Lost as the vote is being lost by legislative chicanery.
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To its credit, baseball is already trying to police electronic chicanery.
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Mr. Trump's willingness to tolerate Mr. Pruitt's chicanery was not surprising.
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Punishing Russia for its electoral chicanery makes a great deal of sense.
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The calendar-based chicanery may seem clever, but it's unlikely to work.
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One interesting bit of chicanery is this screen from the iFan page.
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But the chicanery left the expanding city with a woefully insufficient supply.
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In Britain Mr Johnson's parliamentary chicanery is doing the constitution permanent damage.
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Senators should ignore this messaging deluge for the partisan chicanery it is.
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It's a proprietary species of corporate chicanery that says Friday needs saving.
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The Tory faithful were undeterred by Mr Johnson's reputation for chaos and chicanery.
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Even allowing for chicanery, it won 39% of the vote to FRELIMO's 52%.
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Sleight of hand and political chicanery is par for the course for them.
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Hilton sounds authoritative about art history and the chicanery of the art world.
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The cost of such cynical chicanery to the public's health has been high.
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A perfectly fake president could be political chicanery, or high-production-quality satire.
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McConnell's unprecedented legislative chicanery has drawn howls of protest from the media and Democrats.
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At the start of "Chicanery," Chuck looks like the cat that ate the canary.
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An independent Scotland may be conjured out of the chicanery of Mr. Johnson's rule.
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Chuck still doesn't fathom the depths of the chicanery he mentions on the stand.
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The distance from actual consequences makes the market chicanery seem more abstract and palatable.
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Never has that been more apparent than in "Chicanery," the devastating centerpiece of Season 3.
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He said that filing firms should up their standards in the face of widespread chicanery.
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Meanwhile trust is highest, and defences against chicanery lowest, within some of world's wealthiest countries.
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Many other European heads of state, equally troubled by Moscow's chicanery, followed the English lead.
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She is droll about their chicanery and non-judgmental about their conspiracy theories, prophecies and prejudices.
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But Mr. Ackman, who made his name spotting financial fraud, missed signs of chicanery at Valeant.
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The penalties are small for such chicanery, but federal prosecutors are still conducting a criminal investigation.
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Just like Mr. Trump, Mr. Maduro thrives in a parallel world of lies and fantastical chicanery.
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New sanctions addressing China's alleged cyber-chicanery are also expected to come Thursday, according to the Post.
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Couple that with a historically bad scorecard from judge Adalaide Byrd, and rumors of chicanery were afoot.
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In this week's episode, "Chicanery," that sibling rivalry comes to a head in a devastating courtroom showdown.
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The Top Chef chicanery is said by prosecutors to have started on or about June 9, 2014.
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Various interests have seized on Russian chicanery to push "reforms" lacking priority in less neurotic times. Sens.
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Most experts say financial motives for the chicanery, in fact, are far more common than political goals.
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Or read the newspaper, because lately, they are filled with tales of chicanery from those same hospitals.
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Once the umpires convened, they quickly uncovered Gardner's chicanery and ordered him back to the batter's box.
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This time I was stunned by the chicanery, expressed openly, if not proudly, to the rest of us.
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Psychologically speaking, elevating chicanery and those who propagate it—even to debunk the lie---only spreads their nonsense.
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Coincidences come off as chicanery, and even his greatest achievements done with the best intentions seem somehow nefarious.
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The sheer amount of activity on Election Day basically guarantees that there will be all sorts of chicanery.
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Players continue to seek a competitive edge in a game that has historically tolerated, even tacitly encouraged, chicanery.
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The most horrific chicanery involves Trump's new actions on women's health that will cause deaths around the globe.
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His bravado drained out of him on the day a life of political chicanery finally claimed its price.
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The subtext to his rapid departure had more to do with domestic politics in the UK that DC chicanery.
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Through luck and graft and privilege, Trump has gotten away with an incredible amount of chicanery in his life.
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Filmography recapitulating politico-chicanery, the age of the superhero is about to yield to the age of the monster.
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But he has long wondered what sort of chicanery would land the head of a company in the pokey.
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"The number of charlatans has increased, and there's a lot more chicanery associated with this whole phenomenon," he said.
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Absent some unlikely last-minute legal chicanery—maybe there's something written on the back of the Constitution we missed?
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So after some double-dealing, chicanery, and other shenanigans, the US rolled out the short-lived Spanish-American War.
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Inevitably, some American political operatives are learning from Russia's example, testing the tools of chicanery in their online operations.
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There was no move to impeach President Obama over the Iran deal and all the chicanery attendant to it.
