| 单词 | chicanery |
| 例句 | The amount of chicanery it would take to slip prom past her mother ... it boggled the mind. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z In their zeal to avoid resurrecting the sport’s reputation for chicanery, they tried to bury the incident. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They were irritatingly garrulous, prone to fits of chicanery, and often surprisingly incompetent at what seemed to Indians like basic tasks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes a little subterfuge and chicanery is in order and the quickest way to achieve one’s goal. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Char watched over him and intervened when necessary to save him or his victims from the consequences of his chicanery. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Midnight meetings, riverbank chicanery, intrigue at the crossroads. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In his glory days, Carpenter elevated the ploys and chicanery of his trade to a devilish art. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We all thought Black Widow might be resurrected via cosmic chicanery after her entanglement with the soul stone in Avengers: Infinity War. Is Black Widow really Scarlett Johansson's final Marvel turn? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The story was sensational — about the worst of Wall Street chicanery and excess. Why artist Fred Tomaselli talks back to the New York Times 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Still, excess hardly matters when there’s so much to enjoy and learn from in this encyclopedic anatomy of American imposture and chicanery. Liars, hucksters and fake news are nothing new: a history lesson in hoaxes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z This is not some type of "pot, meet kettle" chicanery. Tiffany Cross was too real for MSNBC 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Its observations on the chicanery of Whitehall are as cute as ever. What to say about ... Yes, Prime Minister 2010-05-25T10:21:00Z Written and directed by Jeff Reichert and outfitted with a pounding soundtrack and flashy graphics, it examines the legal chicanery by which electoral districts are modified for political purposes. | 'Gerrymandering' : The Dark Art of Drawing Political Lines 2010-10-14T23:29:00Z There’s no reason to suspect chicanery, but what’s wrong with the show has everything to do with its derivation from one man’s decidedly idiosyncratic collection. Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z In the moment that the Masts’ aesthetic conjures, food was an anxious proposition, unregulated and rife with chicanery—lead in the red candy, chalk in the milk. The Way Forward for Hipster Food 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Their shabby Washington State town is a grim dead end whose residents all seem to supplement their meager incomes through crime, be it dealing drugs or white-collar chicanery. Review: In ‘7 Minutes,’ From Jay Martin, a Bank Robbery Plan Implodes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But this is still a remarkable play that starts out by exposing the grubby chicanery of professional football and ends by revealing the terrifying power of English working-class motherhood. The Game 2010-09-26T20:29:00Z “Suffice to say, more political chicanery right before the election,” Castor wrote in an e-mail responding to Constand’s allegations. Cosby accuser sues Pa. prosecutor who declined to pursue charges 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z In this absorbing exercise in literary chutzpah, Silva brings his Israeli spymaster Gabriel Allon back again for more bloodletting and realpolitik chicanery on behalf of Israel and the Western Alliance. Review | Looking for a summer thriller? Here are 9 picks for your beach bag. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z These same people couldn’t wait to see films like “The Big Short” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” about the financial chicanery and decadence of rich white crooks. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z What’s ingenious is how the film unexpectedly implodes the chicanery early on, and then watches the fireworks. ‘Skate Kitchen,’ ‘Night Moves’ and More Streaming Gems 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z In between, he and Hawkins diabolically mess with your eagerness to sympathize, getting you to endorse their characters’ petty chicaneries and laugh at their string of improvements on Lincoln’s assassination. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The distance from actual consequences makes the market chicanery seem more abstract and palatable. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 7: Greed Is Good. Except When It’s Not. 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl — a pair of boundlessly eager, profoundly unrepentant aspirants to the dankest depths of political chicanery — were watching television together the other day when something caught Burkman’s eye. Meet the GOP operatives who aim to smear the 2020 Democrats — but keep bungling it 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z But there is vanity at stake here too, as was clear when 6ix9ine took on his next antagonist, Billboard, accusing the trade publication of chicanery in tabulating its charts. 6ix9ine, the Chaos Agent 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Unlike the first movie, made before the 1987 crash, this Wall Street decries financial chicanery from the ethical altitude afforded by hindsight. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z But, in these great Delhi movies, he explores the desire, chicanery, and putative quick-wittedness that animates that city in the new millennium. Amit Chaudhuri: 'How I learned to love Bollywood' 2013-07-25T19:00:01Z Lillian Hellman’s great potboiler about greed and chicanery in small-town Alabama in 1900 allows plenty of opportunity for camping it up wickedly, and with a Southern drawl to boot. Turn the Living Room into a Stage: Read Plays Out Loud 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Eventually, however, his chicanery attracted the attention of the Bureau of Investigation — predecessor to the FBI — and the fake Indian deemed it prudent to shift his operations to Europe, first dumping Burtha. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Weissmann and his team puzzled over why Manafort kept hiding this particular instance of chicanery after admitting to others, thereby jeopardizing his own plea deal. A Prosecutor’s Backstage Tour of the Mueller Investigation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “The book gave me a point of entrance — my first, I imagine — into the world of resistance to political and economic injustice and chicanery,” Mr. Kushner wrote. Ronni Solbert, Children’s Book Illustrator, Dies at 96 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The dramatization of the behind-the-scenes chicanery of political campaigns, moreover, has a peculiar antipolitical cynicism. “Widows,” Reviewed: Steve McQueen Grafts Heist Film 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The nominating process begins when record companies submit their artists for consideration in specific categories after strategizing to increase the odds of winning more trophies; then the academy scrutinizes the submissions for chicanery. How Best Rock Performance Became One of the Grammys’ Weirdest Races 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z That utterly contemporary musical was inspired a little by Kennedy gossip and a lot by the gripping chicanery of ancient Rome in “I, Claudius.” Song and dance as a political ‘Fix’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z It remains a riveting, alarming tale of massive chicanery and petty vendetta, or, as Nixon Library historian Timothy Naftali puts it: "'House of Cards' on steroids." 'Dick Cavett's Watergate' a showcase of TV host's tenacity 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Though both books have intricate plots, “Bring Up the Bodies” has greater intimacy, wit, chicanery and malice. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z Where The Hangover had Mike Tyson and tigers in hotel rooms, Date Night has rooftop chicanery and high speed car chases - motifs we have seen a billion times before. You review: Date Night 2010-04-26T14:24:00Z She warned of chicanery with the voting system, while wearing a ByChari necklace that spelled out “vote.” Perspective | Michelle Obama’s speech was like an empathetic neighbor expressing sorrow for what our country has become 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Going into the season it seemed as if “Junk,” Ayad Akhtar’s panoramic look at financial chicanery, would be a play of the moment. Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But Montalbano owes his success less to brain power than to his idiosyncratic approach to police procedure, which combines integrity and chicanery in roughly equal measure. Review | Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel ‘Riccardino’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Michael Douglas is back as ruthless corporate raider Gordon Gekko, but this time taking the blame for financial chicanery are the major money center banks and those who run them. "Money Never Sleeps" faces hard time on Wall Street 2010-09-22T12:33:00Z Though the episode is most frequently described as a Ponzi scheme, the film also lays out evidence of extensive money laundering and other financial chicanery. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: A Unique Perspective on the Madoff Meltdown 2013-04-25T14:00:34Z Stewart’s commentary was built around an extended comparison of political chicanery and a street-corner hustle. Jon Stewart was born to bash Obama 2010-06-22T18:25:00Z I discussed the 1876 election with a teacher, comparing the chicanery from the Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden campaigns with the actions of Bush and his crew. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z “Better Call Saul” forgoes most of the mortal tension built up in the previous three hours and focuses on Jimmy McGill’s approach to professional growth, which is built on a very theatrical bit of chicanery. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Don't Worry Saul, It's All Good, Man 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z All children eventually question lies their parents have told them, but the Fangs take that chicanery to a whole new level. Books of The Times: Mom and Dad and the Two Kids They Damage 2011-08-03T22:00:29Z Her evidently brainwashed and spoiled sons worship their scheming matriarch and are oblivious to her chicanery. Review: Mom's a drag in lively 'The Silver Cord' 2013-06-12T21:46:11Z Before there was an internet where fans could find up-to-date information, bands engaged in outright chicanery. Reunion Tour! The Band Is Back! Wait, Who Are These Guys? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The word Wednesday is named for the Germanic god Woden — the ruler and war god who loves a relentless quest as much as chicanery or any sort of artifice and he eschews law or rules. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z A company that almost went belly up two years ago, San Diego has now passed through an era of chicanery and is gradually finding new footing. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z They experienced adolescence, developed powerful mother-and-child bonds, and used political chicanery to get what they wanted. Jane Goodall: 50 years working with chimps 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z We’ll be back to discuss the results of this chicanery ten years from now. The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the Decade 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Phenomena that Western culture classifies as chicanery or nonsense, like magic arts, voodoo, and sorcery, are considered normal in other cultures. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z Box office, DVD and TV sales are taken into account, but marketing costs are not, since they are apparently "susceptible to accounting chicanery". Shia LaBeouf offers most 'bang for the buck', says poll 2010-08-31T10:10:00Z Perhaps fiction and memoir, more than criticism, provide space for female writers to dissect all that is maddening and wonderful about popular music: the spectacle, the chicanery, the beautiful lies it tells us. The World Needs Female Rock Critics 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z His latest work, “Junk,” which was nominated for a 2018 Tony Award for best play, and explores the impact of Wall Street chicanery in the 1980s, has already been presented in Hamburg and Munich. Ayad Akhtar Gets a European Welcome, With Conditions 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z A piece of chicanery that neither she nor Paul is aware of turns her into an overnight political star. Movie Review: ‘Knife Fight,’ With Rob Lowe and Carrie-Anne Moss 2013-01-25T02:18:00Z It's a riveting story of personal hubris and political chicanery. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer ? review 2011-03-06T00:10:59Z She wants to explore that indeterminate zone that separates the upper atmosphere of chicanery from the faith that lies beyond. ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ review: A gothic tale in the woods of New York 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z With precision, gentle humor and some sly cinematic chicanery, Hogg and her brilliant actress turn something that looks ordinary into something quite extraordinary. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z He was employed at a Goliath — Kirkland & Ellis — for two years, although that firm, he insisted, didn’t engage in the sort of dirty dealings and chicanery that his fictional one routinely does. Billy Bob Thornton Plays a Lawyer in ‘Goliath.’ A Drunkard, Too. 