Sentences with phrase «up elaborate schemes»
AS ASTRONOMERS dream up elaborate schemes to detect planets orbiting other stars, the signature of one such planet may have been sitting under their noses.
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Markets became irrational about how profitable the financial sector could become relative to the underlying economy, and in response to these market pressures, finance came up with increasingly elaborate schemes to make money that weren't sustainable.
Waymo came out swinging Wednesday, with attorney Charles Verhoeven accusing Uber of an elaborate cover - up scheme to hide the fact that Brian McClendon, Uber's vice president of mapping, had been in talks with Levandowski before he abruptly quit Google's self - driving car unit in January 2016.
State Sen. John Sampson will be arraigned Monday afternoon in federal court for his alleged involvement in a brazen embezzlement scheme, involving an elaborate cover - up and an attempt to use stolen cash to fund his campaign for Brooklyn District Attorney, investigators revealed Monday.
When a lucrative government contract is set to be awarded by honest government worker Jim Hawley (Tom Selleck), a low - life businessman (Barry Sullivan) attempts to get his hands on the contract by setting Hawley up for an elaborate blackmail scheme.
As he struggles with his conscience, an increasingly alarmed Hoyt begins to suspect that he's not really being given an audition at all; he's being set up as the fall guy in an elaborate scheme.
If there is a central plot thread to Rushmore, it is Max's hopeless love for Rushmore first grade teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams), which leads him to pull off elaborate schemes to win her favor, but instead he ends up getting expelled from his beloved school.
Affleck plays this supposedly brilliant «prince of thieves» who comes up with insanely elaborate criminal schemes, but how, or why - we don't ever find out.
Meanwhile Lady Penelope and Alan Tracy are caught up in an elaborate scheme to ambush the Tracy boys while aboard the inaugural flight of Skyship 1, which provides the film with a travelogue of puppets in exotic art project sets.
We pick up the story of Cid, Darkestville's resident demon and force for evil who spends his days trying to come up with elaborate schemes to make life worse for everybody.
There are no elaborate schemes of shares being exchanged and shell companies being set up, and no sharing of equity or IP from the developer.
Rather, as described in this article, the lawyers were «set up» — or punked through an elaborate scheme: