Sentences with phrase «not underhanded»

Car insurance comparison is not an underhanded thing to do; it just holds car coverage providers accountable for the premiums they charge.

Stern was clear to reassure China that his call for China to take action was not an underhanded tactic of trying to suppress China's economic development:

Beryl was not underhanded about her desire; nor was Denys.

In fact, friendship turns to romance all the time — provided it's sincere friendship to start with, not an underhand strategy to sleep with someone.

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Considering how poorly so many basketball players continue to shoot from the free - throw line, it remains something of a mystery that more players haven't adopted the underhanded shot.

«It's not an environment when people are trying to underhand you, or do better work than you,» she says.

While this particular message may look benign, there are legions of people coming up with far more underhanded and clever ways to scam you — and those threats are not all online.

«It's not necessarily an underhanded thing,» he said.

When Mort is late getting home from work and doesn't call, Molly exaggerates the offense, looking for the ways it was truly heinous and underhanded and irresponsible and despicable.

And the decisions were underhanded, as the group wasn't even informed that such decisions were being made.

I have found that many (not all) ultra religious people are the most underhanded.

And shall not memory be able to remind him of that time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that time that he deserted his post, in order to let the storm pass over; of that time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»

I believe a large percent of America can see this and votes for the guy's who do not pull such underhanded tactics in an attempt to win, which is why the Republicans were so stunned when they got destroyed in the last election.

They were severely underhanded on Sunday Night and it showed as they just couldn't keep up in the second half on Sunday Night against Team Bulwa..

Riggs claims he had contemplated serving underhand at some point in the match but changed his mind because he didn't want to «embarrass» Court.

I obviously wouldn't dare to suggest that Wenger has has concealed this news until after the transfer window shuts, as he would never be so underhand would he?

His warmups are enlivened with underhand tosses, backward over-the-head jobs and several forms of sidearm delivery, not to mention an occasional handstand and / or backflip.

Those underhanded comments like, «Well, that's just me,» when you're talking about not understanding moms who need a break from their kid.

Comparing rates of severe morbidity is typically used as a marker instead, it isn't something uncommon or underhanded at all.

i have faith that obama will find the words we need to respond not only to underhand or negative electoral campaign tactics, as he proved over the past months, but to terrorist atrocity, economic depression or natural disaster.

The underhand tactics employed by the Conservatives were on show throughout the week — not least when they pretended, seemingly with a straight face, that a Miliband speech on Libyan post-war planning involved him calling Cameron a murderer.

I objected to the underhanded way DiNapoli was appointed in 2007 — a typical Shelly Silver power play - which was all about Shelly Silver amassing power, and not about the best interests of the citizens of New York who support that corrupt bas *** d and his flunkies.

But a source close to Gove told The Times that he was certainly not doing anything underhand.

I don't think any of us wants to get involved in the underhand personality politics that the media sometimes invent; and as I've said, whoever wins the leadership contest I will back 100 % so there is no doubt about that.

You can't have a complete back routine without including overhand and underhand pull - ups.

Underhand or alternated are not permitted.

If you don't have the flexibility for this, you can grab with a standard overhand or underhand grip.

Pull ups are considered by many as the best back exercise, but not everyone is strong enough to do pull ups, so inverted underhand rows are a great alternative to build up your strength.

You are not locked into one grip (overhand or underhand) but you can rotate the grip while rowing.

The film might lose a certain humanism in its devotion to such formalism, and the very underhanded, un-Tarkovskian way it doesn't explicitly ask the questions it is asking, but Annihilation isn't defiantly anti-humanist, either.

I'm not somebody who feels there is any subject too raw, sensitive, or serious for popular entertainment (I can honestly say that I feel A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child largely informed my attitude towards abortion), and Earthquake effectively places the Katrina conflict in an artistic context, stressing, in its underhanded way, the power of community in bringing the best out of people following a catastrophe.

Don't confuse self - imposed limits such as «no underhanded tactics allowed» as built - in features and challenges of the game itself.

Using a variety of disturbing torture techniques, including electrical shock and near drowning, the quiet Jamal continues to insist his claim to the top prize is not from underhanded means, but as a result of his combined life experiences.

They settled on, «Why not build an underhanded catapult?

While this does not completely eliminate the problem of e-book piracy, it does offer a wonderful opportunity for honest costumers to continue reading the books they love without resorting to underhanded tactics.

Instead of blog posts about the retail giant's underhanded ways or entire three - day conferences devoted to how publishers can bring down the largest online retailer their industry faces, one book shop is going about the competition a little differently, namely by offering the titles that consumers currently can't buy from Amazon.

Newby's terrible printing of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, with many editorial and presentation errors, and underhand behavior, only goes to show that vanity presses trying to turn a buck out of self - publishers hasn't changed in 200 years!

And the way the service was intentionally handicapped to inexplicably not include full runs of popular comics and not offer new releases until weeks or months after they came out always felt a little underhanded to me.

This breeds intense competition, bruised feelings, rampant egoism, and not a little underhanded connivance.

Higgins» author page has been restored to reflect that he is not associated with these underhanded files (calling them books at this point would be painful), and the speed with which that repair took place is something for which even critics can be grateful to the digital era.

Criser's post went on to suggest that there is actually something underhanded going on that actually robs the author and publisher, in that the vendors may actually be buying digital editions of books one time and then taking it upon themselves to have those books printed at print - on - demand services, although that suspicion has not been confirmed.

Buying the extra «Amazon Kindle Powerfast for Accelerated Charging» is a necessity and at $ 19.99 a pop, it was quite underhanded of Amazon to not include one with the new Kindle Fire HD.

The problem for many authors is that they do not like to ask for reviews as this somehow seems underhand, but it is not.

Also, because Amazon employs underhanded techniques such as not making it clear to those who self - publish with them that their books are only available on the Amazon site or that the original Kindle doesn't allow you to buy books from anyone but Amazon, it causes a backlash.

They invest in cutting - edge technology and dominate the ecommerce space — but not because they are doing anything underhanded.

Uncovering Alpha in Microcaps & Special Situations: Peter Rabover, Artko Capital (Harvest) Why don't terrible free throw shooters like Shaq, Wilt Chamberlain, DeAndre Jordan shoot underhand like Hall of Famer Rick Barry?

This trend is not limited to Navient and therefore, experts have suggested that such underhanded practices may threaten the growth of the U.S. economy.

Beware of false promises by the collection agency Not surprisingly, some debt collectors use dirty, underhanded tactics to collect debt.

So be cautious to keep your stress underhand so that your pet does not take it on.