Sentences with phrase «of schemes like»

Critics believe that the reason behind the lower enthusiasm in the government to curb the escalating healthcare costs might be the presence of schemes like CGHS which are sufficient to take care of the earning member and his family.

However, with African governments increasingly insisting on local seats of arbitration and the application of local laws in relation to projects where they are the client, the development of commercial ADR is growing steadily, with, for example, the growth of schemes like PRIME in Nigeria adding local arbitrators to their panels.

And opportunities still exist to take advantage of schemes like the $ 1 coin purchases — but they'll likely be harder to find.

One thing is clear and that is the front office has learned it's lesson on having the coaches tell the scouts who is a better prospect, but they can make the scouts aware of the scheme they like to run.

But hey, if you like laws and sausages... (I actually know a congressional staffer who is a part of a scheme like this right now.).

Not exact matches

The scheme looks much like the one used by printer manufacturers such as HP, Epson and Kodak, all of which have provoked various lawsuits over the years.

«Yelp has never done this and individuals making such claims are either misinformed, or more typically, have an axe to grind — whether businesses upset that Yelp will not remove reviews they don't like, or unscrupulous internet marketing «experts» trying to make a buck off of honest business owners with dubious reputation management schemes.»

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

Or take pricing schemes: Many businesses offer a high - priced «premium» service simply to make a less expensive level of service seem like more of a bargain.

Many of the government's largest sting operations come from busting up cross-state Ponzi schemes, «affinity» investment scams (which prey on the elderly or on particular ethnic or religious groups), and penny - stock boiler rooms, like the infamous Stratton Oakmont and Sterling Foster.

The already stretched «white - collar» task forces of the FBI focus on wide - ranging schemes like Internet, insurance, and Medicare fraud, abandoning traditional securities and accounting offenses to the SEC.

seems like a recipe for resentment, apathy and a degree of ruthless scheming that would make The Hunger Games seem downright harmonious.

Though the company had to alter parts of its branding, like changing its colour scheme from red to pink (the latter being less provocative), nixing forbidden photos of skin - baring women and axing Cupid imagery due to its religious connotations, it was still adapting to a culture that celebrates sexuality, albeit in a different way.

As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.

In the grand scheme of things, eight seconds doesn't sound like much, especially in the context of a long documentary about a complex issue like gun control.

Like last week, when the episode of House of Cards I was watching on Netflix juddered and stopped, and I spent the next half - hour rebooting various black boxes so I could find out how Frank Underwood's latest machiavellian scheme worked out.

These victims unwittingly helped carry out a bunch of money - making schemes, like cashing fake checks and shipping goods bought with stolen credit cards.

What I like and notice that you always use simple designs for your sits (quicksprout.com color scheme is very effective) and visitor never get trapped with dozens of links and images.

«We had to create a new kind of economy,» he wrote, «try new methods and schemes never tried before anywhere else in the world because there was no other country like Singapore.»

The recent stock market and real estate bubbles are much like pyramid schemes in the sense that what is bidding up stock and property prices is an exponential inflow of new money from pension plans and mutual funds (for shares) and bank credit (for real estate).

Other investor funds solicited by Simmons were used by the owner of the Hedge Fund in the Ponzi - like scheme to make payments to prior Hedge Fund investors, Berman said.

The widely unregulated nature of ICOs has, however, led to a notable number of fraudulent or misleading investment schemes, leading regulators in countries like China and South Korea to ban or strongly curtail the instruments.

«The price of virtual currencies rises because of the expectation that the next person will buy it at the desired price and this is quite like a Ponzi scheme.»

Like every other attempt throughout history to control the laws of economics and perpetuate Ponzi schemes, the current attempt by Central Banks globally will end with a spectacular collapse.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

Other investor funds solicited by Simmons were used by the owner of the Hedge Fund in the Ponzi - like scheme to...

