Sentences with phrase «by underhanded»

Somehow the general public is unconvinced by shills known to have profited from hidden sponsors against the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, and willing to oppose it by any underhanded means possible.

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.»

Yet even a non-scientist such as myself can appreciate that inventing a warming trend by underhand processing of data is a very stupid thing.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

My favorite part is this whole article by pro-Mormon propagandist writer Jessica Ravitz was the slam against the speeding CATHOLIC priest in a MERCEDES sliding in an underhanded implication of some alcohol, child molesting, inordinately and illegally rich priest driven (pun intended) to hunt down and kill Mormons on a beautiful, sunny day in France.

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

There were a few hot dogs who made some neat shots by simply arcing the cap in an underhanded throw, the way you might throw bird seed out on the lawn.

By and large, amid pregnancy ladies grow 2 underhand and 4 containers sizes.

«The problem is the more underhand activity, whether it is employed by consultants, think tanks, law firms, in - house lobbyists or private individuals.

The underhand tactics employed by the Conservatives were on show throughout the week — not least when they pretended, seemingly with a straight face, that a Miliband speech on Libyan post-war planning involved him calling Cameron a murderer.

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.

Important matters determined by the give and take of the closed door budget negotiations carries with it the taint of something underhanded.

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».

Although Corbyn would be a disaster and the underhand way of m Myers who've never done a thing turning up to CLPs voting to nominate him, the bullying of Kendall, via sexism on the Internet, by Corbyn supporters and the # 3 donors voting in masse.

In announcing the end of her candidacy, Ms. Calcaterra blasted an «underhanded, desperate legal challenge» brought by the LaValle camp.

A Kolawole, in his presentation said the bailout fund was judiciously administered by the government without any underhand dealings.

O'Donnell commented on a complaint filed with the FEC by the Delaware Republican Party thusly: «You know, these are the kind of cheap, underhanded, unmanly tactics that we've come to expect from Obama's favorite Republican, Mike Castle.

«Ringing», the car trade's underhand method of rebuilding a car that was written off after a crash, or combining the good halves of two crashed cars, could be stopped by a system suggested by Pilkington Micro-Electronics of Merseyside.

The team found that while underhand throws are best for reaching a target close by and above the shoulder, overhand throws are more accurate for targets below the shoulder — like a wastepaper basket — and are more forgiving to errors over long distances.

-- Begin by grabbing a barbell with an underhand grip, with your hands placed roughly shoulder width apart.

If you want to stress your medial heads instead of the other ones, position your arms down by your sides and take an underhand grip.

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.

You can add variety by changing hand grip and width — overhand, underhand, wide grip, close grip, etc..

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.

Chin ups are performed by using an underhand grip, around shoulder width.

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.

Starting Position: Begin by holding the bar with an underhand grip a little wider than shoulders width.

Many people do Yates Rows, 50 ° shrugs using the underhand grip which was founded by the steroid bodybuilder Dorian Yates.

bent - legged deadlift with Olympic bar 2 x 8 - 10 followed immediately by light dumbbell pullover 2 x 15 rest 5 minutes after both sets one - legged calf raise 1 x 15 - 20 D.A.R.D. raise 1 x 8 - 10 leg press on angled leg press machine 1 x 10 - 12 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 incline dumbbell flye 1 x 8 - 10 pullover 1 x 8 - 10 barbell row with underhand grip 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell overhead press with 1 dumbbell 1 x 8 - 10 shrug 1 x 6 - 8 seated overhead triceps dumbbell extension 1 x 8 - 10 standing biceps curl with straight bar and arm blaster 1 x 8 - 10 hammer curl 1 x 8 - 10 crunch 1 x 15 - 20

From the research it looks like there is a strong pattern of underhanded unethical tactics going on here and it needs to picked up by some authorising body.

With Cole's spirits restored by a romance with neurosurgeon Dr. Claire Lewicki (Nicole Kidman), and Rowdy still sidelined by injuries, Cole decides to race Rowdy's car in the Daytona 500 against underhanded newcomer Russ Wheeler (Cary Elwes).

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.

Sneak in some underhanded attacks against your opponents by hiring pirates from the black market to steal hard - earned goods.

Nat Parker (Walken) is an eccentric, by - the - seat - of - his - pants type of guy — a hustler content with a life of schemes and underhanded deals.

Nicky Morgan contended that academies were being stalled by «campaigners» who deployed «underhand tactics, spread malicious rumours and intimidate parents».

The scheme has the full support of United Learning's secondary academies south director Dame Sally Coates, despite her having previously spoken out in Schools Week about «underhand» tactics used by some schools to select pupils.

Yet very quickly, Florida parents realized that this measure, which died in the State Senate on a 20 - 20 bipartisan tie vote, represented yet another underhanded ploy by corporate reformers, including Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee, to hand public schools over to private, for - profit operators.

Despite the best efforts of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's administration, the underhanded work of a number of school superintendents and the on - going lies being spewed by the corporate education reform industry to mislead and harass parents, Connecticut's Common Core SBAC Opt Out Movement made important progress this past week.

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.

Instead of blog posts about the retail giant's underhanded ways or entire three - day conferences devoted to how publishers can bring down the largest online retailer their industry faces, one book shop is going about the competition a little differently, namely by offering the titles that consumers currently can't buy from Amazon.

This (manufactured) outrage seems no less underhanded or manipulative than what Amazon is doing, but by the same token is equally mundane as a business practice.

Beware of false promises by the collection agency Not surprisingly, some debt collectors use dirty, underhanded tactics to collect debt.

For any dogs but submissive ones in particular, it is best to pet them by approaching «underhand,» keeping your hand visible to them instead of somewhere over them where they lose sight of it.

Hilton has quietly put a change through the Hilton Honors terms and conditions that significantly devalues the 5th night free benefit — with no warning for members this appears to be another example of an underhand move by a loyalty program.

They're also both guaranteed hits that would succeed on name recognition alone, but such is the greed of their publishers that they've tried to squeeze as much money out of players as they can by what seems the most underhand means possible.

Rather than embrace this madness by including game modes that promote dirty driving and underhanded tactics, these moments are an annoyance in that they only lead to failure in your quest to set the fastest time possible.

Sneak in some underhanded attacks against your opponents by hiring pirates from the black market to steal hard - earned goods.

A game to reward my underhand tactics perfected by spending much of my youth on multi-player split screen games.

Contributed by Sharon Butler / This weekend, as hundreds of thousands of mad pink - hatters gathered around the world to protest the underhanded, misogynistic, and essentially anti-citizen agenda of the Koch - fueled, Putin - assisted Republicans, a very small segment of humanity who supports the chaotic mafia - style GOP government gathered at Mar - a-Lago to celebrate the completion of Trump's first, and hopefully last, full year as president.

Gee, that was pretty underhanded of the University of Chicago to play on peoples» knee - jerk concern for childrens» health by opening a Childrens» Hospital.