Sentences with phrase «from underhanded»

Using a variety of disturbing torture techniques, including electrical shock and near drowning, the quiet Jamal continues to insist his claim to the top prize is not from underhanded means, but as a result of his combined life experiences.

However, it did influence an already contentious electoral campaign in Austria, consumed substantial amounts of time and attention, and, forced the incumbent to spent time defending himself and his campaign, failing to distance himself from the underhanded tactics of his erstwhile campaign advisor Silberstein, while looking somewhat incompetent and ignorant about what was going on.

From the underhand, overhand and neutral grips, the underhand is usually the one that most people find easier and more natural to use.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Considering how poorly so many basketball players continue to shoot from the free - throw line, it remains something of a mystery that more players haven't adopted the underhanded shot.

During the first half, the young Barry went 3 - of - 4 from the free throw line — all of which he attempted underhand.

Despite the fact that Google took the nuclear option on underhand and spammy link building techniques back in 2012, backlinks from external websites pointing to your site still have a major impact on your rankings.

Nevertheless, Tuesday's abrupt firing throws into question the future of the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible connections to Russia and immediately raised suspicions of an underhanded effort to stymie a probe that has shadowed the administration from the outset.

For years, I have watched and listened to all manner of business people that I work with or come across complain about China's underhand restrictions and rules that favour its own domestic champions in just about any industry — from traditional smokestack industries, to chemicals, machine tools, autos, technology, services, financial services — you name it.

A few other stories relate a crucial 10 seconds in the Teck - Hughes acquisition, the accidental foray into Saskatchewan oil, the Toronto establishment snubbing Afton because of its VSE listing, an underhanded ultimatum from the British Columbia government, getting out of the oyster business and winning an unheard - of 130 % financing for Hemlo.

When Mort is late getting home from work and doesn't call, Molly exaggerates the offense, looking for the ways it was truly heinous and underhanded and irresponsible and despicable.

Our ordinary historical documentation comes almost entirely from a class of scribes, generally those concerned with fiscal matters, for whom the official praises of hired annalists are as suspect as the underhanded slanders of apocryphal memorialists.

Hard underhand shots to the face from Nurmagomedov, who is holding Iaquinta against the fence.

It was the hardest thing in the world for me to throw a softball underhand from 20 feet away in that specific moment.

Despite tips from batting coach Chris Chambliss and underhand pitches from Bernie Williams, Seles failed to hit the ball past the pitcher.

Should, of course read — Sir Henry Norris, who got a lifetime ban from the FA for his underhanded dealings.

Those underhanded comments like, «Well, that's just me,» when you're talking about not understanding moms who need a break from their kid.

PoliticsHome has a piece from Ukip MEP Jill Seymour describing Stoke as «one of the nastiest by - election campaigns ever» and Nuttall as the victim of «disgracefully underhand personal attacks».

O'Donnell commented on a complaint filed with the FEC by the Delaware Republican Party thusly: «You know, these are the kind of cheap, underhanded, unmanly tactics that we've come to expect from Obama's favorite Republican, Mike Castle.

If the ball comes down at the basket from a steeper angle, the way it does if tossed up in the high arc characteristic of an underhand throw, the margin reappears.

«I'm convinced that from a physics standpoint, if everyone learned to throw underhand you'd see these statistics rise dramatically,» Brancazio says.

But changing your grip from overhand to underhand during lat pulldowns and barbell rows is the most efficient way to engage the lower portion of your back and allow a greater range of motion.

To perform it, step into the cable station, grab a D - handle from each low - set pulley with an underhand grip and take a step forward.

You can even rotate from an overhand to an underhand grip quickly and easily and do a Zottman curl.

To prepare for chin ups or pull ups, hang from a pull up bar, using the appropriate grip (underhand for chin ups, overhand for pull ups).

When you change from the overhand to the underhand grip, you change the emphasis of the exercise.

When we say pull - up we mean an exercise in which your palms are turned away from the body, in an overhand grip; and when we say chin - up, we mean your palms are turned toward your body, in an underhand grip.

