Sentences with phrase «swindled from»

These same women throughout the centuries have been taunted and beaten, swindled from and pounded with garbage when they ventured into the streets.

His wealth was swindled from him by his former promoter, Dante Slate.

A member who plays fast and loose with his campaign account, who cheats a not - for - profit agency out of money his family swindled from it, who makes himself a flashing red target for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara?

There are a lot of smooth talkers who want to swindle you from your hard - earned cash.

Not exact matches

The syndrome, that feeling, this psychological deviation from a person's generally confident self, the inability to internalize achievements or accomplishments, the crediting them to luck, timing or unintended swindling has been around for sometime.

When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $ 100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery.

The person, who was not authorized to speak for attribution, said the office regularly hears from companies that are victims of similar phishing swindles involving fake suppliers, but the Facebook case stood out for its scale.

Two men in South Korea have been sentenced for building a bitcoin pyramid scheme that swindled around $ 20 million from investors.

The folks who financed the Vietnam War deficits got burned the worst — the triumphant return of double - digit inflation swindled them out of nearly a third of the return they were owed from their US Treasury bonds.

Imagine you are a slimeball executive trying to swindle thousands of hardworking, honest, decent shareholders out of their money by siphoning off funds from the company or overstating profits.

Although some businesses offered idyllic - looking settings, a bevy of companies once made more money from swindling their workers than from what they mined or produced.

In South Korea, prosecutors are pursuing a case in which 18,000 people from 54 countries were swindled out of $ 250 million in a scam uncovered last month, according to the Yonhap News Agency.

Twitter, Facebook, and Google are all protecting themselves from being held liable if a scam artist uses their platforms to swindle people.

This is an important skill for humans — it's what keeps us from being swindled, among other things.

Swindle money from him?

According to the aggrieved victims, it is strange that, the opposition leader and his party mounted pressure on government over DKM Microfinance defrauding customers and called for a refund of deposits to the swindled customers, yet failed to demand same from their MP whose bank has gone bankrupt.

As for lawyers, the so - called priests in the temple of justice, from the courtroom rookie to the silk, they are the contemporary equivalent of Eli's wayward sons, Hophni and Phineas, who turned their father's noble ministry into a heinous swindle.

In his alleged Deputy Police Commissioner position, Mr. Spiezio now has tried to swindle the Mount Vernon Taxpayers by requisition for Health Benefits from the City Comptroller.

He further revealed that the Economic and Organised Crime Organisation (EOCO) has managed to retrieve almost GHC 50 million from people who swindled the state in various deals.

The lake and adjacent bog record some 8,000 years of human activity in the vicinity, from the advent of farming millennia ago to the industrial revolution, and remains largely unchanged throughout its history But in the last 50 years, «everything changes,» Swindles says.

The Internet is filled from to artists of swindle, especially online dating places.

Police crack Spain - based phone scam ring that swindled HK$ 10 million from victims in Hong Kong The woman became acquainted with the swindler through an online dating platform last summer, but nine months passed before she...

They continuously pump out new faux dating sites to swindle money from ignorant web users so always stay alert.

So - called scammers (swindlers, who swindle money from people on dating.

A Ghanaian fraudster who posed as an American major general to swindle thousands of pounds from lonely British women he met through online dating sites has been jailed.

The Swindle is a good game on the cusp of greatness, but falters from a structural identity crisis that is hard to ignore.

The film will star Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway as women from different social classes who fight to swindle a naive tech whizz out of his fortune in a «loser leaves town» contest.

From Darlene's detailed account of being used and swindled by record producing giant Phil Spector in the early 60s, to Merry Clayton's humorous retelling of the time she was coaxed out of bed in the dead of night, whilst heavily pregnant, to scream «Rape, murder / It's just a shot away» on The Rolling Stones» track, Gimmie Shelter.

This oddly named but inestimable DVD outfit deserves a shout - out for its industrious and often wondrous efforts as a quality clearinghouse for niche titles that might otherwise fall through the cracks, from music docs (The Great Rock»n' Roll Swindle) to classic television (Freaks and Geeks, SCTV, priceless Dick Cavett collections devoted to film, rock music, and comedy), and definitive comedy compilations (Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor).

