Sentences with phrase «plead poverty»

«The # 1bn loss we are likely to see on this sale allows Osborne to continue to plead poverty and inflict more spending cuts on those least able to afford them, while the bankers walk away with a tidy profit.

The attempt to plead poverty will fall on deaf ears in Wales, where we already have the highest energy bills of anywhere in the UK.

I know people who are able to do their own work or hire someone to do it, but plead poverty, inability or whatever to get others to help them for free.

Maybe they can move the old Arch Bishop who covered it up out, make him a cardinal, then make his replacement a cardinal for gladhanding the victims and sweeping things under the rug... then plead poverty and go about a few punitive church closings to teach the lay parishoners not to stand up to them no matter what their crimes... like they did here in Massachusetts.

Yes when will dumbo's stop pleading poverty.

For six years Hein has pleaded poverty, even in the face of rising tuition levels.

Monserrate — who pleaded poverty after losing his plum position in the Senate — played coy when asked whether he owned the place.

You come to the hearing with pockets turned inside - out, pleading poverty and asking for more time.

Pleading poverty, the M.T.A. has for months now pointed to a $ 15 billion hole in its $ 32 billion proposal to fix the region's mass transit system over the next five years.

The City government pleads poverty, and even environmentalist Gord Perks says to Eye Weekly: «I would certainly support this if it's not interfering with competing priorities.»

The changes to the fee remission regime in civil cases is mirrored in family cases although county councils pleading poverty on the ground they have had to buy new caps for their traffic enforcement officers will be given short shrift.

Not exact matches

In 2 Corinthians 8, we are told of the churches of Macedonia, and of their pleading with Paul to give beyond their means in the face of extreme poverty to assist the believers in Jerusalem.

Silver's longtime pal, William Rapfgoel, pleaded guilty in 2014 to grand larceny and other charges for pocketing $ 3 million in his own, unrelated scam in which he ripped off the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty by inflating insurance premiums.

Also a leading Cancel at that meeting was Mr. Silver's former chief of staff, Judy Rapfogel — wife of his close friend William Rapfogel, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to using his post as CEO of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty to embezzle $ 9 million.