Sentences with phrase «chicanery with»

The German government's recent chicanery with the IPCC report is just further evidence of this pattern.

Council tax has been frozen, a potential planning nightmare has been defused and Alex Salmond's chicanery with the United Kingdom's future has been exposed and ridiculed.

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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.

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.

Editor's Reply We thank Father Tolhurst for his letter and agree with the concerns he raises: the appearance of «squabbling» and «the aura of financial chicanery».

She crossed verbal swords with Machiavelli, saw through his chicanery, and sent him away frustrated and chagrined.

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.

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.

To Anonymous at 3:00 pm — NRI (with Doug Forand and Red Horse Strategies running the show) has plenty of veteran political pros who know how to deal will Espada's chicanery.

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.

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.

With And Sometimes I Wonder About You (his fifth McGill novel, after All I Did Was Shoot My Man), Mosley proves that his talent and feel for the city streets — their violence, outsiders, racism, sex and chicanery — travel just fine.

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.

Along with enormous birdmen, a lion man with a paint palette for lips and all manner of chicanery that would make Guillermo Del Toro visit a psychiatrist.

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

As Claire or Barry, things remain closer to the first Revelations experience, albeit with the action focus emphasized over any puzzle solving or survival horror 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.

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).

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..

I wonder at what point leaders and celebrities will start to feel ashamed at being associated with this chicanery?

He didn't force out a visionary or hide losses with elaborately shady accounting chicanery.

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.

Getting the money upfront to fund a case that involves unravelling vast financial chicanery, with assets stretched across all corners of the globe, is a tall order.

Trying to expunge all records of the chicanery is difficult, especially in our Internet age, and just being associated with a scam like this may be enough to sow doubts in potential clients» minds, and ultimately tar your reputation.