Sentences with phrase «other sordid»

There were a number of others that ranged from an employee lawsuit that I had to settle because I did not have the right insurance in place, the sale of my business to the wrong person, and many other sordid tales.

It's time it went the way of dog fighting, trafficking in illegal drugs, slavery, prostitution, child labor, dumping of pollutants onto land or waterways and other sordid practices.

It also discourages corruption and other sordid practices.

Not exact matches

Within the entertainment world in the UK, it began with the sordid child abuse revelations about Jimmy Saville, and it's featured other one - time heroes such as Bill Cosby along the way.

Some express their search in their automobile shrines, while others kneel at the altar of Superlative Experience: they're seeking the highest high, the biggest vehicle, the most extreme sport, the most sordid confession on a reality show.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Joe Kennedy, was a bootlegger, and there are others who have a sordid history of crookedness.

That is another untruth added to all the other untruths in this sordid crisis.

For some it became the screen saver of choice for others it served an entirely more sordid purpose.

The mayor unveiled his committee on how the city should deal with the sordid histories of statues other public memorials, but it seems the group will recommend guidelines rather than committing a full review.

The fact is that since he came into the consciousness of Nigerians as an adult child of the First Republic politician, the late Remi Fani - Kayode (a.k.a Fani - Power), the circumstances of his appearance has been tainted by one sordid tale or the other.

Instead, Silver signed a confidential agreement to settle complaints by two former staffers — which later sparked criminal and civil investigations that revealed sordid details about Lopez» harassment of other former employees.

He also denied the sordid allegations that other correction officers were getting busy during business hours.

Sordid End is currently not in stock, but other Blue - Eyed Girl Lacquers can be purchased from their shop.

In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing — a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press — and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood.

Lincoln is largely concerned with the sordid business of trying to add enough vulnerable Democratic votes to those of the Republicans to amass the supermajority needed to pass the 13th Amendment — if necessary, with threats, offers of positions and other inducements short of direct vote buying.

There is something special about how people treat each other in small towns, unless you have a sordid past then it can be cruel.

I've been letting this one simmer a bit today to see what other details pop up, and unfortunately, the situation seems to have only gotten more confusing and sordid.

But Metroid has a bit of a sordid history when it comes to its leading lady, even before Other M turned the brave bounty hunter in our minds into the fragile malcontent on the screen (see: Justin Bailey).

The title of British artist Jane Simpson's recent exhibition, «My Inheritance and Other Bloody Tales,» might have been cribbed from one of a recent crop of British books recounting sordid sagas of familial dysfunction.

I could go into detail about application crashes, frustrating hardware, the sordid Android Market (I wouldn't let my kids browse through it), and other annoyances, but suffice to say that it simply didn't measure up to the expectations I've developed from using Apple devices.