(1) "It sounds to me as if Spanish officials have succeeded in nobbling this report."
(2) Last October, I was scared that Robert Francis's report into the Mid Staffordshire scandal was being delayed four months because various individuals or bodies had nobbled him, and he would produce an emasculated whitewash (to mix a metaphor outrageously).
(3) SNP members – three out of seven committee members – were not ‘nobbled’ and we did not even have a pre-meeting to discuss how we would vote prior to committee,” he said.
(4) For all the arcana of the system - waiting around for hours, making sure you're walking the right direction through the right hallway - Thornberry knows this is a great time to nobble ministers.
(5) Confirmation of the cap came after Labour accused ministers of allowing the pension industry to "nobble" the reform plans.
(6) The message I’m trying to get across is that the UK government offer is a very fair offer, it’s a very constructive offer and we’re looking to get a deal.” SNP denies 'nobbling' Fiscal Commission's oversight powers Read more The minister said the UK government had wider concerns about the Scottish government’s approach to the fiscal framework and its decision to tie the hands of an external fiscal body likened to Scotland’s version of the Office for Budget Responsibility, which polices UK government budget decisions.
(7) Scolari thought it was a deliberate attempt to nobble his best player.
(8) William Hague nobbled it with court orders stopping the coroner and family hearing what evidence MI6 possessed.
(9) According to Khan, the Tory candidate, Zac Goldsmith MP, is a nice chap who has been nobbled by Lynton “Dog Whistle” Crosby , Cameron’s Australian campaign guru and the thinking man’s Jeremy Clarkson.
(10) Looking at the way the OBR hedges every statement about Brexit in its report, some may suspect Chote has been nobbled to say too little.
(11) That same year, Prohibition agent Eliot Ness began to investigate Capone's affairs, and in October 1931 – after Capone's efforts to nobble the jury had been defeated – he was sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.
(12) Ciolos is said by EU diplomats to have been "nobbled" by the French, who oppose radical CAP reform.
(13) He then admitted he had never voted and encouraged others not to, in order to nobble the establishment.
(14) McClymont told the Guardian: "The government's botched consultation has allowed vested interests to nobble the tough action required to deliver for Britain's savers."
(15) They provide for the chairs and members of select committees to be directly elected by a secret ballot of MPs, taking the process out of the hands of the party whips which led to allegations of committees being nobbled by the government.
(16) "I seem to remember Iceland winning after nobbling Zaire's Pelé-like talisman, who played in bare feet.
(17) For all his charm, he finds himself ignored by an unfriendly Kremlin, who recently nobbled his attempts to become mayor in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Scam
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(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.