Sentences with phrase «nefarious intent»

Giving a tiny inspirational nod to the great dynamic duo Banjo - Kazooie, a wicked, green - skinned witch kidnaps a cluster of chicks with nefarious intent and it's up to their fowl friend and his wiggly worm companion to work together and save the day.

Anyone with a Y chromosome who approaches those places is displaying bad taste at best and nefarious intent at worst.

That said, Sweeney said he couldn't recall any previous instance of collusion or other nefarious intent by oil companies to raise prices in California.

OTOH, when you don't understand how a particular scientific conclusion is reached, you display a marked propensity to assume nefarious intent on the scientists» part; and to draw alternate conclusions that appeal to you more, at least judging by your dogged adherence to some of them.

Arson is not a crime that requires nefarious intent, and drunkenness is not a defence against it.

«Hobby drones are easy to buy, their performance is improving dramatically, and their cost has dropped significantly; now with millions of them around the world, they pose a growing threat to the U.S. warfighting forces if used for nefarious intents,» said Albert Sciarretta, president of CNS Technologies and chair of the committee.

A person exhibits NI styles of thinking when they attribute Nefarious Intent.

That could be as innocuous — but creepy — as ominous voices or wailing ghosts, or have more nefarious intent.

Visionary director Jonathan Glazer draws the greatest performance from Scarlett Johansson of her eclectic career as an alien prowling the streets of Glasgow in a minivan with nefarious intent.

Rather than contacting the sys admin for help to resolve the issue — or simply inquiring regarding the nature of the problem — he assumed nefarious intent, managed to get the data he desired via other means and brought legal action against the University for withholding data.

That may not be their specific, nefarious intent, but if the IRS can easily get vast amounts of a person's private information, then that could dissuade potential adopters from utilizing virtual currency, possibly leading to a chilling effect on the development of blockchain - based technologies all together.

It's unprofessional that Higa missed weight, of course, but it's more unfortunate, certainly not pointing towards any kind of nefarious intent.

(A spokesman for the Republicans denied any nefarious intent.)

The second faulty frame is the conspiratorial suspicion of nefarious intent: any technology initiative is just a cover for private profit - seeking.

There may or may not be some nefarious intent at work within all of this — dumb down the American population to turn them into good little, unquestioning worker bees for the oligarchy.

Yet simply because I say pet overpopulation is a myth, I'm continually accused by champions of shelter killing of having nefarious intent: of being in league with puppy mills and commercial breeders.

[Response: I won't speak for others, but in criticizing the Prall list and its connection with the paper, I by no means implied «nefarious intent».

So even if there was some sort of nefarious intent (which I doubt) it wasn't successful anyway.

If, however, someone has nefarious intent, it can be bad.

But, thanks to new rules and regulations, it's much more difficult for individuals of nefarious intent to unlock these shady benefits.

Sooo... we're just gonna pretend that the issue with Facebook is that they had no choice but to capitulate to a country's local laws on privacy and thus the fiasco over them selling data to a shady third party with nefarious intent is completely out of their hands?

Even if Alexa or the others don't have unlock skills, someone with nefarious intent being able to ask the virtual assistant whether the doors are locked or not — potentially by shouting from outside — is similarly unwelcome.

The scope for malicious use is, undoubtedly, limited by the fact that a hacker with nefarious intent would need to first ascertain whether the Echo is one of the potentially compromised models, and then gain physical access to it.