Sentences with phrase «chicanery by»

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.

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

Not exact matches

It is to be expected, therefore, that the history of land - reform efforts is one of political chicanery, violence, subversion and only halfhearted implementation of even those policies that have been established by government action.

And Derek Draper and Damian McBride have been creating it in large quantities, and they're by no means the first or the most obvious examples, given the loans - for - peerages scandal, various bits of chicanery around the Iraq war and subsequent investigations (e.g. David Kelly), ministerial expense fraud (or at least it would be fraud if you or I tried the same thing on our tax returns), pretty much anything to do with Peter Mandelson and the various leaks, briefings and spin cycles that have characterised the Labour party for the last fifteen years.

The climax of the book comes in a passage about the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the reader is pulled in by the chicanery and subplots.

Green Party candidates are typically not amused by such chicanery.

«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.

Before reading our dating site reviews, we think it's in your best interests to learn about the chicanery perpetrated by many dating review sites out there.

But it's been 20 years since his last winner (Missing), and in Capital, his anger over corporate chicanery, specifically in the world of global financial services, isn't supported by anything approaching verisimilitude.

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.

Flash Boys By Michael Lewis Norton • $ 16.95 • ISBN 9780393351590 Lewis provides an eye - opening account of the revolt by a group of Wall Street rebels who decided the financial markets were rigged and set out to expose the chicanerBy Michael Lewis Norton • $ 16.95 • ISBN 9780393351590 Lewis provides an eye - opening account of the revolt by a group of Wall Street rebels who decided the financial markets were rigged and set out to expose the chicanerby a group of Wall Street rebels who decided the financial markets were rigged and set out to expose the chicanery.

The SUBARU BRZ 2012 a car whose set - up was once described as «a recipe for agility, low roll, tossable handling and general chicanery» by Top Gear magazine

When you say that a game is 80 % complete and that a company has bought the rights to the game, and the one picture you provide can only be found by you and at the bottom of it is the chicanery of having a Kinect logo, then you post a story with pics that, again, only you have and looks like concept art from a game that's already out, you're clearly making up the news yourself.

To classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant is thus nothing short of scientific chicanery, for reasons that have nothing to do with science, but based purely on the pseudo-science so eagerly practised by academia across the world in order to keep their funding sources open to the governmental decrees, which are in turn based on totally false IPCC dogma (yes, dogma — not science).

By issuing a fake addendum — instead of an independent report — Cato can highlight the «highly selective nature of the science, and the political chicanery» that went into the original, he said.

Right at the heart of the sound and fury of «Climategate» — the emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia — is one story of scientific chicanery, overlooked by the media, whose implications dwarf all the rest.

However, the story of how EU theory is being suppressed by the mainstream Astrophysics community is very similar to that of the chicanery seen here by the AGW crowd.

There is no reason that America ought not have been consuming 80 % less fuel on the roads for the past decade or more, other than the profit of a few obtained by subsidies and chicanery.

This and the widespread chicanery commited by the managers of of Mann et al, in covering it all up; and also the climate science community as a whole who just looked the other way (and still do).

Apparently, too much «chicanery» by Texas lawyers who played games with fonts and white space prompted the courts to do away with the previous type of restriction, which was page - based.