Sentences with phrase «like pilfering»

I didn't like the pilfering and quoting of the East Anglia emails and I hope but do not know that Mark Steyn has no case to answer.

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But unlike their cute predecessors, they are tethered to unique blockchains — the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin — that allow them to be traded and tracked securely, not pilfered like Pokémon on a playground.

Best chance is to pilfer the likes of Bournemouth, Newcastle and Southampton whilst we have such a commanding points total.

Indeed, as we've recently seen, even people like James Purnell have started pilfering Sen for ideas.

The law doesn't extend to state workers, which means people like prison seamstress Joyce Mitchell and the former Warren County IT worker who got nabbed for pilfering laptops from the state last month will still be eligible to cash out.

Newspaper editorials from around the state agree with the environmental groups that using the clean water funds to help build the bridge is a bad idea, using terms like «pilfering,» calling it a betrayal of Governor Cuomo's pledge to conduct a transparent process to build the new bridge.

Like the movie's young, confused hero Jamie — played by newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann — the writer - director grew up in the Southern California during the end of the Carter era, listening to punk records pilfered from his older sister.

Set in Tokyo, it is a tale of a ragbag family led by the Fagin - like Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky), who works a construction job but really spends time pilfering from supermarkets.

The only decent scene in the film (one that honours the cruelty and sense of humour of the film's premise), of a girl vomiting up her fat after wishing to be thinner, is quickly overwhelmed by the dead weight of unhelpful exposition, strange inconsistencies, embarrassing line deliveries, and bald rip - offs of scenes from films like Silent Night, Deadly Night, The Unholy, and The Relic (they've even pilfered the tongue - chewing moment from the non-horror Midnight Express).

Starting with the most fun, the Chevy SS Sport concept — or SSS, as we've been calling it — is slathered in a color called Some Like It Red Hot, pilfered from its Australian paint bin.

Just like with fluffy hotel robes, the full cost of any pilfered Kindle will be charged to a guest's credit card.

It is on the prodigious research and love of trivia that inform Mr. Brown's stories (this one makes mincemeat of all those factoid - heavy wannabes, like Matthew Pearl's «Dante Club»), the ease with which he sets them in motion, the nifty tricks (Dante's plaster death mask is pilfered from its museum setting, then toted through the secret passageways of Florence in a Ziploc bag) and the cliffhangers.

It seems like a frightfully mean thing to do to someone, to pilfer all their belongings and run away.

He looks like he might have been pilfered straight from the pages of a drugstore romance novel — Tamed By The Barbarian, say.

Like ransom notes sent to the Academy, the paintings of Muntean / Rosenblum pilfer text and image fragments and place them in dilapidated landscapes rife with balletically posed youths — a new Romanticism for a consumption - obsessed world; a poetic angle on the coming apocalypse.

The soaring underground space at Lu Magnus is perfect for bold shows like the recent «Thanks,» an exhibition by Brooklyn artist Adam Parker Smith made up entirely of pilfered artworks.

Like the paintings they pilfer, the works in this exhibition are forceful, antic and highly surface - oriented — but they also investigate the sinister power of familiar visual material to lull a viewer into complacency.

The SwiftHackers, on the other hand, pilfered about 220,000 e-mails, ran a search engine over them to get a few thousand results, filtered away those he didn't like, and then furiously quoted out - of - context snippets from them.