(1) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(2) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(3) After all, on any sober calculation of relative sins, HSBC's dealings with Mexican drug bandits were surely several leagues more serious than other banks' Libor-rigging scandals.
(4) For two decades, bandits and kidnappers have kept out the tourists who used to flock to the temple of the queen, while the desert hinterland has become a haven for jihadis and militants of various stripes.
(5) Like a bandit who has cajoled his way in, the parasite now forces his host to prepare a banquet for him.
(6) If it becomes a sanctuary for terrorists, narcotics traffickers, jihadists and bandits, our neighbours will be affected too.
(7) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
(8) Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne’s Rather Be is currently top of its chart, having been streamed 32m times in the UK in the first nine months of 2014, putting it ahead of the 30m streams of Pharrell Williams’ Happy.
(9) It is an occasionally dangerous, always beautiful place, rich in history and tradition, often presented in the news media as bandit country.
(10) Bandits have taken over.” In the sanatorium kitchen volunteers were making lunch.
(11) Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries for aid workers, al-Shabaab, pirates and bandits have all targeted aid workers in recent months with kidnappings and shootings.
(12) Idon't know why they call him Bandit; I hope it's just because he's fun.
(13) The film takes a bleak view of US expansionism, depicting some pioneers as cheats, brutes and bandits, I say.
(14) And having had Clean Bandit over to my home for an intimate after party after seeing them perform live in Miami, I have to say that I couldn’t wish more happiness and success to such a lovely, talented group of people.
(15) Aid officials and residents say Dadaab is becoming more dangerous as bandits kill, rape and steal, and Islamic militants target civilians and Kenyan security forces with bombs and shootings.
(16) Without impostors, nationalists and bandits, without tanks and APCs, and without secret visits of the director of the CIA … UPDATE: Medvedev again warned of civil war in Ukraine after a meeting Tuesday with his counterparts from Belarus and Kazakhstan, Reuters reports: Medvedev said on Tuesday he hoped that the authorities in the Ukrainian capital have "enough brains" to prevent a further escalation of the conflict in the east of the country.
(17) The war in Chechnya ended, bandits disappeared from the streets and both the existential and economic despair of the Soviet collapse began to ease.
(18) The navy and air force crave another Libya, where they "bravely" spent half a billion pounds replacing a nutcase with a bunch of bandits.
(19) They say they are ready to defend Crimea against all unwanted intrusions, namely western authorities and the new administration in Kiev, seen by many in the region as bandits and terrorists who seized power illegally.
(20) He looks like a Canadian mountie who has just arrested some robot time bandits at the border.
Cheat
Definition:
(n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
(n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
(n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
(n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
(n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
(n.) To beguile.
(v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
(n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) 12 October China’s quality watchdog says it is “highly concerned” about the cheat device in VW’s diesel cars.
(2) "I always thought it would be the Colombians who would cheat me out of the money, but they made good," Juan told the magazine.
(3) We’re prepared to inform international society about the steps we’re taking, the investigation, the decisions.” Pound’s report, commissioned in the wake of a devastating documentary by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt for ARD in December last year, outlined systemic cheating on a grand scale including a second “shadow lab” that was used to screen samples, anti-doping labs infiltrated by secret service agents and positive tests covered up for cash.
(4) No evidence of systematic cheating has been found in the tests administered by the four other main providers of English language tests in Britain.
(5) For a "free form" class project in senior year I did a quiz show-style performance piece based on her life ("Ted Hughes cheated on Sylvia Plath: True or False?")
(7) Perspective needed on migration and the UK | Letters Read more “Experience tells us that employers who are prepared to cheat employment rules are also likely to breach health and safety rules and pay insufficient tax.
(8) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
(9) It has been a long time for me to be playing football and I didn’t want to cheat them or anyone.
(10) But a report sent from the research centre to the directorate as far back as 2010 warned that its testing had found potential cheating by a car-maker.
(11) During a subsequent session we were told that if we had cheated during the test we were putting lives at risk.
(12) It is about whether Mr Woolas should be disqualified for cheating.
(13) The NT makes an ambitious and worthwhile argument: the evidence of a misaligned system of food production is evident at almost every stage – in polluted watercourses and compacted land, in horsemeat passed off as beef and foreign produce repackaged and traded as British, in gangmasters cruelly exploiting migrant labour, and the processing industry cheating on quality.
(14) With Redknapp's and Mandaric's trial now over, it can be revealed that as a result of Operation Apprentice, Storrie was prosecuted, charged with cheating the public revenue in relation to the alleged payment to Faye, and that he and Mandaric were also tried for tax evasion over an alleged termination fee paid to the midfielder Eyal Berkovic via a company, Medellin Enterprises, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
(15) How big a problem is cheating and plagiarism among students?
(16) Everyone seemed to be cheating and the instructors weren't doing anything to stop it.
(17) Yet at HMRC it was decided that prominent British individuals found to be cheating on their taxes would not be prosecuted, a process which would have led to them being named and the facts coming out.
(18) Guenter Verheugen, the enlargement commissioner who helped Cyprus into the EU, told the European parliament yesterday he felt "disappointed" and "cheated" by the Greek-Cypriot government.
(19) Leicester City’s dash to an unlikely Premier League title is billed as football’s most romantic story in a generation but the Football League is still investigating the club’s 2013-14 promotion season amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules.
(20) Tribunal cases against tax cheats should be handled more quickly – many tax cases can take a decade to resolve and the first-tier tribunals have a backlog of 30,000 cases waiting to be heard.