Sentences with word «skulduggery»

Derek Landy lives near Dublin, Ireland; the setting for Skulduggery Pleasant, which is his first book.

The date and time of the meeting would have been well known to any anti-wind power people who might be interested in skulduggery.

The situation turns out to have its genesis in Wolverine's experiences in Japan at the end of the second world war; now he finds himself mixed up with corporate skulduggery, yakuza crime, and a neo-Samurai cult of violence, culminating in a showdown in a weirdly designed interior location with high - up walkways and metal galleries whose only architectural function is to let people fall to their deaths.

Scoundrel is a side - scrolling roguelite mashed up with Thief - style skulduggery.

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant Ace Detective Snappy Dresser Razor — tongued Wit Crackerjack Sorcerer and Walking, Talking, Fire - throwing Skeleton — as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve - year - old.

On show at the humble studio of the Pleasance in Islington, London, an artsy little venue closer to Cockfosters than Cameron, this play nevertheless manages to capture the broader picture of coalition shortcomings and parliamentary skulduggery with often alarming accuracy.

Take Bloomberg, for instance, which reported, «The revelations of the apparent skulduggery that helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election keep sending shock waves across the political landscape.»

«Alleged death threats, implied bribes, constituency association ambushes and supposed Progressive Conservative Party skulduggery,» is how a Red Deer Advocate report described the unexpectedly interesting Wildrose Party nomination in the Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundre constituency.

Even though skulduggery was never seriously alleged, the scouts were taken off the air just in case the temptation to pick up Bench's signs on TV and relay them to Yankee hitters became impossible to resist.

USAC backers, of course, placed the blame on CART skulduggery.

Less thuggery and more skulduggery; «working class ballet» as the t - shirts have it.

The hours may well be shorter in the Commons these days, but the appetite for plotting, backbiting and skulduggery remain as strong as ever.

By refusing to engage in the semantic skulduggery of Cameron, Blair et al, Skelton's solution, whilst clearly identifying the party's infirmity and offering a credible treatment, seems to ignore all past remedies prescribed.

Those following the referendum debate from a perspective of informed expertise may rightly feel frustrated and dismayed by such blatant skulduggery.

She's not above a bit of skulduggery when her husband John dies of a heart attack while rowing on an estate pond; she merely weights his body down and sends it overboard.

But Dudley hasn't been brought back for this sequel, unlike the wily spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, played by Geoffrey Rush, who has returned for more Olympic - standard skulduggery.

The classic tale of plucky kids foiling skulduggery at the Lake District is good clean family fun

As director Paul Greengrass explains in his brief introduction to the new edition (the «special» part), he wanted to make a movie that would expose the huge audience for the Bourne thrillers to the real - world skulduggery by which the Bush administration sold the Iraq invasion as a hunt for weapons of mass destruction.

The Scoop: Poor girl tries to make good through skulduggery, while the classic - novel - adaptation genre gets a kick in the pants.

From the moment Skulduggery appears the action heats up and drives the reader relentlessly through the book.

It matters not either way, and Rare will have to come up with a different solution to the respawning skulduggery.

**** Pacific Hydro is a name synonymous with wind industry skulduggery in Australia: the merciless treatment of its victims at Cape Bridgewater has been added to the annals of Australian corporate infamy, right up there with Aussie asbestos pedlar, James Hardie (see our post here).

It secretly harvested the data of tens of millions of Facebook users and may have engaged in all sorts of offline skulduggery, including bribes and sexual blackmail, to help clients win elections.

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: Ace Detective, Snappy Dresser, Razor — tongued Wit, Crackerjack Sorcerer, and, Walking, Talking, Fire - throwing Skeleton!

«Someone is spreading bad rumors and I don't know if it's because of political skulduggery or confusion or bad information,» Tacopina said.

None of its key members are on either the U.S. or European sanctions lists, and the bank has in any case been run at a respectable arm's length from the corporate skulduggery its owners have engaged in elsewhere.

Scoundrel is a side - scrolling roguelite mashed up with Thief - style skulduggery.

Like mean schoolchildren given the run of the country, there was genuine surprise and offence in Westminster at the time - something that does not come easily to a place so used to party politics and all its various methods of skulduggery.

An ex-CIA Moscow station chief, in this week's podcast of «Skulduggery,» says the poisoning of a Russian double agent in England has the signs of a hit by the Kremlin.

If Wenger's Matchday tactics and shrewdness were as good as his transfer market deceptions and skulduggery's, we would have been the champions of Europe by now.

But beneath the royal politics and skulduggery, there were darker layers of life, Choffel says: «Living in the mountains was always hard.

Blaming refs and opponents «skulduggery» FOR OUR REGULAR AWAY DEFEATS esp to top teams, is what Wenger always does.

The major doubt in my mind about his achievements is how much of it was influenced by the skulduggery and manipulation of Sir Jack Norris.

Now Tony has come up with an interesting insight that shows that Tottenham themselves seem to have been involved in some skulduggery.

In Fighters and Quitters, he gleefully sets out the skulduggery and subterfuge that has led various unfortunate politicians to fall on their swords in recent years.

The former Daily Mail and Telegraph journalist has also called on insiders to email him with «stories of heroism and skulduggery».

There's skulduggery of the highest order going on in the House of Lords this afternoon.

The real party - political skulduggery wasn't taking place in the theatrical surroundings of the Commons, but in the gloomy corridors to the side of it.

According to The Prince, which was inspired by the notorious Cesare Borgia, morality is irrelevant in political affairs and skulduggery is justified in the pursuit and maintenance of power.

Competition, greed and skulduggery are the name of the game if you want to eat your fill.

Both parties are trying to convince him of what to put in his will during the final days of his life, leading to blazing rows and skulduggery.

And so a man who apparently did everything slowly now feels the need to rush, as he embarks on an intense period of lobbying — using compromise, manoeuvre and skulduggery to bring the house of representatives behind abolition.