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So, Reid, through some procedural chicanery on the floor, altered the precedent on filibusters … for everything but Supreme Court nominees.
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Previous U.S. administrations won Beijing's plaudits (if not actual respect) for their indulgence and concessions despite Beijing's chicanery and aggression.
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Meanwhile, PowerPoint presentations and investigative reports containing allegations of all sorts of byzantine chicanery by Amazon began circulating last year.
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I think you'll find that his are some of the only thrillers involving tech stocks chicanery you'll find online anywhere.
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A group of unhappy Trump World Tower owners had taken control of the board and accused Trump of financial chicanery.
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They may not get the attention of Republican legislative chicanery in Congress or state-level Republican law to suppress voting.
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And we learned that it's not hard to prank Google Home and Amazon Echo into a cycle of never-ending chicanery.
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They're the auto industry's Wizard of Oz types, pulling at levers and mashing buttons behind the curtain (just without the chicanery).
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Mr Putin would like to have the world believe that his country's approach to the continent is about more than chicanery.
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According to Dr da Costa e Silva, the foundation is part of a "long-established and sinister pattern of corporate chicanery".
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But a week, a year, and even a decade from now, more people will likely remember this U.N. chicanery regarding Israel.
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Tactically, it's so much more useful to them to bloviate about its contents rather than risk revealing the chicanery behind it.
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For most laymen looking at the Mississippi voting rolls, that some organized chicanery had been afoot would have been beyond question.
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There's even Punk Rock Marketing, a bit of SEO-related chicanery that would likely make Malcolm McLaren beam with fatherly pride.
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As America pulls back from the continent, President Vladimir Putin (no stranger to constitutional chicanery) sees opportunities to enhance Russia's clout.
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Look at how "Chicanery" is shot, by Daniel Sackheim (who also shot the past week's exemplary Leftovers episode, in a neat coincidence).
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David Lloyd George, a Liberal prime minister whose time in office combined huge constitutional changes, political chicanery and enthusiastic infidelity, also fits.
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It's hard to stay focused on that goal at times, when reading about tariffs or the chicanery within long-defunct political parties.
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New York real estate, where Trump first learned the art of the con, is a line of work that's built on chicanery.
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Mr. Hobson said that although he did not recall any hard evidence of interference, the campaign complained to Facebook about potential chicanery.
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Taken together, it's hard not to assume all of this chicanery is performance art for an audience of one: Mr. Trump himself.
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Political chicanery adds to confusion Hopes that the 2020 election would be immune from the corrosive effects of Russia intrigue quickly eroded.
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Earlier this month, the county Republican Party posted a Facebook message that accused Democrats of election chicanery: "Please just vote," it said.
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They sometimes tried to cheat him out of the room rent, and hardly a week passed without his witnessing instances of chicanery.
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The alleged chicanery at the heart of the legal dispute involved whether the numbers AIG did provide were truly indicative of its performance.
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In February, "Better Call Saul" writer Gordon Smith won the Writers Guild of America award for best episodic drama for the "Chicanery" episode.
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But his company's instruments, which in this test were carried by Cessnas flying routes over East Coast waters, picked up on the chicanery.
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If artists are being properly compensated for their work in one way or another, all of this business chicanery is doing some good.
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That 2013 shutdown was some chicanery led by Cruz in an attempt to take away funding of then-President Obama's Affordable Care Act.
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Yet, as a direct result of the ensuing chicanery, nearly 9 million Americans lost their jobs, while overall unemployment shot up to 10%.
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This is a fairly routine bit of political chicanery, though it seems like more money may be involved in this trick than usual.
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Instead, a large number of these for-profit schools engage in chicanery to mislead students into enrolling — sometimes driven by commissions per student.
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The episode of the week for May 7 through 13 is "Chicanery," the fifth episode of the third season of AMC's Better Call Saul.
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Axelrod Hall will most likely become the next Enron Field, a short-lived vanity plate for an empire built on get-rich-quick chicanery.
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Through violence and chicanery, white supremacists reduced black voter turnout, and by 1877, drove the party of Lincoln from power in every southern state.
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The life and death stakes, narrative chicanery, and moral no-win scenarios are neat, but they're not what make the game so damn satisfying.
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None of this chicanery would have been egregious enough to catch the Supreme Court's attention even if last week's ruling went the other way.
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To the Editor: Readers are again in the debt of The Times for its exposé of the financial chicanery engaged in by the president.
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With "Junk," the Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar examines financial chicanery in the 272s — and how it shaped the blind worship of affluence today.
