(1) These private providers take more than a fifth of fees in profit and spend even more on marketing to cover up the poor quality of what they are offering – subprime degrees not worth the paper they are printed on being sold to very young, very gullible consumers .
(2) As a consequence, he's the go-to guy for a scathing quote on dissembling theologies and their gullible believers.
(3) Bailey hits back, telling Russell that he is displaying "a degree of gullibility" that is "not consistent with your role".
(4) Generally, the victim never reports that they have been a victim of fraud to the police because they are too ashamed of their own gullibility.
(5) It's in this "gap" that W1A 's comedy is located, but it's also where many real-life professionals ply their trade, bamboozling the gullible and the desperate with their bewitching neologisms, barmy suggestions and bizarre leadership tests.
(6) Remember you're human after all While much of the above are technical solutions to prevent you being hacked and scammed, hacking done well is really the skill of tricking human beings, not computers, by preying on their gullibility, taking advantage of our trust, greed or altruistic impulses.
(7) And what was this intended to prove (other than, perhaps, some nebulous point about the media’s gullibility )?
(8) I'm not advocating dumb gullibility, but it is has always amused me that those who instinctively dislike Apple for being apparently cool, trendy, design-fixated and so on, are the ones who are actually so damned cool and so damned sensitive to stylistic nuance that they can't bear to celebrate or recognise obvious class, beauty and desire.
(9) • Russell was also accused of "a degree of gullibility" , after saying he still believed the investment banks advising the government had given good advice.
(10) Internally, however, they are frightened, timid, self-doubting, gullible, inconsiderate, vulnerable to erotomania, and cognitively unable to grasp the totality of actual events.
(11) You can’t blame Puerto Rican politicians for thinking that they can keep their constituents in the dark: Puerto Rico’s political history is all about assuming that we Puerto Ricans are gullible and foolish.
(12) There appears to be an unlimited supply of gullible celebrities willing to deal with the Sunday newspaper's undercover reporter: earlier this month he caught the snooker player John Higgins allegedly offering to throw matches for money.
(13) I hope Cameron is not going to be as gullible to swallow bland assurances by [president) Dmitry Medvedev and [prime minister] Vladimir Putin or be so eager to please that he fails to raise the important human rights abuses in relation to Magnitsky and [Mikhail] Khodorkovsky."
(14) "I was joking," he says, rolling his eyes at my gullibility.
(15) Granted, the new Newsweek is hoping to pass itself off as the old and real Newsweek, but, really, that is less its fault than the fault of the gullible.
(16) As for Bissinger, he is now beating his chest about his own pathetic gullibility, in a way that curiously seems to mirror the grand mea culpa that Armstrong will perform on Oprah.
(17) We have already agreed that blame game is widely spread encompassing Greenspan, gullible international governments, inadequate regulation resulting in overindulgence by the consumer and business in terms of over-borrowing," Buik said.
(18) There is evidence that Philip Hammond, the least gullible of defence secretaries, is starting to cleanse the Augean stables of defence spending.
(19) They were so wrapped up in their righteousness that they did not notice that the state was thanking them for their gullibility and seizing the chance to lock down and shut up.
(20) It turns out that the joke is enough to support not just a movie but an entire industry, because tired parents are everywhere now, and they've never been more anxious… or gullible.
Naif
Definition:
(a.) Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
(a.) Naive; as, a naif remark.
Example Sentences:
(1) Part of the problem is uncertainty about who has been in charge since the interior minister, Prince Naif, took over the Yemen "file" from the ailing Crown Prince Sultan.
(2) But for a man so measured, and with such precision apparent throughout his film-making, the reaction seems perhaps faux-naif.
(3) Rob Giason, the acting chief executive of Advance Cairns, which also forms part of a northern Australia alliance of development groups, said the NAIF was a “strong commitment” of the organisation, and it was working on several potential projects.
(4) I think what this plan really is focused on is making sure we have a strong partnership between the public and private sectors.” The $5bn NAIF fund is open to economic projects that would otherwise be unlikely to proceed quickly, or at all , without federal assistance, and there was already a “big list” of project proposals submitted to the NAIF, a senior Northern Territory government official told Guardian Australia.
(5) But his office later told New Matilda it was still possible the independent board overseeing the $5bn Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) could grant Adani low-interest loans for the railway.
(6) It included upgrades to the Tanami Road between Alice Springs and the WA town of Halls Creek, which has also been cited as a potential recipient of NAIF funds.
(7) In this way, Scarlett's death might serve a purpose, finally puncturing that quasi-colonial arrogance so endemic in a certain stratum of UK society - that our children can go off anywhere and somehow their Britishness, class and a scuffed copy of Lonely Planet will protect them, decades of increasingly cultured and sophisticated holidays having resulted in a generation of nomad-naifs who seem to think that the entire world is just one big, safe, fluffy Centre Parc, policed by the friendly ghost of Michael Palin.
(8) This was in line with the position outlined by the minister for northern Australia, Josh Frydenberg, over the last nine months that while the Carmichael project was “a commercial operation [that] needs to stand on its own feet”, all investment decisions by the NAIF would be made by its board.
(9) He "pointedly" told the notoriously reactionary interior minister, Prince Naif, that "no nation could prosper without the intellectual contributions and talent of all its citizens ... (ie women)".
(10) Wonderful character, up from Detroit ghetto, sadly seems political naif March 24, 2015
(11) 'The sentences,' wrote Larissa MacFarquhar in a brilliant New Yorker profile of Chomsky 10 years ago, 'are accusations of guilt, but not from a position of innocence or hope for something better: Chomsky's sarcasm is the scowl of a fallen world, the sneer of hell's veteran to its appalled naifs' – and thus, in an odd way, static and ungenerative.
(12) The government’s consultation paper outlines that NAIF loans – which must be repaid – must make up no more than 50% of the initial investment, that projects be of public benefit located in or beneficial to northern Australia, and include construction or enhancement of economic infrastructure.
(13) Both the Australia Institute and Environmental Justice Australia argue that Adani – whose spokesman said a subsidy could fast-track the project but was “not critical” and was sought “because it’s available” – may not meet the NAIF investment criteria .
(14) Northern Australia has to promote itself to Asia, investment forum hears Read more Legislation for the NAIF is expected to be introduced in the next parliamentary sittings.
(15) He said he expected more to come forward for the federal financing before the NAIF was established.
(16) The Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF), announced in the federal budget in 2015, seeks to offer concessional loans of at least $50m to projects in the underdeveloped regions of northern Australia.
(17) I suspect when the legislation is passed and the [NAIF] board is established … we’ll be getting our skates on.” The WA, NT, and Queensland governments have been invited to put forward two names each for secretariat of the NAIF, which will be based somewhere in the northern region.
(18) Yet our predictions have turned out to be far more accurate than those of the exuberant naifs who insisted Tripoli was Cairo all over again and that democracy was at hand.
(19) The rail company Aurizon has lodged a rival bid for NAIF funding for a railway line to the Galilee basin, it was reported on Thursday .
(20) It was, however, preferable to the bewilderingly moronic manifesto film that preceded Brown's speech, a faux-naif stickmen animation featuring characters called Jack and Jill and James, and made by Ridley Scott Associates.