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Last year, in an episode of particularly cruel chicanery, he uploaded a video in which he appeared to be hanging himself from a tree, sparking an online panic. The Violent Life and Shocking Death of XXXTentacion 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z “Meet the Press” premiered Sunday morning with a new moderator, a former president and a disturbingly familiar pattern of mainstream media normalizing extremist chicanery for ratings. Commentary: 'Meet the Press' debuts with Kristen Welker and treads familiar ground with Trump 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z In decades of covering him in Congress and the White House, I never heard a whisper of any chicanery on his part. Opinion: Hunter Biden's problems are legitimately his dad's problems too 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z What they apparently fail to understand is that it's always a mistake to use chicanery to thwart the will of the voters. Wisconsin GOP's impeachment plan: Another MAGA coup against democracy 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The poll said the share of Republicans who see the indictment as a product of political chicanery extends beyond the number of people who are considered part of Mr. Trump’s core GOP base. Eight in 10 Republicans say Trump indictment is politically motivated, poll finds 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Henry Grabar’s “Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World” is not a slog; it’s a romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong. 'Paved Paradise' explains why parking is both a local nuisance and a global blight 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z What isn’t debatable: All that chicanery is minor compared with the mistreatment of people within the walls of the team’s Ashburn training facility. Perspective | Josh Harris’s biggest strength? He isn’t Dan Snyder. 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z And a roster of identity-based crimes — from election chicanery to child trafficking — are allowed to proliferate. The Incredible Challenge of Counting Every Global Birth and Death 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z I think that with Nixon what you see is that he saw the kind of Kennedy chicanery as baked in. Thoughtful pragmatist or unhinged bigot? Why experts are rethinking Nixon's psychopathology 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z In 1972, the people, fed up with legislative chicanery, organized and passed an initiative to lift the curtain surrounding what their representatives were doing in secret. Misguided Legislature keeps chipping away at Public Records Act 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z “We urge everyone to see the Diocese’s strategy for what it is: chicanery designed to perpetuate a $600 million corporation’s pattern of decadence, deception, and denial,” said attorney Jeff Anderson in a statement. NY diocese facing flood of lawsuits files for bankruptcy 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “Don’t let shameless politicians, who are often from the same community, trick you,” he said repeating a false narrative held by elites that Castillo’s victory was the result of bribes, fraud and chicanery. From a secret safehouse, Peru’s Indigenous revolt advances 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Ranked choice could be used to elect the Senate candidate who enjoys the broadest support, preventing spoiler candidates, split votes and political chicanery from turning the election into a casino game. Opinion: Can California's top-two primary handle the race for Feinstein's seat? Don't count on it 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The venture left Stanford one of the world’s wealthiest men, though not, Harris suggests, by his own merit, especially “given the amount of financial chicanery going on” and his reputation as a “big oaf.” Review | A new history unveils the exploitative origins of the tech giants 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z It is an engrossing tale, full of betrayal and chicanery, and it casts the Egyptian political-military complex and the religious hierarchy as riddled with corruption. Review | ‘Cairo Conspiracy’: A web of lies, spun in a world much like our own 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The Washington Coalition for Open Government discovered lawmakers’ most recent chicanery when stories of rejected public records requests started to filter in. State lawmakers are keeping secrets from the people again 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z "Under Musk's leadership, Twitter will become a fever swamp of dangerous conspiracy theories, partisan chicanery, and operationalized harassment." "Free speech absolutist” Elon Musk bans journalists, brings back far-right activists 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Naturally, then, when there’s a disaster, we look for chicanery rather than chaos and contingency. Opinion | In pursuing vaccine makers, DeSantis puts pandering before governing 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z “Big government? Media? When was the last time they steered me in the right direction without lies and chicanery?” A Lasting Legacy of Covid: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z In the U.S., this chicanery dates back to the early days of the republic. Election denial and the Big Lie: Sure, Trump made it worse — but both sides do it 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Carlsen’s accusations shook the chess world, but they were nothing new: Chess has long been a game rife with allegations of chicanery and skullduggery. In chess, a long history of cheating, chicanery and Cold War shenanigans 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Its detailed dissection of Trump’s financial statements suggests that the success he has attributed to financial savvy and business acumen are instead the product of fraud and chicanery. New York attorney general accuses Trump of ‘staggering’ fraud in lawsuit 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Blunt’s book is not a technical tome but a drama, a human tragedy, loaded with fascinating characters and tales of death and destruction, incompetence and chicanery, malfeasance and greed. Review: The road to California's energy disaster: A new history of PG&E paints a bleak picture 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z All three dramas showed us rage and chicanery in abundance, with just enough fidelity glinting through their stories to allow some humanity. A couple that schemes together, dreams together 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z One source told BBC Sport that Derby County has become a byword for "backdoor chicanery and trickery". Saving one of England's historic clubs from a wild ride to ruin 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Lack of sympathy for victims of any disaster in our country, whether it be by fire, flood or GOP chicanery, is callous and un-American. Opinion | Kentucky deserves our sympathy. Climate change deserves action. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The crowded field, with candidates of overlapping constituencies, created all sorts of political chicanery leading up to the election. How WA’s ‘jungle’ primary may have saved Herrera Beutler 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z It is hardly unusual for candidates to try to pull off ballot title chicanery. Trump lawyer John Eastman's Jan. 6 notoriety was decades in the making in California 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Yet within this bio-domed heaven, one finds all the shops, fast-food restaurants, class inequalities and political chicanery we know from Earth. Review | ‘Invisible Things’ is a science fiction novel with an eye on the now 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z At the center of all this human-fueled chicanery are the stars of the show — the dinosaurs themselves. The real world behind "Jurassic World": How the story of dinosaurs reflects the story of humans 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z And it is thematically consistent with a public life that was forged in Mississippi when disenfranchisement was achieved by chicanery, intimidation and violence. ‘He Took Jan. 6 Personally’ 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z He holds court as if he’s still dismayed by the sheer chicanery of those weeks after the election and the others in the room simply listen and take notes. Perspective | The president’s men and women, under interrogation 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z There is likely all sorts of abstruse chicanery happening on a checkout bot’s backend, and I was not surprised that my sources didn’t want to go into detail on how their apps worked. The unstoppable machines behind the game console shortage 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Just before the court's vote, Holmes held the floor with an attentive audience that hummed in disapproval as he detailed the chicanery of the Republican maneuver. Texas GOP power grab threatens “biggest regression in minority voting rights” since Civil Rights era 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Less than a decade ago, Rangers was reduced to playing in Scotland’s semiprofessional fourth tier as a punishment for years of financial mismanagement and chicanery. By Land and by Air, the Destination Was Seville 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Unlike in other recent confirmations, there were no questions regarding her character or temperament, and no procedural chicanery in the Senate. Opinion | KBJ’s confirmation fight shows how the Supreme Court must change 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The United States had promised to protect private landholdings in the Mexican Cession, but legal chicanery transferred thousands of acres to Anglo owners in the aftermath of annexation. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z There’s an obvious, undeniable draw to stories about such bold deception and chicanery; it’s a bonus when they involve gullible celebrities, a bit of wellness woo-woo and a stunning blond woman, like “Bad Vegan” does. How scammers and con artists became TV's laziest way to hook viewers 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The protagonist assures everyone she’s above “such disgraceful chicanery as the idle invention of dreams.” Review | Ukrainian author Yevgenia Belorusets presents a portrait of a traumatized community 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Nixon's unpunished chicanery meant that a misbegotten foreign war dragged on for years, costing thousands of lives. When Nixon meddled in an overseas war to win an election: Does this sound familiar? 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The standoff sparked furious accusations and counter-accusations of political chicanery, but U.S. Judge seeks to defuse legal fight that raised Trump’s ire 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z After the election chicanery, the Belarusian democratic opposition, led by Ms. Tikhanovskaya, demanded new elections, marched peacefully and showed great forbearance in the face of Mr. Lukashenko’s violent crackdown. Opinion | In war, Russia has swallowed up Belarus. Freedom is at stake there, too. 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The history of nuclear power in America is one of rushed and slipshod engineering, unwarranted assurances of public safety, political influence and financial chicanery, inept and duplicitous regulators, and mismanagement on a grand scale. Column: Nuclear energy backers say it's vital for the fight against global warming. Don't be so sure 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Well, probably not, but when it comes to our ex-president, you can’t rule out any bit of chicanery or malevolence. Column: House Speaker Donald Trump — could there be a worse idea? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The secret ingredient is chicanery in the new true-crime documentary “Fruitcake Fraud.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Waltons,’ ‘CMA Country Christmas,’ Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The White House said Mr. Biden still wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether chicanery in the oil and gas markets is keeping prices high. U.S. to release 50 million barrels of oil to ease energy costs 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The infrastructure bill, which Mr. Manchin helped craft as a key negotiator, also has its share of budget chicanery. Manchin Raises Doubts on Safety Net Bill, Complicating Path to Quick Vote 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Privately, executives acknowledge that has led to a bit of titular chicanery in which roles are given elevated titles to pry talented executives from rivals or to play defense against such poaching. Baseball’s Wall Street-Style Executives Get Titles to Match 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Instead, he wrote a 21-page letter to the chief justice, blasting the court as biased against him and accusing it of engaging in political chicanery. South African Court Orders Arrest of Ex-President Jacob Zuma for Contempt 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Former New York Gov. David Paterson said of the alliance, “It is an act of political chicanery and introduces a very disturbing dividing of the city’s electorate.” Front-runner for N.Y. mayor accuses Democrats Yang, Garcia of suppressing Black voters 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z These tactics involved information available to all players, so they were considered legal, relying more on perceptiveness than chicanery. The world's greatest cardsharp reveals all 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump has continued to say fraud and ballot chicanery caused his loss to President Biden. Trump allies launch election-security group, latest in a growing roster of MAGA advocacy groups 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Unlike the 2020 election, there actually was some evidence of chicanery in the 1960 contest, and Nixon seriously considered challenging the results. Trump's Big Lie and Hitler's: Is this how America's slide into totalitarianism begins? 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z For weeks after the presidential election, as Boehlert observes, the media wrote about "Trump's 'tactics,' his vague 'moves' and 'chicanery'; his legal 'strategy' and 'power play' while 'sulking' and 'brooding' inside the White House." Let's tell the truth about the Republican Party: It's the real enemy of the people 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Some people believe that short selling itself should banned, but others believe it performs an important policing function by incentivizing shareholders to scrutinize companies for fraud, chicanery or simple mismanagement. Anyone Can Manipulate the Market. Here’s How to Fix That. