Sentences with phrase «elaborate scheme of»

Critics have long claimed Tether is collaborating with the British Virgin Islands - based Bitfinex, one of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges, in an elaborate scheme of fraud and market manipulation.

For island countries free of rabies, an elaborate scheme of testing and vaccination is required to prevent a dog or cat from introducing the disease to the country.

In accordance with John Darby's elaborate scheme of the «end times,» the Jews were expected to convert en masse before the return of Jesus to reign over a Jewish kingdom from Jerusalem for 1,000 years.

We look in vain in the gospels for any such elaborate scheme of rules for living as were offered by contemporary moralists, Jewish and Greek.

There are no elaborate schemes of shares being exchanged and shell companies being set up, and no sharing of equity or IP from the developer.

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The state of Washington's attorney general is seeking $ 14 million from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), alleging the GMA created an «elaborate scheme» to secretly fund a multimillion dollar campaign to kill a food labeling initiative.

«Is the business we're talking about just an elaborate scheme to keep everyone in their assigned seats for a set number of hours?

The CFTC alleges that the company and its employees created an elaborate hoax, paying customers with funds obtained from other customers — the classic indicators of a Ponzi scheme.

Well, you also likely have a complex legal structure grown out of the token sale's needs, a massively elaborate tax scheme, and a need to keep track of a host of governance threads.

Waymo came out swinging Wednesday, with attorney Charles Verhoeven accusing Uber of an elaborate cover - up scheme to hide the fact that Brian McClendon, Uber's vice president of mapping, had been in talks with Levandowski before he abruptly quit Google's self - driving car unit in January 2016.

The whole scheme of salvation was to be developed into a highly elaborate and eschatological scheme in late Zoroastrianism, which undoubtedly had its influence upon Judaism and through it upon Christianity.

The elaborate scheme by which Whitehead relates the Primordial Nature to God's working in the world via subjective aims (PR 523 - 27) is ignored by Mays as he recognizes no difference in the Primordial Nature as «the ordering entity in nature» and «the order of nature» (PW 58/56).

It should not be surprising then that Whitehead thought of God as a single actual entity immune to the possibility of loss.59 At least William Christian sees this as the proper Whiteheadian view.60 Nevertheless, Christian's position is challenged by Ivor Leclerc, who argues, in agreement with Hartshorne, that Christian's conclusion is incompatible with the categoreal scheme elaborated in chapter two of Process and Reality.61 Here, according to Leclerc, Whitehead «makes clear» that the category of «subjective perishing» is «necessarily applicable to every actual entity whatever, including God.»

The elaborate categories and hierarchies of order that Kuntz propounds are his own, rather than either of theirs, and both philosophers fit into Kuntz's esoteric metaphysical scheme only uncomfortably, at best.14 Far more valuable, in my opinion, are the specific doctrinal, historical, and biographical comparisons that can be drawn between both thinkers, to which Kuntz along the way in the Russell volume contributes a number of valuable additions.

But Buchler, again like White - head, does much more than find fault with traditional metaphysics — he elaborates an alternative system of categories.1 Because his alternative categorial scheme is very different, the points Buchler makes in criticism of traditional metaphysics are interestingly different from those made by Whitehead.

Metaphors are employed only momentarily and symbols only in a limited range of contexts, but models are more fully elaborated and serve as wider interpretive schemes in many contexts.

You may have concocted elaborate plans and schemes worthy of any kid's free time, or you might have even just spent that time reading or coloring if you preferred a quieter lifestyle.

Nor is it likely that this could be an elaborate scheme to cast further doubt on Russian leadership - they are already doing a very good job of casting suspicion and doubt on themselves.

«What we know for certain is he created these elaborate economic development schemes to take in millions of pay - to - play campaign donations by creating a culture of corruption that allowed his closest aide to line to his own pockets the way the Governor was lining his campaign coffers.

Neither the US nor the UK have a history of elaborate misinformation schemes like this.

Russian and the Soviet Union do have a history of elaborate disinformation schemes.

«Senator Sampson allegedly stole that money to fund his own ambition to become Brooklyn's top state prosecutor, then engaged in an elaborate obstruction scheme to hide his illegal conduct, going so far as to counsel lies and the hiding of evidence,» she said.

