Sentences with phrase «swindled when»

Whilst this cynicism may stop us from getting swindled when buying a new car or signing up to a gym membership, this mind - set is essentially pointless when applying for a new job.

There's a reason some dealers have sold these cars at almost 50 - percent above their $ 62,295 sticker price — buyers probably don't feel horribly swindled when they do the math on deliverables for dollars.

Isn't it plausible that the Episcopal Church is declining in large measure because parishioners recognize a theological swindle when they see one?

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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.

Back in the old days, when Uncle Sam swindled his creditors through inflation, he was burning his own taxpayers, since Americans owned over 90 per cent of US debt after World War II.

All alone, with dreams of swindled brothers hampering sleep, or when God commands us first to go and then obstructs the way, or in a limping morning sharp with extra light, we speak of wrestling with an angel, of blessings, of brand new names.

On the other hand, it was a small debacle compared to the time Riggs got taken by a corporate thief in Manhattan for several hundred dollars on a repossessed automobile swindle, or the day in Miami he was cheated out of $ 3,000 when two well - known tennis pros conspired to throw a match he had bet heavily on.

Spurs conned two penalties in their 2 - 2 draw against Liverpool at the weekend when firstly Harry Kane and secondly Erik Lamela threw themselves about in order to «exaggerate / instigate contact» to successfully swindle themselves a couple of uncontested efforts on goal.

However, when the victim returned with his wife for the key to the room two days later, they realized that they had been swindled.

The FBI said Harris swindled local and federal agencies out of «thousands of dollars... (and) at a time when many residents in her district were dealing with the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Harris was busy brewing a storm of her own, one that resulted in her receiving significant payouts by the very federal agency charged with helping those truly in need.»

When are consumers going to learn that they are being swindled?

It is much easier to swindle people on a site when there is no limit to how much is shared between users.

However, be careful to ensure you are dealing with the site itself when you hand over your money so you are not swindled by someone pretending to be them.

Made when he was just twenty - nine, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's twenty - second feature, Fox and His Friends, showcases the New German Cinema icon in front of the camera as a working - class gay man who wins the lottery and falls prey to a swindling, bou...

The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman).

When she got pregnant and was summarily dumped by the work - obsessed Jobs, Chrisann had to take her increasingly wealthy ex to court to prove paternity — and then, after a DNA test determined a 94 - plus percent probability of Jobs being the child's father, she had to endure Jobs» insinuation in the press that — to put it only slightly more crassly than he did at the time — he was being swindled by a crazy, gold - digging slut.

The three most interesting characters are the gun - wielding, end - of - the rope Kyle; his pissed - with - a-twist girlfriend played by Emily Meade (who provides the film a lift when it's needed); and Caitriona Balfe as Diane Lester, the communications officer for the evil corporation at the heart of the swindle.

Joining forces with a fellow thief, she plans to swindle the heiress out of her fortune, only to run into complications when she falls head - first into a passionate lesbian love affair.

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.

Amazon Kindle (Swindle), Sony Reader (Sh - reader), and others are all competing to control how, what, and when we can read with their competing Digital Restrictions Management technologies.

I've done it for you: I've trudged through countless books and blogs focused on «how to self - publish» and more specifically, «when and how to get the professional help you need to self - publish a high - quality piece of work without getting swindled» and have boiled it all down into three short articles.

But it's a different world now, people see corporations swindle the average joe everyday with impunity, so they have little empathy for «lost revenues» when they copy a song, movie, or book.

They have a great approval rating and have pretty average APRs and fees when it comes to payday loans, so you know you aren't getting swindled.

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

When people propose to offset growing emissions by building soils or burying wood, it's a swindle.

When such people are influential in policy and science, and they do the kinds of things that people in the «Global Warming Swindle» or similar videos have done, it's just criminal.

This became a personal issue when the man who commissioned The Great Global Warming Swindle, Hamish Mykura, appeared on the Today programme to defend the film.

That was until March 2007, when The Great Global Warming Swindle was broadcast, backed by a massive promotional campaign.

The State Government has been allowed to perpetrate the biggest swindle on this state by positioning itself as our power saviour, when it was in fact the creator of our destruction.

When the great global warming swindle aired in britain, 37 scientists signed a petition and sent it to BBC to complain and ask that the show never be aired again.

When Channel 4 ran one single show (called the «Global Warming Swindle») which outlined parts of the skeptics» position, 37 scientists attempted to have it suppressed by the government.

I sometimes feel I have been led, lied to and swindled out of some of my forty year understanding of physics, constantly being reminded, no told, from all sides that O2, N2 & argon do not and can not radiate, even when combined as an atmosphere.

And it's no different when it comes to cryptocurrency - fraudsters and phishers spend their days thinking up new and ingenious methods to swindle innocent people out of their coins.