Sentences with phrase «impersonation by»

Featuring a not - awful (but shadowy) Joseph Gordon - Levitt impersonation by the actor playing Nightwing, the 7 - plus minute film also features Gotham City police officer Stephanie Brown, Oswald Cobblepot, and a few other familiar names.

Those requirements, Nana Yeboah said, were to prevent impersonation by people, including foreigners, who were not qualified to benefit from the allowance.

He also perpetrated an act of impersonation by acknowledging the receipt of the suspected forged retirement letter as a Deputy commissioner of police (DCP Hamman Isah) instead of his actual rank of a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP)(Ref Suspected fake retirement letter)

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By Paul Carsten ABUJA (Reuters)- West Africa's infamous internet scammers have evolved, dropping their impersonations of online love interests, princes and U.S. soldiers in...

I might add that play is often governed by rules, either explicit (as in game) or implicit (there are rules of impersonation, for example) and that it often involves a test or contest.11

We then have a major section on Ayesha, who is later impersonated by one of the prostitutes, the whores of «The Curtain,» and from that impersonation the reader is given full details of Ayesha's strong - willed character, and the scandal involving her and an apparently innocent young man, Safwan, who rescues her on a desert trail only for idle tongues to wag about their alleged secret conduct.

The second occurrence, the Bush adm allowed for the theft of our nation by fraudulent impersonation of a president.

Crenshaw's main offenses, after all, had already been committed — doing a creepy impersonation of a golf - worshipping TV evangelist and selecting those ghastly patterned maroon shirts that were «complemented» by the maroon sweaters and cream - colored skirts worn by the wives.

Sought By the Queens County (N.Y.) District Attorney, the extradition from Pennsylvania of Jerome Brandl, 34, on charges including criminal impersonation and grand larceny.

George Boateng, according Joy News, was picked up by National Security last Sunday night for impersonation.

'' This development is frightening as it represents a new dimension to the nefarious business of impersonation of EFCC officers by fraudsters and other criminal gangs.

Back in 2008, New York State amended its definition of criminal impersonation to include impersonations «by internet website or electronic means with intent to obtain a benefit or injure or defraud another.»

The bill was introduced by Ball's Republican colleague in the State Senate, Andrew Lanza, who himself claimed to be a victim of online impersonation.

By Evelyn Usman Standing among forty other suspects arrested over various crimes ranging from robbery, rape, impersonation and cultism, at the Lagos...

The first count of the charge sheet obtained by our correspondent in court reads partly: «That you (accused persons) on 17th February, 2016 did commit an offence to wit: impersonation, by cloning the Executive Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola's phone number 08024537105 to send text message to the Accountant General of Osun state requesting him to transfer the sum of N18m to your account number 0017854919 sort code 215333358 with Unity Bank.»

Introduced by Mr. Samuels as Andrew Cuomo, the former comedian launched into a profane impersonation of the governor, who declared he would soon be publishing a follow - up to the unsuccessful memoir he released last year: his enemies list, featuring everyone in attendance.

In court papers seeking to dismiss the case, lawyer Scott Porter argues that prosecutors have stretched the legal meaning of criminal impersonation too far by charging Conner with a crime.

While some of the reports about Mr Brown concern phone - hacking, many others are instances of «blagging» where someone tries to access information by acting or impersonation.

Visa Fraud Peter Kwaku Amoabeng, former NPP MP for Lower West Akim fraudulently attempted to obtain an Austrian visa for a woman and two children who he falsely represented as his wife and children respectively, and in the process committed the offences of fraud by false pretences, forgery, perjury, impersonation and deceit of public officer

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Tuesday, arraigned one Sabo Sani Labaran before Justice Abubakar Jauro of the Gombe State High Court sitting in Gombe, on a 2 - count charge bordering on impersonation and obtaining money by false pretense to the tune of N242, 000.00 (Two Hundred and Forty - Two Thousand Naira).

I'm spontaneous, a tasteful comic with quick wit and serious down to Earth poet all in one... I have been told that I am an attractive guy and told by many women that my looks are intimidating, also one who has many talents, I can do many impersonations, voices, ect.

It's the exercise of impersonation as a process of revelation, and it's marked by a surprising lightness.

This character, this creature on the prowl, is doing little more than an impersonation of mating rituals, but it's working: Men impulsively flock to her, attracted to her receptiveness and unburdened by her apparent lack of personality.

That's a big sculpture made by a Canadian Nazi played by Ralph Garman who mostly speaks thought impersonations of Al Pacino and Charles Nelson Reilly.

American Dreamz tracks the lives of three characters particularly — the host, a Simon Cowell impersonation done half - heartedly by Hugh Grant; the star, Mandy Moore as a white - trash girl with dreams of fame and fortune; and the laughable, Muslim immigrant Omer, selected only to allow the manufacture of religious tension with a Jewish contestant.

Gary Oldman deserves the Best Actor Oscar for his uncanny impersonation of Winston Churchill in Wright's Darkest Hour, but the film was weakened by its humor, sentimentality, and unfortunate appeal to populism in the ludicrous tube train sequence.

