Sentences with phrase «schemer with»

The fangs are fully bared when failure represents the rapid descent of an audacious schemer with a giant ego; this despite the fact that we all know that one must have an impossible will if he is to believe he can start his own car company, lo these last hundred and twenty years or so.

As the face of the social - Darwinist wing of the local charter movement, she's been cast as the grim reaper of moribund neighborhood schools, a witting tool of privatizing billionaires, and a Machiavellian schemer with her sights set on the mayoralty.

Not exact matches

CNBC's Diana Olick takes a look at how some digital schemers have been able to target real estate agents, title companies and homebuyers with fraudulent emails in an attempt to divert down payment money to other accounts.

Maybe young workers being trolled by get - rich - quick schemers has something to do with the transformation of the US entry - level job into a benefit - free, full - time, unpaid internship on a «parent grant...

Since the first pay - per - click ad was generated, some nefarious schemer has attempted to defraud legitimate businesses out of budget by clicking on ads with absolutely no intent of purchase or interest in the products being advertised.

Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein won't get any reduction in his 50 - year federal prison sentence despite arguing he deserved one for cooperating with the feds, who say he lied to them, a judge ruled Monday.

(It's nice to be with schemers and dreamers outside the fence lines.

In fact, here is what one commentator said: «Here is a woman who is willing to stay in Persia and sleep with a heathen king, rather than to return to Israel and become the wife of a godly Israelite — she is a schemer and a manipulator.

That is not necessarily because Americans are in a reactive or isolationist mood - although many certainly are - but because they are disillusioned with political schemes and schemers.

In other words, as far as the executors and schemers of the terrorist act, it was a repayment for all the insults against Islamic faith, and for the injury to Islamic communities brought about by the USA and its Western allies in collaboration with several Muslim regimes in the Middle East.

I thought the melty marshmallows were great on their own... but it's also good with a schemer of peanut butter.

Indeed, Zidane — as he revealed in an interview with Fifa.com in April 2015 — is known to be a big admirer of the silky schemer.

Although, with the mind to complete that Rubik's cube, maybe he will become a schemer in the mould of Andrea Pirlo or Xavi.

Spurs are not alone in their interest of the young schemer as Everton have also been mentioned in connection with Brahimi.

Arsenal have both direct players, schemers and wrigglers to take on the West Hammers on Saturday at their Bolyn ground as they'll collect all the hammers in the hands of the West Hammers and hammer them with the hammers thoroughly by: WHFC 0 - 5 AFC at FT 90m +.

However it has also been suggested that the Turin club do have a contingency plan should they fail to prise Oscar away from west London, with Real Madrid schemer Isco second on their wishlist.

Arsenal's search for a midfielder has seen them linked with a plethora of talented players including Aleksandr Golovin and Max Meyer, but Rabiot is an old target of the club but the latest midfield schemer to also be targeted by the Gunners.

Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce has demanded improvements from his players, with the former Bolton schemer believing some individuals are letting the rest of the team down with their lacklustre efforts in a Blackburn shirt.»

Today, I'm sharing a very festive crostini recipe at The Flair Exchange — a schemer of pumpkin puree, along with other tasty ingredients so that I can get my pumpkin fix, without overdoing it so early into the season.

Barnum, the son of a poor tailor, grows up to become a wily dreamer and schemer played with full - throated energy by Jackman, who attacks his upper vocal register with the freedom of someone who has no immediate plans to play Wolverine again.

That said, the performances are excellent, with Julianne Moore fully deserving her Best Actress gong at Cannes for her portrayal of a disturbed, insecure but utterly ruthless schemer.

Gripping the whip with appalling pleasure is John, who seduces the lady of the house into his bed as a boyish dreamer desperate for a taste of the finer things, then reveals himself to be a petty schemer who wants only what he can't have.

«Miss Sloane» explores the rot of our political system, with Jessica Chastain in a strong performance as one of its chief schemers.

Wendell Baker is a Texas schemer whose latest gig finds him selling official - looking driver's licenses, complete with holographic touches, to illegal Mexican immigrants.

Hoffman embraces the opportunity with the same relish he brought to cryptic schemers in «The Master» and «Before the Devil Knows You're Dead,» among many other brilliant performances.

Thandie Newton plays Condoleezza Rice as a birdlike twit; Jeffrey Wright gives Colin Powell the compromised dignity of a man who realizes — too late — that he has cast his lot with thieves; Richard Dreyfuss» smirking Cheney is a cold hearted schemer who loves only oil; and nerdy Toby Jones enacts Karl Rove as a perverse policy wonk who gets a kick out of his Machiavellian brainstorms.

The Wild, Wild West, a frontier filled with dreamers, convicts, schemers and entrepreneurs.

One man, however - a world - weary war hero with nothing to lose - has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten... Meanwhile, in two other Venices - Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today - two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret....

Orphaned as a child, along with her younger brother Gide, her life revolves around protecting him and surviving among cut - throat killers and power - hungry schemers in post-revolutionary Paris.

Dogs have been labeled as devious schemers who try to boss you around, so you are encouraged to be very tough and rigid in your interactions with them.

Those five months in a leaky tent sparked an insatiable curiosity that has since carried him to more than 70 countries for countless interviews with tortured folk heroes, wily schemers, and North Korean skiers.

If you only surround yourself with dreamers and schemers, then you run the risk of losing your common sense.

Scott Rothstein, now - accused Ponzi schemer extraordinaire, carted me around town in his Bentley Continental, stopping first at a local elementary school, where we met with Governor Charlie Crist, after he gave a short press conference.

Pasta making with the vacation schemers.

Waiting until your boss is around before showing off your knowledge or sharing your expertise is unlikely to go down well with colleagues — and they will start to resent you as being a schemer.