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The co-working company's S-1 filing revealed a whole bunch of chicanery, mostly in service of enriching Adam Neumann, its founder and CEO.
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Predictably Russia refuses to admit its chicanery and typically has launched its own spurious charges against the U.S. that it has violated the treaty.
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With "Junk," the Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar examines financial chicanery in the 1980s — and how it shaped the blind worship of affluence today.
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During the good times, airlines spent all of their money on financial chicanery and self-enrichment while saving virtually nothing for a rainy day.
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Tasha Robinson, Film and TV editor Tasha's game plan: Let's be clear on this: there's some serious Game of Thrones-style chicanery going on here.
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A.I. may even sniff out new types of chicanery, said Tom Gira, executive vice president for market regulation at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
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The president publicly noted Beijing's chicanery in his remarks after his Hanoi summit with Kim, but said he appreciates the limited cooperation China has provided.
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Just before the vote to reconfirm him passed on Monday, an online petition calling on the Senate to disavow Pai's chicanery sailed over 130,000 signatures.
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Various elected leaders and interested parties will inevitably battle over rates and potential loopholes, and attempt to avoid difficult political choices through cynicism and chicanery.
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For about an hour, Ms. Minaj — whose album sales were supported by similar packages — listed her gripes: Billboard chart chicanery, Spotify blackballing, record-label spinelessness.
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Stanton's legal career in Pittsburgh and then Washington, D.C., involved a stimulating variety of issues: patent claims, labor riots, medical body-snatching and electoral chicanery.
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The party, though it imagines itself as representing the quintessential ideals of Canadiana, has a long track record of corruption and chicanery, particularly in Quebec.
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" Carter Wrenn, a longtime Republican consultant in North Carolina, said the allegations of chicanery created "a smell in the air and around the Republican Party.
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Trump has been unloading on Clinton exclusively for weeks now, focusing mostly on the kind of financial chicanery and ethical questions Sanders raised throughout the primaries.
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This is not the 2008 Financial Crisis, where millions of people are thrown out of their homes due to the chicanery of Wall Street fat cats.
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The rules around Delaware's appraisal rights of "fair value" are aimed at helping long-term shareholders protect themselves in instances of self-dealing or other chicanery.
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A review of The Times's archives found that the late 19th and early 20th centuries were a golden age for feline chicanery in New York City.
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The N.C.A.A. also doesn't protest when its member schools engage in the counting chicanery — unfortunately permissible under federal guidelines — that overstates their numbers of female athletes.
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The esoteric world of bond ratings, on the surface, would seem to have little in common with the glitter of international money laundering and corporate chicanery.
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I guess I gravitate toward more chicanery on a Sunday and managed to fixate on some variation of tongue in cheek, but this was simply ANCHORED.
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The court has shown that it will not tolerate the kind of chicanery that his advisers seemed to think might get him out of this hole.
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"[That sends] a de-facto dog whistle to stock criminals and stock thieves out there, and it emboldens them to engage in financial chicanery," Stoltmann said.
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At this time of political chicanery, corruption, hostility, and a general sense of hopelessness, this aspect of Cahn's work comes as an invigorating, in-your-face tonic.
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The presence of observers from the European Union, American NGOs, the African Union and the Southern African Development Community should put a lid on more explicit chicanery.
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Rather, he helped economists understand why some industries might be more concentrated than others—and when oligopoly is a consequence of corporate chicanery rather than market efficiencies.
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If Cain can be compared to someone trying to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge, Trump is the real deal, a Bernie Madoff-level political master of chicanery.
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Mandating averages like 54.5 MPG within eight years from now is not an example of a reasonable goal... not without encouraging more cheating and chicanery that is.
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In the comments on Mr. Webber's page, some recognized that the image was a Photoshopped attack by Mr. Webber's campaign, either reveling in or denouncing the chicanery.
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Another very prominent candidate, media magnate Nabil Karoui, is in detention on suspicion of tax fraud and money laundering, charges he denies and attributes to political chicanery.
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In the just-released book "Bachelor Nation," the journalist Amy Kaufman details the production and editing chicanery that goes into making the show's emotional arcs so effective.
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But American history is replete with examples of patronage, ballot box stuffing, corruption, legislative chicanery and disenfranchisement on a societal scale, and somehow the Republic has survived.
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" Roose noted that in addition to the Russian chicanery, "In Myanmar, activists are accusing Facebook of censoring Rohingya Muslims, who are under attack from the country's military.
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L.S.U. football has long served as a measure of achievement in a state that has struggled with poverty, educational achievement, cancer rates, infant mortality and political chicanery.
