Sentences with phrase «rely on a conspiracy»

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The realization that the feds have been trying to track Bitcoiners for years is no doubt concerning to anybody who relies on Bitcoin's privacy guarantees (and vindicating to the NSA conspiracy theorists), and it's a good example of how being extremely paranoid doesn't necessarily mean you're completely wrong.

The Nunes memo alleges that this surveillance was not properly vetted by the court; specifically, that it relied on the now - infamous Steele dossier, the document prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele alleging the existence of a conspiracy between Donald Trump and the Russian government.

In a recent commentary on al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Thomas Joscelyn noted that «the ideology that fuels al Qaeda's hate... relies on a paranoid and delusional view of the world in which an imaginary «Zionist - Crusader» conspiracy seeks to impose its will on Muslims.»

Here I have to rely on impressionistic evidence and do not want to attribute larger trends simply to a secularist conspiracy.

Those that want their team to win every game and as many trophies as possible to impress their mates down the pub and assume the bragging rights, probably never seen the inside of a football stadium, but whine and resort to conspiracy theories and abuse when their team isn't doing so well, rely on instant gratification to get by each day and imagine that they are on some self - righteous mission to cure all the non-believers whilst simultaneously sitting on their arses banging away on their keyboards, doing zilch to help their noble cause other than shout, and are totally oblivious to the energy they are wasting and the delusional futility of it all.

Clinton and Stein acted in response to reports that Russian hackers might have tampered with electronic voting machines, while Trump appears to have been relying on bulletins from discredited conspiracy theory site Infowars.

Patiently building the tension, relying on a truly wonderful script, on the legendary Vilmos Zsigmond's phenomenal photography, on impressive acting by the protagonist as well as John Lithgow and Nancy Allen, wisely steering clear from underestimating the audience at any point, De Palma creates an ambiance so nerve - shattering, a ride so downright exciting that, as we observe how the plot develops on the screen, we can't help feeling a part of the conspiracy ourselves, terrified and adrenaline - pumped at the same time.

Before the conspiracy kicked in, Amazon's fabled «90 % share» of early 2009 (the result of the Oprah boost) had already been wittled away by Nook — they bragged of 26 % in spring 2010, reporting pre-conspiracy sales — and a small crowd of independents relying on interoperable epub, to a level I saw quoted as 54 %.

The only line on the page relating to Brulle's Conspiracy is the claim that «Most people rely on secondary sources for information, especially the mass media; and some of these sources are affected by concerted campaigns against policies to limit CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions, which promote beliefs about climate change that are not well - supported by scientific evidence.»

Instead they rely on simply muddying the waters with screams of deceit and conspiracies, essentially propaganda to confuse the laymen.

Now, if I relied on the above photos to say there's a conspiracy to fund a misinformation campaign about the certainty of man - caused global warming, nobody would take me seriously.

21 Both parties rely on R. v. Cotroni (1979), 45 C.C.C. (2d) 1 (S.C.C.), at pp. 17 — 18, where the Supreme Court of Canada defined conspiracy in the following way:

To support its claim against me of conspiracy, Kinder Morgan relied on two Facebook postings written by unnamed individuals, and a quote from a newspaper article in which I expressed my own opinion about civil disobedience.

In this case, however, the U.S. government has not relied on the classification of conspiracy as an international law offense.

The sentencing judge, however, found that they had engaged in the charged conspiracy and, relying largely on that finding, imposed sentences that petitioners say were many times longer than those the Guidelines would otherwise have recommended.