Sentences with phrase «for duplicitous»

The stock, after being exposed for duplicitous accounting practices, sits at 14 cents per share on July 1, 2016.

The reason for the duplicitous change is inexplicable, especially given that all the content for a second disc is already in existence and currently off the market.

Not exact matches

Everyone knows this and for the author to ignore this fact either means he is incredibly inexperienced (troubling) or down right duplicitous (scandalous).

I'm more concerned with my child's life than any doctor is, so preaching to mothers intent of birthing at home about what's best for their families according to duplicitous shills and the hospitals they work for is laughable.

Where we're honest about breastmilk being the best food for babies, and where we don't use duplicitous methods to sell formula.

Harper believes that Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the last general election which committed the party to House of Lords reform, is playing a duplicitous game, he told the Guardian.

In his last Commons appearance as acting LibDem leader, Vince Cable said that the Prime Minister had been «incompetent» for not organising his diary so that he could attend the Lisbon signing, or «discourteous» for not having tried or «duplicitous» for trying to have a halfway house of signing when noone else was there.

In the Daily Mirror he writes: «Today I will set out how Labour will be the last line of defence in your community for the NHS - an NHS now coming under sustained attack from Mr Cameron and his duplicitous Tory - led Government.

According to Sani, there can be no restructuring because Nigerians keeps producing «duplicitous reports and wait for godot.»

Now, scientists think they've figured out once and for all that a single hoaxer was responsible, not a duplicitous cabal.

If it stripped out its icky, duplicitous aspects — mainly the bogus interest messages and e-mails, and the practice of leading members into paywall deadends — it might even become a legitimate, respected method for two groups of people with similar interests to connect.

Most of his screen characters seemed destined for an early and unpleasant demise, as witness the duplicitous Dr. Kemp in The Invisible Man (1933) and retired gangster McKay in G - Men (1935).

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

There are so many ideas rattling around in Backstabbing for Beginners that are never resolved, and so many duplicitous characters that are never satisfactorily explained, that the end result is a muddle of confusion and violence that could end the future of tourism in Baghdad forever.

A Fox Searchlight Pictures release by visionary director Darren Aronofsky (THE WRESTLER), BLACK SWAN takes a thrilling and at times terrifying journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

Brown is all for escaping, but the duplicitous Van Nutter plans to abscond with the booty.

The humor quotient is high — for that, thank the duplicitous parrot Iago, the mischievous monkey Abu and, of course, Robin Williams» motormouth Genie — while the sinister vizier Jafar oozes the right measure of villainy.

But Veda is far more clever and duplicitous than her mother gives her credit for.

Her Big Plan involves creating a worldwide problem, then offering a solution to said worldwide problem in exchange for the legitimization of her global business enterprises, but she doesn't count on a duplicitous American president (Bruce Greenwood) with a not - so - hidden draconian agenda of his own.

The latest in his ongoing series of duplicitous attempts to get Daisy Ridley to reveal Last Jedi plot details has come out, and he has called in no higher authority than Dame Judi Dench for help.

She needs Doc to track down her new boyfriend, hotshot real estate mogul Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts), after learning that his duplicitous wife plans to have him committed and steal his fortune, only for Shasta to go missing herself.

Of course, the situation provides an outlet for Miles Teller's duplicitous and increasingly irritating comic relief Peter to resort to his usual snarkiness when crimson raindrops start to fall: «What, now the sky is bleeding?»

Sidekick Jamie Bell also performs well, especially in convincingly having to speak Gaelic, though, as with the lack of contrast in the atmosphere of the film, the duplicitous nature of his character isn't called into question nearly enough for the scenes in the middle of the film where he must pretend to be the master to Tatum's slave to be as effective as is warranted in the script.

There he proves no match for his tough sheriff brother Dan (James Badge Dale), let alone the villainous outlaw Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner, acting with a prosthetic harelip) or duplicitous civic leader Cole (Tom Wilkinson), who stands to make a killing when the railroad comes through.

To properly appreciate Syriana, one does have to have a familiarity with the make - up of the Middle East in the way things are run, a knowledge of the politics involved in the running of billion - dollar oil companies, an understanding of the duplicitous nature of the Central Intelligence Agency, and an awareness of terrorist organizations that would openly recruit young men that would kill themselves for the sake of a cause they may or may not be fully aware they are assisting.

Regardless of its duplicitous intent and inevitable destination, I found The Act of Killing, which has dominated many of the critics awards including those of my own Online Film Critics Society, repugnant for the spotlight it turned on unrepentant mass murders.

To achieve that goal, they look inward at their own cells, where the one - time «King of the Counterfeiters» lies prisoner, using his duplicitous talents merely for portrait painting on behalf of the prison guards.

It adopts the same specious pretext that we're gazing deep into the dark American unconscious rather than catering to the audience's worst instincts; and it advances the same duplicitous claim that parody of excess is somehow different from plain old excess — a claim that becomes just another pretext for heaping on more.

Yes, listed companies aren't perfect either — but at least on an exchange, over-hyped stocks (with rapacious & duplicitous management) tend to be far easier to spot & avoid — at least for investors with a modicum of common sense.

However, it seems somewhat duplicitous for Hill's Science Diet to sell exactly the same food marketed under two different labels.

Intensely personal, yet elaborating universal themes, this work is a powerful metaphor for Bourgeois» life: a duplicitous father, a protective mother, and the artist, who variously reenacted her psychic torment in material form.

One is serious in its interest in social and political issues, like what Brecht and Weill were doing with their work that served socially, politically useful purposes, and the other is playful and humorous, which was insightfully brought up in Lynne Cooke's excellent catalogue essay for your show at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands [Allan McCollum: The Art of Duplicitous Ingemination, 1989]?

Regardless of what may very likely prove duplicitous in motive toward improving life on this planet, it's at least setting the stage for more ambitious change, isn't it?

But, of course, that isn't what they've asked for, and while I * think * that's what they had in mind — because I can't believe that the Benchers and the LSUC's equity officers are either ignorant of the actual text of the Rules and the Code or so duplicitous that they would intentionally mislead members — that's an interpretation that has been reinforced by precisely nothing substantive that's come out of the LSUC since this new requirement was announced.

Even 9 - 11, never mind that such a hoax would have required tens of thousands of tight - lipped co-conspirators to keep their duplicitous secret for 16 years and counting.

Facebook has been a hotbed of scams and duplicitous activity which seems to have run unchecked for months leading many into losing their cash.