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He returned in "Chicanery," as this episode is called, to provide the trick that we all knew Jimmy McGill had up his sleeve for the disbarment hearing.
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The sharp reduction in the size of Canada's press corps also has some questioning the media's ability to investigate and report on corporate malfeasance and political chicanery.
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After the failure of the 2016 campaign, pro-Europeans turned on each other and blamed what they saw as the chicanery of their opponents on the Brexit campaign.
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Since the Brexit referendum, the public has witnessed a circus of chicanery, buffoonery and idiocy that Boris Johnson's exit will only ease in the most marginal of fashions.
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These same people couldn't wait to see films like "The Big Short" and "The Wolf of Wall Street," about the financial chicanery and decadence of rich white crooks.
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Now, it is liberals, environmentalists and progressives who are up in arms about potential chicanery, even though there is no compelling evidence to suggest anything nefarious took place.
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Speculation is therefore rife over what political chicanery the government might seek to pull to wiggle out of complying with the law and crash the UK out regardless.
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In the event that either one is pushed off their ticket (say by some sort of convention chicanery or a federal indictment), it will still be a nasty fight.
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The EpiPen, a spring-loaded device full epinephrine, of has entered the pantheon of modern pharmaceutical chicanery of late after its maker raised its price to $600 a unit.
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He evidently regards "balance" as a pass given to chicanery, and even readers sympathetic to the argument may find it hard to get all the way through the book.
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This puzzle's theme (revealed at 38-Down) is in a category that I call "clue-play," in which the chicanery is found in the clues instead of the answers.
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If there's one hard and fast rule in Washington, it's that once one party invents a new type of partisan chicanery, it will eventually be used by both parties.
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It would be a bit discordant to hear Mr. Bharara defending clients accused of financial chicanery after his aggressive pursuit of white-collar defendants over the last eight years.
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It's the kind of life-affirming chicanery that almost makes you forget that deep fake technology is quietly undermining yet another medium in our ever-quickening descent into informational relativism.
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But the vote and its aftermath have showcased an all-too-familiar mix of chicanery and violence on the part of Zanu-PF, the ruling party, and its military backers.
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The government has also resorted to constitutional chicanery, exploiting the fact that Kashmir's state legislature—which would normally have to assent to such changes—was dissolved over a year ago.
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If any of this EU chicanery and power-hungry madness has my fellow American readers feeling somehow smug and superior to our European counterparts, take a look in the mirror.
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It was during the Gilded Age that African-American men — who had just secured voting rights in the 15th Amendment — were disenfranchised through legal chicanery and racist, state-sanctioned violence.
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And they suspect it's politically-charged chicanery and not legitimate environmental concern because of the increased political and financial relationships Democrats have cultivated with alternative energy companies, lobbyists, and investors.
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" Then the Washington Post reported that the investigation into alleged chicanery involving the Trump campaign and Russia had "identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest.
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But the lessons to be learned from the chicanery of 28500 will have a wide impact across all forms of digital media as we approach the midterm elections next year.
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What changed by 2016 was the availability of hacking, leaking and social media chicanery as inexpensive tools for political meddling — and Mr. Putin's willingness to risk using such tools aggressively.
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They, as well as Google, are being called to account for their role in the deception and chicanery that has surrounded the 2016 campaign, especially from accounts linked to Russia.
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Mr. Harris's 828-vote margin of victory, they suggested, may have been tainted by Mr. Dowless's efforts in places like Bladen County, which has a notorious history of political chicanery.
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An individual or a group will work with corrupt judges, administrators and the police to help shift the title into their own name, either through forgery or stock-purchase chicanery.
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There is a strong whiff of " The Ladykillers " (2004), in which the Coen brothers revived the chicanery of the old Ealing comedy while managing to lose every dram of its charm.
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Security concerns aside, the fact that the deal didn't draw more scrutiny while the FBI was reportedly investigating Russian chicanery within the uranium while it was being considered may seem odd.
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But there's no need to be so pessimistic as long as we can agree to a broader definition of what vote fraud and chicanery really is, and follow a little common sense.
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He was employed at a Goliath — Kirkland & Ellis — for two years, although that firm, he insisted, didn't engage in the sort of dirty dealings and chicanery that his fictional one routinely does.
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It doesn't make what she said any more true, but the chicanery continues to carry a stench that turns heads away from bigger—and more concrete—problems and obfuscates the entire process.
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And so far, Mr. Trump has been basically defiant in response to critics who say he needs to make some major moves to reduce the temptations from every side for financial/political chicanery.
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In one great masterstroke of financial chicanery, Marty manages to convince the cartel and the Snells to invest together in a riverboat casino that would allow drugs and bad money to flow freely.
