(1) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
(2) "McLoughlin is merely offering to hold passengers' coats while they keep getting mugged every year by the same set of spivs – the private rail firms."
(3) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
(4) Vince Cable today went ahead with his critique on the "murky" world of high finance, railing against the "spivs and gamblers" of the City despite a backlash against pre-briefed elements of the speech.
(5) The businessman’s reputation was dealt a further blow following a debate in which he was labelled a “billionaire spiv” who should never have received his honour in the first place.
(6) The tone of the language used by the business secretary, Vince Cable, at the Lib Dem conference this week has alarmed some bankers – whom he dubbed "spivs" – ahead of the commission.
(7) He added: "Those [Cable] once referred to as spivs and gamblers are laughing all the way to the bank."
(8) Four phospholipases (Sm-SP1 to Sm-SPIV) were also isolated, the latter showing, similarly to BthTX (Sm-SPv) myonecrotic activity.
(9) The list, which was published by Cable on Wednesday following a long campaign by politicians and the media, revealed that three aggressive hedge funds were given the "golden ticket" status despite the business secretary's pledge that Royal Mail would not fall into the hands of "spivs and speculators".
(10) To the aesthete Guardian, the average City trader looks pretty ugly because they drive swanky cars and are spivs,” he tells me, “but you should respect the mores and the facts.” I promise to try.
(11) CJ Facebook Twitter Pinterest AL Kennedy: ‘I’d rather not give vandals and spivs power over my emotions.’ Photograph: Murdo Macleod AL Kennedy Writer and comedian I live in London now.
(12) He later told Sky News that "spivs and speculators" shouldn't distract from the important job of putting Royal Mail on a sound commercial footing.
(13) "Each of those chosen few investors was given, on average, 18 times more shares than other bidders, on the basis … they would not be spivs and speculators.
(14) 9.27am BST Vince Cable also tells Sky News that the government's aim is to get good value for the taypayer, which he claims the government has done, and putting the company on a better footing Photograph: Sky News 9.21am BST Cable: Never mind the spivs and speculators Business secretary Vince Cable is up on Sky News, being challenged over the 35% surge in Royal Mail shares this morning.
(15) The capital's bankers may be glorified spivs, but we need them to maintain a respectable balance of trade and not be swept aside in the next stage of globalised capitalism.
(16) "McLoughlin is merely offering to hold passengers' coats while they keep getting mugged every year by the the same set of spivs – the private rail firms."
(17) In the photographs I had seen, Catrambone sported a spiv’s moustache, though he was starting to add what would become a thick, tightly curled beard.
(18) Only, I suppose, that expressing yourself is partly about feeling you can do so without being restricted by gender – even if that means dressing up in a trilby, a spiv's suit and a badly glued-on moustache.
(19) The business secretary Vince Cable makes speeches about spivs and charlatans and is applauded in the press.
(20) They got rich because, other than spivs and gamblers, they enjoyed their work and were good at it.
Stolen
Definition:
(p. p.) of Steal
() p. p. of Steal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(2) She said it was hard to tell whether the paintings were stolen to order or would be offered on the black market, but added that they would be easy to transport out of Switzerland.
(3) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(4) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
(5) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
(6) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(7) It is now apparent that a large amount of confidential Sony Pictures Entertainment data has been stolen by the cyberattackers, including personnel information and business documents,” it said.
(8) This latest one continued developer Revolution Software’s run, sending you on the hunt for a stolen painting with puzzles and a well-worked storyline to hold your attention.
(9) The stolen babies were well cared for and were usually quickly recovered.
(10) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(11) Not only did a Latino actor not play Tony, who clearly in real life looks like a Chicano, but his ethnicity is stolen from the Latino community at a time when Latinos have been demonized.
(12) More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga are being warned that their personal data may have been stolen in a data breach at the firm.
(13) They’d certainly believe that they had stolen this woman’s dignity.
(14) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
(15) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(16) The German discount supermarket chain Aldi has stolen a march on rivals in Britain by throwing its weight behind a groundbreaking national initiative to back British farmers.
(17) In a study that took into account the opportunity costs for jail time and the cost of stolen goods, scholars found that crime cost Uruguay about $319m (£209m) a year.
(18) Miller said he had been told by police that they would have more information on the stolen property by Wednesday afternoon.
(19) Nigeria's corruption agency says $300bn-$400bn has been stolen or wasted over the last 50 years and campaigners say the Democratic Republic of the Congo received only $86,000 in mineral rights in 2006, despite an estimated $1bn of mineral exports each year.
(20) Blood can be stolen from almost any vascular bed and redistributed.