Sentences with word «chicanery»

David Harewood (pictured below), fortified no doubt by his experiences of CIA chicanery in Homeland, steps decisively into the «cynical politician» slot, shamelessly schmoozing the Americans for cash bungs to prop up Britain's security apparatus.

«Republican sportsmen and sportswomen cherish America's protected wildlife preserves and understand how quickly protected lands can be snatched away from future generations by short - sighted political chicanery in Washington,» said NYLCV president Marcia Bystryn.

Using forensic accounting techniques, investigators working on a 2013 integrity report commissioned by CONCACAF had mapped out two decades of financial chicanery Blazer used to keep his income off the books.

Before I move onto my last point, I'd like to digress, and simply say that not all finite reinsurance is a matter of accounting chicanery.

Arkansas became the latest state to «fix» the non-existent problem of voter fraud by requiring a picture I.D. to vote, while Virginia legislators apparently approved such chicanery by passing a law permitting online registration.

Green Party candidates are typically not amused by such chicanery.

They tried a little chicanery with a hidden ball trick, but Marquette didn't fall for it, and Cole Blazer stuffed the Buckeyes for his seventh save of the game.

Says the Times: «The focus remains on the Gekko character, whose exploits will closely reflect much of the greed and chicanery seen in the past year on Wall Street.»

Vikki Smith's first foray into the dating world after 30 - plus years of marriage involved a bit of chicanery on her part.

Combined with the events from Saturday night's NXT show, the Barclays Center was the site of some of the best WWE wrestling of the year all weekend, but a lot of things have been put into motion, not least of which is some pretty serious chicanery involving SummerSlam guest host Jon Stewart.

Instead of celebrating chicanery as Spielberg and Tony Kushner did, Wright celebrates the great - man - of - the - people theory of history.

Perhaps the thing desired has changed hands through chicanery.

If there are any surprises in the book, they are only that the saga of sexual and financial chicanery goes back almost to the beginning of the PTL in the late 1970s, and that fundamental habits of greed, deception and manipulation trace back farther than that.

So I'm using rhetorical chicanery to suggest the Astros might be better.

But that's not the only law firm - related chicanery going on here.

Florida's Senate race has it all: «Liddle» Marco, Cayman Islands chicanery, a yacht named Cocktails, and a very stubborn Alan Grayson.

IGN has posted the full court documents here, but we've gleaned a few choice nuggets from the expansive (and fairly interesting) piece of legal chicanery.

TEACHER RIGHTS & PROTECTIONS — Teachers in charter schools MUST be provided with whistleblower and job protections when exposing corruption, financial mismanagement and corporate chicanery in charters.

And no one does this kind of chicanery better than American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten.

Jon won a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism for his columns explaining market chicanery in 2002; Society of Professional Journalists awards for his 2001 reporting on Enron and the post-Sept.

«After Years of Page Limit Chicanery, Texas Switches to Word Limits for Briefs Main Photographers Portray Prisoners» Documented Last Meals»

Rather than using the phone's two cameras to create this effect (as most dual - camera phones do), the legwork is done through software chicanery.

On Monday, Nikki set the record for the longest single title reign since the inception of the Divas Championship, but it took chicanery to retain the title in her match against Charlotte (who happens to be Ric Flair's daughter).

Chicanery most foul.

Gradually, the brain takes over the doctor's mind, forcing him into all sorts of evil chicanery.

L'Affaire Sharpe has been quite astonishing, because as a mere mortal, not a Crony of Dan Malloy or part of the Charter Chicanery Circus, I underwent more due diligence than Sharpe to become a creative writing instructor for an after - school program at one of the local elementary schools for the non-hefty fee of a few hundred bucks.

«Ezra Levant Interviews Lord Monckton On Climate Change Chicanery,» YouTube video uploaded by user «blazingcatfur,» December 23, 2011.

Algorithmic chicanery.

Retail chain Lotte Mart plans to sell off half of its stores in China and gradually lay off staff amid chicanery and an unofficial boycott there.

3) State governments can not borrow to fund deficits (they can arrange certain amount of chicanery among their accounts, but there are natural limits to that).

Franklin Roosevelt, too, McDougall believes, used such geostrategic chicanery to maneuver the United States into World War II.

The baron wasted lands wreak of its rainy wantonness ever drying the foment of landing appraisals awaiting the vacated acquiescence of a spring like thawing of vesper debasements chicaneries.

The foments chicaneries.

That there have been tens of thousands of religions throughout history and indeed thousands of denominations of what is supposed to be «His» religion (Christianity) strongly suggests Shamanic chicanery as the source of God's written word (a la Book of Mormon) as opposed to Divine mandate.»

A league stretched to irrelevance, its flaking competitive integrity daubed with coat after coat of Chicanery Gloss, gleefully serviced by a complaisant and supine media.

It is clearly the best magazine in its field — competent, useful, often amusing and commendably responsible in its postures with respect to boxing chicanery and allied derelictions in the whole area of sports activity.

This is one of the most common examples of intentional - walk chicanery, where professional baseball men who are paid millions of dollars to throw baseballs suddenly throw them like an Olympic curler throwing a ceremonial first pitch.

We have waited all night for a Clemson trick play, but it was Nick Saban's Crimson Tide who used the first bit of chicanery during the National Championship Game.

After about two minutes of this, my wife asked me to stop the DVR chicanery and watch the game like a normal person because she wanted to watch it, too.

This is where exposing Rhode Island's chicanery comes in.

The new punishments might still hurt future players somewhat, but they'll be a more effective deterrent against further chicanery, and they'll probably result in house - cleaning at penalized schools.

On Election Day, they used Google Voice to run «voter fraud» hotlines, where supporters could call in to report any alleged chicanery by Democrats.

How to spot Photoshop chicanery.

There are good reasons to assert the primacy of Commons over unelected Lords, but pique at having been exposed in an act of parliamentary chicanery is not one of them.