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “Either everyone is locked down, or everything is opened up for everyone. The days of chicanery are over,” Defence Minister Benny Gantz, Netanyahu’s centrist coalition partner and now election competitor, wrote on Twitter. Israel extends lockdown, sees delay in COVID-19 turnaround 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Its implications are grave indeed; if most Republicans disbelieve in democracy, they will support its subversion by electoral chicanery — if not worse. Trump's horror show isn't nearly over: The coup wasn't defeated, only slowed down 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Kennedy described the deaths as suspicious, accusing medical officials of following an "all-too-familiar vaccine propaganda playbook" and "strategic chicanery." Anti-vaccine activists peddle theories that COVID shots are deadly, undermining vaccination 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z This year, neither the most frantic conspiracy theories imaginable nor a fresh new outbreak of 1950s-vintage Electoral College chicanery were enough for the political wing to prevail. Author Rick Perlstein on the challenge ahead: "Biden knows that he is managing a dying regime" 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The Supreme Court eventually curtailed further chicanery regarding district imbalances, but the states are still in charge, and some districts are definitely not compact. Democrats can save themselves with this One Weird Trick: Reject the Trump census 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z He was fired by President Donald Trump after he continued to assert the election was not “rigged” but free from electronic chicanery. Hacking victim SolarWinds hires ex-Homeland Security official Krebs as consultant 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z That is leadership that rebukes the chicanery of the current one. Restore order after a shameful day in American history 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z There were cries of fraud and chicanery as a divided, surly nation continued to debate the winner of the election many weeks after the ballots had been cast. You Think This Is Chaos? The Election of 1876 Was Worse. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Republican loyalists believe the problem was Democrat leaders’ chicanery. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z In practice, elections were occasionally subject to the same chicanery that characterized so much government in Philadelphia, where federal prison is sometimes called “the 67th ward.” He Wanted to Count Every Vote in Philadelphia. His Party Had Other Ideas. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z SAVANNAH, Ga. — There's no question in Angie Mingledorff's mind that some sort of chicanery happened in Georgia's Nov. 3 election, handing the state's electoral votes to a Democrat for the first time since 1992. Trump has been blasting Georgia’s election system. Many Republicans plan to vote in the Senate runoffs anyway. 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z He’s using lies and chicanery to try to undo his defeat. Opinion | How far Republican presidents have fallen 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z He is maneuvering to undo his defeat through lies and chicanery. Opinion | Trump is past exploring legal options. He’s using lies and chicanery to try to undo his defeat. 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Conservative political consultant Roger Stone is the poster child for this particular brand of chicanery. Editorial Roundup: Idaho 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump, who basked in the praise of tens of thousands of supporters who flooded Washington, D.C., on Saturday, says a mix of software issues and mail-in ballot chicanery cost him the election. President Trump: ‘I concede NOTHING!’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z The New York State attorney general, Letitia James, has a civil investigation into possible financial chicanery by the Trump Organization. Opinion | The Post-Presidency of a Con Man 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Trump is the first president in modern history to refuse to acknowledge his defeat, but his allegations of chicanery are part of a pattern that has blossomed since the 2000 election, researchers say. Sore loser or victim? Trump voters struggle with president’s role in defeat. 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z If widely predicted storms hit Augusta – and with daylight hours much reduced from when the Masters typically takes place in April – organisational chicanery will be required. Masters like no other arrives with golf powering to a crossroads | Ewan Murray 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z "There were all kinds of chicanery, including ballots that came in reportedly in the middle of the night at 3:30 a.m. — 35,000 ballots that were deceptively brought in," Sandler said, without evidence. GOP candidate John James starts high-dollar legal fund to challenge Michigan election loss 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z "If Biden goes on to win enough of the remaining uncalled states, perhaps his sizable Electoral College and popular vote lead will dissuade Republicans from attempting to deploy such chicanery." Donald Trump Jr. is pushing an authoritarian idea to steal the election 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z “The only way we lose this is by the chicanery going on relative to polling places,” Joe Biden said recently in Pennsylvania. Editorial Roundup: TX 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z And combating misinformation — be it from online mischief-makers or falsehoods from the commander in chief — is a priority, particularly in educating Americans that any delays in declaring a victor stem from care, not chicanery. Networks Pledge Caution for an Election Night Like No Other 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z That’s why almost no one has done time for the financial chicanery that produced the Great Recession. Column: Shaming? Absolution? Jail? How to treat those complicit in Trump's wrongdoing 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z And when you face a situation like that, is it acceptable to suppress the vote a little bit or to engage in some sort of political chicanery that isn’t really best for democracy? Why Hatred and 'Othering' of Political Foes Has Spiked to Extreme Levels 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z “I read the papers every morning and I see new chicanery every day,” he says. David Byrne's lockdown despair: 'I'd wake up and ask – What am I doing today and why?' 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z This is a radical disempowerment of the people, accomplished through incompetence, chicanery and an absolute disrespect for the position he holds. Opinion | Don’t Give Up on America 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z A decade later, they developed a course in spotting quantitative chicanery. Statistical dark arts endanger democracy — and life 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z The former vice president also said this month that his campaign had recruited 600 lawyers to fight possible “chicanery” and protect voter access. Trump’s assault on election integrity forces question: What would happen if he refused to accept a loss? 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z “Do not be fooled by the chicanery and misappropriation of the DOJ eagle,” U.S. DOJ warns of fake flyers, documents about face mask requirements 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “Do not be fooled by the chicanery and misappropriation of the DOJ eagle,” said Matthew G.T. Mask Exemption Cards From the ‘Freedom to Breathe Agency’? They’re Fake 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z That kind of chicanery is a fundamental part of summer moviegoing. From 'Star Wars' to 'Independence Day,' an excellent adventure down summer-movie memory lane 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z We just saw a congressional race in North Carolina thrown out because of that kind of chicanery, so we know it's real, even if we can’t really know how widespread abuses are. Taking Bernie Sanders seriously 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Our own Nationals beat the Astros in last year’s World Series, overcoming probable chicanery, and making the Nats’ season all the more impressive. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z To pettifog is ‘to engage in legal chicanery’ or ‘to quibble over insignificant details,’” the dictionary advised. Iowa smiles upon Transhumanist candidate 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z To "pettifog" is, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "to quibble over insignificant details" or "engage in legal chicanery". Why is 'pettifogging' suddenly in the news? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z No such chicanery was necessary to ensnare Trump. Trump’s is the third impeachment in US history and no case has been stronger | Jonathan Freedland 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The political disruption Russian hackers sowed in the 2016 election — fake Facebook groups, tweets impersonating activists and other chicanery — was the opening salvo of a growing conflict. UW and WSU’s Center for an Informed Public can help save democracy 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z They portrayed their client as hapless and merely engaging in his usual political chicanery. Roger Stone guilty on all counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z To its credit, baseball is already trying to police electronic chicanery. After Reports of Astros’ Cheating, M.L.B. Is Left to Restore Trust 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z After a ban on employment and various other kinds of chicanery, her application – for herself and her daughters, four of them at the time – was finally authorised in 1978. German novelists on the fall of the Berlin wall: ‘It was a source of energy we lived off for years’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z But Mr. Letwin and other lawmakers said they worried that it was a prelude to parliamentary chicanery by Mr. Johnson or his hard-line Conservative allies that would result in a catastrophic no-deal Brexit within weeks. Boris Johnson Has a Trust Problem in Parliament 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z "Our Republican team is well positioned for the final sprint to November, and unlike Democrats, we didn't need to resort to chicanery to inflate our numbers," said Garren Shipley, spokesman for House Republican leadership. Virginia Democrats see gush of cash ahead of Nov. 5 election; GOP up slightly 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Yet, as a direct result of the ensuing chicanery, nearly nine million Americans lost their jobs, while overall unemployment shot up to 10%. The real cover-up: Putting Donald Trump’s impeachment in context 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z No such chicanery would be required in Virginia, among the only states in the nation that allow lawmakers to help themselves to campaign funds for virtually any purpose. Opinion | Virginia’s lax ethics laws legalize corruption. Will the GOP ever stop blocking reform? 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z And it wants to stave off chicanery on the floor in Charlotte, when the GOP assembles for its convention this August. Trump campaign says delegate overhaul will ease 2020 bid 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z It would be a piece of political chicanery that no one should ever forgive or forget. Brexit: Amber Rudd says Boris Johnson's language 'does incite violence' – live news 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Another very prominent candidate, media magnate Nabil Karoui, is in detention on suspicion of tax fraud and money laundering, charges he denies and attributes to political chicanery. Televised debates a new step in Tunisia's young democracy 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z What is new here, Stein says, is that for the first time, the companies will actively monitor their networks to prevent chicanery. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z It is a far cry from a declaration made at the time of the picnic, calling for “the demolition of barbed wires and cultural barriers raised by political chicanery” to achieve worldwide peace. How a pan-European picnic brought down the Iron Curtain 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Previous administrations waffled on how to handle Beijing’s economic chicanery, so China may have lulled itself into believing it can continue to play games with Washington. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z This newly exposed chicanery is just as fraudulent as what went on in that scandal, and it ought to be made explicitly illegal, not just in Missouri but nationwide. Recent Missouri editorials 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, the county Republican Party posted a Facebook message that accused Democrats of election chicanery: “Please just vote,” it said. A Rare Do-Over Congressional Election Is a Chance to Battle-Test 2020 Strategies 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z County election officials across Pennsylvania disenfranchised thousands of voters in last year’s general election, not because of any chicanery on the voters’ part but because of obsolete rules embedded in the absentee voting system. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Upholding such chicanery on grounds that are obviously fictional — and flagrantly at odds with the conservative justices’ stated principles — would raise painful questions about the court as an institution that extend far beyond this case. Opinion | We ought to be concerned about preserving the political order of the Supreme Court 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Analysts say there will always be isolated examples of vote-buying and voter roll chicanery in a developing country as large as Indonesia. Here’s why Indonesia remains on edge six weeks after elections were held 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z He described the decision last night as “abject surrender”, and said not holding a debate was “cowardice and chicanery”. Brexit: May addresses Commons after EU sets October deadline – live news 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Tax experts say the principle of taxing forgiven loans is crucial to preventing chicanery. The IRS tried to take on the ultrawealthy. It didn’t go well. 