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Gideon's fate embodies the tougher questions asked by Mr. Robot, themes that cut deeper and more personally than tech security, wealth distribution, and government chicanery: Are we who we really say we are?
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Yet, for all that chicanery, the press briefings remain one of the few times any of us get any kind of direct line into a White House that prefers to work in the shadows.
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Jimmy's monologue elevates "Quite a Ride" to the level of last season's "Chicanery," in which Chuck's conflicted feelings for and warped thinking about Jimmy finally reached a boiling point and effectively tanked his career.
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"That distortion should be rejected, not only because it amounts to legal chicanery, but also because it works the very kind of harm to religion that motivated the Establishment Clause's passage," the group argued.
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President Trump has the ability to end this tax code chicanery by taking a hard look at how tax policy is creating market distortions that may be impeding American energy leadership and job creation.
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While there are certainly signs that this is affiliated with Trump (the Trump Pence logo in the bottom right corner and, uh, the GIANT PHOTO OF TRUMP), there's some chicanery going on here, too.
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Invoking America's better angels, Biden is offering experience and a character forged by tragedy to purge the scandals, lies and constitutional chicanery of the current President and to close the societal schisms he has widened.
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But now, on the latest episode of Technique Critique, security researcher Samy Kamkar blazes a trail of destruction through the chicanery, diagnosing what each famous sequence gets right—or, as is much more likely, wrong.
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But the Democrats' chicanery was no match for the wave of segregationist voters abandoning their party for the GOP, and in 1966 Claude Kirk was elected the first Republican governor of the state since Reconstruction.
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Voting booths in South Carolina only opened a couple hours ago for the state's Republican primary, but the past week has been full of political chicanery and questionable attempts to sway voters in the contest.
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This win, unlike any other, showed Republicans that the people in control of the levers of the electoral and political machinery could give an aura of legality to wanton purges, bureaucratic runarounds and other chicanery.
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But while the series, an adaptation of a novel by Megan Abbott, is full of shady twists—blackmail, cyber chicanery, adultery straight out of "Double Indemnity"—the criminal mystery is not really its central appeal.
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Still, the law passed, thanks to the legislative chicanery by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and once and future Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and was signed by President Obama in early 2010.
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"We love telling the story of our SEC locker room," Walden said, flashing a grin that's one part salesman chicanery, another part fatherly pride, and another part wonderment at his own good fortune to be here.
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If there's anything positive to come from this last year of chaos, it's that viewers are more savvy to the spin coming out of the White House and the tolerance for such chicanery is far lower.
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The players would deservedly be positioned to finally circumvent N.C.A.A. chicanery, and those not destined to make it to the big stage would at least get paid decent money until their dreams were competitively snuffed out.
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What has happened to the minds and souls of so many Republicans that has made dishonesty, lies, immoral behavior, financial chicanery, racism, inhumane treatment of others and disregard for the law by their elected leaders acceptable?
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Nissan, which accused Mr. Ghosn, its former chairman, and a board member, Greg Kelly, of colluding in financial chicanery, has been ensnared by the same inquiry and was indicted on a charge of violating reporting laws.
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"I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn't deserve it," Cohen said in a tweet copping to the electronic chicanery to have Trump's name rank higher in online polls than it otherwise would have.
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That's a common theme throughout an anthology that deals with everything from the Charleston church shooting to OutKast's influence to Rachel Dolezal's chicanery, all through a black lens that is still too rare in literature and elsewhere.
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And Mr. Ackman, who made his name — and billions — spotting financial fraud but missed any signs of chicanery at Valeant, joined the board, hoping to salvage his investment, which had fallen 86 percent in the last year.
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The publication was, of course, referring to his alleged felony and financial chicanery, which left him astoundingly wealthy because his repeated duplicity was constantly excused by his superiors as a regrettable side effect of world-altering intelligence.
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Even if you completely eschew these sites for the chicanery they are, people who come to believe this misinformation can affect public health by both their failure to vaccinate and by voting against evidence-based health policies.
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But Mr. Letwin and other lawmakers said they worried that it was a prelude to parliamentary chicanery by Mr. Johnson or his hard-line Conservative allies that would result in a catastrophic no-deal Brexit within weeks.
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By the end, Arnett's life's work of discovering otherwise unrecognized artists and bringing them into the mainstream, is twisted into a fable about chicanery and exploitation that rivals the mythology surrounding Lead Belly's contract with the Lomaxes.