«The consortium of 40 + banks (known as R3cev) which aims to do just that will inevitably develop something which: is permissioned (for users and developers like the apple app store), privatized, has fees, will not be entirely transparent to everyone, will not be open - source, it will definitely be inflationary to accommodate monetary policy of debasement and fractional reserve schemes, it will facilitate negative interest rates, central control of accounts for suspension / freezing of funds, bail - ins, bail outs, capital controls and transactions will include the identity of both sender and receiver and store that information in a centralized location for the convenience of hackers.»

It is more like: «Look, I don't know if you're a pyramid scheme or what, but some people think you are, so I want my money back,» which is less an assertion of fraud on Herbalife's part than it is an assertion of red - blooded American litigiousness on the plaintiffs» part.

While I'm not a big fan of the cheatline, and like bold colour schemes, I agree that some of the above are awful.

Like so many companies, Vodafone's referral scheme was inefficient, offline, didn't integrate with social media and suffered from a lack of engagement from employees.

Prosecutors claimed the Ponzi - like scheme caused Retrophin and its investors to suffer a loss of more than $ 11 million.

In my opinion, it's a colossal pump - and - dump scheme, the likes of which the world has never seen.

Manipulation of price along with pump and dump schemes are pretty common with these tokens, and so, we'd like you to make your decision only when you're truly confident about the program.

«I do feel like my debt sets me back in the grand scheme of things as far as buying a home or whatever the case may be,» he said.

But like all Ponzi schemes throughout history, the U.S. Ponzi scheme will implode under a massive weight of hubris, extreme greed and widespread ignorance disguised as complacency.

In fact, if anything, legislative «reforms» like Dodd - Frank did nothing more than enable the big banks to continue using derivatives and Ponzi - scheme financial structures as mechanisms to continue sucking wealth out of the system.

when i got into investing a few years ago after graduating college, i tried the whole scheme of investing in speculative stocks like some biotech's and i have lost out on many of the great returns shown in the strongest companies.

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) would like to caution investors as we note the emergence of digital token based fundraising activities / investment schemes in Malaysia and elsewhere, which may be referred to as «initial coin offerings», «initial token offerings», «token pre-sale», «token crowd - sale» (collectively referred to as ICO schemes hereon).

Such amounts might seem like small potatoes in the grand scheme, hardly worthy of litigation.

A sub-letting scheme can quickly fall down like a house of cards should one of the businesses go bankrupt.

The world is black and white and anything else is seen as soft... I can tell you for a fact that he is viewed positively by a large majority of scheme people who find his views odd but like the fact he sticks up for himself against the posh establishment.»

You ex-Catholics who are thinking of going back to the cult are exactly what is intended by this scheme and you are falling for it like sheep running over the cliff.

But actually, in the mirror I'm a heart of darkness: narcissistic solipsist sealed - in to my ego - conscious lucid schemes, aims, desires, jealous and envious, manipulative, controlling, fearful and anxious, hateful and yet wanting to be seen, heard, touched, fed and certainly liked if not loved even as mean spirited as I am. . .

But the reality of what the Other might look like could be disconcerting to Ahaz with his political schemes.

The vast majority of us in the church are able to live like relative Ahabs because Jezebel is scheming schemes and working works around the clock - in our name and, as it works out, also to our profit.

Like the Ligutti homesteads, Distributists also conjured a scheme to encourage the local production and consumption of agricultural produce and to bring families «back - to - the - land.»

Rather than pay his taxes like every other American Citizen, Mr. Romney created a legendary tax avoidance scheme to hide his profits from the country that made all of his success possible.

Paul, like the others used by Yahweh to write His Word, is found continuously warning the brethren to be alert, sober, on guard, vigilant, and aware of our enemies schemes.

We must also make room in our schemes for the likes of the American Jewish Committee, World Vision, Bread for the World, the Christian Coalition, local right - to - life groups and denominationally linked gay - lesbian advocacy groups.