Sentences with phrase «shady past of»

With the release of Transformers: The Last Knight [read our scathing reviews here and here], it's worth remembering that director Michael Bay has a somewhat shady past of how he cast Megan Fox in the first movie back in 2007.

You can argue that aborting eugenically (handicapped children, poor parents, etc) might be stopping bad investments that would never return their cost of raising to society — but those are always red herrings — and eugenics has a shady past of its own to answer for.

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken action against the fourth Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in the past four months, effectively signaling the end of an era on the cryptocurrency market where shady ICOs have dominated this year's news cycle.

The 48 - year - old has something of a shady past in this aspect, and has been involved in a number of questionable activieis such as money laundering and getting involved in business deals with drug lords.

Oh, and it kind of irritates me when Arsenal Fans say that we don't want Usmanov because he has a shady past — there's lots of hearsay, but AFAIK he made his money in the same way that Abramovich did... I don't see Chelski supporters wanting him kicked out.

Public affairs professionals need to learn lessons of the past and move on from shady deals in Westminster.

Today's big oaks grew up in forest patches that were relatively open; over the past century, these parts of the forest became shadier as villagers abandoned small - scale clearings, which have since become overgrown with hornbeam and other species.

Of course you want a website that has a detailed screening process so you will not be matched with a person who has a shady past.

Though Sullavan suffers from tuberculosis (her shady past is only alluded to), she is encouraged by her male companions to fully enjoy what is left of her life.

In 2005, Rodriguez appeared briefly on the first season of NBC's endlessly enigmatic primetime drama Lost as Ana Lucia Cortez, a tough cop with a shady past.

From the giant screaming spider - scorpion hybrids the «Gladers» call «Grievers,» to the virus - infected zombies they call «Cranks,» to a return of a shady, long - thought - dead character from their past (who could've been an entirely new character and it wouldn't have mattered), to Thomas» middle - finger salute to Janson, the callbacks to the previous two films don't do much but add padding to the narrative.

Every gesture from Howard while struggling to converse, every action he makes a fuss out of to insist upon Michelle and Emmett's gratitude, every single clue that the duo stumble on,... they all zero in on his complex mental issues, as well as his sinful, shady past that could never be brought to light, or maybe Trachtenberg planned for it not to.

When some ill - intentioned characters from Jeff's shadowy past arrive on the scene looking for him, it sets off a riveting chain of events that reunites him with Kathie (Jane Greer, one of the all - time great femme fatales), the slippery girlfriend of powerful and shady Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas).

No, it didn't deserve an Oscar that year, but in terms of spectacle, you get death - defying trapeze acts, clowns with shady pasts, and one of the most incredible train crashes ever on film.

His band of merry - men - with - shady - pasts includes Crease (Sidney Poitier), a former CIA agent; Mother (Dan Aykroyd), a

A shady, scarred old criminal colleague (Danny Rios) fresh out of jail comes looking for Derek, considering him responsible for his 15 - year sentence and demanding the cowboy pay up to hide his past.

The third act is a labyrinth of past transgressions coming to light and shady character motivations, but co - writer / director Ben Affleck, in his directorial debut, somehow manages to let the heart of Lehane's theme rise out of the murky plotting and allows the moral ambiguity of its characters and scenario to have an impact.

You'll uncover the shady pasts and green - eyed and avaricious desires of the game's seven playable characters — if you're willing to play through the game three separate times — as you explore ever deeper while the Cave itself plays the dual roles of court jester and adjudicator.

This feat attracts the attention of Werner Krebs, an art dealer with a dark past and shadier present who becomes Wilmot's friend and patron.

there is still no explanation as to what advantages the PS4 has in AC: U while its running at 900p, if there is no advantages on the PS4 version then we still know ubi gimped the game, it just cant be proven MS made them do it, people are just assuming because of MS having shady deals in the past.

It's perhaps past time that the Steam store started to clean up some of the shadier developers.

But his shady past as a drug dealer is sure to land him in trouble, the kind he can only count on himself to get out of.

Sure, Capcom's DLC plan for the game was equal parts poorly executed and the start of their shady business practices, but when you looked past all that, the game was

Set within a bleak vision of the future dominated by a crime syndicate known only as the Boryokudan, players take control of Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin with a shady past, and Delta - Six aka Charlie, a prisoner in a secret facility who has had his memory wiped clean.

With the opening of the Tate Britain's winter exhibition, Artist and Empire, Britain's rather shady Imperial past is thrown firmly back into the limelight.

It is no secret that BitLicense scrutinizes Bitcoin companies unfairly because of the digital currency's colored past in terms of shady marketplaces and money laundering schemes.

I was «saved» by an industry professional who, when presented with a circumstance (seller who had a documented past of shady bill paying), put in place a mechanism to shield me from a possible pitfall (delayed billing by a municipal water department).