But dutiful dullards frequently end up better regarded than talented chancers.
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Ask only for small arms or some ammunition, and chancers will try their luck.
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Corporate France, too, has its share of womanising chancers, as well as clubbish male practices.
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Chancers who gave it a go were considered get-rich-quick schemers and worth of little more than derision.
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The Europe spokesman for Scotland's ruling nationalists said he "hit the nail on the head" in deriding "charlatans and chancers".
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This invited chancers, including a convicted rapist and a man who used taxpayers' money to buy himself a pair of Mercedes-Benz cars.
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Now that thousands of outsiders have cottoned on, the old tradition has turned into a bit of a cottage industry filled with chancers.
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You put that label on pitches and policies as different as hard-wired xenophobes, plutocratophobes, economic chancers, thoughtful progressives, trade protectionists and political opportunists.
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The mid-18th century was an era of cultivation and refinement, but also prime time for hustlers, gold diggers and chancers of all sorts.
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Popular Force has too many chancers who see a state that long failed to provide proper public services as a vein to be mined for private profit.
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Many early pioneers, it seems, were chancers fleeing debt and disease in the east, including Moses Austin and Peter Burnett, who would become the first governor of California.
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But the practice of government was not for D'Annunzio, and chancers, thieves, and libertines overran Fiume before the government in Rome restored order and ended the proto-Fascist, Bacchanalian dream.
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Davos also plays host to thousands of journalists, security personnel, corporate support staffers, as well as businesspeople and chancers, many of whom never step foot in the official conference rooms.
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The galleries were quiet when I visited this vital retrospective, while hundreds of chancers baked on Grand Avenue hoping to get into the Broad, MOCA's new neighbor across the street.
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A group of illegal miners known as zama-zamas ("chancers", for the risks they take) were trapped in an old mineshaft at Langlaagte, the Johannesburg farm where prospectors first discovered gold in 1886.
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FROM PEN: Feed Your Friends Butterburgers and Grilled Guacamole on Game Day Given his background, he's also committed to employing at-risk youth – people he calls "second-chancers" – and donating left over food to homeless shelters.
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But the big three faced resistance from a coalition of northern European free-traders, central European chancers and southern European beneficiaries, all of whom see more to cheer than jeer in the prospect of Chinese investment.
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Later the country was named Rhodesia in his honor, and like Kenya to the north, it attracted second sons and second-chancers and second-raters from all over Britain to a new and classically colonial life.
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" In his segment on Sunday, Hilton called Giuliani and others he accused of trying to profit off of Trump "a bunch of chancers, grifters and spivs taking advantage of the president to do dodgy deals in the world's shadiest places.
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Tonight, around 7,500 young people—a mixture of naive first years, cocky second years, privileged trust funders, local chancers, creepy postgrads, and opportunistic dealers—will descend on Trinity College in their finest tuxedos, suits, ball gowns and faux fur, for the Trinity College Ball.
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"Typically, the trade involves petty entrepreneurs as well as your classic chancers and scoundrels who were involved in the black market before the war," Mark Galeotti, a professor of global affairs at New York University and expert on Eastern European crime networks, told VICE News.
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To be clear, the YouTube links we clicked on are re-uploads of the primary source video from the event, not any allegedly legitimate "news" coverage that's been uploaded in response to it, much of it coming from chancers who are essentially just hoping to make a little click-money from people browsing for more information.
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She also appeared on The Late Late Show. In a 2008 television series, Ballet Chancers, Loughman worked on training six young people, schooled in hip hop, to appreciate the art of ballet."Ballet Chancers". RTÉ. Accessed 14 December 2008.
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Ernest and the Second Chancers storm onto the construction site and demand to see the boss. Krader is not present, but the foreman, Bronk is. Ernest tries to fight him, but Bronk brutally beats him up. The Second Chancers give up on Ernest and storm away.
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The Night Chancers is the sixth studio album by English musician Baxter Dury. It was released on 20 March 2020 under Heavenly Recordings.
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The Second Chancers later build a tepee only to see it get burned. They fight Pennington and his friends, because they were responsible for the fire. Tipton is poised to expel the Second Chancers, but Ernest convinces him otherwise. Meanwhile, a mining corporation run by Sherman Krader wants to mine the petrocite at Kikakee, but Chief St. Cloud refuses to sell.
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The truth is that a bunch of inexperienced chancers is running Britain, led by chancer-in-chief David Cameron and his henchboy George Osborne.
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It was being played in the Miami club Privé while Britt danced with Adrian. Fest appeared on Chicago PBS station's local affairs program Chicago Tonight. Appears in puppet form and performs the new Crank Yankers theme song. Appeared on an episode of Chancers with Matthew Knowles.
