most of the ride shielding myself from the constant splash of the waves by hiding behind a group of German tourists, while occasionally popping up to record some video footage for the site.

«A corporate agent can not shield himself from personal liability for a tort he personally commits or participates in by hiding behind the corporate entity; if he is shown to have been acting for the corporation, the corporation also may be held liable, but the individual is not thereby relieved of his own responsibility.»

By carefully controlling the voltages at electrodes positioned on the edges of the pixels, it is possible to spread the colored particles across the pixel or remove them from view altogether by hiding them behind the electrodes, says Lenssen.

Sweet and unassuming, he has navigated his college social life by hiding behind his gregarious friend, Alex, an immature heartbreaker who never seems to take anything seriously.

Clowes switches tone completely from the surreal Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1993) to produce a low - key examination of the lives of teenage Enid and Becky, who cling together and avoid the outside world by hiding behind a wall of would - be hipness.

In the book, she issues a dire warning that researchers are repackaging outmoded notions of race by hiding behind benign - sounding euphemisms like «geographic ancestry» when they should really be disposing of such baseless categorizations entirely.

In one sense, writers had it easier than actors or directors because they could keep working by hiding behind pseudonyms.

Nintendo needs to attract the big hitters, they shouldnt get away this easy by hiding behind indie devs.

Add a hint of mystery to your look by hiding behind your bangs for the day.

The males of the newly described Australian species Jotus remus cautiously woo mates by hiding behind leaves and sticking out their extended, paddle - shaped legs.

«It's a case where you have industry trying to establish a precedent for itself by hiding behind sick people,» says Sean Moulton of OMB Watch, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit.

Anyone who insults in the name of politics, can't tolerate others divergent opinions, incite violence, disrespect people in authority by hiding behind a political party, or any untoward behavior fueled by politics is suffering from «Political Malaria.»

Just like someone that won't pay their debts, I have nothing but contempt for insurance companies when they try to weasel out of paying by hiding behind expensive lawyers...!

It is a moral failure of the worst kind to avoid the necessity of decision - making by hiding behind a «universal» principle applied willy - nilly to everyone.

When it comes to my relationship with God and with other Christians, I'm as quick as anyone else to try and protect myself from honest dialog by hiding behind flowery, unhelpful language (or, my favorite defense mechanism: to intellectualize everything so that it can't hurt me).

I love people like Amistavia, who are not content to just have their views but will only feel strong by hiding behind their computer screens, stalking people on the Internet to bully them with criticism.

Environmental popularizers play off this faith by hiding behind distorted scientific evidence to bolster their agenda.

And the fact remains: «slow to release information» is entirely different than evading external investigation by hiding behind the First Amendment, which is exactly what SGM is doing.

Only by hiding behind the concept of «amateurism» is it possible to run a humming industry without paying your workers.

Not exact matches

And hiding behind your own social platforms is just as one - sided as what you fear will happen by talking to the media.»

Internet trolls love to mess with people (or chatbots), and they don't seem to care when they cross a line — by hiding their identity behind a screen name, they count on never having to experience serious retribution.

It was opened partly in response to a n examination by The New York Times of condominiums at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan whose ownership is hidden behind shell companies, according to the people with knowledge of the case.

Buchheim has found his keys, which had been hidden behind a wastebasket by a skeptical reporter.

«You are the most diverse class in Northeastern's history — in other words, you are Donald Trump's worst nightmare... I think that everything that we've lived and learned tells us that we will never come out on top if we accept advice from soundbite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on Earth can remain great by looking inward and hiding behind walls at a time that technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt.

I'd watched CEOs slowly unravel as the false curtains they hid behind were swept away by the harsh realities of competitive markets.

Also on the list is Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer.

When it comes to beauty, seek balance by finding ways to accentuate what you love about yourself without hiding behind a costume, and remember that the greatest beauty comes from within.

When Dominique Mandonnaud opened his first perfumery in 1969, perfume and cosmetics were hidden behind counters, jealously guarded by intimidating sales reps.. The message was clear.

Plan sponsors are often «advised» by retirement plan «consultants» who hide behind the low suitability standard.

If their robot executes trades with the kind of profit the site claims, then why would the people behind it want to hide that fact by providing no trade history at all?

The only way to uncover the hidden truth behind any project is by doing your own investigations.

For in America today, the usual secularist reaction in dealing with any message brought to society by a particular community is automatically to assume that the message is from a «special interest group,» one whose motives are those of self - interest, even when hidden behind a rhetoric of altruism.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

Live by social standards, and don't hide behind the cape of fear to die.

His maths skills have been trained by sitting counting his money every day, laughing at the gullible and the desperate who KEEP sending him thier money, and giggling over the fact that, because he hides behind religion, its unlikely he will ever be charged with fraud.

We are much better now we hide the killing by man behind the backdrop of sterile sheets.

Yes, for all you Muslim lovers out there, for all you Islamists that would die for your religion, for all you weak lillly livered Muslims that flee your own country to live in ours and swear to its destruction, for all you hipocrites that claim to be in a religion of tolerance and peace but live by your actions of murder and unspeakable horrors, you Iranians, you Afghans, you Pakistanis, you Iragis, you misfits and abhorents of any god, this story of a simple Christian, who is now denied his life because of stupid and educaied cowards in Iran, cowards and murderers who covet children and lust hiding behind a demonic religion, let this man be your true martyr because you are not human and can not touch him.

It's been a tough battle, but at least I'm not a coward who hides behind a pulpit, or displays my perceived «normalness» by dedicating my azz to sitting on a church pew.

What follows is the famous passage in which God says to Moses that he will hide him while he passes by, and that Moses will be able to see God from behind, but no one can see his face.