Sentences with phrase «shadowy groups»

Among the biggest victims are shadowy groups that profited handsomely from the unique opportunity to arbitrage cryptocurrency in Korea.

The NYT slams the «shadowy group organized as New York City Is Not for Sale» that's running a negative ad campaign against Democratic mayoral frontrunner Chris Quinn.

I already wrote to raise serious concerns about the ERG before, and since then its last Head, Suella Fernandes, has been appointed a Brexit minister - showing just how much influence this shadowy group has in government.

Under Northern Irish electoral law, the source of this dark money has remained secret but we do know that money came through the Constitutional Research Council, a shadowy group chaired by Richard Cook, a former vice chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

Now, a shadowy group organized as New York City Is Not for Sale is attempting to influence this year's mayoral race with a secretive, independent committee much like those that have so tainted federal elections in recent years.

Blair Underwood stars as the newly elected president who plans to defy counsel and free a shadowy group of aliens imprisoned for decades by the United States government.

The plot involves a convoluted one by a shadowy group to save Gotham City by destroying it, the villains no doubt having taken a leaf out of the military planners of the Vietnam war's book.

A remarkable portrait of a despicable man, the terrorist Carlos («the Jackyl»), who from 1975 to 1994 directed a shadowy group of violent militants that dealt in kidnapping and murder.

The scientist wants to use his software to benefit mankind, but a shadowy group called «The Shop,» wants to use it to create an invincible war machine.

Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains.

But the FBI, especially Deputy Assistant Director Kate Bannon, needs help with a shadowy group that has initiated a brilliant extortion plot.

There is this shadowy group of people and travel agencies that will buy your miles and points from you to book travel for their clients.

It is a front for a shadowy group used to watch others through surveillance cameras and compromised webcams.

Spanish law officers are reporting that they have taken into custody three leaders of the vast, shadowy group of computer hacking ne'er - do - wells collectively known as Anonymous.

Pokemon Alpha Sapphire & Omega Ruby (3DS): Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire will take players on a journey like no other as they collect, battle and trade Pokémon while trying to stop a shadowy group with plans to alter the Hoenn region forever.

Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire (3DS): Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire will take players on a journey like no other as they collect, battle and trade Pokémon while trying to stop a shadowy group with plans to alter the Hoenn region forever.

Except that you lose an arm and an eye in combat, are left for dead and brought back to life as a cyborg by a shadowy group to end the zombie apocalypse.

Origins takes the series back to its very roots, as we meet Bayek of Siwa, an Egyptian Medjay who loses his son to a shadowy group of people and then seeks to get revenge.

The shadowy group, known as the Internet Research Agency, placed ads believed to have been seen on at least 10 million Facebook users» news feeds.

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He was part of the team that uncovered how a shadowy company called NSO Group had created the Pegasus hack and sold access to it to a nasty band of customers across the globe.

Why would anyone use a virtual currency that has no «real» value, and is based on a system run by a group of shadowy hackers?

When the shadowy Chinese group started to accumulate DB shares in February 2017, the situation at the bank was grave — and had been for years.

Like Egypt, it is a large Muslim nation and home to extremist groups like Jemaah Islamiyah that is more shadowy and violent than Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

Before announcing his candidacy, he met with leaders of the «Council for National Policy,» a shadowy right - wing Christian group of which Tim LaHaye is a co-founder.

Democratic Congressional candidate Sean Patrick Maloney is tying Rep. Nan Hayworth to House Speaker John Boehner, suggesting that she's on the verge of receiving a «bailout» from the Ohio Republican and «shadowy conservative groups.»

Labour First, shadowy right - wing Old Labour group run by John Spellar got in first (though the mouth of former Labour national executive member Luke Akehurst), describing the new group as «a slap in the face for grassroots campaigners ``.

The poll cited seven different possible rationales for rejecting Cuomo: the Moreland Commission scandal, cuts in school aid, tax cuts, his alliance with a «shadowy» group called the Committee to Save New York, his donations from Republicans including the Koch Brothers and Ken Langone, his support for charter schools, and his «values,» which show he «caters to the wealthy and corporations.»

