Sentences with phrase «underhand deals»

Unsurprising, given Apple rigged the market through underhand deals with major publishers to prevent anyone undercutting them.

It will be very difficult to abrogate or renegotiate the Ameri power deal until allegations of underhand dealing between the previous government and the Ameri group is established, the African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), has indicated.

Nat Parker (Walken) is an eccentric, by - the - seat - of - his - pants type of guy — a hustler content with a life of schemes and underhanded deals.

There was no underhand dealing, or creative financing involved in the purchase of the home.

Organisations beset with lateral violence are riddled with cliques and underhanded deals.

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

There's a lot of underhanded business dealing, unfair treatment of employees, poor safety and quality standards in products, fudging on taxes, and so on done in the name of «the cost of doing business», or «remaining compet.itive.»

She's soon dealing with the complexities of adolescent social interaction, most of it underhanded and bitchy, while trying to keep her head.

Gleickists (for want of a better term) act on the presumption that when dealing with skeptics, almost any dishonest and underhanded action is okay, or even honorable.

No underhanded money dealing is going to save you from having points added to your license, though a defensive driving class might if you are able to elect that option.

That the company resorted to fake graffiti suggests it certainly wasn't above using underhanded tactics, though the misbehavior it is accused of in the U.S. — inappropriately harvesting 50 million Facebook profiles to beef up its political - data efforts in 2014 — are a great deal more complicated.

This will help many newbies avoid the fallout from the temptations of utilizing slick, underhanded sales techniques that are so often put into practice in order to put together «deals».