Sentences with phrase «of nefarious ways»

Ice, snow, or sleet can damage your personal property inside the building in a variety of nefarious ways.

Ice, snow, or sleet can damage your personal property inside the building in a variety of nefarious ways.

Not exact matches

While AI may not necessarily be as nefarious as the intelligent computer system Skynet from the popular Terminator film franchise, the use and potential of AI has come a long way and opened a multitude of possibilities.

«Whichever company has the highest rate of innovation — unless that company is actively killed by its competitors in some way that's nefarious, or shoots itself in the foot — it will at some point exceed those competitors.»

We are hearing about some serious spiritual, physical and emotional abuse here using the Name of Jesus in a nefarious way.

Seven of the men remain at large, continuing in their nefarious chocolate stealing / chloroform dealing ways.

To be clear, other than the size of the loan — which is way out of the normal range for a typical Apollo loan — nothing on its face suggests anything nefarious... but at the very least, there are some ethical questions with Kushner using the White House as a place to have meetings with people that then turn around and invest in Kushner's private business ventures.

These exercises have notably gone a long way in curbing and addressing acts of criminality and other nefarious activities.

There are those who, to this day, believe that those missing passports found their way into the hands of drug barons to facilitate their nefarious trade.

Thank God that idiot genius Andrew Cuomo is on top of these young men trying to attract women in an unusual way and for some nefarious reason no doubt....)

(One important way in which de Blasio's campaign was less nefarious than Cuomo's committee: the names of donors were disclosed, allowing he press and the public to dig into potential conflicts.)

When some residents got wind of the nefarious activities of the robbers, they mounted road blocks at three different points but the suspects forced their way through them with a Sprinter bus.

All of his seemingly nefarious actions are carried out simply because he believes it is the best way to complete the mission.

Go on, what would be the best way to expose the nefarious activities of your clandestine organisation when trying to silence someone?

Upon making the acquaintance of scavenger rat Rita (Winslet), Roddy is certain that the pair can navigate their way back to the surface in Rita's trusty boat, the Jammy Dodger, but Rita's help doesn't come cheap, and the nefarious Toad (McKellen) is determined to rid Ratropolis of all things rodent.

Peter Donat was making occasional appearances on the syndicated TV sci - fier Time Trax (1993), gesticulating his way through the role of Dr. Mordecai (Mo) Sahmbi, the ee - vil scientist who used the time - traveling TRAX machine for his own nefarious purposes.

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.

Dara Ju Anthony Onah marks his feature debut in this tale of a Nigerian banker on Wall Street who is forced to turn to nefarious ways to get ahead.

There's Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), doing his foppish, gay rock god as he Harold Lloyds his way out of an audience with the King and newly - minted (and freshly peg - legged) privateer Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) before reuniting with one - time flame Angelica (Ginger the Chicken Run chicken), who's in league with nefarious Blackbeard (Ian McShane) en route to the mystical Fountain of Youth.

It's the film that introduced the world to Owen Wilson, and his tenacious, yellow jump - suited career criminal Dignan remains one of Anderson's greatest creations, a man who uses nefarious activities as a way to preserve the lost thrill of boyhood monkeyshines.

Mario and Luigi: Dream Team Bros. slam their way onto the Nintendo 3DS as these brothers embark on another fun filled adventure as they attempt to (again) rescue Princess Peach from the nefarious King of Bats, the dreaded Antasma.

As Thanos and his minions draw closer to achieving their ultimate and nefarious goals, the scattered superheroes of the universe must put aside their respective differences and find a way of defeating the mad Titan once and for all.

But this is antihistorical, it falsifies history in such a way as to not only make its audience dumber about the past, but in service of a nefarious agenda regarding the present.

There's a nefarious conspiracy here for audiences to unpack, and it's all part of the way Peele uses a genre framework to explore how racism survives and mutates in an All Lives Matter culture, taking different insidious shapes.

He makes his way back to London when he learns that Ralph has nefarious plans for his sister Kate (Romola Garai, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells).

It also takes a way - out premise - this time two agents trying to foil the nefarious schemes of a mad scientist shortly after the American Civil War to conquer the United States with a huge mechanical spider - and pursue it doggedly to its end.

If they attend schools with 1:1 programs, these same students are devising ways to skirt restrictions on school - issued tablets, not necessarily to be nefarious, but for the challenge of it.