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Carter Wrenn, a longtime Republican consultant in North Carolina, said the allegations of chicanery created “a smell in the air and around the Republican Party.” Like ‘Stepping on a Rake’: A Wave of Scandals Hits North Carolina Republicans 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z For every student admitted through bribery and chicanery, an honest student qualified student was denied a seat. California Editorial Rdp 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The boxer Oscar de la Hoya and musician Alice Cooper were also cited as celebrity witnesses to presidential fairway chicanery. Trump is ‘world’s worst cheat at golf', new book says 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z A similar technique — transparent chicanery — appears to have gotten Trump off the hook in Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into whether he obstructed justice by firing his FBI director and harassing those investigating him. Opinion | Trump should come with a warning label 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z What’s hard to dispute, however, is the chicanery that took place in both states, or what has happened in every election since. Will John Roberts strike a blow against partisan gerrymandering? Don't hold your breath 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The scene Friday was far more occluded than the media hullabaloo on Sept. 9, 1998, when two dark vans pulled up to Capitol Hill with 36 boxes containing Ken Starr’s report on presidential chicanery. Opinion | Now Comes Washington’s Garbo, Robert Mueller 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Enron managers did not attempt to halt the financial chicanery, the report charged, and the company’s outside accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, looked the other way and destroyed financial documents. William C. Powers Jr., author of report outlining Enron corruption, dies at 72 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z According to federal prosecutors, owner William “Rick” Singer oversaw a full buffet of collegiate chicanery. College cheating scandal shatters Felicity Huffman’s down-to-Earth image 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z In the four paintings of The Humours of an Election, Hogarth took aim at political corruption and chicanery at its worst. Gin, syphilis, lunacy: Hogarth’s grotesques united in new show 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z An individual or a group will work with corrupt judges, administrators and the police to help shift the title into their own name, either through forgery or stock-purchase chicanery. He Played by the Rules of Putin’s Russia, Until He Didn’t: The Story of a Murder 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Congo’s people need a chance to defy the chicanery and repression of a regime determined to avoid a true competitive election. Opinion | Why Congo’s election on Sunday will be a travesty 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Inevitably, some American political operatives are learning from Russia’s example, testing the tools of chicanery in their online operations. Five takeaways from new reports on Russia’s social media operations 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Costa said the supply and refining units at Petrobras where the alleged corruption took place were ripe for chicanery. Vitol, rival oil traders in spotlight of Brazil bribery probe 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Even veteran lawyers who were involved in the investigations of Richard Nixon say they’ve never seen this level of chicanery. The Mueller investigation is closing in on Trump | Jill Abramson 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z He did not become wealthy, as today’s businessperson-turned-president did, through a father’s largesse supplemented by tax chicanery. Opinion | Want to topple Trump? Take John Delaney seriously. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Palast also described some of the chicanery that preceded the election and contributed to the provisional ballot crisis. Judge rules against Brian Kemp: Stacey Abrams scores major legal win in Georgia governor’s race 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The department said broad tariffs on imports were needed because of rampant “chicanery” by foreign producers who evaded existing countervailing and anti-dumping duties, which are applied narrowly to specific products. Trump's steel tariffs create big profits but few new jobs 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The system’s built-in checks and balances thwarted the GOP’s redistricting chicanery, even though the Supreme Court, after spending much of 2017 and 2018 considering the matter, had refused to rule on it. Opinion | Voters took on gerrymandering. The Supreme Court doesn’t need to. 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z According to the trial, Adidas orchestrated this malfeasance on its own and victims like KU were defrauded, embarrassed, shamed, bamboozled and hoodwinked by the apparel company’s chicanery. Recent Kansas editorials 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The Patriots’ offensive chicanery continued on their next possession when Edelman ran a reverse end around play for 17 yards. A Rare Tom Brady-Aaron Rodgers Showdown Goes Brady’s Way 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z We are often told that the days of secret state political chicanery are long past and we must hope so. Watson mocks Corbyn aide over 'deep state' 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z A&E will soon air a six-part documentary with interviews with Lewinsky and Starr, billed as an exploration of “the origins of today’s political chicanery and tribalism.” The Starr Report got a president impeached 20 years ago, and Ken Starr wants to remind you why 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Republicans have worked hard since Mr. Gillum’s emergence to tie him to an FBI investigation into alleged chicanery in Tallahassee’s City Hall. Andrew Gillum opens with lead over Ron DeSantis in Fla. gubernatorial race: poll 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Melissa McCarthy plays 1970s and '80s celebrity biographer Lee Israel, who turns to chicanery when she falls out of step with the times. Virtually every film coming out this fall 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Ellis III is keeping both sides tightly focused on the specific charges, which accuse Manafort of financial fraud, not election chicanery. Trump's in full campaign mode, and the rhetoric is escalating 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The Trump administration took down online records about abusive animal breeders, and now they’re considering ending an online complaint database about illegal fees, inaccurate debt collection and other chicanery by banks and other financial institutions. Trump and Mulvaney keep hacking away at the Finance Protection Bureau 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z The purpose is to minimize chicanery; the result, however, is 90 minutes of high anxiety, obsessive smartphone-checking and abrupt turns of fortune at, in some cases, two tense venues hundreds of miles apart. 2018 World Cup is down to its final group matches. Who will emerge in the round of 16? 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z If, as they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant, then darkness is the perfect place to grow the mold and mildew of corporate chicanery. Trump's consumer agency chief looks to shut down database of consumer complaints 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Democrats also have raised the issue of political chicanery. Jon Tester’s Montana Democrats seek Green Party ballot ouster 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z They believe in their hearts that this cataclysm was instigated by an outside agent using cyber chicanery. It All Comes Out in the Greenroom 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The chicanery outraged PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which issued a statement noting that lab monkeys are deprived of fresh air and sunshine. Silliness and Scams Seem to Always Hitch a Ride with Human Activity 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z This rule prevents chicanery involving the stymie rule. Broken Balls and ‘Wattery Filth’: Golf’s Original Rules Show a Rougher Game 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Coincidences come off as chicanery, and even his greatest achievements done with the best intentions seem somehow nefarious. Al Sharpton, Reconsidered 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z A fixture at the celebrity nightclub Studio 54, Cohn died in August 1986 of AIDS-related illness, six weeks after being disbarred for legal chicanery. Opinion | Trump’s radical attack on national unity 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z There is no utterance, tweet, action, policy or financial chicanery likely to prompt action by Republicans. Opinion | Guidelines for news-watching and staying sane in 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z But making clear that there’s a limit to constitutionally acceptable gerrymandering would deter lawmakers from chicanery going forward. Opinion | The Supreme Court gets a second chance to quash gerrymandering 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z But the chicanery left the expanding city with a woefully insufficient supply. How a Massive Public Works Project Saved a Parched New York 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z “Republicans are reaching heretofore unreached heights of hypocrisy,” Schumer said, “and the Senate is descending to a new low of chicanery.” A hasty, hand-scribbled tax bill sets off an outcry 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z This spoof of financial chicanery is clever and punchy, but tells us nothing we don’t already suspect. Sandbox Radio’s ‘63 Trillion’ a clever, if hammy, spoof of high-finance trickery 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z "It was taken away by political chicanery," he says. Yes we Canvey? Why Canvey Island wants independence 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z What is new is the development of computer modeling that has transformed partisan chicanery into a precise science. Opinion | The Supreme Court has a chance to restore faith in democracy 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z There’s only so much attention to be gained talking about Temer’s undermining of democracy as it happens without noise, through chicanery and articulation by Brazil’s traditional power: the “Bible, beef and bullets” caucuses in Congress. The west is gripped by Venezuela’s problems. Why does it ignore Brazil’s? | Julia Blunck 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z But if deductive reasoning is not enough to sway you, there’s also the fact that a Republican is occasionally impolitic enough to admit the chicanery outright. An election panel lacking integrity 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Wildstein was a political blogger and operative who admitted engaging in chicanery that included stealing the suit jacket of an opposition candidate right before a US Senate campaign debate. Former Chris Christie ally avoids prison sentence over role in Bridgegate 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Wildstein was a political blogger and operative who admitted engaging in chicanery that included stealing the suit jacket of an opposition candidate right before a U.S. ‘Bridgegate’ saga nears end as key figure faces sentencing 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z You don’t have to be a seasoned Kremlinologist steeped in the chicanery of klepto-thugocracies to realize that America really dodged a bullet in last year’s presidential election. Long live President Trumpopov! 