It's a smooth movement, pulling the bell straight up and flipping your grip around the handle from an overhand grip to underhand (it will be cradled in the crook of your thumb and index finger at the end).

It is executed in the same manner as the standard pull up, except the palms are the hands are positioned so that they are facing toward you, instead of away from you; in other words, you are performing a pull up with an underhand placement.

From the research it looks like there is a strong pattern of underhanded unethical tactics going on here and it needs to picked up by some authorising body.

In its spare moments it takes time out from its busy doings and of pointing out how lonely the queen is to clumsily try and bring in some irresolute contemporary overtones, such as reminding us that we are once again involved in a holy war against another foreign fundamentalist group of extremists and that the war between Spain and England was entered into in an underhanded way just as was England's latest war in Iraq.

Sneak in some underhanded attacks against your opponents by hiring pirates from the black market to steal hard - earned goods.

Even so, Cameron Diaz, whose sleek, ostentatious attire and spotted tattoos evoke the same dangerous beauty of the pet cheetahs, with Malkina's desire to chase and devour dumber, slower people like little jackrabbits, plays the role in too obvious, conniving a way to ever see her as much more than an underhanded «Medea» from the get go.

Stane's villainy comes mostly from using underhanded and very much illegal tactics to maintain his post-industrial capitalist status.

The dogs are transported to Trash Island, while Kobayashi uses a lot of underhanded tactics to keep his opposition from helping the dogs or changing the citizenry's minds.

Universal Pictures has debuted the first clip from Black Sea, director Kevin Macdonald's (The Last King of Scotland) submarine thriller, which stars Jude Law (The Grand Budapest Hotel) as a submarine captain on an underhand mission to uncover lost Nazi gold.

Academy Award winner James Cagney stars as the manager of a Caribbean banana plantation who would do anything to get away from the tropics and his underhanded boss — until he meets a woman hot enough to keep him in the Torrid Zone.

Maud divides her time between the laundry and her new activist friends, including outspoken pharmacist Edith Ellyn, portrayed with suitable vaunts and conviction from the ever irrefutable Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, The King's Speech), she also meets Inspector Arthur Steed (Brendan Gleeson), who heads an investigation to quell the suffragette movement utilizing modernistic surveillance cameras, and other underhand tactics.

Costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, the SBAC test is worse than a colossal waste of time and money because it is being used in an underhanded attempt to tell students, especially those who utilize special education services, those who need help learning the English language and those who come from poor households that they are failures.

Anticipating underhanded tactics that both sides might use, the regulations ordered that signature gatherers, the district, and its staff should be neutral, so that parents would be «free from harassment, threats and intimidation related to circulation or signature of a petition or to the discouraging of signing a petition or to the revocation of signatures from the petition.»

Instead of blog posts about the retail giant's underhanded ways or entire three - day conferences devoted to how publishers can bring down the largest online retailer their industry faces, one book shop is going about the competition a little differently, namely by offering the titles that consumers currently can't buy from Amazon.

Also, because Amazon employs underhanded techniques such as not making it clear to those who self - publish with them that their books are only available on the Amazon site or that the original Kindle doesn't allow you to buy books from anyone but Amazon, it causes a backlash.

Some debt collectors will lie and use any dirty underhanded tactic they can in order to collect money from you.

Sneak in some underhanded attacks against your opponents by hiring pirates from the black market to steal hard - earned goods.

The book concludes with speculation about the underhanded meaning of the emails stolen from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in the U.K.. It's really just the same quote - mining and misinterpretation we've heard from many quarters of the so - called «skeptics.»

This is a basic underhanded debating tactic, used by everyone from major religions & political movements down to UFO cultists & 9/11 conspiracy theorists.

Somehow the general public is unconvinced by shills known to have profited from hidden sponsors against the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, and willing to oppose it by any underhanded means possible.

«Lawyers who won't be caught dead in a courtroom are often referred to in the vernacular as «loophole lawyers,» underhanded wimps who use their command of legal gobbledygook to scam money from the unsuspecting, usually widows and orphans.

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)

No underhanded money dealing is going to save you from having points added to your license, though a defensive driving class might if you are able to elect that option.