Sentences with phrase «in skulduggery»

The date and time of the meeting would have been well known to any anti-wind power people who might be interested in skulduggery.

Coming Soon: The second in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, Playing With Fire (May 2008).

Now Tony has come up with an interesting insight that shows that Tottenham themselves seem to have been involved in some skulduggery.

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None of its key members are on either the U.S. or European sanctions lists, and the bank has in any case been run at a respectable arm's length from the corporate skulduggery its owners have engaged in elsewhere.

«Alleged death threats, implied bribes, constituency association ambushes and supposed Progressive Conservative Party skulduggery,» is how a Red Deer Advocate report described the unexpectedly interesting Wildrose Party nomination in the Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundre constituency.

But beneath the royal politics and skulduggery, there were darker layers of life, Choffel says: «Living in the mountains was always hard.

The major doubt in my mind about his achievements is how much of it was influenced by the skulduggery and manipulation of Sir Jack Norris.

On show at the humble studio of the Pleasance in Islington, London, an artsy little venue closer to Cockfosters than Cameron, this play nevertheless manages to capture the broader picture of coalition shortcomings and parliamentary skulduggery with often alarming accuracy.

In Fighters and Quitters, he gleefully sets out the skulduggery and subterfuge that has led various unfortunate politicians to fall on their swords in recent yearIn Fighters and Quitters, he gleefully sets out the skulduggery and subterfuge that has led various unfortunate politicians to fall on their swords in recent yearin recent years.

The hours may well be shorter in the Commons these days, but the appetite for plotting, backbiting and skulduggery remain as strong as ever.

By refusing to engage in the semantic skulduggery of Cameron, Blair et al, Skelton's solution, whilst clearly identifying the party's infirmity and offering a credible treatment, seems to ignore all past remedies prescribed.

According to The Prince, which was inspired by the notorious Cesare Borgia, morality is irrelevant in political affairs and skulduggery is justified in the pursuit and maintenance of power.

The situation turns out to have its genesis in Wolverine's experiences in Japan at the end of the second world war; now he finds himself mixed up with corporate skulduggery, yakuza crime, and a neo-Samurai cult of violence, culminating in a showdown in a weirdly designed interior location with high - up walkways and metal galleries whose only architectural function is to let people fall to their deaths.

As director Paul Greengrass explains in his brief introduction to the new edition (the «special» part), he wanted to make a movie that would expose the huge audience for the Bourne thrillers to the real - world skulduggery by which the Bush administration sold the Iraq invasion as a hunt for weapons of mass destruction.

Both parties are trying to convince him of what to put in his will during the final days of his life, leading to blazing rows and skulduggery.

The submarine film, typically entrenched within the confines of a World War II drama, often magnifies claustrophobic pessimism (as in Wolfgang Peterson's magnificent film Das Boot) or the violent clash of political skulduggery (i.e..

The Scoop: Poor girl tries to make good through skulduggery, while the classic - novel - adaptation genre gets a kick in the pants.

Continually embroiled in the sheer ludicrous nature of political skulduggery and the psychotic personalities that often comprise such bodies of government, Iannucci's latest target is his most bold and savage yet: the Stalinist regime of 1953 Soviet Union with The Death of Stalin.

- Locus «Stephanie and Skulduggery's witty repartee is most enjoyable, and the pacing is fast, with constant action and fight scenes during which the author neither sugarcoats the violence nor revels in it unnecessarily.»

The premise, in reductive terms, is a simple one: using deceit, skulduggery, bribery and violence, you'll need to dominate the board, picking up enough significant items to beat your opponent.

Maybe there are one or two bad eggs: I can honestly say, hand on heart, I've never met any, but it would be naive of me to think that games journalism is somehow different to every other industry in the world in that it's immune from individual cases of skulduggery.

Up to 9 players can take part in a battle of wits, luck and skulduggery.

Unfortunately, the link I have used many times to demonstrate this intellectual skulduggery now results in the following message:

In these days of skulduggery and hack - for - a-hack frontier justice on the Wild, Wild, Web, it's a good idea to replicate things.