Sentences with phrase «in devious»

One problem with ACH (or credit) is the landlord can charge anything he pleases, and that's when they start sneaking in devious surcharges for things.

James Hansen, the director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies who first warned the world about the dangers of climate change in the 1980s, has joined other scientists in submitting statements to be considered by a judge at the Information Rights Tribunal on Friday... James Hansen told the Guardian: «Our children and grandchildren will judge those who have misled the public, allowing fossil fuel emissions to continue almost unfettered, as guilty of crimes against humanity and nature... If successful, the FOI request may, by exposing one link in a devious manipulation of public opinion, start a process that allows the public to be aware of what is happening, what is at stake, and where the public interest lies.»»

People died because SA leaders, significant numbers of media opinionators, and even ordinary people, valued the local wisdom about AIDS being a nutritional disease rather than HIV, routinely lauded western AIDS heretics and snake - oil salesmen, and entertained conspiracy theories about the disease itself being a plot by western outsiders, and that anti-retrovirals, rather than a treatment, were just another aspect in this devious plot of western - medicine to sicken people in Africa.

Tapping Zelda or Sheik will refill the player's hearts, while, in a devious twist, tapping the Ganondorf figure will actually make Link take double the damage!

And with an announcement about Borderlands 3 breathing down our necks and more and more Easter eggs being uncovered by hawk - eyed fans, we believe that Gearbox is going to bring in some devious new twists into the Borderlands 3 story.

It's only in the final worlds where the game begins combining stage elements in devious placements to trip you up, offering a huge difficulty spike.

Yeah sure it will lull you in with easy levels to ace but then it throws in a devious pad smashingly solid level ruining your perfect run.

The cream of the crop is perhaps chapter five, which is set in a devious labyrinth full of illusions, hurling countless different mechanics and stylistic shifts into the mix yet managing to hold them together as a solid whole, which further underlines Project Sora's penchant for expert craftsmanship and pacing.

Gideon is known to Broadway fans for his work in Spring Awakening and Spider - Man: Turn Off the Dark and you might recognize him from his guest roles in Devious Maids, The Good Wife, and Elementary.

The result is a superior police procedural, and something more — a study in devious human nature.

However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008 feature - length debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.

Wildly ludicrous, insanely fun and exploding with a color pallet painted in devious amounts of vibrancy, Marvel Studios Thor: Ragnarok may not break the structure that the mega-studio conglomerate has constructed so far, but it certainly takes a battering ram to it's smoother edges.

I believe the actors in Devious Maids are great, they make you laugh and cry.

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Unfortunately, it's pretty obvious that they deliberately chose to publish these figures on the same day as announcements about new peers and the latest migration statistics in a devious attempt to bury their own bad news.

In fact, of course, Naboth's vineyard, adjacent to US property, is a global phenomenon, and in devious ways we twist the circumstances to fit the charge, or misinterpret the charge to justify murder and possession - «Naboth cursed God and the king!»

At the same time, women's resentment at being used gives rise in them to feelings of hostility which may prompt them to manipulate their husbands in devious ways and to exercise over their children a dominance that harms the latter psychologically.

Not exact matches

In addition to what many consider to be devious and unethical data harvesting practices, the company's chief executive, Alexander Nix, was captured on a hidden camera proposing using Ukrainian sex workers to bribe or blackmail Sri Lankan politicians.

Much like Paul, he was a strict constitutionalist, and believed that «devious government intervention in the economic affairs of the nation... [were] not contemplated by the men who wrote the constitution.»

They could use the blockchain to incentivise the sale of data, meaning they could reduce the need to carry out the devious actions that have got them in the mess they currently find themselves in.

The new generation is going to put an end to this devious monetary deception and all of the old «Champagne Socialists» sitting in the front of the aircraft debating the horrors of capitalism with two bankers and a parliamentary aide while sipping on bubbly, feet up and caviar on the side table, are ALL in for a very rude awakening.

