(1) There is a bigger question that needs to be asked around the growing need for short term credit.” And payday loans expert Carl Packman, who has written a book on the industry, noted that Wonga’s much-vaunted algorithms failed to prevent poor lending.
(2) The speech samples incorporated those used in a related study by Ingham and Packman (1978), thus permitting a reevaluation of the findings of that study.
Pedlar
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Pedler
Example Sentences:
(1) In court, Mr Sheridan described the News of the World as "pedlars of falsehood, promoters of untruth, concerned only with sales, circulation and profit, not people's lives and truth".
(2) Misinformation pedlars appear to be shy woodland animals.
(3) His career as a pedlar of privacy stretches back into the 1990s, when he worked assiduously for the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the News of the World.
(4) The pedlars of fake news are corroding democracy | Andrew Smith Read more On the one hand, the primacy of the market in the economic and social developments falling under the rubric of the fourth industrial revolution necessarily predispose elites to what we might call a managerial version of representative democracy – a system in which politicians see their first and foremost responsibility as ensuring voters don’t interfere with “sound economic management”.
(5) The campaign has caused alarm in the west and rights groups accuse Duterte of turning a blind eye to a wave of extrajudicial killings by police, mostly of low-level pedlars.
(6) Eventually the change will have to happen, with similar restrictions on advertising, sponsorship, display and accessibility to those imposed on the tobacco pedlars.
(7) Giulio had been out doing field work, talking to street pedlars, maybe six or seven times,” says one of his close friends in Cairo.
(8) Bogus claims about Barack Obama’s citizenship, say, or Britain’s payments to the European Union, are exposed, yet the claim-pedlars breeze on, unimpeded – they win.
(9) In 1872, the writer Augustus Mayhew appeared before his local magistrates charged with assaulting a female pedlar, and defended himself by pointing out that sometimes "he had as many as 38 persons in one day" knocking at his door.
(10) This neglect has helped open the gates to extremists and pedlars of hatred who have been allowed to prosper.
(11) One of the things that has happened in Egypt in the past few years, which we didn’t fully recognise, is that the street pedlars are frequently used as police informants,” said one Cambridge scholar, who preferred not to be named.
(12) Treatments included antiseptic solutions by 67 women (Dettol, Listerine, pHisohex); antibiotics by 31 (19 from drug stores or pedlars, 12 medically prescribed or injected); contraceptive diaphragms by 16.
(13) Since Duterte came to office seven months ago, thousands of suspected low-level pedlars but also alleged drug users have been gunned down in his war on drugs.
(14) Valerie Pedlar Southport • In connection with recent discussion on averages ( Letters, 2 & 3 December), we may conclude that in one respect Goering was above average (just taking into account the matter of size), Himmler was similar, Hitler was average, while poor old Goebbels was firmly below average.
(15) I am a pedlar of experiences that will end your childhood, and smother your innocence.
(16) Possibly the rival gossip pedlar with whom he had the most spats about exclusivity, dignity and prestige was Ross Benson (obituary, March 10 2005), who said of him with feline and persuasive malice: "He is a self-made man who has come to worship his creator."