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Trump has spent the last few weeks insisting that the entire election is rigged against him, and that no matter what, "Crooked Hillary," as he likes to call the Democratic nominee, will only win through chicanery and fraud.
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It speaks to the bipartisan chicanery consuming Washington in the Trump era that Menendez was represented by Abbe Lowell, who is also a member of White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner's legal team.
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After all, there remains the possibility—however slight—that the result of all this legislative and legal chicanery will be a sudden end to the healthcare law that leaves tens of millions unable to afford a doctor's visit.
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Adam Neumann of WeWork has been scorned as an archetype of start-up chicanery, walking away with a $185 million "consulting fee" and potentially far more in sold-off shares after effectively running the company into the ground.
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It's the letter Z, in puzzles represented as ZEE, a useful little filler word to cross with words that use it, and a good entry into the lingual chicanery that grows in frequency as the week goes by.
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These two perceptions are set on a collision course in "Chicanery," which centers on Chuck's attempts to have Jimmy disbarred for felonious actions he undertook in the wake of Chuck taping Jimmy confessing to one of his bigger sins.
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The prime-time soap opera created by Richard and Esther Shapiro that came to define the Reagan era is ready to be relived with all 217 episodes of the entire nine seasons of superrich chicanery available on 57 DVDs.
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Now, against the current backdrop of out-of-control hostility, destruction of nature, political lies and chicanery, repression of human rights, and corruption without impunity of all kinds, Ono has emerged with Warzone (Chimera Music), her newest musical project.
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All this business may sound hilarious and bizarre, and it is, but it does inevitably draw the focus away from Sancaka's story, which sometimes seems secondary next to the political chicanery and the bigger picture of the franchise's intentions.
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Global capitalism is currently undergoing a period of worrying consolidation: super-companies are consolidating their power at the heart of the global economy, reducing competition, cosying up to pliable governments, and making enthusiastic use of tax dodges and financial chicanery.
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Such figures are something of a staple in popular culture: think of the champagne-chicanery of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby; Frank Abagnale, Leonardo DiCaprio's charismatic con-man in "Catch Me if You Can"; or the glitzy characters in "American Hustle".
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Certainly savvy media consumers know that there's at least some chicanery going on, but if the people at home were told that more than half of the cast was pursuing a career in acting, modeling, or singing, there'd be no show.
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The race for House Speaker within the GOP caucus is an opportunity to stop the chicanery and meld the GOP into a coherent and effective caucus that doesn't abandon or ridicule the priorities of its voters but rather fights for them.
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The result has the feel of one of New York's 2000/21 buildings, where a certain percentage of apartments in new construction are given over to affordable housing as a make-good for a whole heap of market-rate chicanery.
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"Without black writers, the world would perhaps never have known of the chicanery, shenanigans, and buffoonery employed by those in high places to keep the black man in his (proverbial) place by relegating him to second-class citizenship," she wrote.
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On Tuesday, American intelligence chiefs warned the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russia appears to be preparing to repeat in the 2018 midterm elections the same full-on chicanery it unleashed in 2016: hacking, leaking, social media manipulation and possibly more.
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It's in the interest of Democrats to leave an impression after the trial that Republicans covered up abuses of power and constitutional chicanery by the President that they can argue to 2020 voters should deprive him of a second term.
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But "Chicanery" makes viewers feel the weight of every moment of that showdown, from the early going when Chuck seems to have the upper hand, to the moment when Jimmy delivers the killing blow — and seems utterly destroyed by having done so.
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Lawmakers have been on recess since the release of a redacted version of the Mueller report earlier this month, sparing Republicans from being forced to weigh in on its picture of lying and chicanery, though apparently no crimes in the Trump White House.
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The first trailer for that new film just arrived, and it showcases a dynamic that seems familiar from Soderbergh's Oscar-winning 2000 film Erin Brockovich: an unlikely and underestimated woman takes on a vast world of corporate chicanery and brings it down.
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When reading a story full of weird financial transactions, narratives and counternarratives, it's helpful to have everything laid out as plainly as possible — even if the layers of chicanery are sometimes so densely packed that their syntax gets squeezed into ugly shapes.
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The women, both related to McCrae Dowless, paint a picture of American political chicanery at its lowest levels — though with sweeping consequences both for voters allegedly denied the franchise, and for the outcome of a pivotal national election, which Harris won by 905 votes.
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As the summer of grift has rolled on into a fraudster's fall filled with new schemes and financial chicanery that are seemingly revealed daily, one storyline has remained relatively consistent: the ongoing legal troubles of convicted Fyre Festival founder and confidence man Billy McFarland.
