| Oh, come off it, it's true that they can be justly blamed for all sorts of devilish chicanery, but your presumption is crazy. |
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| If this were to actually come to pass, it could open the door to all sorts of chicanery. |
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| He, on the other hand, loves the intrigue, the subtle manipulation, the backstairs chicanery, and there's no one better to convey it. |
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| The remark was not brought on by some thieving or chicanery on my part, but rather by a political speech I'd made that this person didn't like. |
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| Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge. |
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| The emerging malpractices and general chicanery of these cash-driven outfits defy belief. |
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| The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection. |
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| The run for the presidency is no joke, rife with political chicanery, espionage and blackmail. |
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| The two schemers fall for each other but there's a lot of revenge-fuelled chicanery before love wins through. |
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| Apparently he considered adultery a lesser crime than financial chicanery, and by pleading the one, he avoided the other. |
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| In the last few months, we've found that chicanery sometimes extends to companies' nutrition information. |
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| The managers hope that, through chicanery and fraud, they could save the dollar from sudden death. |
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| Computer experts at respected universities have sounded the alarm over the potential for high-tech chicanery. |
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| His sky-rocket ascent was almost certainly powered by bribery, manipulation, and other chicanery. |
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| To be sure, force may no longer take the form of plunder and extortion, and fraud may no longer appear as deliberate imposture and chicanery. |
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| Unfortunately, confusion about the Earned Income Tax Credit has created opportunities for chicanery. |
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| So there you have it, it's another case of British achievement being brought down by foreign chicanery. |
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| In reality, it is the outcome of the growing national opposition faced by the occupying forces, which no amount of chicanery will forestall. |
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| The Conservatives, however, continue to fight dirty with trickery, chicanery and underhanded tactics probably hoping people will not notice. |
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| A CBS movie revisits Enron, with all its chicanery, flimflam, excess, hanky-panky, and its descent into the dark, if darkly comic, side of capitalism. |
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| Wars and political chicanery, violence, double-dealing and betrayal, all swirl around his unoffending head. |
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| Juliette Jowit While the headline cut sounds extreme, there is some chicanery here. |
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| It shows complete disregard for the victims and is nothing but inappropriate chicanery. |
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| That kind of chicanery, duplicity and patronage system is unprecedented in the country under this administration. |
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| The last bit of chicanery, the last part of the grande séduction, was to put together a committee to travel the country. |
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| Fortunately, the Ecuadorian Constitution foresees such chicanery and the judicial branch prevented it. |
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| Fans of today adore the cheaters of the past, precisely because of their chicanery. |
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| Experience shows that in some societies, the principles of sharing and pooling resulted in chicanery and even worse. |
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| But in my heart I vowed secretly to cleanse the temple of its chicanery and folly. |
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| The Guardian is a past master at this type of political chicanery. |
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| The social stigma of losing necessitated strategy, even chicanery. |
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| But all these examples are nothing more than political chicanery. |
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| If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic chicanery. |
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| Hawkers of such chicanery have made claims that youth and restored body functions could be brought about through nerve tonics and elixirs of life. |
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| Set aside the usual circus ring tricks of political chicanery. |
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| The history of democracy is full of attempts to falsify the popular will, to delude the people, to purchase power, to use sensationalism and mass media chicanery to turn opinion in a particular direction. |
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| All that in fact needs to be done is for this protectionism, which is what this chicanery is all about, to be done away with, and this directive provides us with the appropriate legal means to do that. |
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| At the association, Fleur observes chicanery and concupiscence at close range, but seems less distressed by its director's inclination to blackmail than by his preference for fact over fiction: What is truth? |
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| There are organisational question-marks over Ms Silva's failure to register her own political party in time for this presidential campaign she alleges chicanery, others say she started the process of registration too late. |
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| Furthermore, elections were generally free of chicanery, engendering pride in the national parliament. |
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| They will get the loans restructured, and, with a little chicanery and creative accounting, the loan will disappear into the ether. |
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| A society in which the interests and functions of the state have been privatised by a minority, and the people are disoriented and subjected to all kinds of chicanery, and are dying in a dehumanising jungle as a result. |
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| People are sick of the Conservatives' political chicanery. |
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| The injustice and the political chicanery that took place here was that the member for Dufferin-Caledon had a copy of the notice of action with statement of claim attached before the member for West Nova was served. |
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| It thereby exemplified the chicanery surrounding the issue. |
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| We all love reading about chicanery, and Galbraith's bezzle has always been food for thought, since there's a lot that we can't see or touch easily in our financial world. |
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| The narrative takes us from one crisis to another and nearly overwhelms the reader with a hefty dosage of political heavy-handedness and ecclesiastical chicanery. |
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