(1) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
(2) Evidence seen by the Guardian shows he was blagging bank accounts, bribing police officers, procuring confidential data from the DVLA and phone companies, and trading sensitive material from live police inquiries.
(3) The possible targeting of the families of Dowler and Chapman emerged in questioning from the Labour MP Tom Watson who suggested the Dowlers had been a victim of Steve Whittamore, a private investigator who worked for numerous Fleet Street newspapers and specialised in "blagging" confidential data from phone companies and government databases.
(4) He repeatedly denied promoting a "culture" of hacking and "blagging", where people's confidential data such as tax details, criminal records or phone bills were illegally accessed, in the NoW's newsroom.
(5) Evidence seen by the Guardian shows that Mr A, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was blagging bank accounts, bribing police officers, procuring confidential data from the DVLA and phone companies, and trading sensitive material from live police inquiries.
(6) Databases According to a reliable source at News International, Mr A was paid out of the paper's editorial budget and continued to "blag" confidential databases and to pay serving police officers to supply information.
(7) What is it about teaching that makes it so easy to blag?
(8) Blag a bottle A great tip is getting a brand on board to support your night.
(9) Similarly, they were told very little of the paper’s use of Steve Whittamore, who blagged information illegally, culminating in his conviction in court in April 2005.
(10) The home secretary agreed to look at the detail of the custodial powers specified in sections 77 and 78 of the 2008 Criminal Justice and Immigration Act , which carry a public-interest and investigative-journalism defence for those who "blag" access to confidential personal information.
(11) In 1972, he tried to blag his way into San Francisco Art Institute by proposing to the teachers that he would drive them around the city in a 1968 Dodge Charger, of the sort used by the bad guys in the film Bullitt.
(12) The paper followed Cook, “blagged” his personal details from police databases, and tried to access his voicemail and that of his then wife.
(13) We now know, for instance, that one newspaper employed at least four private investigators — one of them fresh from seven years in jail for blackmail and perverting the course of justice – to systemically hack, track, blag and otherwise pry into the private lives of numerous people in public life — from royalty, through politics to celebrities and blameless people who just happened to be caught up in the news, such as the relatives of the two Soham girls murdered by Ian Huntley.
(14) Clement said Blag had been authorised by a vote of the entire House.
(15) It didn't feel all that safe to have blagged a ticket in the wrong end for a big FA Cup match away at West Ham, once the packed terrace began singing: "I'd rather be a Paki than a Scouse."
(16) I blagged my way to a gig at the Comedy Cafe in London and didn’t tell any of my friends about it.
(17) At least one of the three terrorists had been turned away that night because he did not possess a ticket, his attempts to blag entry dismissed by the attentive security staff.
(18) Sharing images of your tickets via social media can lead to others being able to gain access with your ticket.” This issue was highlighted last month when a man claimed he blagged his way into the London premiere of the latest James Bond movie Spectre by creating a fake ticket from an image of a real one posted on Instagram – though, somewhat confusingly, it was later reported that he had actually bought his ticket from the venue’s box office.
(19) "The current very low penalties under the Data Protection Act for "blagging" offences which do not involve telecoms interception are not a sufficient deterrent to stop the widespread illegal trade in personal information.
(20) "We are disappointed that the then information commissioner did not feel he had the resources to identify and inform all those who were or could have been the victim of illegal blags, [or] make the case that he should be given such resources."
Scrounge
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But let’s not convince ourselves the rest are credible – punishment sensibly bestowed on the scrounging unemployed.
(2) Where those who are most vulnerable, most in need of help, are not seen as lazy, or scrounging, or robbing the rest of us for whatever they can get.
(3) I don’t really remember, I suppose I watched a bit of telly, scrounged around the fridge for something to eat … that was a grim, grim day.” His next choice of music, perhaps tellingly, was one he first heard while working on reconciliation during his time at Coventry cathedral, a poignant Advent composition by John Tavener.
(4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
(5) If you haven’t been scrounging the internet for Star Wars news, then you don’t know that Poe Dameron is Oscar Isaac’s character in The Force Awakens, who is thought to be a Han Solo-ish rogue.
(6) Indulging the Farageist conflation of Eastern migrants with scrounging and criminality was a very efficient way to undo any sense of gratitude or solidarity that was available in Bucharest or Warsaw.
(7) Then the subtext is of fraud, scrounging and dependence and the policy is one of draconian assessment .
(8) Once a promising student who wanted a career in chemistry, his priority would become scrounging a living.
(9) To grasp how this fits into austerity’s bigger picture, it’s worth going back to when the Conservatives began to sell the myth that Britain was filled with hordes of scrounging disabled people lining up to milk the state .
(10) When foreclosed homes are desirable to sophisticated, institutional, credit-worthy buyers, it stands to reason that banks will try to scrounge up as many foreclosures as possible.
(11) And the most insidious myth, increasingly pervasive, is that the poor are workshy , scrounging out chaotic lives in a nation where strivers are paying their taxes for skivers.
(12) A friend at a cartography institute later scrounged up some material.
(13) Briefly, he stood in Luton arrivals as a woolly-hatted emblem for a host of issues that reflect none too well on the state of Britain: anti-immigration fever, Europhobia, benefit-scrounging hysteria, a living reminder of our high unemployment, low pay, weak labour laws and slum housing epidemic.
(14) How we eventually moved to the dying coal mining town in West Virginia where my father was born, where we lived in an unheated shack, scrounging for food from the garbage.
(15) Almost all low-paid work is essential: a living wage would stop cheapskate employers scrounging off tax credits and importing what too often looks like serf-labour.
(16) There were a few threadbare years as he scrounged for work, but not enough to shake his conviction in his own lucky genes.
(17) Do we want to be a society that is supportive, that is inclusive and compassionate, where it is acknowledged that not all can prosper, where those who are most vulnerable, most in need of help, are not seen as lazy or scrounging or robbing the rest of us for whatever they can get?
(18) She has been described as a scrounging gypsy surviving on benefits, living in squalor with her 'tribe' in a series of ramshackle caravans surrounded by snarling dogs, empty beer bottles and rubbish.
(19) As a result, he spent part of this year sleeping on friends' sofas and scrounging food wherever he could.
(20) So patients who are too poor to pay out-of-pocket have to scrounge together the money from friends or family.