From 2014 to 2016, Zakharova allegedly targeted Spitzer in an elaborate extortion scheme that involved him making regular hush - money payments of $ 3,000 to $ 50,000 a pop, according to prosecutors.

Smith and Halloran, Savino and Tabone — as well as the mayor and deputy mayor of upstate Spring Valley — used «an unappetizing smorgasbord of graft and greed» as part of an elaborate scheme to get Smith on the GOP ballot for mayor, Bharara said.

We think that the elaborate scheme provided [in] the law is sufficient to address the presence on the register of voters of names of persons who might have died since the last registration exercise.

Among living creatures today, none of the larger land animals sport elaborate color schemes.

AS ASTRONOMERS dream up elaborate schemes to detect planets orbiting other stars, the signature of one such planet may have been sitting under their noses.

By paying attention to the warning signs attributed to these elaborate schemes, you can effectively keep yourself safe from being taken advantage of by these frauds.

Scammers will often gain your trust and play off of your sympathy in elaborate schemes to siphon money from you.

It's a very elaborate scheme that dupes thousands of men into paying for a monthly membership to interact with computer software bots!

It's a very elaborate scheme that takes in possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The only problem is since there's no real girls on this dating service they use fake girls to send you fake emails to trick you into buying a membership, it's a very elaborate scheme that dupes and cons thousands of men out of their hard earned money.

Funnyman Will Ferrell lends his voice to the title character a blue - skinned green - eyed alien whose mammoth hairless cranium has over the course of his career as a supervillain given life to an endless array of exotic inventions and elaborate schemes all in the service of his lifelong dream of conquering his adopted hometown of Metro City.

Like Megamind's elaborate plans for domination, the film constructs one hell of a scheme but can't seem to pull it off.

Megamind's elaborate schemes may be great on paper, but their execution disappoints; he doesn't reckon on the time it takes to upload a computer - generated program of mass destruction.

Based on published accounts of the event, director Ben Affleck's Argo dramatizes the elaborate scheme resulting in the return (well before the release of the 60 embassy hostages) of the Foreign Service officers hidden by the Canadians.

Nero plots an elaborate revenge scheme whereby he travels back through time to destroy Spock's home planet of Vulcan and make him watch it.

Without any strong characters to care about, the movie's protracted efforts to wring suspense out of an elaborate scheme to steal a scepter seem, well, protracted.

He feigns illness as part of an elaborate scheme to murder Kathryn.

This is often the problem of films where the villain is omnipotent — why concoct elaborate schemes when you can do whatever you want?

He needs to make some money, and so concocts an elaborate scheme to stiff the event of its ample food concession dollars during one of the season's showcase contests.

Helping in the elaborate revenge scheme is, yes, Shakes (Jason Patric), now a clerk for The New York Times, who also engineers the downfall of their other three tormentors at the school.

Affleck plays this supposedly brilliant «prince of thieves» who comes up with insanely elaborate criminal schemes, but how, or why - we don't ever find out.

While I was captivated by the film I was aware of the time, especially during explanation of the elaborate schemes.

What this sequel reveals is that the elaborate scheme created by the «evil» organization, which is trying to save humanity from a debilitating plague (It's such a dastardly goal) but still serves as the collective antagonist of the series, exists solely for there to be an elaborate scheme.

Meanwhile Lady Penelope and Alan Tracy are caught up in an elaborate scheme to ambush the Tracy boys while aboard the inaugural flight of Skyship 1, which provides the film with a travelogue of puppets in exotic art project sets.

Soderbergh frequently makes his presence felt as a formal annotator — periodically halting the action with freeze - frames, using elaborate color - coding schemes (as if to remind us of The Underneath, much as Keaton reminds us of Jackie Brown), and crosscutting between successive scenes with the same characters (the dialogue in the first becoming offscreen narration in the second), recalling Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (as well as Roeg's mentor Alain Resnais).

Among the added elements on the exterior are a C - West aero kit, a Mugen spoiler, an elaborate paint scheme and graphics, a new suspension program courtesy of Eibach, and a big brake kit from Stoptech.

Nor do bloggers spend their hours unraveling the elaborate astroturfing schemes of self publishers.

His father, Ronnie, made and lost his fortune a number of times due to elaborate confidence tricks and schemes which landed him in prison on at least one occasion.