Sentences with phrase «chicanery in»

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.

When the PPACA (Obamacare) was created in 2010, there was considerable chicanery in the cost estimates.

As things stand now, I don't think the Joker has cause to frown (or resort to his chicanery in defense), but the whole set - up of this Oscar race certainly does make you wonder: Hmmm, how might this derby contest change if, say, the eventual distributor of «Dean Spanley» hired more samurai Oscar consultants and the movie managed to dodge further nasty reviews (granted, a big «if») and if this time O'Toole actually agreed to hang out in L.A. to campaign, then maybe... maybe...?

There are some amazing stories behind Camilla Nielsson's feature - length documentary debut, Democrats, which documents three and a half years of behind - the - scenes drama and chicanery in Zimbabwe as a cross-party coalition attempts to draft a new constitution under the watchful eye of a newly free press and dictator Robert Mugabe.

G.I. Joe 2 corrects many of the mistakes of the first film, reducing the degree of sci - fi chicanery in favour of fists - and - bullets action.

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.

Sadly, what gets all but lost is the fact that, even in the absence of Whitacre's ethically - compromised court testimony, the government was still able to get convictions of several top executives and to eradicate the financial chicanery in the agri - business industry.

«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.

The only thing left is if there was any chicanery in amplifying this outlier or just «We need ratings»

Not exact matches

VW's response to the exposure of its chicanery was revelatory in its confusion.

But, I learned to highly skeptical of this type of chicanery, and have helped other friends not get roped in either.

The Invention of the Human is laced with swipes at these spoilsports who, like Toto in Oz, would pull aside the curtain and reveal the chicanery of it all.

Because «he himself knew what was in man» (John 2:25), he pierced through the veneer of «good» people to their chicanery and self - deception, and saw that the keeping of the commandments from one's youth up was no substitute for single - minded devotion to God (Mark 10:17 - 22).

He tells the crowd around him how he won a bet in Nebraska: a bribed official in the Big Eight Conference «misofficiated» an important football game, and Jack, who was privy to the official's chicanery, won hundreds of dollars on the game.

It must fruit in action to challenge and overcome the evils of society with its poverty, ignorance and disease, its wars and destructive conflicts, its prejudice, oppression, chicanery and quest for profit and power, its insensitivity to the deep needs of persons.

The evils reflected in their words, and indeed portrayed throughout the Old Testament — avarice, exploitation, bribery, chicanery, and attempts at seizure of power for personal gain — are perennial human tendencies which appear in every State.

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.

There is a lot of chicanery that goes on in the meat industry in that people say [the meat] was delivered one degree below what it should have been, and basically you have to renegotiate that contract.»

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).

College baseball bench hijinks already enjoy a thriving internet subculture, and the Ohio Bobcats are in no way indifferent to such chicanery.

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.

As Andrew Cook says in this vivid and detailed account of the period, history «has failed to bring to book the other political leaders of the day who in reality eclipsed Lloyd George in terms of honours sales and political chicanery».

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

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.

Putting the Chic in Chicanery

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In any case, some chicanery is being perpetrated.

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Here, we get a few more amusing scenes involving the shenanigans — or, as is apparently, according to the movie itself, preferred in Canada, chicanery — of the gang of misfit highway patrol officers.

Again and again, this despicable misanthrope exhibits a chilling malevolence in his quest for control of the burgeoning internet empire, subtly resorting to chicanery and criminal behavior to eliminate anyone he perceives as a threat: his collaborators, investors, friends and foes alike.

Alas, that's the low - hanging fruit and chicanery afoot in The Little Hours debuting in limited release today, including locally at the Music Box Theatre.

They catch in slashing, searching glimpses the shrewd chicanery of evil men, the callousness and baseness of their puppets and the dread and silence of local citizens.

Introduced dressing to the nines for his job as maître d' in a swanky restaurant in the Village — a job he loses in short order thanks to Paulie's penny - ante chicanery — Charlie dreams of someday running his own place in the country with his supportive girlfriend (Daryl Hannah), a dance instructor who openly wonders why he hasn't cut his cousin out of his life yet.

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.

Stanley relishes the opportunity to recognize and reveal the chicanery of Sophie Baker (Emma Stone), who along with her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is staying with a wealthy English family in Southern France, conducting séances to connect a grieving widow (Jacki Weaver) with her husband.

With another right - to - work case headed to the Supreme Court, union lies and chicanery are in high gear.

Massachusetts legislators didn't think much of the AFT chicanery, and in 2014 tried to pass laws requiring more transparency.

Maybe it was just the pure vicarious thrill of «discovering the hard facts of the writer's trade,» reading of the glances of «cold disdain» thrown down upon Lucien as he walks in his cheap frock coat and out - of - fashion «Nankeen trousers» amidst the beau monde; or Lucien greeting the sobering facts of the mercantile chicanery of publishers, for whom «books were like cotton bonnets to haberdashers, a commodity to be bought cheap and sold dear.»

: A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio.

I won't dabble in third party mysticism, because I am not up - to - date with Sega, Ubisoft, Activision, Atlus, etc. chicanery.

We've announcements of yet more microtransactions in games where they don't belong, the promise of more microtransactions in games where they don't belong, Sega doubling down on its pre-order chicanery...

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).

The answer is more likely that the whistleblower will disclose motive and chicanery well beyond what is disclosed in the actual emails.

In reality, the implications of such distortions of the data [due to UHI] go much further than just representing one of the most bizarre aberrations in the history of science... this scary chicanery has given Britain the most suicidally crazy energy policy (useless windmills and all) of any country in the worlIn reality, the implications of such distortions of the data [due to UHI] go much further than just representing one of the most bizarre aberrations in the history of science... this scary chicanery has given Britain the most suicidally crazy energy policy (useless windmills and all) of any country in the worlin the history of science... this scary chicanery has given Britain the most suicidally crazy energy policy (useless windmills and all) of any country in the worlin the world.

The tricks, dodges, and chicanery, to which they resort in order to be right in the end, are so numerous and manifold and yet recur so regularly that some years ago I made them the subject of my own reflection and directed my attention to their purely formal element after I had perceived that, however varied the subjects of discussion and the persons taking part therein, the same identical tricks and dodges always come back and were very easy to recognize.

Medium term, years of cooling will dissolve any serious regard for CAGW among the informed, and long term, the warmista high priests will have their names enshrined in the language, as being synonymous with fraud, chicanery, duplicity, prevarication... etc..

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.

So finally finally, I wouldn't worry about the level of too heated debate in a scientific field that has becomevery politicised.All the chicanery and sculldugerry is still as relevant today as it was in yesteryear; drat all 40 minutes worth of my pennyworth!