Sentences with phrase «by shadowy groups»

The plot involves a convoluted one by a shadowy group to save Gotham City by destroying it, the villains no doubt having taken a leaf out of the military planners of the Vietnam war's book.

Except that you lose an arm and an eye in combat, are left for dead and brought back to life as a cyborg by a shadowy group to end the zombie apocalypse.

Not exact matches

Why would anyone use a virtual currency that has no «real» value, and is based on a system run by a group of shadowy hackers?

Labour First, shadowy right - wing Old Labour group run by John Spellar got in first (though the mouth of former Labour national executive member Luke Akehurst), describing the new group as «a slap in the face for grassroots campaigners ``.

A shadowy Independent Expenditure group run by a «charitable» charter school advocate organization is said to be aiding Cabrera.

Under Northern Irish electoral law, the source of this dark money has remained secret but we do know that money came through the Constitutional Research Council, a shadowy group chaired by Richard Cook, a former vice chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

Court decisions also helped usher in a new era of shadowy financing of political activity by so - called «social welfare» groups.

Blair Underwood stars as the newly elected president who plans to defy counsel and free a shadowy group of aliens imprisoned for decades by the United States government.

When Dr Mireles is sidelined by a plane crash, a shadowy power - sharing agreement is reached between the group and the government.

Funded by Byer's shadowy research group, a pharmaceutical company has used behaviour modification to create a new breed of pumped - up, hyper - intelligent field agent.

Director David Robert Mitchell's follow - up to his breakout movie, the creepily elegant horror film «It Follows,» is something of a change of pace: When a young man (Garfield) befriends a mysterious neighbor at his Los Angeles apartment complex (Keough), and she disappears the next day, he sets off on a surreal search for her through a La - La Land populated, in the words of the film's publicity material, by «dog killers, aspiring actors, glitter - pop groups, nightlife personalities, «it» girls, memorabilia hoarders, masked seductresses, homeless gurus, reclusive songwriters, sex workers, wealthy socialites, topless neighbors and the shadowy billionaires floating above (and underneath) it all.»

Little do they know that the area is contained and controlled by a group of scientists and engineers lead by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins, for sinister and shadowy purposes.

Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains.

After watching his family crushed to death by a Line Piece in the Border Wars of 2347, the grizzled soldier finds himself inducted into a shadowy paramilitary group who know, full well, that the blocks will return one day to threaten mankind and her colonies.

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It's not clear why, but the mute protagonist in Inside is being chased down by what appears to a group of shadowy men.

The slightly puzzling geometries of the works grew out of two of the artist's earlier series, one influenced by Josef Albers» «Homage to the Square» and the other a group of digitally rendered images of shadowy, architectural spaces.

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 20Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 20groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

So this is what Green Audit and other anti-nuclear campaign groups thrive on: distrust of both the nuclear industry and official health protection and regulatory agencies, allowing them to invoke shadowy conspiracies by men in white lab coats who presumably enjoy foisting dangerous radioactive materials on an unwilling public, all no doubt controlled by a sinister mastermind bearing a striking resemblance to Mr Burns off the Simpsons, the evil boss of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

CMD has been honored by the Milwaukee Press Club for one of its investigations into shadowy front groups influencing elections.