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The Last Chancers was originally a one-off television sitcom, screened under the Comedy Lab banner at 11:40pm on Thursday 21 November 2002. This show was later developed into a five-part series which was broadcast on E4 in December 2002. Currently the Channel 4 website has one series consisting of eight episodes listed.
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Damian Lanigan is a British writer. He has written two novels - Stretch 29 and The Chancers. He is the writer and series creator of BBC Three sitcom Massive. He wrote the play Dissonance, which debuted at the Williamstown Theater Festival in 2007 before being premiered in New York City at the Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor in 2010.
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The Night Chancers was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 86, based on 13 reviews. The aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album 8.1 out of 10, based on its assessment of the critical consensus.
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He is also executive producer of, and is featured in, two reality series: The UK's Chancers, and MTV International's Breaking From Above. In October 2015, Mathew Knowles released his first book, "The DNA Of Achievers: 10 Traits of Highly Successful Professionals". In an interview with Madamenoire.com, he spoke about teaching entrepreneurship on the college level, and his entertainment industry seminars.
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Cluster of community buildings Community Centre. Tree line divides two townlands. Scoil Thomáis national school The "Gallagher Group", owned by Patrick GallagherJoseph McArdle, "Irish Rogues and Rascals - From Francis Shackleton to Charlie Haughey: The Hilarious Stories of Ireland's Most Notorious Chancers" built the core estates now known as "Laurel Lodge" in the 1980s. A parcel of land was set aside by Gallagher Group for community use and presented to the Church.
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Long ago, a young Plains warrior is tested for initiation by being the target of three different weapons. Centuries later, Ernest P. Worrell works as a maintenance man at Kamp Kikakee but hopes to become a counselor. He quickly becomes a valuable addition to the staff, skilled at Plains Indian Sign Language, used by Kikakee's owner, Chief St. Cloud. A small group of juvenile delinquents, the Second Chancers, come to Kikakee.
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The caretakers appear as blue-skinned robe-clad figures who watch over the humans. They were the beings who created Riverworld and are occasionally described as "demons". The caretakers are mostly divided between two separate factions: the Salvationists (those who wish to destroy Riverworld to move on to bigger and better things) and the Second Chancers (those who wish to protect Riverworld). There is a civil war between these two groups and their leaders.
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Later, Nurse St. Cloud overhears the kids demeaning Ernest's effort, so she reveals to them that Ernest is the only person who has defended them. They resolve to find him and apologize. They then form a plan to stop Krader and his construction crew. Krader is prepared to demolish Kikakee, and while the regular staff and campers are sent home, Ernest and the Second Chancers openly attack the construction site to stall for time.
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Ballet Chancers was an Irish television programme broadcast on RTÉ One in late 2008. Featuring the ballerina, Monica Loughman, it began on 16 November 2008. In the show Loughman attempts to turn six streetwise hip hop dancers into elegant ballet dancers over a period of four months. At the end of the show they may, if successful, partake in a performance of The Nutcracker with Loughman's own company, The Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company which took place in the 21 December finale.
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The uneasy tolerance within which Father Kemble had operated was shattered by the Popish Plot of 1678. Titus Oates was a perjurer who concocted a plot in which the Anglican Charles II would be assassinated and his Catholic brother (later, King James II) installed as king in his place. When Oates' story was examined in detail the whole fraud was exposed, but it gave disgruntled Protestants and ambitious chancers an opportunity. Anti-Catholic politicians made cynical use of this "plot" to implicate English Catholics, particularly priests.
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Braidwood House was also briefly home to the Airborne Initiative, formerly of Glengonnar outside Abington, who specialised in outward-bound style training for young offenders. However the Airborne's funding was subsequently withdrawn by the Scottish Executive, after the airing of a controversial BBC documentary Chancers. Many houses have been built in Braidwood in the past couple of years, primarily on the former sites of the vehicle dismantlers of Alan Gray at Nellfield. The "Nellfield Garage" petrol station is still functioning along with a shop.
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Monica Loughman is an Irish ballet dancer and teacher, writer, and television personality. She was the first Westerner to achieve solo status with the Perm State Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Russia, where she danced for 16 years. On her return to Ireland she established a network of ballet schools. She has also featured on a television series, Ballet Chancers, and appeared in other TV shows such as The Panel, The Podge and Rodge Show, Tubridy Tonight and The Late Late Show, and she is co-author of a book about her experiences.