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" — Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas "A man utterly unfit for the position by temperament, values and policy preferences … whose personal record of chicanery and wild rhetoric of bigotry, misogyny and misplaced belligerence are without parallel in the modern history of either major party.
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Where the tax plan would have a big impact is in empowering some very wealthy people, because of another bit of chicanery in the proposal: Trump apparently would allow some business owners to dodge personal income tax by paying at the much lower corporate rate.
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It's the globalism of Goldman Sachs, which wants light-touch regulation of the financial sector, plenty of room for multinational corporations to engage in tax chicanery, and no major trade wars that would threaten US-based financial services companies' abilities to compete for market share internationally.
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I like stories that challenge my ability to keep up, but Westworld's reliance on reveals and narrative chicanery keeps me at a distance from the narrative, perpetually trying to decode what I'm seeing — not just to get ahead of the showrunners' tricks, but for basic comprehension.
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It's the globalism of Goldman Sachs which wants light-touch regulation of the financial sector, plenty of room for multinational corporations to engage in tax chicanery, and no major trade wars that would threaten US-based financial services companies ability to compete for market share internationally.
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But according to a Nation investigation published last month, the Defense Department is submitting trash budgets to Congress every year, cooking its books by just making up numbers to conceal billions in financial chicanery—mostly moving money around that it hasn't spent—and win ever more funding.
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Outside polling stations on the eastern edge of London, among the very few parts of the capital that voted for Brexit in 2016, people poured out their frustrations, fed up with the ineptitude, indecision and chicanery that they said had knotted up British politics for three years.
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We've seen a lot of themes where certain words in a set of phrases all have something in common, and this one is no different, except that Ms. Mewers and Mr. Eaton-Salners had CHICANERY in mind when they made this puzzle (see their notes below).
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BEIJING — Wu Xiaohui, the Chinese tycoon who was in failed talks with President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to buy into a skyscraper project in Manhattan, is fighting allegations of financial chicanery and has threatened to sue a Chinese magazine that examined his company's labyrinthine funding.
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So even though the "no global warming since 1998" line was always misleading, it's now just flatly false, as this chart with the years 383 and 2015 added in shows: Anyone who wants to pretend global warming doesn't exist is going to have to find some new chicanery.
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Usually, a good entrepreneur wouldn't have done this to you — it's not how almost any of the top people in our ecosystem treat others, as the true talent knows this is a repeated game and that honor and reputation is worth more than whatever percentage points they can get from chicanery.
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Even those who weren't caught off guard, because they read the comics or internet rumors, or were just ready to see him go after all the Dumpster chicanery last year, had to have been moved to revulsion, at least, by Glenn's bulging eyeball as he groaned his last words to Maggie.
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With the Federal Communications Commission scheduled to vote on the issue today, the threatened rollback not only imperils fair play and free speech; it will also empower foreign entities with substantial market-making power, like China's government, to meddle in American public discourse on a scale dwarfing Russia's recent cyber-chicanery.
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Because once you put aside the chicanery of last year's model, it does look pretty cool from a visual perspective (even if that's not actually what the inside of a phone looks like.) Xiaomi is expected to fully announce the Mi 9 at MWC 2019, so expect more news on that in the coming days.
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Further confusing the American people, the power held by those advisers means that we hear them on television daily repeating, contrary to almost every reputable economist, their mistaken belief that our $800 billion trade deficit — including a $375 billion goods deficit with China — reduces our gross domestic product and is evidence of foreign-government chicanery.
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As recently as this fall, Steven Soderbergh's "The Laundromat" came out, with a screenplay by Burns that turned the Panama Papers scandal — about the leak of documents implicating an offshore law firm in financial chicanery — into a darkly comic meta-movie, with Antonio Banderas and Gary Oldman talking directly to the camera, while sipping cocktails.
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" What's so peculiar about the Dell decision is that the judge found no chicanery and still didn't think the price was fair, explaining that it was possible a board's actions "might pass muster for purposes of a breach of fiduciary claim and yet still generate a sub-optimal process for purposes of an appraisal.
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Even if readers don't see their own families, as I did, in the tales of the Federal Housing Administration's discriminatory practices or the "kleptocracy" of black-owned land "taken through means ranging from legal chicanery to terrorism," we can see the forms of injustice that persist and speak to basic rights: Where can one live?
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A Philippines-based firm claims to be manipulating social media for political clients around the world, including Great Britain; Mexican campaigns for city and national offices use social media chicanery; and researchers at Google's altruistic technology outpost Jigsaw recently rented a Moscow-based outfit to run a disinformation campaign to test how its campaigns worked.
