(1) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
(2) One covers Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Cahoot; the other covers Alliance & Leicester.
(3) Questions remain, but the outlines of what Draghi will unveil have been carefully and skilfully briefed ahead of the disclosures in sessions at the European parliament, private briefings to journalists, and speeches, most notably from Jörg Asmussen, the German on the six-strong ECB executive who is said to have drafted the policy in cahoots with his French colleague.
(4) The press and the government are in cahoots, he explains, to oppress white people.
(5) And British forces have carried out plenty of beatings and torture in Afghanistan and Iraq themselves, either on their own or in cahoots with US and local forces , as multiple reports and inquiries have now made clear.
(6) During his refusal to step aside amid the February coup attempt, Giles claimed unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and police commissioner John McRoberts from their respective offices.
(7) The two men suspect the police and Abu Hamada were in cahoots.
(8) I took some acclimatising to the double act In Cahoots , whose show opens at an inhospitable pitch of self-assertion, without the consistent material to back it up.
(9) And what to say about his other eye-catching venture – the cable car over the Thames in east London, run in cahoots with Emirates airline.
(10) As journalists struggle to make charges stick, they are running the risk of simply entrenching an image of Ukip in the minds of voters as a populist outsider fighting a homogeneous political elite who are in cahoots to undermine the "silent majority".
(11) Santander will retain the Cahoot name and the products will attract separate rates and charges.
(12) The new group, which has attracted 25 Syriza MPs, accused Tsipras of acting in cahoots with foreign lenders with the sole aim of purging dissidents and clearing up the political landscape.
(13) Bird kept repeating that his twin brother, David, and solicitor Kevin Commons, 60, were "in cahoots" against him.
(14) Isis, the PKK [Kurdistan Workers party], the spies of Assad – they are all in cahoots but will get swept away,” says Ahmet, echoing Erdogan’s implausible allegation that all these groups cooperated in the recent Ankara suicide bomb attack, the deadliest terrorist strike in Turkey’s history.
(15) He has hit back with the same argument he has used about a string of legal investigations that have dogged him since 2012: that he is innocent of any wrongdoing and that he is the victim of a plot against him by political enemies in cahoots with the justice system.
(16) He is probably part Muppet, so it would make sense that he's in cahoots with the robots.
(17) While questions still need to be answered about political interference (what some call “co-ordination”, I’d call “in cahoots”), the actual letter can be dismissed for what it was – a cynical attack on public intelligence.
(18) Again, according to which conspiracy you favour, those same Islamists – be they Muslim Brotherhood or ultra-conservative Salafis – are either in cahoots with the junta in an attempt to guarantee their own slice of power, or as hapless as the rest of us trying to end military rule.
(19) Oliver Stone's JFK , for instance, flat-out invented a case to support the view that John F Kennedy was murdered by the CIA in cahoots with Cuban exile organisations.
(20) There is a very real danger that the conduct of a parallel inquiry in the terms advised would compromise both current and future prosecution action.” Giles and Chandler said the government also considered the commission’s inquiry was “sufficiently robust to not require a judicial inquiry.” Last month Giles apologised to the NT police force for remarks he made in the fallout of an attempted challenge to his leadership, which alleged unnamed senior police officers and “alleged politicians” had plotted “in cahoots” to remove him and McRoberts from their respective commissions, but the NT Police Association labelled the apology “half-hearted”.
Nefarious
Definition:
(adv.) Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author of the new bill, Mike Rogers, the Republican chair of the House intelligence committee , has said it is aimed at tracking the nefarious activities of hackers, terrorists and foreign states, especially China.
(2) But remember: record companies can be callous and nefarious beasts."
(3) "If there is evidence that a particular American is involved in terrorism or other nefarious activity, then intelligence and law enforcement agencies should absolutely investigate that person aggressively, by showing that evidence to a judge and getting a warrant.
(4) For decades she’s been portrayed as a Lady Macbeth involved in nefarious plots, branded as “a congenital liar” and accused of covering up her husband’s misconduct, from Arkansas to Monica Lewinsky.
(5) In the fevered Daily Mail version, this fact suggests a nefarious and hyperactive court, up to mischief and rejoicing in 'overruling' national authorities, better to promote the interests of sex offenders and the homicidal.
(6) The talks came as the RAF dropped "precision" weapons on the Central Organisation for Electronic Research, described by the Ministry of Defence as "a cover for the regime's nefarious activities".
(7) Muscular dysfunction has a nefarious effect on subsequent facial growth.
(8) Thor: The Dark World sees Chris Hemsworth's Asgardian prince forced to team up with Tom Hiddleston's crafty Loki to take down an even greater threat, Christopher Eccleston's nefarious Malekith.
(9) A few minutes’ walks away, are the Catacumbas del Beaterio , part of a network of tunnels used for nefarious and religious purposes: short tours began last year.
(10) The optional measure was designed to “provide DHS greater clarity and visibility to possible nefarious activity and connections by providing an additional tool set which analysts and investigators may use”.
(11) Pushkov claimed Moscow and the EU were looking to solve the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine but were being stymied by Washington's nefarious plans.
(12) Meanwhile, Donald Trump appeared to accuse Obama of harbouring a nefarious secret agenda on national security, linking the president to the mass shooting.
(13) Look, he’s the clear frontrunner, he’s been in six debates already, answered more questions from the media than any other candidate on the stage combined.” The Fox News press release that irked Trump and led to his withdrawal read: “We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president – a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings.” Trump derided it as “a wise guy press release .
(14) Until recently Bitcoin had been a largely obscure currency used by the tech-savvy , libertarians wishing to thumb their noses at central bankers and people involved in more nefarious activities such as online gambling (often illegal in the US) or drug deals .
(15) Time was one would head to that area whenever a nefarious local had gone missing because, in time, the body would wash up in the River Lee.
(16) It also warned that “the conviction and detention of an individual for being in a declared area where no evidence has been provided of a nefarious intent could be arbitrary for the purposes of international human rights law”.
(17) Naturally, such features can be used for nefarious ends too, but Taaki says that's the price to be paid for freedom.
(18) While I’m not interested in a specific individual, I’m interested in the emergent behaviour of the crowd.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest City-simulation company Simudyne creates computerised models ‘with pretty pictures’ to aid disaster-response planning But what about more nefarious bodies who are interested in specific individuals?
(19) Via nefarious means I've watched two episodes of Lilyhammer , BBC4's brand new "not very good thing with subtitles we're hoping to keep The Killing audience enraptured with", where a New York mob boss (Steven Van Zandt) goes into hiding in Norway with hilarious results.
(20) We all know about the military uses of drones (bomb lots of people, surveillance), and how drones can be used for nefarious purposes (theft, voyeurism), but there are actually some pretty cool uses for drones too.