| These rapacious relations managed to poison her ears, arguing the new man was an impostor out to swindle her and them. |
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| Art dealers who think they can swindle the city and government out of sales tax revenue are discovering they are gravely mistaken. |
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| Just before they are about to pull a major swindle, Rockwell appears wearing an absurd Stetson tipped rakishly forward over his eyes. |
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| I don't condone cheats and con artists who swindle innocent victims out of their hard-earned cash. |
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| Discarded papers found by bag-raiders can be used to swindle millions of pounds a year from bank accounts in identity and credit fraud. |
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| It's a total scam, swindle, and fake, but no one in our consumer agencies has any intention of doing anything about it. |
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| But the federal and state agencies have ZERO interest in the swindle that's being perpetrated. |
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| Fairytales were always a bit of a swindle, bribing us with happy endings to accept their sanctimonious morality. |
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| Oddly, according to official regulations and manuals no provision was made to carry spare swindle trees and splinter bars. |
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| Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation. |
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| This British crime drama tracks a group of young hoods who try to swindle local crime boss Dad Savage. |
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| If that does not happen, unscrupulous traders will rush into villages and swindle desperate peasant farmers of their hard-earned crop. |
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| Sometimes, the employers will even attempt to swindle their potential employees. |
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| It quickly becomes evident this blind man is far from helpless, as he proceeds to swindle the gangsters out of all their money. |
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| The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds. |
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| This performance of theirs was just a ploy to swindle a few dollars out of travelers and adventurers and nothing more. |
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| In both cases he's arguably signed contracts with the intention to swindle money. |
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| He will get fatter and nervier, simply because our system turns a blind eye to such a swindle. |
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| It was also part of a stock swindle involving hundreds of millions of dollars on the Montreal Stock Exchange. |
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| It doesn't matter if the state abetted the swindle by finding the swindler innocent in a fixed trial. |
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| Then we hear about widespread accounting malpractices, even in giant corporations, and start to wonder if this is not a huge conspiracy to swindle us out of our money. |
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| He lived in great style in Havana for many years until he too was accused of trying to swindle his hosts. |
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| We are tired of being an unwilling party to what appears to be a deliberate attempt to deceive voters and swindle investors. |
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| The two brothers at the centre of Australia's most infamous gold swindle have today told one of Western Australia's most senior policemen to put up or shut up. |
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| They operate what are called boiler rooms, from which they systematically swindle people. |
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| Later he rustles cattle, reminisces about the married woman he seduced and abandoned, and deliberately shoots a woman who has just saved his life, then tries to swindle her. |
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| The Norwegian in turn shared their development of the methods against the Internet swindle and defense of data. |
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| These people are clearly criminals and have perpetrated a massive swindle against thousands of Americans, and become fantastically rich as a result. |
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| According to him, the upper classes think of slum residents as lazy, criminal elements out to swindle the resources of the city. |
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| I admit I live by my wits a lot, but I don't use them to swindle people. |
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| The main activities of the Belgian OC groups are drug trafficking, money laundering, tax fraud, swindle and aggravated theft. |
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| Thanks to the Bernie Madoff swindle, investors want to see sturdier back-offices staffed by compliance types. |
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| These are invariably attempts to swindle people out of their money. |
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| The swindle continued until a copy of Drake's will was brought to Hartzell's mail fraud trial and he was convicted and imprisoned. |
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| Land enclosure has been condemned as a gigantic swindle on the part of large landowners. |
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| Unscrupulous farmers and veterinaries plotted to swindle their insurer. |
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| And the beauty about writing about the music business is that everybody is prepared to believe that there is a great rock'n'roll swindle out there. |
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| The term refers to scams in which the perpetrator uses personal contacts to swindle a specific group, such as a church congregation, a rotary club, a professional circle or an ethnic community. |
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| This is particularly true of money managers who work in the shadows or seem beyond reproach even more so during booms, when the temptation to swindle grows along with the propensity to speculate. |
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| Just one swindle may bring these multiple difficulties in a series. |
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| I agree with the criticism made by Mr Mulder regarding the Strasbourg building programme: in our view it will be a swindle if we have to carry out renovations due to asbestos. |
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| But for most of them, contemporary art is a swindle. |
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| And also in cases in which there may be a fear that some or part of a work will be the subject of a swindle, an i-DEPOT makes it possible to prove who the true creator is. |
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| On 8 March 2007 Channel 4 screened the highly controversial documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle. |
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