(1) But Clarke said he would not be diverted by “kneejerk short-term decisions” and “gimmicks”.
(2) "The leader in developing this technology was Toshiba but it has recently given up developing the technology after failing to get it to work to a level that was considered acceptable … Amazon is right to differentiate its device, but it needs to do so in its [app] ecosystem not in hardware gimmicks."
(3) Like his wind turbine though, discreetly taken down some months later, many people are now concluding that Cameron's promise to lead the " greenest government ever " was little more than a fraudulent gimmick, a PR stunt from a man schooled in the PR industry.
(4) Do they attack him – as the retiring veteran Queensland National party senator Ron Boswell urges – call him out as a cult of personality fuelled by gimmicks to try to stop him extending his influence.
(5) They cut taxes on corporate Britain while indulging in entirely destructive gimmicks such as scrapping the 10p tax rate.
(6) At the risk of of sounding like, well, a girl, I have to say I found it a bit blokely with far too many gimmicks (Lawro's hair?
(7) Aberdare has a covered market near the station, where fruit and vegetables and meat and fish are for sale, alongside knitting wool and clothes and gimmicks and gadgets.
(8) Compared with emissions source control, reducing emissions once diluted in the atmosphere is challenging.” Alan Andrews, a lawyer at ClientEarth, which won the supreme court case and is taking the government to court again , said: “Research should be focused on cutting air pollution at source, not on gimmicks which seek to treat the symptoms but not the causes of Britain’s air pollution crisis.
(9) Please, get rid of the gimmicks – the faux-concerned and impersonal feedback loop and the specious “choice” paradigm designed to soften us up for privatisation – and listen to your frontline staff.
(10) Seen once, it is a cool effect; twice through 10 times, a self-conscious gimmick; 65 times, something approaching a guiding ethic.
(11) Review: Amazon’s Fire Phone offers new gimmicks, old platform growing pains - Ars Technica Past tablet success isn't enough to guarantee a win for Amazon in the high-end smartphone game for Andrew Cunningham for Ars Technica: The problem is that even if all of your media lives in Amazon's cloud, phones running iOS or Google-approved Android can access all of it without the third-party app gap or FireOS' idiosyncrasies (the exception is Instant Video on Android, though rumour has it that Amazon will be releasing that app soon).
(12) Germany has told its second largest bank, Commerzbank, to rescue itself with a whole series of assets sales and creative accounting gimmicks that will, among other things, mean it is likely to cut lending again.
(13) Camera: Great for stills, but ultra HD is a gimmick The Note 3 packs the same camera as the Samsung Galaxy S4, which at 13-megapixels produces clean, colourful and sharp images in decent lighting.
(14) To sceptics, he was an opportunist prone to gimmicks – such as the attractive policewomen who paraded around Dalian on horseback when he ran the city.
(15) Cooper insisted that Labour's plans on immigration, which include trebling the maximum fine for employing illegal workers to �£30,000, were a contrast to the government's "gimmicks" such as text messages and "offensive" advertising vans.
(16) If Sony treats it like a gimmick, people will get tired of it as fast as they did with the 3D TV.” At the Morpheus event, Marks was very keen to stress that Sony understands the wider implications of VR.
(17) Cowell warns against gimmicks on this front: he didn’t like Channel 4’s The Singer Takes It All, for example, with its contestants moving forwards and backwards on conveyor belts as they sang, in response to live voting.
(18) It's a neat gimmick, but it won't get you very far.
(19) Although her first use of the new device resulted in protests from a van driver, she claims reactions from drivers have been positive since and rejects suggestions that the device may be seen as a gimmick or unnecessary.
(20) Young’s appointment was attacked by the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, as a PR gimmick.
Scam
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(1) There is a perfectly illogical explanation for it; polio drops are meant to make us impotent and these programmes are run by the same people who managed to locate Osama bin Laden by running another scam vaccination campaign.
(2) Some scams appeal to veterans’ sense of loyalty and patriotism by employing affinity marketing – using military and US related paraphernalia.
(3) Today, Britain is broke and broken, everyone's on the scam and excessive right on-ism is forcing ordinary Britons into retreat.
(4) Lloyds Banking Group has apologised for the impact of the £245m loan scam at HBOS and pledged to examine whether any of the small businesses affected should receive compensation.
(5) The scam has left one of the world’s largest carmakers facing fines of $US18bn for breaching environmental standards in the United States, and numerous customer lawsuits.
(6) The latest scam, termed "Coalgate", involves the government allocation of coal and is estimated to have cost the country more than $50bn.
(7) Generals and other senior officers accused of running the scam have yet to be brought to account.
(8) Bank of England governor subject of $6.5m text scam Read more But the commissioner’s comments were met with an immediate backlash from consumer groups, victims’ rights groups and digital security experts.
(9) Facebook scams are also used to gain access into organisations – this is where the big money is and these targeted ‘watering-hole attacks’ appear to be on the rise,” says James Maude, senior security engineer at Avecto.
(10) The money came from a scam and he was jailed for fraud but his thirst for money remained unquenched.
(11) "This book is about how Bill has identified the 60 people involved in the scam and the murder of Magnitsky, and tried to shut down the rest of the world to them."
(12) But now the pensioner, whose first husband left her over her refusal to stop responding to the letters, has spoken of the impact this has had on her life in a bid to warn others who have become addicted to the scams.
(13) India has seen many scams before, but few have been as brazen and on such a scale as those that have come to light in recent weeks.
(14) "The organisers of this scam went to great lengths to provide a facade of legitimacy.
(15) A New York Magazine profile from April 1995 described Cinque as a “small-time mobster, a scam artist and an art fence” who “used to be friends with John Gotti” – the former boss of the Gambino crime family.
(16) Belgian prosecutors highlighted the massive losses faced by EU governments from VAT fraud today after they charged three Britons and a Dutchman with money-laundering following an investigation into a multimillion-pound scam involving carbon emissions permits.
(17) Being a good mother is not a scam perpetrated by the patriarchy on women at a vulnerable moment in their lives.
(18) What we seem to have here is a prime example of the anti-PC back-flip scam.
(19) The Central American nation was praised for its crackdown on corruption in September after former president Otto Pérez Molina was ordered to stand trial for corruption, illicit association and bribery linked to a multimillion-dollar customs scam.
(20) Cunningham, who was an MP for 22 years and served in Tony Blair's cabinet, said he had been testing his suspicions that he was being targeted by a scam.