(1) The previous day in the Commons, Miliband had accused former Conservative party treasurer Lord Fink of tax avoidance and talked about “dodgy” donors.
(2) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(3) That’s a dodgy tactic because the German penalties are so accurate.
(4) Last week we saw that the government had overstated the failings of the NHS by using dodgy figures (to be precise, they used misleading static figures instead of time trends).
(5) He added that London remained the "libel capital of the world – the place where the rich and dodgy flock to keep their reputations intact".
(6) If you needed a soundtrack to a film about dodgy diplomatic manouvering by folk in linen suits, this would do the job.
(7) Could we just be clear that you now don’t believe Lord Fink’s tax affairs are dodgy?” “Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 News.
(8) That would be a nice box-ticking exercise for an unscrupulous council and dodgy developers and a big two fingers for concerned environmentalists.
(9) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.
(10) A dodgy brown pitch is a boon to England, isn't it?
(11) The LSE thought it was helping the cause by giving Gaddafi's son a dodgy PhD , for which it accepted a £1.5m "donation".
(12) Luckily, we had booked into a rather smart lodge rather than pitching up at a dodgy motel.
(13) We don't know quite why Russia's most apparently liberal oligarch is snapping up print newspapers rather than football clubs (though £12m a year wouldn't buy you a Romanian midfielder with a dodgy knee over at Chelsea).
(14) Interestingly, their report, Tax Evasion Across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence From Greece, which documents the hidden, non-taxed economy, blames the current malaise not on dodgy taxi drivers or moonlighting refuse collectors, but on the professional classes.
(15) She said: "We all know what it's like: you are at freshers' week, you meet up with a dodgy bloke and you do things that you regret.
(16) Loïc Rémy apparently had dodgy knees and yet he hasn’t done too badly has he?” “If they don’t think Charlie would be a good fit for West Ham then that’s their prerogative.
(17) 7.35pm GMT For some reason perhaps only the Gods Of Dodgy Technology know, this live blog has started publishing things in the wrong order.
(18) The bill, which could be on Obama's desk for signing on Friday or early next week, is intended to deal with many of the issues that led to recession in the US: dodgy mortgages, easy credit cards, and limited regulation of banking and Wall Street.
(19) Amid the duck islands and dodgy mortgages, the turfing out of rogues might have been expected to top the wish list.
(20) Just one problem: she was singing the praises of Donald Trump, that peerless narcissist, deceiver, dodgy deal maker and demagogue.
Evasive
Definition:
(a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
(2) The NYT article further shines further light into this murky affair, in which both News International and the Metropolitan Police have so far been evasive, to say the least."
(3) Hollande ended up defending until to the bitter end Jérôme Cahuzac , a finance minister responsible for fighting tax evasion who turned out to have used a secret Swiss bank account to avoid paying taxes in France.
(4) It is suggested that this may contribute to parasite evasion of the host immune response.
(5) According to research and advocacy organisation Global Financial Integrity , nearly $1tn in illicit financial flows—the proceeds of crime, corruption, and tax evasion—flows illicitly out of developing countries every year.
(6) In the test-group animals evasion showed a decrease compared with the untreated control animals, but there was no evidence of a relation to the timing of the bleedings.
(7) But it was also a portrait of an England charged with secrets - and, as Michael Billington put it, the work of an accomplished playwright who understood the English curse of 'emotional evasion.'
(8) I believe in wealth creation and company profits, and for the government to play its part, and we have been working closely with business to shape that agenda.” Specifically, Miliband pointed out David Cameron, during his chairmanship of the G8 in 2013, had promised to make a crackdown on tax evasion one of his central goals.
(9) The complex immunological relationships between schistosomes and their vertebrate hosts are considered to be conveniently divisible into four distinct, though interrelated categories: the parasite's vulnerability to, its evasion of, and its exploitation of the host's immune response, and its stimulation of the host's immune response to produce immunopathology.
(10) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
(11) Here's more details and reaction: Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi more than 50 trials.. blabla... etc, judges have drawn my name in the mud, took up my time, my patience, huge economic resources September 18, 2013 Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi , ridicolous sentence to 4 years, for tax evasion that I didn't commit, and even if I did would be minor.
(12) Cellino was initially disqualified in December when the League ruled a first-grade conviction for tax evasion on a yacht in Sardinia was a “dishonest offence” and that he was therefore in breach of the organisation’s owners’ and directors’ test.
(13) Jeremy Hunt has serious questions to answer, especially his deliberately evasive statement to parliament.
(14) This procedure is manifested in the region of system-immanent weak spots of the positional and locomotor system and, in the pelvic girdle region by tipping of the pelvis in ventral direction, with consecutive evasive shifts of the vertebral column and extremities.
(15) The authors found, almost as an aside to their central examination of tax evasion, that the occupations represented in parliament "are very much those that evade tax, even beyond lawyers".
(16) When, in the course of studying this behavior, moths are removed by stages from the natural circumstances of this interaction their evasion responses become much less invariant; that is, more evitable.
(17) 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.
(18) Meanwhile, the editor of an investigative magazine went on trial on Monday for publishing a list of some 2,000 wealthy Greeks with Swiss bank accounts who the government has yet to investigate for possible tax evasion.
(19) Abbott’s few remaining apologists in the domestic media have vaingloriously announced today that our prime minister is putting the mighty US “on notice” about tax evasion.
(20) The model described here might represent a useful tool to further analyze the mechanisms involved in immune evasion of Leishmania parasites.