Clinton's personal lawyer, Robert S. Bennett, got sworn statements from three doctors denying any «abnormalities in terms of size, shape, direction, or whatever Bennett felt a devious mind might suspect,» Bob Woodward writes in his book Shadow.

Maybe it's a cultural difference in expression, I think it's definitely a gender difference, but I would only say «If you want to play it that way» if I thought someone was being devious.

The Catholic tradition — even the wise Pope Benedict — still seems to put too much stress upon caritas, virtue, justice, and good intentions, and not nearly enough on methods for defeating human sin in all its devious and persistent forms.

In the intelligence «flap» as in Watergate, it has been the Fourth Estate — the press — that has played the most vigilant watchdog role, despite the CIA's and the FBI's devious efforts to co-opt or discredit the mediIn the intelligence «flap» as in Watergate, it has been the Fourth Estate — the press — that has played the most vigilant watchdog role, despite the CIA's and the FBI's devious efforts to co-opt or discredit the mediin Watergate, it has been the Fourth Estate — the press — that has played the most vigilant watchdog role, despite the CIA's and the FBI's devious efforts to co-opt or discredit the media.

Unless we are in effect to abandon all attempts to talk about God as such (a form of apophatic theology which Neville's position seems to favor), the «devious analogy» to which he refers is so devious that it is hard to distinguish it from equivocation or even fraudulent misrepresentation.

The God depicted in the Old Testament often seems more bloody, devious, and vengeful than any depiction of Allah in the Quran.

As Neville recognizes, his own view that God is «beyond the metaphysical categories illustrated in the temporal process» means that he «can not except by devious analogy be called individual, actual, knowledgeable, or a variety of other things Hartshorne attributes to God» (p. 61).

Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry of literary theory, is the author of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious of rhetorical discourses (writing with political designs upon us all), either in opposition to or in complicity with the power in place.»

There are dozens of books and articles from the past half century, all arguing that, far from being the Boy Scout of popular imagination who slew Goliath, the David figure who supplants Saul as king in Israel is a devious, double - dealing thug.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

So I do believe in a God beyond the metaphysical categories illustrated in temporal process; but such a God is indeed beyond the categories and can not except by devious analogy be called individual, actual, knowledgeable, or a variety of other things Hartshorne attributes to his God.

Arrogant, devious, mendacious, boyish and charming on - camera, rude and distant off - camera, Bakker surrounded himself with lieutenants who had been successful in the outside world but who became strangely compliant when they walked into Bakker's own rather small shadow.

We protect ourselves by devious and ingenious rationalizations in the guise of the wisdom of the ages.

Then again, the business of academic research endowments, especially in fields as conceptually confused as artificial intelligence or cognitive science, really is all about exploiting the credulity of wealthy foundations and corporations and private donors (sometimes with devious cynicism, sometimes in deluded innocence).

I think it is a bit of devious framing to say one has to «foresake» the bible in order to become more progressive.

In certain texts, Yahweh appears as devious, unstable and unreliable.

On the contrary, in all its forms and in each of its devious paths, anti-Semitism is a radical denial of Christianity.

I have been asking Him to help deal with 2 coworkers who have been so mean, unkind and devious in trying to undermine my skills and take over my responsibilities.

And this I did, my friends; this I did, sprinting out of the house in the direction of church, mostly thrilled at the success of my devious plan thus far, but with a tiny dark roil somewhere near my spleen or gall bladder; and headlong went I through the little alley behind the Murphys» house, and toward the small bedraggled woods behind the firehouse, not even a forest but more like an overgrown vacant lot.

Look how sneaky and devious Nate Robinson is on this play in the open court against Tiago Splitter.

we all know that he can be cunningly devious, in a genius way!..

He listens to me, though the sparkle in his eye often gives away his true, devious feelings.

And while devious Hans was sent home in shackles, his name got a boost, climbing 19 percent on our boys» names list.