Sentences with phrase «with elaborate schemes»

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.

Newborns tend to tire easily and have a quickly shifting attention span, so when planning picture ideas for your newborn baby it is best not to go with any elaborate schemes.

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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.

The CFTC alleges that the company and its employees created an elaborate hoax, paying customers with funds obtained from other customers — the classic indicators of a Ponzi scheme.

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.

It should not be surprising then that Whitehead thought of God as a single actual entity immune to the possibility of loss.59 At least William Christian sees this as the proper Whiteheadian view.60 Nevertheless, Christian's position is challenged by Ivor Leclerc, who argues, in agreement with Hartshorne, that Christian's conclusion is incompatible with the categoreal scheme elaborated in chapter two of Process and Reality.61 Here, according to Leclerc, Whitehead «makes clear» that the category of «subjective perishing» is «necessarily applicable to every actual entity whatever, including God.»

In accordance with John Darby's elaborate scheme of the «end times,» the Jews were expected to convert en masse before the return of Jesus to reign over a Jewish kingdom from Jerusalem for 1,000 years.

But Buchler, again like White - head, does much more than find fault with traditional metaphysics — he elaborates an alternative system of categories.1 Because his alternative categorial scheme is very different, the points Buchler makes in criticism of traditional metaphysics are interestingly different from those made by Whitehead.

Although the present pastor was selected a decade earlier with the hope that he could do something for the young people, and elaborate schemes are made each year to involve the youth, the younger members do not participate as they do in nearby Methodist and Baptist churches.

This week, his takedowns included Queens State Sen. Malcolm Smith, City Councilman Daniel Halloran and Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson in connection with two elaborate alleged bribery schemes, including one that tried to get Smith on the ballot for New York City mayor.

It's a very elaborate scheme that dupes thousands of men into paying for a monthly membership to interact with computer software bots!

I just can't suspend my disbelief enough to go along with the premise that her desire to have sex, specifically with Dale, would consume her every waking moment and drive her to concoct elaborate schemes to make it happen.

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.

And so starts more elaborate and brazen schemes — with one so in - depth that you can't help but applaud the evil genius behind it.

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.

Soderbergh frequently makes his presence felt as a formal annotator — periodically halting the action with freeze - frames, using elaborate color - coding schemes (as if to remind us of The Underneath, much as Keaton reminds us of Jackie Brown), and crosscutting between successive scenes with the same characters (the dialogue in the first becoming offscreen narration in the second), recalling Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (as well as Roeg's mentor Alain Resnais).

This image, along with an elaborate lighting scheme, black shelving fixtures and the antique decorations of our industry really came together to encourage our customers to shop and to spend more time in our store.

But if her intent was to entice, if she wanted my money, if this was all a big elaborate scheme to draw me in with the need to know what soul - seizing secrets awaited me in the back room, then she had me right where she wanted me.

But if her intent was to entice, if she wanted my money, if this was all a big elaborate scheme to draw me in with the need to -LSB-...]

An elaborate Arts and Crafts decorative scheme, with murals and sculptural embellishment, makes it a very special visitor experience.

Now what we can do is 1) develop a sustainable energy economy 2) a) burn all the coal and other fossil fuels, buying us, if we make optimistic assumptions, perhaps a century of ever more elaborate schemes to meet energy needs with less and less suitable sources b) THEN in a severely degraded environment

Karakatsanis J. points to multiple features of the elaborate statutory scheme that might be said to support the alternative interpretation and explains how each of them is nonetheless consistent with the Board's interpretation (if one can call it that), much of which is supported by reference to a decision made by another body that «formerly» had appellate jurisdiction from the Board (at para. 44).

Critics have long claimed Tether is collaborating with the British Virgin Islands - based Bitfinex, one of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges, in an elaborate scheme of fraud and market manipulation.

In an attempt to dispel fears of any association they might have with a pyramid scheme, Bitcoiin2Gen responded to the media's allegations by elaborating that their four level pyramid - like commission structure, where potential investors can earn money by promoting B2G by word of mouth, will only exist during the Initial Coin Offering (ICO).

Reports estimate that between 10 to as much as two dozen midshipmen based at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, near Washington, D.C., were part of an elaborate scheme to supply their peers with...

-LCB- Tricia's holiday pillows -RCB- Although I kept my Christmas decorating to a minimum this year I still wanted some seasonal pillows to go with my color scheme of green, gold, yellow and white (you can get a tour of my quick decorations and Erin's much more elaborate and beautiful ones here).

A looking glass with an elaborate frame makes a striking focal point over a wash basin vanity unit in this otherwise neutral bathroom scheme