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

A shadowy Independent Expenditure group run by a «charitable» charter school advocate organization is said to be aiding Cabrera.

Just as we saw with the shadowy outside groups that are pouring in outside money to prop up Mr. Stringer's flailing candidacy, this ad is another sign that that establishment is getting nervous that an independent voice fighting for the people's interest will soon be in the comptroller's office.

Court decisions also helped usher in a new era of shadowy financing of political activity by so - called «social welfare» groups.

We exposed the shadowy links of the donor group that gave DUP that «dark money» during the Brexit campaign.

Then the Russian Business Network, a shadowy Moscow cyber - criminal group, came under suspicion in media reports.

Covered in dark colors and a creepy atmosphere, Twilight Town was the home to a mysterious group of people that quietly inhabited the area in their shadowy forms.

Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation finds jumping Tom Cruise uncovering the existence of a group of evil super-spy types («The anti-IMF» in the trailer's parlance) and joining up with his fellow crime fighters to take on the shadowy cabal.

When Dr Mireles is sidelined by a plane crash, a shadowy power - sharing agreement is reached between the group and the government.

It lurks unseen in the shadowy cracks and crevices of Hanging Rock, waiting to ensnare a group of innocent schoolgirls and their unsuspecting math teacher.

Funded by Byer's shadowy research group, a pharmaceutical company has used behaviour modification to create a new breed of pumped - up, hyper - intelligent field agent.

That means The Academy is basically the not - so - shadowy cabal that runs Hollywood, breaking hearts and making dreams come true with a little bit of Oscar glory, and it's also the group that takes the blame for things like the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.

Director David Robert Mitchell's follow - up to his breakout movie, the creepily elegant horror film «It Follows,» is something of a change of pace: When a young man (Garfield) befriends a mysterious neighbor at his Los Angeles apartment complex (Keough), and she disappears the next day, he sets off on a surreal search for her through a La - La Land populated, in the words of the film's publicity material, by «dog killers, aspiring actors, glitter - pop groups, nightlife personalities, «it» girls, memorabilia hoarders, masked seductresses, homeless gurus, reclusive songwriters, sex workers, wealthy socialites, topless neighbors and the shadowy billionaires floating above (and underneath) it all.»

Little do they know that the area is contained and controlled by a group of scientists and engineers lead by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins, for sinister and shadowy purposes.

Conspiratorial group of shadowy foreign exchange traders with controlling market share of the forex market in a country,

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog, recently reported that «wealthy campaign contributors and shadowy electioneering groups» spent nearly $ 10 million in Wisconsin over the past decade to back parental school choice.

Of the total amount of money Charters Care raised, the majority came from Education Reform Now, a shadowy New York based «Dark Money» group that refuses to identify its donors.

Set once again in the well - wrought environs of Lippman's beloved Baltimore, it is the shadowy tale of a group of onetime friends forced to confront a dark past they've each tried to bury following the death of one of their number.

on Prop B. «Voters deserve straight information about the cruelty of Missouri's puppy mills, not garbled falsehoods from shadowy front groups that don't even identify themselves on the phone.»

After watching his family crushed to death by a Line Piece in the Border Wars of 2347, the grizzled soldier finds himself inducted into a shadowy paramilitary group who know, full well, that the blocks will return one day to threaten mankind and her colonies.

At a certain point in the shadowy early history of Hyrule, a group of magicians called the Interlopers found out that the Triforce was hidden in the Sacred Realm and tried to invade the Realm to take control of the Triforce's legendary powers.

The visuals are subpar in places, but the overall aesthetic makes creeping through the shadowy, blood - soaked wreckage with a group of Marines a real nail - biter.

By way of overview, Banner Saga follows two separate groups as they trek across a land ravaged by shadowy, armoured monsters called dredge (second from the right).