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z How rarely he has had the chance to wield any power, but on Wednesday he had the very real authority to stop certain calamity for his party and call out Theresa May’s game-playing chicanery. Jeremy Corbyn is rushing to embrace Labour’s annihilation | Polly Toynbee 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Nearly 30 years after the collapse of Communism, much of Eastern Europe runs on political chicanery and pliable morality. A Romanian father-daughter tale about the moral failings of post-Communist Europe 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z That sense of persecution fed Nixon’s penchant for chicanery. Opinion | Deepening the complexity of Richard Nixon from newly released material 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z For its part, the New York Review provided the heavyweight analysis needed to expose the chicanery of the Bush administration. Robert Silvers obituary 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It would be a bit discordant to hear Mr. Bharara defending clients accused of financial chicanery after his aggressive pursuit of white-collar defendants over the last eight years. Bharara’s Firing Echoes Furor Over Past Prosecutors’ Dismissals 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z After a few more minutes of chicanery, Watson and DeGeneres finally reveal the prank to the befuddled but relieved woman. Emma Watson, Ellen team up to pull adult nanny prank 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z While the first three jockeys home were not suspected of skulduggery or chicanery, six others soon found themselves in hot water. The Joy of Six: Valentine's Day sporting massacres | Barry Glendenning 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z And as a result it’s resorted to every kind of chicanery. Rex Tillerson is big oil personified. The damage he can do is immense | Bill McKibben 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The point is that just like Don Shula, who was coaching the Dolphins that night, we registered our protest over the apparent chicanery and then moved on. Column: Pats’ fans lining up to return Brady’s latest gift 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It should have been the last place anyone would look for a foreign spy, but it soon became a hotbed of chicanery. The spy with no name - BBC News 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z That were it not for Russian chicanery, Hillary Clinton would have won the popular vote by five million and not almost three million? Putin didn't win this election for Trump. Hillary Clinton did | Doug Henwood 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z In September Baquet openly admitted at another Harvard University forum that he considered the public interest in knowing Trump’s tax-related chicanery to be so significant that the risk of imprisonment was worth it. Corey Lewandowski wants New York Times editor jailed for publishing Donald Trump’s tax returns 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z He can’t abolish it or destroy it, but he can appoint an EPA head who uses legal and bureaucratic chicanery that forces the agency to avoid regulating pollution. Donald Trump’s poisoned planet: The Bush-era EPA set back climate-change progress by decades — this could be worse 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Still, until late in life, he seldom griped about his fate, despite knowing that his crosstown foes were guilty of elaborate chicanery. Ralph Branca, pitcher who gave up historic home run, dies at 90 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Plus, the confounding chicanery of politics, defying the laws of physics, might be playing a monumental role in muddying and vitiating any expected projections about hispanics in particular. How Republicans Lost Their Best Shot at the Hispanic Vote 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It is positive, too, in the sense that political chicanery and outright corruption may be more readily deterred. Did WikiLeaks make Hillary Clinton look two-faced, or clear-eyed? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Through violence and chicanery, white supremacists reduced black voter turnout, and by 1877, drove the party of Lincoln from power in every southern state. Donald Trump Is Taking a Page From Reconstruction-Era White Supremacists 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z However, the Trump tape was not the only White House chicanery designed to counter the Crooked Hillary news cycle. President Obama accuses Russia of interfering in U.S. elections for political gain 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z It's high time we reinstate Glass Steagall and bring an end to this financial chicanery. In Wells Fargo’s Bogus Accounts, Echoes of Foreclosure Abuses 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z A review of The Times’s archives found that the late 19th and early 20th centuries were a golden age for feline chicanery in New York City. Turkey, Rio Olympics, the Tragically Hip: Your Monday Briefing 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z But a Journal editorial highlights a recent tide of financial chicanery in municipal governments. Lessons from the Terror 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Opposition senators accused Rousseff supporters of employing chicanery to delay the process. First Day of Dilma Rousseff Impeachment Trial in Brazil 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z State Democratic Party Chairman Brandon Dillon, who called the 8th a “swing district in the right year,” dismissed concerns about chicanery and cautioned against passing new legislation because of “something that happens extremely infrequently.” Elections board allows replacement candidate for Congress 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Dawson’s calculated chicanery underscores why studying Piltdown Man is still important to modern science, De Groote says. Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science’s most famous hoaxes 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z This kind of chicanery has become commonplace in politics. Five myths about political speechwriting 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z State Rep. Jim Ward, a Wichita Democrat, called the process “appalling” and accused the secretary of state’s office of “chicanery.” Kansas board OKs rule to reject votes over citizenship rule 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z FCC officials said no, because the rules are written to prevent that kind of chicanery. What a ban on online porn can teach us about Internet law 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z I don’t even think he could get away with stealing a Snickers bar from a liquor store, let alone pull off the high-level chicanery of Draymond Green. The Cavs have no cards left to play – and that's far more painful than any low blow 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Housing is not really about housing workers, but about creating some kind of financial chicanery for rentier speculators. The Overinflated Fear of Being Priced Out of Housing 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The rules around Delaware’s appraisal rights of “fair value” are aimed at helping long-term shareholders protect themselves in instances of self-dealing or other chicanery. Who Decides ‘Fair Value?’ In Dell’s Case, a Judge 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Experts on Ponzi schemes and other kinds of financial chicanery say that offshore entities often play a role in fraudulent enterprises. Panama Papers include dozens of Americans tied to financial frauds 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Obscured by staggering, mind-bending campaign lying, defamation, and chicanery, high time to confront a lightweight linkage capable of damaging Sanders’ historic movement importance. Trump like Bernie? Don’t be fooled by lazy comparisons — Sanders stands for all that Trump hates 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z It is this kind of chicanery that fuels the anger of those supporting Sanders and Trump. Drug Prices Keep Rising Despite Intense Criticism 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z In the rare instances when this actually occurs, no one ever confesses to the chicanery, at least not while the campaign is still active. Donald Trump is a con artist — and his general-election strategy proves it 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Their reputation for financial chicanery has not recovered from the parliamentary expenses scandal of a few years ago. Events, events 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z In a 2002 interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he deplored corporate chicanery: “Anyone who is taking money from associates and shareholders ought to be shot. That greed will catch up to you.” Tom Coughlin Was Seen as Champion of Wal-Mart’s Rank and File: 1949-2016 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z They sometimes tried to cheat him out of the room rent, and hardly a week passed without his witnessing instances of chicanery. The Voyeur’s Motel 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z If the polls were accurate ahead of time, the results suggest that any chicanery suppressed more Clinton than Sanders support. No, Hillary Clinton didn’t commit voter fraud in Arizona 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z "The Big Short" gets overly cutesy with its illustrations, but even when it's trying to make the audience laugh it stays focused on the ordinary people steamrolled by the chicanery of millionaires. 'Brooklyn' charms and enchants with beautiful photography and acting 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z The chicanery going on in Washington today threatens to divide the Republican Party, not just for this election cycle but also perhaps for a generation. Why blocking Trump nomination’s would be unfair 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z In the fall, when Carson faltered, the bulk of his evangelical support went to Cruz, but the two had a falling out after chicanery on caucus day in Iowa. Ben Carson no longer sees a 'path forward' 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z If artists are being properly compensated for their work in one way or another, all of this business chicanery is doing some good. Rihanna, the RIAA, and making a platinum record in 2016 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z But Bill Clinton in particular never seemed to get over his dislike for the process here, feeling that it was anti-democratic and given to chicanery. Does Iowa really matter? And should it? 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z But they involve chicanery with two platforms: Google My Business, essentially the company’s version of the Yellow Pages, and Map Maker, which is Google’s crowdsourced online map of the world. Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Imagine if Morris absorbed the chicanery of Deuce, the power of Martins, and the eye for goal of Valdez? Jordan Morris at Seattle Sounders: good for club, country – and player 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z But challenging petition signatures as a form of political chicanery in the Land of Lincoln has a long history. Trump campaign attempted to kick Republican rivals off ballot in Illinois 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But the more constituencies the NLD wins, the more such chicanery amounts to little more than fiddling at the margins. Celebrating democracy 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Off-budget chicanery through pumping money into the war account that doesn't count against the Pentagon's spending cap isn't solving any of the problems facing the Pentagon. War Games, Budget Games 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Democratic Congressman and House minority whip Steny Hoyer demurred in a briefing on Tuesday as to whether, as one reporter asked, there might be “chicanery” in the House surrounding the election of a speaker. Republicans in Freedom Caucus support Florida conservative as speaker 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Add to that the potential political impact of suppressed voter participation and Alabamians are smothered in a toxic blend that reeks of irresponsibility and chicanery.. Alabama editorial roundup 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The authors use this framework to explain all kinds of economic chicanery. The economy is rigged against you — and it’s kind of your fault 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The future of the striker and the politicking and manoeuvring and chicanery involved here are Moyes’s initiation into the having-to-reinvent-the-Rubik’s-Cube-while-running-fast-down-the-motorway-as-one-brings-up-a-family-of-five “challenge” of being the Manchester United number one. Manchester United after Sir Alex Ferguson: how Moyes struggled to manage the monster 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z The black box of hidden transactions in the music business, while maybe not illegal, is a recipe for chicanery.” Music Artists Take On the Business, Calling for Change 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Such chicanery, it was suggested, might include Democrats putting their support behind one of the Republican candidates rather than automatically giving a losing vote to current minority leader Nancy Pelosi. Republicans in Freedom Caucus support Florida conservative as speaker 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Here is a power thrower who, with the diminishment that comes with age, has made the transition to finesse pitcher without much chicanery. Defying Time and Space 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “The goal is to keep exposing Donald Trump’s chicanery and making it clear that Trump’s brand of bigoted bullying is bad for business,” he said in an email. Trump deletes personal attack on Bush 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z But while Michael LaCour has been called one of the biggest scientific fakes in recent memory, where does his case rank on the all-time leaderboard of hijinks, lies and academic chicanery? Study casts harsh light on scientists accused of bogus work 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z In his State of the Union address, he spoke of an “Axis of Evil,” of fighting both the terrorists and a strengthening recession, but not of Enron or the dangers of Wall Street chicanery. Wall Street is all in for Jeb! Enron, Goldman Sachs and the forgotten Bush legacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z “There’s plenty of precedent in baseball and American life of cheating and lying and chicanery of all sorts,” Thorn said. St. Louis Cardinals may have broken new ground in hacking scandal 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z A distaste for marketplace chicanery runs deep with the Boers. Uber’s French Resistance 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Widely accused of doing too little when confronted with domestic violence, Goodell seems to be overcompensating and doing too much when confronted with mere chicanery. A Player or a Team Seeks an Edge. So What’s New? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Few knew at the time that the Patriots were apparently up to some less obvious chicanery when it came to the inflation rate of the footballs in play. For Patriots, the Bizarre Is the Norm 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “I think he’ll be just fine. He will be around long after my particular brand of chicanery has come and gone,” said Borle. ‘American in Paris,’ ‘Fun Home’ lead Tony nominations pack 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z While mostly focused on the macro, it hasn't lost sight of the smaller things, including the chicanery of Bob. EVE Online has a god named Bob 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z If the nation believes it needs to spend more on the military, it should hold an honest debate on the topic and then vote accordingly, without this kind of budgetary chicanery. The Budget Trick That Made the Pentagon a Fiscal Functioning Alcoholic 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Why the GOP’s need to engage in such chicanery? “You should be very, very angry”: Paul Krugman torches GOP’s new budgets 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Now breaking through, however, is a stark reminder of the underside of that Clinton decade: the chicanery, the sleaze, the dodging, the parsing, the wordplay. Early Onset Clinton Fatigue 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z We loved “House of Cards”: the lies, chicanery, double-crosses, duplicity, an occasional murder, sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. Rep. Trey Gowdy retreats from Benghazi event 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Chicago is not without its chicanery over the years. Letters to the Editor 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z It is Chicago, after all — a place synonymous with political chicanery. Rahm Emanuel’s offensive new pension-gutting scheme 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Indeed, many European countries allow sports gambling without the fears of match-fixing and other chicanery actually coming to fruition. Las Vegas Ready to Gamble on Professional Sports and NHL Arena 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z He was disgraceful on immigration, “self-deporting” himself to Dantean circles of chicanery. Why Mitt Romney Won't Win (Again) 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z But the Foreign Office certainly failed, either by carelessness or political chicanery, in not informing Mr Miliband of her visit. Limits on the Anglo-German friendship 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z It sounds like the problem is with the IRS, which has not issued and enforced regulations that would prevent this chicanery. Art Collectors Gain Tax Benefits From Private Museums 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z After all the buffoonery, the incompetence, the chicanery and the corruption, finally there's a real chacnce this clown may be tossed out of office. On Duty for the Chris Christie Hug Watch 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z This index is not an artificial, manipulated victim of world financial chicanery, but represents real demand for a real service that reflects what is really going on in the world. The Big Economic Unknowns of 2015, From Unemployment to Oil 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z In addition to recommending a sentence for his client, Bongiorno’s Sentencing Memo reflects an unremarkable resume that would hardly qualify her for a level of sophisticated financial chicanery meant to dupe Wall Street’s finest. Madoff Assistant Annette Bongiorno Sentenced To 6 Years 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z "It is tainted with chicanery, it is not the way this Parliament should be treated," he added. Labour to call debate on warrant row 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Then, in 2000, the self-styled bankers pulled off a mind-boggling feat of chicanery. Whipping Boy 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Writing as Guy Fawkes's biographer in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Dr Nicholls says such theories "draw unwarranted conclusions from the surviving evidence" and "fail to advance any credible motive for such chicanery". Was Fawkes a fall guy? 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z About a week later, the Tribune's big Sunday paper unspooled a 21/2-page tale of Holmes' long history of chicanery, much of it in Chicago. Chicago's first serial killer 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z But the interviews suggested Mr. Cuomo had lost more support among Westchester Democrats over his abrupt disbanding of an anti-corruption commission that he formed last year to investigate political chicanery in Albany. Astorino Trying to Persuade New York Democrats to Ignore Party Lines 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z But in fact, three months of investigating the two Arthurs–both named after their grandfather–shows they’re more alike than different, with chicanery aplenty on both sides. Inside The Billionaire Family Feud That Nearly Killed Market Basket 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z In 2003, while sentencing a political party officer in an eavesdropping scandal, the judge cut off a lawyer attempting to explain his client’s chicanery. McDonnell judge presides with humor and impatience But where the board saw chicanery, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development found discrimination. Fighting a No-Pets Eviction With Doctors’ Notes and a Federal Suit 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z In contrast, technical analysts who chart stocks propelled by such chicanery will not prevent investors from losing their shirts in the next Gowex-like debacle. Technical Analysis Is Fundamentally Flawed 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z An editor need not descend to Sixty Minutes levels of chicanery to subtly tilt an interview. NPR's Seven Secrets of Feigning Objectivity 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Hence, some of the hostility among those who see only a moderate team, bellowing hordes of fans and a World Cup tarnished by large-scale chicanery beyond the pitch. World Cup 2014: Brazil’s emotions are all change without Neymar 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Even that morally numb world soccer body, FIFA, paid attention to that embarrassment, and in the next World Cup it mandated simultaneous third games, to avoid chicanery. Germany Can Inflict Much Pain on U.S., as It Has Before 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z People are fed up with big business using financial chicanery to hide how they siphon off huge profits whilst putting very little back into the societies they took them from. The Value To The Economy Of Apple Is iKit, Of Starbucks It's Coffee, Not The Taxes Either Company Pays 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Brazil 2014 is finally upon us, a drama of ranged tectonic interests and high-end chicanery now dissolved into the relatively simple matter of the world’s greatest sporting event. Brazil 2014 is here: not just any old World Cup but the Copa das Copas 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z “I want a leader who has the wisdom to recognize chicanery before the ‘you-know-what’ hits the fan and who has the courage to take it on and stop it before it hits,” Schwartz wrote. Carol Schwartz, former D.C. lawmaker, will run for mayor An internal investigation released Monday into the secret waiting lists and other chicanery that kept veterans from receiving timely care was like a Chinese firecracker that kept exploding with every turn of its 54 pages: VA Appointment Delays Keep Getting Worse 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z What was described as routine optimism by public officials and proponents of mega-projects such as the Purple Line would be chicanery at best and fraud at worst in most other contexts. Another word for cost creep on public works: Fraud The chicanery has allowed Verizon to raise telephone rates, all the while missing commitments for high-speed internet deployment. Game of phones: how Verizon is playing the FCC and its customers 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Donahoe often speaks as though he’s trying to prevent the same alleged scandal that Miliband describes—chicanery, corruption, and rampant Wall Street profiteering. This Is What Real Postal Privatization Looks Like 2014-05-01T09:58:38Z The videos also capture some of thoroughbred racing’s most prominent figures discussing chicanery in a cavalier manner. PETA Videos Prompt New York and Kentucky to Investigate Horse Trainers 2014-03-21T01:31:34Z Of course, that defense didn’t work for him because the company’s chief financial officer, Scott D. Sullivan, testified about the chief executive’s involvement in the accounting chicanery. DealBook: The Challenge of Linking Dewey’s Leader to Possible Accounting Shenanigans 2014-03-10T16:09:10Z Shame on the Times and all other media for this chicanery. Thomas Friedman, supreme toady: Also, shameless! 2014-03-01T15:00:00Z Now that this apparent enmity was out in the open, chicanery was everywhere. From best of friends to Celtic foes 2014-02-06T09:39:29Z I found that the Machiavellian chicanery that plagued debate – where disingenuous red herring, time-suck, and sandbag strategies were still the order of the day – had not so deeply affected all aspects of the law. Do Debaters Make Better Lawyers? 2013-10-03T21:45:00Z Losing his patience with one prominent justice, Ricardo Lewandowski, who tried to absolve some defendants of certain crimes, Mr. Barbosa publicly accused him this month of “chicanery” by using legalese to prop up certain positions. The Saturday Profile: A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status Quo 2013-08-24T00:42:03Z "It will be very hard for sanctions to be lifted if the outcome is as it looks to be - namely an election by bribery and constitutional chicanery." Zimbabwe election 'not looking good', South Africa says 2013-07-18T14:48:27Z As it now stands, these programs are ripe for abuse unless we establish ground rules and barriers between authentic national security interests and potential political chicanery. The NSA's metastasised intelligence-industrial complex is ripe for abuse 2013-06-23T12:00:00Z Typically, these firms’ criminal-defense practices focus on cases like securities fraud or accounting chicanery. DealBook: Gerald Shargel to Close Shop to Join Winston & Strawn 2013-06-10T02:07:02Z Even Conservative MPs were embarrassed at the crude chicanery of it. Corporate power has turned Britain into a corrupt state 2013-06-04T21:20:01Z And not just for the companies: the Treasury allows interest payments to be offset against tax, so public services suffer from such balance-sheet chicanery. The legacy of privatisation: dripping with cash 2013-05-14T21:16:48Z If it is not, and no clear reasons are provided, claims of subterfuge and chicanery will inevitably arise. Want the data on where HS2 will be? You won't get it from data.gov.uk 2013-05-02T16:16:57Z Here, “nine princes vie for the throne of creation” doesn’t even come close to describing this multifaceted blend of politics, sorcery, and multiverse-spanning chicanery. 9 Ways to Console Yourself Now That You Finished 'BioShock: Infinite' 2013-04-20T22:09:08Z The system is convoluted, vague and leads to the kind of murky political chicanery that is unbefitting of such a coveted role. Paul McGinley's quiet approach won him the Ryder Cup captaincy 2013-01-15T21:29:50Z The mystery novelist J. A. Konrath, for example, does not see anything wrong with an author indulging in chicanery. Amazon Book Reviews Deleted in a Purge Aimed at Manipulation 2012-12-22T22:53:09Z In other words, the skeptics think that Hewlett may be overstating the financial impact of the alleged accounting chicanery. DealBook: Does Hewlett's Big Charge Add Up? 2012-11-22T00:06:27Z By issuing a fake addendum – instead of an independent report – Cato can highlight the "highly selective nature of the science, and the political chicanery" that went into the original, he said. Fake Addendum by Contrarian Group Tries to Undo U.S. Government Climate Report 2012-10-22T15:15:05.117Z Mr Robinson also accused Sinn Fein of chicanery when it agreed the Welfare Reform bill at the executive and then changed position when it went to the assembly vote. Sinn Fein 'paralysed' by SDLP 2012-10-17T11:58:32Z What makes Capers's system great is its chicanery and flexibility - often best exhibited before the snap. The Fifth Down: Green Bay Packers, 2012 N.F.L. Season Preview 2012-08-03T10:00:51Z As for David Cameron's pledge that British firms will win £13bn in contracts they would not otherwise have won, it implies bribery and chicanery on an Olympian scale. London 2012 Olympics: what price fleeting joy? For Britons, it's £9bn 2012-07-24T19:15:01Z It is not clear the investigation has to do with budgetary chicanery -- and Penman, who ran twice unsuccessfully for mayor against Morris, is seen as a political ally of the public safety unions. Political feuds, denial drove San Bernardino to bankruptcy 2012-07-15T22:46:56Z The addiction to success and to exceeding yesterday's achievement eventually leads to chicanery. The culture of behaving badly 2012-07-07T00:26:02Z "Such chicanery may be par for the course in the Republic, where they languish in opposition, but it is not the behaviour of a party of government in Northern Ireland," he said. Sinn Fein 'paralysed' by SDLP 2012-10-17T11:58:32Z Their internal review of how mortgages in default were handled revealed a surprising amount of chicanery. Foreclosure machinery creaks back to life 2012-06-24T01:17:00Z It also has a history of foreign policy chicanery, delusion and paranoia. What's the Best News Out of Afghanistan? 2012-05-24T13:35:31Z Cricket history is filled with incidents of brutality and chicanery on the field, and malice off it. India Ink: Is Cricket Really a 'Gentleman's Game?' 2012-05-10T06:05:57Z After the story of chicanery related by the Canon’s Yeoman, it is to the physician he looks to tell a tale of “honest matter.” The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z It is an undoubted fact that it has the worst reputation for roguery and cheating and chicanery, and the violation of all justice, of any other place throughout the kingdom. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z But if I could write like you I would try to destroy political chicanery, though meddling with the Crown may spell my doom. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z But they still have to be approved by a judge, which is where some chicanery may come in, lawyers here say. Divorce, British Style: Fault-Finding as Fine Art 2012-04-07T23:38:06Z There is no room for British chicanery in this. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z They give rise to lying, hypocrisy, chicanery, and even perjury among the people, who are drawn to such artifices and crime to conceal themselves and their companions from prosecution in consequence of them. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Former Goldman executive Greg Smith just inked a million dollar book deal to spill his guts about the chicanery that went on at his former firm. Your Financial Adviser Might Be a Lemon 2012-04-01T05:06:29Z And I find pretended miracles, I find imposture, I find lies and trickery and chicanery used on one side and the other. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z It looks very much like an impossible debt paid in inconceivable coin; or a legal fiction purely gratuitous got rid of by what looks like a legal chicanery purely fanciful. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Till then, Britain will never think of peace, but for the purposes of chicanery. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z The "fraternity" of the revolutionary motto was realized in the chicanery and rivalries of the battle of competition. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z It is this intense yearning to speak again with those that have left us, on the part of the bereaved, that has led to chicanery on the part of media in order to gratify it. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z However, because of the good relationship between Kiamil Pasha and myself, he acknowledged this bit of chicanery and duly rectified it. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z It seems El Paso and Goldman Sachs’s hubris or stupidity is likely to cost Kinder Morgan — which acquired El Paso — several hundred million dollars in payments to shareholders for the chicanery. DealBook Column: Conflicted, and Often Getting a Pass 2012-03-13T00:26:55Z He had no longer his uncle to consider; that good man was beyond reach of chicanery and spite. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Certainly, there is a fairly long history of such chicanery. India Ink: Do Kingfisher's Woes Call For New Bankruptcy Rules? 2012-02-24T11:57:40Z The e-mail chicanery, he says, was an attempt to check whether it was genuine. Over the line 2012-02-22T18:20:04.480Z It is admitted it has given its author a notoriety that has somewhat obscured eminent public service, and made his name a by-word for political chicanery. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Brutal in political debate and brazen in political chicanery, he was a fit leader for the band of hirelings he had organized with no small skill. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z In national politics the Negro's devotion to the Republican party exempts him from the chicanery of designing whites who would debauch the suffrage. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z “There’s a lot of chicanery,” said Brad Adgate, the longtime director of research for Horizon Media, which buys time on television shows. Networks Resort to Trickery in an Attempt to Lift Ratings 2012-02-02T01:32:30Z I believe there has been a little chicanery practised between Sir William and his lawyer, which will prove but an ugly business. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z In one of your letters to your father, you speak with honest indignation of the treachery and chicanery of the natives of India. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z Ten shrewd, wire-pulling politicians whose careers were identically darkened with chicanery and crude cynicism, they were able by the magic of faith to rise above themselves. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z It was a fine piece of chicanery for a graduate of two of the greatest medical colleges to have to practice, but it did the trick! Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z When the chicanery was discovered, the campaign manager resigned and the candidate went on to finish fourth in a six-person race. Contracts for Top College Football Coaches Grow Complicated 2011-12-31T18:37:20Z Heaven help our good estate of the Union, when we must resort to such chicanery, to guard our seat of honor, and to secure the guaranty of our Freedom! Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z The game plan also featured end arounds, pitch-outs to wide receivers, and various other bits of chicanery and tomfoolery. Redskins-Giants best and worst 2011-12-18T21:22:54Z She had, moreover, no mean instructors in the art of diplomatic chicanery in two women who at this time were together at her side exercising a considerable influence over her. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z The Abbot, weary of these chicaneries, resigned his office and returned to Montecassino. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z His innocent share in a matter of imposture and chicanery was misconstrued and sharply censured by his employers. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The Indians, of course, followed the fate of the soil; and thus, by chicanery and influence, the gentle efforts of the better portion of Spanish society were rendered entirely nugatory. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z For the congressional "super committee" charged with producing a deficit reduction plan, agreeing on spending cuts and revenue increases that are based more on chicanery than sustainable budget changes may get some positive headlines. Analysis: Budget chicanery could tempt deficit panel 2011-10-31T19:39:07Z "But companies from time to time use, not chicanery necessarily, but accounting help and Band-Aids, to hit their numbers." Analysis: Buybacks potentially distort U.S. earnings picture 2011-10-28T19:36:59Z The great mass, of Irish Catholics, on whom the arts of delusion and chicanery are chiefly practised, do not understand the meaning of the word freedom. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Every individual ought to feel interested in the full and fair explanation of this chicanery; for if such misdeeds are suffered to remain unpunished, a safeguard is offered to future tyrants! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z The opprobrium attached to the concoction of this petition is due to the then member of the legislature for the New England district; for through his chicanery the signatures were obtained and the people deceived. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z They had, by dint of extraordinary chicanery, secured absolute possession of the small Turkish peninsula known as Mount Athos. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z The N.C.A.A., while trying to catch up with all the inspired chicanery in recruiting and sustenance of star players, must also keep track of the minutiae of eligibility rules. Sports of The Times: N.C.A.A. Punishes Marshall Player Over Technicality 2011-09-03T16:46:47Z I have said enough when I say that the discovery I made was that your father's business was based on merciless chicanery and fraud. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Sitting on those hard benches, he longed for liberty—longed to escape from the depressing influence of the atmosphere of chicanery in which he was plunged. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z He had detected in the man a genius for chicanery, and so long as he was "in with it" Wallingford might be as "smooth" as he liked. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z The closer you look at the U.S. federal budget process, the more it all seems like chicanery. How Boehner and Reid play the budget game 2011-07-27T14:01:00Z Mr Bhosh was of an exceptionally mild, just disposition, but such a piece of cheeky chicanery as this aroused his fiercest indignation and rendered him cross as two sticks. A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z She was a tractable and docile student, keen-set to profit by the scraps of dramatic chicanery which formed the major part of Quard's stage intelligence. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z In this seemingly hopeless extremity he applied to a certain attorney in St. Petersburg, famous for his inexhaustible fertility of mind in matters of cunning and chicanery. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z “There will be a lot less chicanery and hustling going around,” he said. Hamilton Heights: Awaiting a Bounce 2011-06-11T09:00:28Z That William IV. was obstinate, but fortunately fearful of losing his crown, gave way to progress with a bad grace when chicanery was no longer possible, and continued resistance became dangerous. 7th. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z All this was done at the instigation of Boyer, before-mentioned, who, in all this chicanery, lived by the discords which he fomented. Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602 2011-05-30T02:00:21.633Z A media representative from Yelp, Vince Sollitto, would not discuss the company’s algorithm, he said, because that kind of information only encourages chicanery. The Haggler: A Rave, a Pan, or Just a Fake? 2011-05-21T18:17:30Z It cleared his character and reputation from every imputation of unfairness, injustice, and chicanery. Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z Wherever they exist they will be the objects of intrigue and chicanery. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z The comments pulled back the curtain on the tortured soul of a sport in which chicanery and betting coups have been a staple part of the lore. Tough Talk After Winning the Derby 2011-05-13T01:13:10Z By cunning chicanery he had forced his daughter's sudden marriage, hoping that Arctic dangers, often fatal, would soon make her a widow dowered with millions. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z He believed it to be a very skilful concoction; and it was this that gave him pain—revealing on the part of his son a singular talent for chicanery. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z What do you say to his chicanery that he has contrived against me? Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Above all, that which owes its existence to the cheapest, the very shabbiest, chicanery the world was ever bamboozled with. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z If there is an appearance of chicanery, I think it might be more of a case of Phil making sure the Lakers are healthy and rested from the playoffs. Mailbag: Lakers might want to avoid Blazers in first round 2011-03-14T23:12:55Z It seems that with you chicanery, blunders, and stupidity of a criticism perverted by ignorance, envy, and venality, exercise less influence than in the Old World. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z "All the SEC has done today is introduce the possibility that this kind of chicanery has gone on at what can only be called the highest levels." With Dodd-Frank, the SEC Goes After Big Game 2011-03-03T04:01:30Z The whole scheme was plain, its low chicanery, its shallow hypocrisy, its fawning acceptance of his leadership! Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z “All the SEC has done today is introduce the possibility that this kind of chicanery has gone on at what can only be called the highest levels.” Ex-McKinsey ‘High Priest’ Gupta Linked to Rajaratnam by SEC Case 2011-03-02T07:53:11Z Mr. Anderson said he compared that filing with yearly financial statements and found discrepancies, which he called “suggestive of chicanery and perhaps financial fraud.” New York Archbishop May Face Deposition on Milwaukee Funds 2011-02-14T03:18:21Z Both in the time of Edward II. and in that of his son active violence had several times been called in to aid legal chicanery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Above all, that which owes its existence to the cheapest—the very shabbiest chicanery the world was ever bamboozled with. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z The princess would know that her chicaneries must cease--that if I wrote to Altenhof and told the whole truth, there would be an explosion. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z The new House speaker, , flatly rejected the report, saying it was based largely on chicanery by Democrats. Republicans Are Given a Price Tag for Health Law Repeal, but Reject It 2011-01-07T03:22:05Z Then, there was the commanding mystery of Bellingham, emerging in her mind now from the chicaneries of the past ten days; rising, indeed, to his own valuation—that of a New Voice. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z His chicanery need not, however, be censured over much, for the princes with whom Foreign policy of Henry VII. he had to deal, and notably Ferdinand and Maximilian, were as insincere and selfish as himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z As Kerth suggested, there might be a trick—and he knew only too well that she was not above chicanery. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z And as, like all ignorant men, he had the most profound belief in the power and the knowledge and the chicanery of lawyers, he was pleased to obtain Checkley's advice in return for Checkley's drinks. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z It is not the purpose of the writer to describe in detail a course of events which has been so interesting to the student of reforming fanaticism, unimaginative administration, and political chicanery. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The Bears were furious with what they suspected was chicanery with the injury report, but the N.F.L. said the move was allowed. N.F.L. Fast Forward: Vikings Just Can?t Say No to Favre 2010-12-21T17:49:33Z The big surprise would be that such chicanery was documented, in black and white, and that regulators hadn’t found it yet — or worse, they had found it and did nothing about it. DealBook: Prospect of WikiLeaks Dump Poses Problems for Regulators 2010-12-21T01:51:50Z Even with that chicanery, the Bush tax cuts were divisive enough that they required Cheney to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate. Party time for Bush and Cheney! 2010-12-07T05:07:00Z Pecora wrote in his memoirs: “Legal chicanery and beneficent darkness were the banker’s stoutest allies.” DealBook: Another View: Lessons From Pecora Were Ignored 2010-10-14T16:30:00Z Newton proved himself equally intolerant of chicanery, when, in his waning years, he took a position as Master of the Mint. Moonlighting as a Conjurer of Chemicals 2010-10-11T20:50:00Z You couldn't ask for a better demonstration of this than the frenzy of chicanery that suffused every level of the residential housing market, from subprime loan to synthetic CDO. Why is Elizabeth Warren protecting dumb people? 