(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.
Victimize
Definition:
(v. t.) To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) For services to Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
(3) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
(4) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
(5) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(6) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
(7) In light of these findings, the implications of the need to address appraisals and coping efforts in research and therapy with incest victims was emphasized.
(8) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(9) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
(10) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
(11) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(12) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(13) Brazil and Argentina unite in protest against culture of sexual violence Read more The symbolic power of so many women standing together proves that focusing on victims does not mean portraying women as passive.
(14) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
(15) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
(16) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(17) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(18) It is imperative that NPs know how to assess for victimization and safety and that they provide patients with needed information about community services.
(19) "The victims are very clear that those outstanding matters of detail – which are not on the charter but on the legislation surrounding the incentives mainly – is just as important to them than any detail in the charter."
(20) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.