Johnny Depp said that his slurred accent was inspired in part by the Rolling Stones» Keith Richards and the Looney Tunes» character Pepe Le Pew, though he emphasized in interviews that it was not an impersonation (of Richards).

Players are quite familiar with collecting the little plastic studs by destroying everything while watching their favorite characters doing their best Mummenschanz impersonations.

With the catchphrase opening «Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not,» and aided by his bumbling impersonation of President Gerald Ford, the actor quickly assumed breakout status, earning Emmys for both his writing and acting.

This is not based on any particular real person, but it is inspired by true stories of impersonation.

I also see perennial - nominee Meryl Streep (17 times) squeaking by The Help's equally - deserving Viola Davis for Best Actress, more for her 29 - year drought than for her spot - on impersonation of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

It does have a very good track by Tim Robbins (himself an accomplished director) and Kevin Bacon, who contributes a couple of brief Eastwood impersonations.

The Statesmen, as they are known, operate under the cover of massively successful alcohol conglomerate based in Kentucky, run by Jeff Bridges, staffed by Channing Tatum, Halle Berry, and Narcos «Pedro Pascal (doing a fantastic impersonation of 1970s Burt Reynolds).

The remaining supporting cast features a bizarre (and degrading) appearance by Temuera Morrison, and Jean Reno doing possibly the worst impersonation of a Frenchman speaking English ever immortalised on screen.

by Walter Chaw With Aaron Sorkin dialled to «11» on the Sorkin meter and Danny Boyle doing his best impersonation of Oliver Stone circa 1994, hotly - anticipated Steve Jobs biopic Steve Jobs features an Oscar - winning (in a year without a slavery or Holocaust picture, just mail it to him) performance by Michael Fassbender in the title role of a dysfunctional Sorkin genius figure, surrounded by the Sorkin retinue of brilliant but subordinated women and various omega males.

McDonagh's idea of profound profanity consists of Ray being very amused by midgets, fat Americans, and effete Canadians and Ken being sucked in by the medieval, touristy charms of sleepy Bruges; both await some word from their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes), himself busy doing a real convincing impersonation of Ben Kingsley's insane mobster from Sexy Beast.

Franco has a busy film - making schedule ahead of him at the moment; he recently reportedly agreed to play Multiple Man for Fox's X-Men franchise, and has a prolific slate of his own directorial projects lined up, now empowered by the generally positive reviews that have greeted his latest foray into cinematic celebrity impersonation.

Edward Norton was a superb Stefon next to the real Stefon, played by Bill Hader, and Melissa McCarthy did a devastating Chris Farley impersonation (she destroyed the anchor desk).

The series» wraparound segments consist of stand - up from Chappelle that's almost painful in its modesty — so much so that you never fail to be ambushed by his boisterous impersonations and trenchant observations.

Yes, the meals and the sightseeing were lovely, and Coogan and Bryden's Michael Caine impersonations are hilarious as ever (they up the ante by doing the entire cast of «The Dark Knight Returns»), but there's a palpable melancholy to the proceedings, as well as provocative and honest ruminations about friendship, ambition, aging, and family ties.

I wasnt overly surprised by this prevailing mindset, because I was teaching in a suburban community at the time; the origin of the students stereotype seemed to be rooted in a community doing its best ostrich impersonation.

In contrast to Route 66's rose - colored history, the Genesis cabin feels pleasantly anodyne, its Nappa leather, gloss walnut wood, and unprovocative lines offering a by - the - book impersonation of what a conventional luxury sedan ought to look like.

A few things we won't tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING.

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson «Part thriller, part love story, part tale of daring impersonation, part wrenching examination of repression and its toll on human nature, the novel is set in North Korea (with a side trip to Texas).»

Morris «Mickey» Sabbath, once a lewd puppeteer, now a lewd old man, must face the impersonation of life that has passed him by.

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are back on another epic road adventure fuelled by their witty banter and impersonations in The Trip to Spain.

These included Hugo Ball's recitation of his nonsensical «sound poems» at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916; Duchamp's Fountain (1917) and his application of a mustache to a postcard of the Mona Lisa; George Maciunas's Fluxus street theater; works by Manzoni, Klein, Beuys, Warhol, and Hirst; and Andrea Fraser's impersonation of a museum tour guide.

Through their own process, be it autobiographical, metaphorical or inspired by performance and impersonation, these artists present visual narratives that interrogate social, cultural and political dialogues.

In contrast to the female impersonation and drag performance that Greek audiences are familiar with, such as that of Lakis Lazopoulos, which is geared towards entertaining straight audiences by satirizing the types they know, Linzy uses parody to undermine the established authority of gender and sexuality and to question naturalized systems.

The model was previously unknown to the artist, but struck him — perhaps by the strong cut of his jaw, perhaps by his leonine confidence — as a fitting candidate for the elaborate and sophisticated impersonation in which he was hired to participate.The model, who remains unnamed, is from Harlem (New York City), as was the original subject, Willem van Heythuysen, a Dutch wool merchant from Haarlem (the Netherlands), whose portrait was painted by Frans Hals in 1625.