Otherwise, we are left with words to make the gut churn one way or another according to the designs of nefarious ideologues rather than nurturing intelligent discussion and making the mind work.

Like Chrome for your PC, you can opt to have the start page of the browser open on your most visited websites and you have the option to open an Incognito window which will let you research nefarious content without that activity finding it's way into your most visited sites or search history.

From onerous copy protection schemes on CDs and DVDs to the near ubiquitous DRM applied to most ebooks to the emerging Encrypted Media Extensions DRM - in - HTML standard, everyone seems to think it's a legitimate way to protect digital media from being stolen and endlessly replicated by nefarious individuals in lawless countries on the fringes of the civilized planet.

We see no way in which this could possibly go wrong and be gamed for nefarious ends, perhaps by the same enterprising likes who named «Moot» man of the year or insisted NASA use a TV comedian as the moniker for a space station.

The FICO ’08 model allows authorized users, but Fair Isaac says it has found a way to spot nefarious practices around authorized users which should reduce the number of people trying to use this method to increase their credit scores.

In order to thwart her nefarious schemes and escape to the real world, the Saints will have to counter her army of gimps and sex - workers, shut down her demented simulation, and make unlikely allies along the way.

And thus, you're given your impetus to befriend new monsters, race them against wild monsters, as well as other human racers, and for good measure, there's even a nefarious team of villains you'll be forced to contend with on your way to becoming the monster - racing champion.

The other - worldly tranquillity of the sound track is also excellent, occasionally giving way to the nefarious horns of the «manslayer's» theme, that genuinely conveys a great sense of terror.

Noland's provocative exploration of the more nefarious aspects of American culture paved the way for a generation of artists who also use methods of appropriation in their critique of culture, including Anne Collier, Leslie Hewitt, and Lorna Simpson.

This is nothing more than quote - mining, in order to interpret an entirely innocent turn of phrase in the most nefarious way possible.

Indeed, the status quo is best served if the rest of the community sees this situation as simply part of the matrix of the universe, the only possible way life could work, and that any suggestions to the contrary are the result of either some nefarious agenda or outright insanity.

There may not be anything nefarious going on in any one part of this bizarre network of relationships, which started off as a letter to David Cameron, and now turns out to extend all the way back to the people who made a rubbish printer I once owned.

As a side note, claiming «fabrication» in a nefarious way doesn't help, and generally turns people off to open debate on the issue because the process of infilling missing data wasn't designed at the beginning to be have any nefarious motive; it was designed to make the monthly data usable when small data dropouts are seen, like we discussed in part 1 and showed the B - 91 form with missing data from volunteer data.

Though Goldstone's intentions are laudable, the nefarious agendas (prevalent in the systematically biased against Israel, United Nations) regrettably found their way onto the pages of the report.

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)

Hackers get up in the morning and instead of going to a «normal» job, they sit at a computer and try to come up with ways to lure people into activating nefarious computer programs hidden in emails presumably for money or to steal your personal information.

«Cambridge Analytica is a firm that has acquired a reputation in several countries in particularly nefarious ways, including the use of personal profiles to manipulate people's behavior,» Warner said in a statement provided to The Daily Beast.

This way, legitimate Bitcoin transactions are always accurately verified, nefarious transactions are always rejected, and the hard limit of 21 million bitcoins (which are really just bits and bytes) is enforced.

You may find that nefarious, or maybe you find it entirely reasonable - either way, you might want to know how to delete those recordings of your voice.

The recent takedown of a large dark web drug supplier illustrated the nefarious uses to which Bitcoin could be put, but there are plenty of legitimate ways to use the cryptocurrency as well.

The View Image button gave bots an easy way to pull images from all over the web and use for whatever nefarious purposes imaginable, and when visitors pull just an image from the site, they don't see any of the site's advertisements or even have an opportunity to engage with the content surrounding the image.

As this case demonstrates, however, just as new computer technologies continue to change the way we engage each other and experience the world, so too will criminals subvert these new technologies to serve their own nefarious purposes,» said U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch for the Northern District of California.

«There are nefarious actors out there, including state actors like North Korea and Iran that are looking to the use of digital currencies and related technologies, at a minimum as a way of circumventing the current global order which limits their access to capital.