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It's her fidelity to the story and the ordinary people swept up in historical events — particularly victims of the "evil stupidity" of nations at war, the "lies and chicanery" of statecraft and the global propaganda machine — that make Gellhorn's novel "A Stricken Field" (1940) essential reading for the political moment we're living through today.
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"I just wanted to make it clear that I will not sit back, nor should anybody sit back and allow these guys to attack the needs of low-income workers, especially at a time when in this particular bill there are $500 billion available to the President for all kinds of corporate welfare and chicanery," he added.
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So it was that I rode the route of the 2000 Tour, mining deep into the event's unrivaled back-story of chemical assistance and chicanery: a carafe of rosé downed every lunchtime; a big chunk of Brittany snipped off in questionable tribute to the Tour's inaugural winner, Maurice Garin, who was disqualified the next year for taking the train.
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From outright absurdity to thinly veiled partisan chicanery, these legislative attacks run the gamut: In Georgia, Ohio, and Mississippi, Republican legislatures — in lockstep not only with their Republican governors, but the Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the Trump administration — have recently passed dangerous bills that would ban abortion at six weeks, which is before many women even know they are pregnant.
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During what came to be known as the New York-New Jersey Line War, between 1701 and 1765, natives of those two provinces, fueled by cartographical ambiguity, legal disputation, political chicanery, royal favoritism, proprietary murkiness, territorial stubbornness, latitudinal chauvinism, and good old-fashioned greed, would occasionally shoot at one another, raid the others' camps, destroy their homes, and burn their crops.
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The last few months have been particularly ugly: Francis just spent a recent visit to Chile vehemently defending a bishop accused of turning a blind eye to sex abuse, while one of his chief advisers, the Honduran Cardinal Óscar Maradiaga, is accused of protecting a bishop charged with abusing seminarians even as the cardinal himself faces accusations of financial chicanery.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Trump Faces a Storm of Bipartisan Criticism Over a Meeting With Putin" (news article, July 10): President Trump may be eager to put this Russian election-meddling scandal behind him because he was the chief beneficiary of the Russians' chicanery, but his responsibility as president is to defend and protect the American people from all foreign enemies.
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Freshly printed copies of the San Francisco Chronicle roll off the printing press at one of the Chronicle's printing facilities September 20, 413 in San Francisco, CaliforniaPhoto: GettyIn addition to flooding social media with false news stories, propaganda-spreading bots, and all sorts of online chicanery during the 2016 US presidential campaign, Russian trolls also reportedly attempted to erode Americans' trust in local news by posing as city newspapers.
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Some of what they propose is out-and-out chicanery; some may hold real value; whatever the case, the job of piloting the public through the complex neuroscientific maze — in order that potential jurors may better judge whether a violent offender should be condemned to death, to a long or life sentence in America's barbaric present-day prison system, or should have their sentences reduced or changed because of a brain irregularity or insult — is vital to society.
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His films were overtly political, as seen in their spectrum of subjects, including the impossible dream of interracial marriage; the hostility of light-skinned blacks to darker-skinned ones; the great moral cost of trying to pass as white; the unjustified arrest of blacks on trumped-up offenses and the use of black prisoners' forced labor by white business owners; the legal chicanery that kept neighborhoods segregated; and the ills, such as bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution, that afflicted black communities deprived of education and opportunities.
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A.N.") Stephen Glover, "Atlanta" ("Streets On Lock") Aziz Ansari & Lena Waithe, "Master of None" ("Thanksgiving") Alec Berg, "Silicon Valley" ("Success Failure") Billy Kimball, "Veep" ("Georgia") David Mandel, "Veep" ("Groundbreaking") Joe Weisberg & Joel Fields, "The Americans" ("The Soviet Division") Gordon Smith, "Better Call Saul" ("Chicanery") Peter Morgan, "The Crown" ("Assassins") Bruce Miller, "The Handmaid's Tale" ("Offred (Pilot)") The Duffer Brothers, "Stranger Things" ("Chapter One: The Vanishing Of Will Byers") Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan, "Westworld" ("The Bicameral Mind") David E. Kelley, "Big Little Lies" Charlie Brooker, "Black Mirror: San Junipero" Noah Hawley, "Fargo" ("The Law Of Vacant Places") Ryan Murphy, "Feud: Bette and Joan" ("And The Winner Is... (The Oscars Of 1963)") Jaffe Cohen, Michael, Michael Zam & Ryan Murphy, "Feud: Bette and Joan" ("Pilot") Richard Price & Steven Zaillian, "The Night Of" ("The Call Of The Wild") Donald Glover, "Atlanta" ("B.
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