Also straying from that site's top demographic, $ 5 a Day is aimed at adult viewers who are willing to consider things like mortality and family while also appreciating a good room service swindle.

The story goes a little something like this & ldots; Dudley (Brendan Fraser), a well intentioned but hapless Mounted Policeman, discovers that his nemesis Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina) has a plot to swindle the land from the locals with a phony gold rush scheme and in the process steal Dudley's girl (Sarah Jessica Parker).

It's a star - studded cast, but Edward Burns (Ash Wednesday, Saving Private Ryan) is front and center, as grifter Jake Vig, who has assembled a crew of swindling thieves to hustle hundreds of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting dupes.

Nicky sees some potential in the rookie, so he invites her to join his crew as they swindle, cheat, and steal from all the unsuspecting tourists and football fans at the big championship game in New Orleans.

Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson violated the city's ethics rules when she solicited a donation from a major food service contractor shortly after a whistleblower lawsuit accused the company of swindling millions of dollars from the school system, according to a ruling from the D.C.'s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability.

The earliest known reference being in an anthology of fables from 1052 that tells of a dishonest merchant who swindles the king by pretending to weave a supernatural garment that can not be seen or touched by any person of illegitimate birth.

Featuring a colorful cast of characters — from identical twin marijuana moguls to a one - armed treasure hunter to a slick oil company rep trying to swindle his own mother — it tells the stories of folk on the fringes, many of whom can only find common ground in their shared desire to carve out a living (some noble, some less so) in their tiny corner of the world.

Jobb tells the true story of Leo Koretz, a silver - tongued attorney from the Roaring»20s who swindled Chicagoans, Bernie Madoff - style, through a get - rich - quick investment scheme.

What appears to be a return on your investment is actually money from another investor who has been swindled.

It was a great business with a temporary problem (one division got swindled and had losses, which threatened to spread to the wider company, but the underlying business was still very sound and the brand value from the customer's view wasn't damaged).

KANSAS — United Airlines wrongly shipped a Kansas - bound pet dog to Japan, the second embarrassment this week for the airline and a «nightmare» for the Swindle family — who are moving from Oregon to Wichita with their beloved pet, a 10 - year - old German shepherd named Irgo.

They are being duped and swindled into believing that the animals they purchase from pet shops come from good breeders and healthy parents.

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He not only offers advice on the best time to buy an airline ticket to get the best price, and how to get a better room at a luxury hotel, Rudy also shares how he was expertly scammed in Buenos Aires while on vacation, and how you can learn from his being swindled.

Rogue Legacy meet Zelda crossed with The Swindle — Swords of Ditto finds originality by borrowing the best from the best and ditches the rest.

There were so many other awesome games this year, from Ori and the Blind Forest to The Swindle, that all deserve recognition in some form or another.

The Swindle gets the aspect of a power fantasy right, since players go from weak thieves that are stealing from the poor to taking down banks over time.

From there Teflon took the lead, taking some time to relate his views on The Swindle, a game he admitted to being rubbish at.

Composer by Tobey Evans (The Swindle), the music for Behold the Kickmen features fast - paced and trippy combinations between dubstep, techno and chiptune mashups that help reinforce the game's departure from traditional soccer / football games.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017, Mal Paso (y Otros Senderos), Espacio El Dorado, Bogotá 2017 Surfin» USA, Halcyon Gallery, London 2016 - 2017 The Great Swindle, AMA Art Museum of the Americas, OAS, USA 2016 Money Talks, Halcyon Gallery, London 2015 Unfinished Business, Halcyon Gallery, London 2015 Embassy of Colombia, London 2014 Tally Sticks Project, Halcyon Gallery, London 2014 Improbable Landscapes, Halcyon Gallery, London 2012 The Great Swindle, Halcyon Gallery, London 2009 The Great Swindle, B - 146 Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland 2008 News from Africa, Arte Consultores, Bogotá 2002 Circle, 108 Fine Art, Miami, Florida, USA 2001 Recent Works, Arte Consultores, Bogotá 1999 Camila, Galería Espacio, Bogotá

He has exhibited widely in Colombia and in Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, the United States, Korea, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Greece, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, presenting the solo shows News from Africa at Arte Consultores in Bogotá (2008) and The Great Swindle at the B - 146 Gallery in Zürich (2009).