Sentences with phrase «of skulduggery»

In these days of skulduggery and hack - for - a-hack frontier justice on the Wild, Wild, Web, it's a good idea to replicate things.

The former Chancellor Lord (Nigel) Lawson, last week launching his new think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, rightly called for a proper independent inquiry into the maze of skulduggery revealed by the CRU leaks.

Maybe there are one or two bad eggs: I can honestly say, hand on heart, I've never met any, but it would be naive of me to think that games journalism is somehow different to every other industry in the world in that it's immune from individual cases of skulduggery.

Let's see... I suppose I could tell you about the new villain, an old enemy of Skulduggery's who escapes from prison.

She's not above a bit of skulduggery when her husband John dies of a heart attack while rowing on an estate pond; she merely weights his body down and sends it overboard.

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None of its key members are on either the U.S. or European sanctions lists, and the bank has in any case been run at a respectable arm's length from the corporate skulduggery its owners have engaged in elsewhere.

Take Bloomberg, for instance, which reported, «The revelations of the apparent skulduggery that helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election keep sending shock waves across the political landscape.»

If Wenger's Matchday tactics and shrewdness were as good as his transfer market deceptions and skulduggery's, we would have been the champions of Europe by now.

But beneath the royal politics and skulduggery, there were darker layers of life, Choffel says: «Living in the mountains was always hard.

USAC backers, of course, placed the blame on CART skulduggery.

The major doubt in my mind about his achievements is how much of it was influenced by the skulduggery and manipulation of Sir Jack Norris.

On show at the humble studio of the Pleasance in Islington, London, an artsy little venue closer to Cockfosters than Cameron, this play nevertheless manages to capture the broader picture of coalition shortcomings and parliamentary skulduggery with often alarming accuracy.

For a leader whose biggest selling point is that he is unspun and authentic, is there any worse brand damage than an accusation of PR skulduggery backed up by CCTV footage?

The former Daily Mail and Telegraph journalist has also called on insiders to email him with «stories of heroism and skulduggery».

By refusing to engage in the semantic skulduggery of Cameron, Blair et al, Skelton's solution, whilst clearly identifying the party's infirmity and offering a credible treatment, seems to ignore all past remedies prescribed.

«Someone is spreading bad rumors and I don't know if it's because of political skulduggery or confusion or bad information,» Tacopina said.

According to The Prince, which was inspired by the notorious Cesare Borgia, morality is irrelevant in political affairs and skulduggery is justified in the pursuit and maintenance of power.

Competition, greed and skulduggery are the name of the game if you want to eat your fill.

Whether it's the economic unease rumbling underneath «The Florida Project,» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and «Lady Bird,» the political skulduggery of «The Post» or the racial tensions of «Get Out» and «Wind River,» Hollywood did have a little more on its mind than sequels and superheroes.

The situation turns out to have its genesis in Wolverine's experiences in Japan at the end of the second world war; now he finds himself mixed up with corporate skulduggery, yakuza crime, and a neo-Samurai cult of violence, culminating in a showdown in a weirdly designed interior location with high - up walkways and metal galleries whose only architectural function is to let people fall to their deaths.

The classic tale of plucky kids foiling skulduggery at the Lake District is good clean family fun

As director Paul Greengrass explains in his brief introduction to the new edition (the «special» part), he wanted to make a movie that would expose the huge audience for the Bourne thrillers to the real - world skulduggery by which the Bush administration sold the Iraq invasion as a hunt for weapons of mass destruction.

Both parties are trying to convince him of what to put in his will during the final days of his life, leading to blazing rows and skulduggery.

And so a man who apparently did everything slowly now feels the need to rush, as he embarks on an intense period of lobbying — using compromise, manoeuvre and skulduggery to bring the house of representatives behind abolition.

The submarine film, typically entrenched within the confines of a World War II drama, often magnifies claustrophobic pessimism (as in Wolfgang Peterson's magnificent film Das Boot) or the violent clash of political skulduggery (i.e..

Continually embroiled in the sheer ludicrous nature of political skulduggery and the psychotic personalities that often comprise such bodies of government, Iannucci's latest target is his most bold and savage yet: the Stalinist regime of 1953 Soviet Union with The Death of Stalin.

Skulduggery Pleasant is a 700 - year - old skeleton detective who befriends a 12 - year - old girl, Stephanie, to solve the mystery behind the death of Stephanie's uncle.

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant Ace Detective Snappy Dresser Razor — tongued Wit Crackerjack Sorcerer and Walking, Talking, Fire - throwing Skeleton — as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve - year - old.

Other titles include The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey and the Old Kingdom Series by Garth Nix, and for slightly younger fans, the Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy; all contain wisps of magic and are akin to the Harry Potter series.

Up to 9 players can take part in a battle of wits, luck and skulduggery.

It is also a fact that sceptical authors tend to produce more interesting books which tell, possibly fabricated, tales of deceit and skulduggery.

The date and time of the meeting would have been well known to any anti-wind power people who might be interested in skulduggery.