Sentences with phrase «from opportunists»

As one of those agents, the player is tasked with taking back Manhattan from the opportunists who rose up during the crisis, as well as investigate the source of the virus and develop safeguards against it.

Back in 1991, Nintendo could withhold Super Nintendos from retailers to ensure its subsequent shipments would be snapped up quickly without much interference from opportunists like this.

A year ago, in addition to those initiatives that help individuals and families address their financial challenges, we also committed to work aggressively to help protect them from opportunists who come out of the woodwork when people are desperate.

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What is most concerning is that adversaries and opportunists — ranging from spies abroad to political aspirants at home — have learned to exploit the world's interconnected communications technologies to sow fear, paranoia, and division among its people.

This is largely due to the fact that opportunists bank on the success of digital currencies in order to trick investors and profit from consumer confusion.

And with the extreme popularity of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency these days, there are opportunists everywhere looking to steal from those who are putting themselves in vulnerable situations.

Some have unkindly speculated about her being an opportunist who climbed the social ladder from Jew to Catholic to Episcopalian.

They have chosen to learn nothing of value from their losses, and they have left the field open to eccentrics and opportunists.

For the prophets, then, God becomes the great improvisor and opportunist seeking at every turn to elicit his purpose from every situation: if not by the hand of Sennacherib, then by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

It will also offer some degree of tamper resistance and should deter the opportunist thief from helping him or her self to items on the unit load.

In the past 48 - 72hours the NDC party has witnessed very fierce exchanges from across the rank and file of the party from founder to lawyers, through «citizen vigilantes» down to loyalists and opportunists, etc..

He went from being a respected, senior party member to being a back - stabbing opportunist in a single morning.

4) Τhe counter-revolution in the USSR did not result from an imperialist military intervention, but rather from within and from the top, as a result of the opportunist mutation of the C.P and the corresponding political direction of Soviet power.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) is one of several Senate Democrats jockeying for potential 2020 presidential runs, but her brazen style has received backlash from many fellow Democrats who view her as a political opportunist.

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He is an opportunist who learns from his mistakes.

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Oskar Schindler was an enterprising, womanizing Nazi Sudeten - German industrialist / opportunist and war profiteer, who first exploited the cheap labor of Jewish / Polish workers in a successful enamelware factory (Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik or D.E.F.), and eventually rescued more than one thousand of them from certain extinction in labor / death camps.

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Though they are nestled deep in Disney country, their situation is far from enchanting, as these venues are in fact opportunist motel blocks named to lure holidaying saps into their grimy net.

It also provides more excellent support work from Lola Kirke and Brad Holbrook as a couple of trailer park opportunists, and Scoot McNairy and Neil Patrick Harris (against type) as Amy's former lovers.

Van Heflin is superb as the sour Horatio Alger, a former golden boy turned brutal opportunist willing to do anything to get what he's sure is due him, and he shifts from one pose to another to charm and cajole those around him with cold - blooded focus.

Elsewhere, there's fine supporting work from Kristen Wiig as Paul's wife and from the eccentric duo of Christoph Waltz and Udo Kier as a couple of pint - sized opportunists who give the proceedings a regular jolt of comic energy.

Director Rob Greenberg and co-writer Bob Fisher simply flip the 1987 original concept from writer Leslie Dixon, where she had Goldie Hawn as the rich heiress and Kurt Russell as the blue collar opportunist.

Low natural gas prices plus BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster made the well - capitalized firm an opportunist in securing low - cost, liquid - heavy assets from distressed sellers.

Eichardt's was born as a result of the rich vein of gold, which drew many prospectors, opportunists and downright optimists from around the globe to the shores of Lake Wakatipu.

Only you and your crew of cutthroats and opportunists stand a chance of cleansing the galaxy of threats from within and abroad.

Alex Bacon is a scholar, curator, and critic who has defended some of those abstract painters celebrated by collectors and maligned by critics — a loose group of young «sensations» called everything from «flip artists,» «crapstractionists,» «opportunists,» to «zombie formalists.»

As long as the world accepts the fact that they are ruled by a bunch of frauds and opportunists collaborating with the most dangerous extreme ideology ever to roam the earth, worse than the murderous regimes from Mao, Stalin and Hitler put together, we can publish what we want without any serious effect.

If there is a 97 per cent, the real scientists within that number need to clean house and reclaim their science from the hucksters - and not put up with fake polar - bear scares and the political opportunists who peddle them to the world.

From everything I've read Hitler was both an open, rabid antisemite and an opportunist of rat - like cunning.

What happened was that this shyster opportunist — as I reported here, part of his vast fortune comes from his earlier investments in Big Coal — has simply reached the very expensive conclusion that no one gives a damn about the greenies» imaginary climate problem.

It's because so many others - from planet - saving narcissists like James Cameron and transnational opportunists like Rajendra Pachauri all the way down to the boobs and saps of The Columbia Journalism Review - insist that the cartoon alarmism of the hockey stick can not be questioned that it becomes not just non-deplorable but highly necessary to question it.

And that's what Andrew Revkin did, week in, week out: He took the words out of Michael Mann's mouth and served them up to impressionable readers of the New York Times and opportunist politicians around the world champing at the bit to inaugurate a vast global regulatory body to confiscate trillions of dollars of your hard - earned wealth in the cause of «saving the planet» from an imaginary crisis concocted by a few dozen thuggish ideologues.

I fear integrists like that even more than opportunists wanting to make a quick buck from CO2 markets....

But their consumerism (the 1 billion plus on the planet today) takes all forms via services rendered and purchases (whether that's a 10 bathroom villa, flying to London for the latest stars rock concert, or another new car, or buying $ 1 million in shares with their loose change to keep the tax free / low tax income coming in from shares and other special «investment» opportunists only they get offered.)

Lottery winners are advised to hire an attorney to protect their money from scammers, opportunists and tax collectors.

While you should share your resume with potential employers and recruiters, protect yourself from sketchy opportunists.

No such sales strategy / practice comes with the cheap - is - better mail - in / mail - back impersonal so - called sales assistance stuff from the get - rich - quick opportunist crowd.

An opportunist from a young age, Trump managed to take advantage of economic downturns at the time by successfully bidding the use of one of his properties for the building of a city convention centre.

All of this is so that lawyers are put in the position, that they want, to make loads of more money... because the public are unaware of the pitfalls or law suits that occur when dealing in Real Estate without a Realtor to assist and protect them from some individuals who are dishonest and opportunist!