Sentences with phrase «nefarious means»

Your comments about people in uniforms or that my opinion has somehow been enriched by nefarious means is interesting — though I can't quite discern the meaning of much of what you've said regarding screed written for FAIR, venal MPP etc, opinions are my own, writing is my own.

People will get the idea I used moderation for some nefarious means.

Public funding attracts, you know, people looking for public funding, via political connections and other nefarious means, where future funding is not determined by past results.

«IF there is a New World Order and it is out to control the world by all the nefarious means... then what it fears is made visible by what it attacks.»

For all the doubters, you really should be praying that humans are not thermodynamic in nature, made of matter with electronic functioning fields, capable of en - masse engaging in rapid WWII style physical transformations that defy current logic and are not already showing signs of massive lower social edge redundancies via drug addiction and upper social edge wealth creation by nefarious means.

The struggles between these two races have found their way to Earth, with the Maians finding allies in the Carrington Institute, a research and development facility; and the Skedar serving as benefactors to the corrupt dataDyne corporation, who are using Skedar technology and weapons for nefarious means.

The Player 2 Podcast — Episode 25: Retro Raiders This month the crew from Player 2 are looking back in time to the appeal of retro gaming and how current companies are using nostalgia for their own nefarious means.

It's almost as bad as a 50 - man team appropriating the term «indie» for their own nefarious means.

Obviously, things start to go wrong for the gang when they use the Duat's powers, and they find themselves pursued by a group of villains who want to use the Duat for nefarious means.

This month the crew from Player 2 are looking back in time to the appeal of retro gaming and how current companies are using nostalgia for their own nefarious means.

Thus, don't try to use nefarious means to clean up your credit report and instead, be honest with the lenders and it would be easier for you to get a loan without getting into trouble.

Although he is more than twice their age, openly lives with his mistress, and is reputedly trying to eliminate the current duke by nefarious means, Ludovico Sforza is Isabella's match in intellect and passion for all things of beauty.

Should your car's audio system — or some other nefarious means — be used to boost the engine note in the cockpit?

In some cases, schools target students consciously: using out of school discipline as a nefarious means to filter students who need more academic, social and emotional supports, including children with special needs or those in foster care.

And in Hotel Artemis he gets to play someone of nefarious means who also may get to kick some ass.

Americans want peace and security, but that involves the taking of the lives of our enemy, sometimes by nefarious means.

A scam is a business that uses nefarious means to obtain money (such as additional fees, and the like).

If Randy Levine is involved, you can be sure there is a nefarious means to his ends.

First and foremost, the goal is to ensure the playing field is level and whomever won a given race did so based on performance and not nefarious means where their team something technical inspection to provide an unfair advantage.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

This is a familiar dichotomy for organisations, with the capacity for cryptocurrency to be used for nefarious means or a lack of formal regulations offsetting its huge potential to overhaul the financial world.

If you are serious about your cryptocurrency investment, then you need to take security seriously because there are so many different scams, phishing websites, malware, hacking attempts and other nefarious means that people can try to take advantage of weak...

Some people find it irritating to have a dog lick them and decide it has all kinds of nefarious meanings, including «dominance.»

Not exact matches

The same could go for some of the nefarious players who have taken advantage of cryptocurrency for criminal means.

I also agree, religion has been used as a means of nefarious coercion, and that is something I deplore as much as you do.

We're not sure what that means, but it could indicate that some key Avengers either show up, disappear, or something nefarious happens with Thanos, the villain of Infinity War.

I highly doubt Otherhand is an evangelical Christian (a term overused & stretched way beyond it's meaning to evangelize — proclaming the good news to the lost) when he / she says «has nothing to do with real Christianity and uses religion in it's most nefarious disguise — to shower contempt on others.»

It's vacation time at the play group, which means the little boy, when not up to any nefarious activities, is hanging around the kitchen, making puppy eyes at me, saying «Mummy, I want something to eat», which is not entirely a bad thing.

But that new information and communications technologies aren't all - powerful or irrelevant doesn't mean that they do not matter — or that their sometimes exaggerated positive sides actually distract us from recognizing their more nefarious aspects, as people like Morozov sometimes come close to arguing, as pointed out by Zeynep Tufekci in her thoughtful review of his book.

Malware is also a concern on sites that haven't fully protected their registration systems against attacks, which means personal information can then be acquired by nefarious software.

Of course, that doesn't mean nefarious types don't try.

That is, until a nefarious biotech firm's space - station research project comes crashing down into George's enclosure, exposing him to a virus that turns him exponentially bigger, and meaner.

The thriller, which screened at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival and at SXSW last week, centers on a familiar genre storyline: a hero tries to protect a young child with amazing powers (usually messiah like in some way) from all sorts of conspiratorial forces (secret organizations, government agencies, etc.) that mean to use him or her for their own nefarious intentions.

You play as a small triangle - shaped ship and fly around a pixelated world trying to find victory amongst evil asteroids and nefarious ships which mean to do you harm.

There's something nefarious going on in Kenya, where poor folk are being systematically tested using a new drug called Dypraxa, which would mean untold millions to the pharmaceutical company that produces it, although it comes at the cost of many lives.

Going somewhere they shouldn't, engaging in nefarious activities, hurting another person (whether they meant to or not)... one or all...

The film starts from a familiar premise — a kid, Chris Smith (Emile Hirsch), who gets in over his head with some very mean men hatches a selfish and nefarious scheme to pay off his debts.

Reprising the plot line of pretty much every episode of the series, Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds), the meanest man in Hazzard County, Ga., is hatching a nefarious scheme forcing cousins, Bo (Seann William Scott) and Luke (Johnny Knoxville) Duke to take time out from running their Uncle Jessie's moonshine in order to stop him.

Worse, nefarious President Snow (Donald Sutherland), fearing Katniss's prole appeal to stir the oppressed masses, seeks to eliminate her by staging an extra-special anniversary Quarter Kvell — I mean Quell — Games in which previous victors face off against each other.

Some critics may choose to portray the contemporary school reform movement as a nefarious conspiracy on the part of evil plutocrats hoping to destroy America's schools, but in fact, the vast majority of reformers (ourselves included) are well - meaning people who are acting in good faith and trying to do right by kids.

Does this mean that publishers are nefarious, knowingly cheating authors out of a few bucks here and there to improve their own bottom lines?

You seem to be conflating the term «hack» meaning to exploit a system for nefarious purposes with the term «hack» meaning changing or improving a system to better suit the users needs.

Though the credit bureaus have been around for decades, the sheer size of their databases — and the nature of human error — means there are bound to be mistakes, including innocent typos and more nefarious fraudulent accounts.

His mission is to extract her alive by any means necessary, even as we're introduced to the horrifically disfigured new villain Skull Face, who sets a sinister plan into motion involving the nefarious XOF forces.

The setting shifts from typical near - future battles to the stars, where you lead a squadron meant to stop the solar system from falling under control of nefarious forces.

Andy, think long and hard about what you've said here and ask yourself how climate scientists can avoid to appear to be engaged in nefarious activities when subjected to quote - mining, selective publication of stolen e-mails, outright misrepresentation of public statements, organized FOI flooding meant to overwhelm a departments resources to respond (while asking for stuff the university in question has no right to release), etc etc..

This seems a rather nefarious and sneaky plan to us, meaning it fits perfectly with the Obama Administration's modus operandi, referred by them as being «transparent» for some strange reason.

It means that there was no nefarious oil - funded deceit among any of those targeted.

If scientists are meeting to coordinate a message, it can only mean that we're trying to distort the truth for some nefarious end.

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.