2010-10-01T21:05:00Z Some think more legal chicanery may be in store. Viktor Bout: Man in the dock 2010-09-30T10:54:00Z After an imbroglio full of chicanery, despite Helena’s repeated assurances that “all’s well that ends well,” we are not convinced. | New Jersey: Chicanery Abounds in a New ?All?s Well? 2010-09-25T00:31:00Z Now I notice this Washington Post article from a few days ago that I'd missed that really explains what kind of chicanery is going on here. Oh, I see, you mean the really large small businesses 2010-09-21T10:09:00Z Murray hooked up with King on a 47-yard throw, then Murray pulled a bit of chicanery on fourth down from the 1. Razorback touchdown with 15 seconds left seals win over Bulldogs 2010-09-18T19:59:00Z Its the kind of chicanery a guild of cutpurses would be proud of, Darren. The Fiver 2010-09-08T15:00:00Z Cricket being a gentleman's game, there's no way Sri Lanka would stoop to chicanery to prevent Sehwag getting to 100. Why on earth is he teeing off into a lake? 2010-08-19T07:49:00Z Financial chicanery, however, keeps most money flows obscure. How Burma's Junta Is Cementing Its Wealth and Power 2010-07-22T04:55:00Z The Harshbarger report, commissioned by ACORN’s own board of directors, pointed to signs of chicanery when it was released last December. Now reopen Breitbart's ACORN fraud -- and get the story right 2010-07-21T20:15:00Z In an interview with the magazine American Scientist this year, he said his opponents relied on “the political chicanery of ideologists and special interests.” Stephen H. Schneider, Climatologist, Is Dead at 65 2010-07-20T05:20:00Z Much of the wealth is inaccessible due to war, political chicanery, and outright corruption. Afghan Mineral Wealth: No Easy Road for Westerners 2010-06-17T21:00:00Z One popular view — that carbon trading is just another kind of financial chicanery — has further dimmed the prospects for such systems. Green Inc. Column: Biodiversity: The E.U.?s Next Challenge 2010-06-06T18:38:00Z A decent fellow for all his chicanery, Uxbal wants to resolve his dilemmas before he succumbs to prostate cancer. Cannes: Preparing for the Palme d'Or 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z If there’s chicanery with smog, imagine a trillion-dollar greenhouse market, they say. Does the Climate Bill Have a Chance? 2010-05-10T17:06:00Z The Fiver doesn't know much about corporate chicanery, but it gets a fairly strong sense of when it's being fed soft soap through the nose. The Fiver 2010-05-07T14:13:00Z Americans still bruised from the recession were being asked to pay as much as $120 for a play about fiscal chicanery. Why the production of Enron bombed on Broadway 2010-05-05T20:00:00Z “The public would not look kindly on any kind of chicanery.” In Britain, Built on Precedents, a Tight Race Has None 2010-05-04T20:01:00Z Desperate to capture an outright 50% majority in the first round of balloting, Karzai’s warlord coalition made use of an extraordinary array of electoral chicanery. America and the Dictators: From Diem to Karzai 2010-04-15T20:16:00Z The examiner noted that Fuld's denials were undercut by evidence that he was thoroughly briefed on the chicanery. Lessons from the Lehman Autopsy 2010-03-25T03:05:00Z They want this kind of political chicanery and the parliamentary maneuvers to stop.” Procedural Maneuvering and Public Opinion 2010-03-20T20:45:00Z Grayson follows by saying that the last White House resorted to similar chicanery. Bachmann and Grayson: A diary of crazy 2010-03-03T15:04:00Z It is a symbol of governmental paralysis, ethical abuse and political chicanery. Next Problem: Governing New York 2010-02-27T00:36:00Z It’s all tied to bashing President Obama and top aides as being products of a culture of chicanery. Chicago News Cooperative: Putting New Perspective on Illinois Corruption 2010-02-21T03:36:00Z Fortunes would no longer be squandered, and families be ruined by extravagance and dissipation; gambling speculation, extortion and chicanery would be unknown in trade; poverty and dishonesty would be banished from the working classes. An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming Jay had had a very bitter experience in Spain, where the cold haughtiness and chicanery of the court had made him feel that he was among enemies. The True Benjamin Franklin "One of his worst feats was last Saturday, when his chicanery drove away the Lithuanian reapers." The Undying Past He had acquired, moreover, a complete knowledge of, and great dexterity in, the practice of the chicaneries of law, or rather, perhaps, in the art of violating or evading it. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 They give rise to lying, hypocrisy, chicanery, and even perjury among the people, who are driven to such artifice and crimes to conceal themselves and their companions from prosecutions in consequence of them. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Once a newspaper reporter, he had somehow obtained control of the Rockets by chicanery and fraud. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager He was a master mind in finance and chicanery. Whispering Wires Bartholomew accompanied his father on the Lubeck journey, obtained his first insight into legal chicanery, and was, no doubt, effectually inoculated with the anti-Bruser virus. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Tradesfolk and craftsmen did vie with each other in Jewish roguery: exacted usury: sucked the sweat of the poor peasant's brow by all manner of chicanery and over-reaching. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim When he was deprived of even this share in the political destiny of his country, by the malicious chicanery of a lawless police, he settled for a few years in Switzerland. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. I don’t know what chicanery means, but it seems to fit the offense.” Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager What with printer's ink and that walking tombstone, Simmons, they have managed to get Rockhaven among the unlisted but active stocks, and by some chicanery, worked the price up to six dollars. Rockhaven No State chicanery, no narrow system of vicious politics, sank him to the vulgar level of the great; but overbearing, persuasive, and impracticable, his object was England, his ambition was fame. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 From the profession of law, after a short trial, he recoiled in disgust, complaining bitterly of the amount of chicanery which passed under the name of law and justice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Bentham accuses him of being the enemy of all reform, and the unscrupulous champion of every form of professional chicanery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" "Some bungling of yours, I'll be sworn, brought this about," said he, savagely; "some piece of that adroit chicanery that always recoils upon its projector." Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) He had just glanced at the legal profession only to be disgusted with its chicaneries. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Consummate clever scoundrel!—he had to deal with men whose whole lives are passed in the very practice of every chicanery and deceit, and yet he has jockied them all. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Two ragged shirts and a lambskin waistcoat, and the title-deeds of estates that not even your chicanery could get back for me. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience She came into conflict with the police, who considered her activity pernicious and accused her of socialistic tendencies, into which she was forced in 1885 by the chicaneries of the police. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) A way would thus be open for prolonged chicanery. A History of the Third French Republic She could not conquer chicanery by force, she could not meet it with chicanery, hence her nervousness and her hesitation and suspicion. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) The ground there, in Simcoe's phrase, was "admirably adapted to the chicanery of action." History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Wearied and worn out, as it were, by everlasting chicanery and trick, they seize with avidity on the first occasion that presents itself to relieve the weight of an overburdened heart. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The inexperienced and irresolute youth speedily became the victim of the most shameful chicanery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" It must suffice, therefore, that the long record of chicanery and blundering, of mismanagement and oppression found its climax in the war to which I referred at the end of the previous chapter. Long Live the King Therein lay the essential difference between himself and Mr. Dainopoulos, who also desired respectability, but who had in reserve a native facility for swift and secret chicanery. Command Only falsehood fears investigation; only chicanery dreads the light. The Pearl of India In this great country organization is absolutely essential, and in all vast complicated organizations some chicanery will creep in. Ancestors A Novel She would not let this miserable piece of chicanery stand between him and her. The "Genius" I speak as a son, and warn you that your cruelty and chicanery—— Chancellor. The Nephews: A Play, in Five Acts. Yes, yes; Friends of Justice, the foes of chicanery! The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts The long-practiced, skillful chicanery of competitive methods, would be at a discount; they would be worse than useless! Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century As long as the game lasts, and there are two parties, there must be more or less chicanery, but we are snow-white compared with the mire of this country. Ancestors A Novel He had the Irishman's love of chicanery in the matter of morals. The "Genius" A more common English form of the word is “chicanery.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" It was more than this: it was a casting-out of prejudice, a discarding of political chicanery and a time-serving policy, and a recognition of Justice, Right, and Freedom as the true elements of political economy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice. A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America Count Bindo, the nonchalant, audacious cosmopolitan, who spent money so freely, was a veritable marvel of cleverness and cunning in all matters of chicanery and fraud. The Count's Chauffeur She was descended from a family of distinction in Ireland; but as she expressed it, “she had been deprived of her birthright by the chicanery of law.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors I have had a great deal of trouble in this matter, as there is no concert of action, every man suspecting his fellow of some chicanery. The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. It was the chicanery of Blount which had ruined his father and driven Colonel Huff to his death, and what could be better, as poetic justice, than to see him hoist on his own petard. Shadow Mountain Before his fears came true, this wretched little world of petty chicanery and official corruption which surrounded and sickened him would be wiped out of existence. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel That Bindo was using the name of Bellingham showed some chicanery to be in progress. The Count's Chauffeur He had also written an astronomical treatise; but hearing of the fate of Galileo he refrained from publishing, and always used some chicanery in speaking of the world's movement. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The daughter-in-law accused the son of financial chicanery, and the son condemned the daughter-in-law for having run through two husbands and for desperately wanting a third. Old English Patent Medicines in America From bad temper, chicanery, contempt and hatred, he often goes on to blows and even murder, as the annals of criminology prove too well. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study On the other hand there have been tricks, chicanery and misrepresentation, but let us forget them all. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V In a world of chicanery and treachery the sword alone cut clean. Dreamers of the Ghetto On those lines there is no way out of a future of bitter rivalries, chicanery and wars, and the probable total failure of our civilisation. Another Sheaf The placard had indicated the possibility of chicanery on the part of McGuire. The Vagrant Duke Anything more than this is only useless chicanery. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Under the utmost candor and simplicity he concealed a penetration into character and a skill in using legitimate chicanery that rarely missed their mark. Benjamin Franklin We do suspect him here of chicanery; for by this plausible recantation he would shift the responsibility to the shoulders of the Editor, if the secret is divulged. The Book of Khalid Following in the steps of a griping, miserly sire, he had risen to his present station by oppression and chicanery; by crushing the weak and cajoling the strong. The Wild Geese He despised chicanery of all kinds, and formed independent opinions upon broad grounds instead of being at the mercy of ingenious sophistry. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice It must not be diverted to other purposes and used as an occasion for chicanery and tendencious proceedings by which the cause of peace would lose rather than gain. The Geneva Protocol The existing system has sanctioned a complicated chicanery, by which one class has been enabled to live as mere bloodsuckers and parasites upon the rest of society. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies They may elude her lofty purposes, falsify her trust, and for a time hoodwink her with male chicaneries; but they are always afraid of her, and in the end they do as she commands. The Dust Flower It illustrates how the rights guaranteed to women under the new constitution are to be denied them, if cunning and bold chicanery are to be tolerated, by a few ward politicians. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III What further piece of chicanery had they been guilty of, I wondered? Hushed Up! A Mystery of London Thought transference, which is now unquestionably an established fact, notwithstanding much chicanery that is still to be found in connection with it, is undoubtedly to be explained through the fact that thoughts are forces. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit Whilst Edward was doing his best to bring Scotland into subjection by open war, Philip was doing his best to disturb Edward in his hold upon Aquitaine by secret intrigues and legal chicanery. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。