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In August 2010, the company became embroiled in a legal battle with the BBC after a book it was due to publish, later identified as the forthcoming autobiography of racing driver Ben Collins, revealed the identity of The Stig from Top Gear. In his blog, Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman accused HarperCollins of "hoping to cash in" on the BBC's intellectual property, describing the publishers as "a bunch of chancers". On September 1 the BBC's request for an injunction preventing the book from being published was turned down, effectively confirming the book's revelation that "The Stig" was indeed Collins.
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Since Stennis is no longer able to perform his duties as a counselor, and because Kikakee is already shorthanded, Tipton offers Stennis' position to Ernest. The Second Chancers initially give Ernest trouble, but they start to show some respect during a campfire session when Nurse St. Cloud, the Chief's granddaughter, translates her grandfather's description of the warrior initiation ritual for his tribe. The initiate must hold still while a knife, a stone hatchet, and an arrow are thrown or shot at him. The courage of the young warrior apparently alters the course of each weapon to prevent it from striking him.
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Stevens is critical of homeopathy, which he maintains is "fundamentally flawed". Stevens does not want the Society of Homeopaths to be reaccredited. Stevens stated: "This is a vital issue at a time when there is a rise of mis-information about vaccines – some of which is apparently promoted by homeopaths – and which poses a significant danger to human health." Stevens added: "Anything that gives homeopathy a veneer of credibility risks chancers being able to con more people into parting with their hard-earned cash in return for bogus treatments which at best do nothing, and at worst can be potentially dangerous," he stated in 2019.
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Ian Dury Memorial bench in Richmond Park, southwest London Dury's son, Baxter Dury, is also a singer. He sang a few of his father's songs at the wake after the funeral, and has released six of his own albums, including It's a Pleasure (2014), Prince of Tears (2017) and The Night Chancers (2020). In 2002 a "musical bench" designed by Mil Stricevic was placed in a favoured viewing spot of Dury's near Poet's Corner, in the gardens of Pembroke Lodge, in Richmond Park, south-west London. The back of the bench is inscribed with the words "Reasons to be cheerful", the title of one of Dury's songs.
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Shepherd's first well-known role was in 1996 in This Life. He remained in the role for two series (1996–1997). Other credits include The Best Man (2005),IMDb profile for The Best Man The One That Got Away (1996), Maisie Raine (1998), Virtual Sexuality (1999), G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time (1999), Forgive and Forget (2000), Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Boudica (2003), Layer Cake (2004), The Last Chancers (2004), Too Much Too Young (2005), and Dalziel and Pascoe. He played Paul in Channel 4's Plus One (2007) and appeared in Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse until 20 September 2008.
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In October that year, rock critic Eamon Sweeney, bemoaning the lack of original Irish music that year, singled out Giveamanakick as " the best hard-rock band in the country" and said they "could teach all those Dublin chancers with stupid haircuts and no ideas a thing or two". Giveamanakick were described as a "promising act" for 2008 by Eamon Sweeney of the Irish Independent in January of that year. They performed several Irish dates in January that year. Their third album, Welcome to the Cusp, was recorded over a ten-day period in Letterkenny, County Donegal and released on 2 May 2008 on the duo's own label, Monkeyheart Recordings.
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Patrick Street from Daunts Square Map of Cork City Electric Tramways The Cork Electric Tramways and Lighting Company, was a subsidiary of British Thomson-Houston, a major electrical contracting company.Hidden Cork - Charmers, Chancers and Cute Hoors, Michael Lenihan The contractor for the permanent way was William Martin Murphy who later became chairman of the company. The power station was built by Edward Fitzgerald (later Sir Edward Fitzgerald, 1st Baronet) and the engineer for the system was Charles Hesterman Merz. The gauge of the tramway was gauge, selected to allow trains from the narrow gauge Cork and Muskerry Light Railway and the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway to connect using the tram lines.
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In mid-2001, BBC Two aired the first series of The Office, co-written and co-directed by Merchant and Gervais and starring the latter as paper sales office manager David Brent; the show initially received low ratings. Beginning in September 2001, Merchant and Gervais returned to XFM as co-hosts of The Ricky Gervais Show, another Saturday afternoon programme, which led to their fruitful relationship with producer Karl Pilkington. They took a break from the radio show in mid-2002 in order to film the second series of The Office, which aired that year; in addition to writing and directing the show, Merchant made a cameo performance in the episode "Charity" as a friend of Gareth Keenan's character and known by the name Oggy or Oggmonster. (Merchant's father also appears in multiple episodes as an office handyman named Gordon.) Merchant also directed a sitcom pilot called The Last Chancers, which aired on Comedy Lab in November 2002 and became a five-part series broadcast in December on E4.
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