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"nobbling" Definitions
  1. the activity of preventing a horse from winning a race, for example by giving it drugs
  2. the act of persuading somebody to do what you want, especially illegally, by offering them money
"nobbling" Synonyms
influencing persuading affecting controlling manipulating inducing convincing bribing corrupting suborning buying enticing intimidating luring squaring swaying swinging coercing fixing winning over cheating defrauding conning swindling fleecing stiffing bilking diddling stinging suckering cozening skinning hustling rooking doing bleeding flimflamming victimising(UK) victimizing(US) shortchanging stealing robbing thieving embezzling pilfering purloining swiping lifting filching pinching taking nicking heisting nabbing misappropriating snaffling snitching whipping appropriating glomming doping drugging incapacitating disabling weakening tampering with interfering with accosting confronting approaching detaining buttonholing stopping waylaying catching collaring halting importuning grabbing soliciting hailing taking aside shouting to calling to intercepting ambushing cornering seizing capturing bagging snaring getting netting hooking nailing landing trapping snatching snagging copping corralling grappling frustrating thwarting foiling defeating preventing checking snookering baffling baulking(UK) balking(US) blocking scotching stymieing derailing obstructing dashing scuppering forestalling doing for kidnapping kidnaping abducting shanghaiing hijacking removing pirating skyjacking ransoming carrying off running off with making off with running away with taking hostage biasing(US) biassing(UK) prejudicing turning coloring(US) colouring(UK) guiding impacting impressing moving reaching selling striking touching seizure kidnap abduction hostage-taking capture snatch highjacking rape appropriation theft withdrawal taking away ransom embezzlement robbery larceny misappropriation peculation defalcation pilferage fraud sweet talk flattery flannel blarney adulation incense cajolery blandishment soft soap honeyed words smooth talk snow job fair words insincere flattery sweet nothings overpraise taffy butter sweet-talk blandishments More

12 Sentences With "nobbling"

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Perhaps because the scheme is yet another way in which airlines are nobbling serendipity.
As Mr Erdogan's rule became increasingly autocratic, Mrs Merkel often chided him for nobbling dissidents and the press.
The commission has given the Polish government until June 26th to come up with satisfactory changes to its judge-nobbling rules.
"They need to modernise and try to compete with China, the way we compete with rice-producing countries like Thailand," he says, ignoring the role tariffs play in nobbling the competition.
He later forged a dirty deal with a conservative rival that let him return to power with just 38% of the vote in 2006, and has since clung to office by nobbling democratic institutions.
Fighters loved to look and learn; so did the fans at the wooden stadia of Bangkok; not to mention the tubby judges at ringside who, without any trace of nobbling or a bung, were often accused of scoring in Poot's favor.
When Gordon Brown, his pushy chancellor of the exchequer, elbowed Mr Blair aside in 2007, he did so in part by flashing a little collectivist ankle to the grassroots, as well as by nobbling more centrist alternatives, allowing a shift to the left.
"Anne Spackman and Anthony Bevins, "BBC witness shaken rigid", The Independent, 29 October 1986. Campbell-Savours claimed this was proof of BBC nobbling and announced that he was sending his evidence to Sir Michael Havers, the Attorney General.James Naughtie, "MP claims tape proof of BBC nobbling", The Guardian, 5 November 1986. In the Commons, Campbell-Savours stated: > "Central Office set about an elaborate attempt to interfere directly with > potential witnesses.
Shay is the youngest in the group, and the one who always makes the mistakes. He is always getting into trouble and his mother always hopes that one day he will be able to get a job and be sensible like his younger sister Niamh. Each episode follows the men trying different scams to earn money. These schemes vary from nobbling pigeon-racing to dog-breeding, and always with something funny happening to the group.
She couldn't perform will in the half-mile event due to several falls caused by blunt skates. Her step-father told the press that someone had taken her skates before the event and returned them with ground down edges.Skating champion 'Nobbling' of skates claim, Sunday Times, Perth Australia, Oct 3rd 1954.] As a long track speed skater, she became the second Australian women who represented Australia at an international championship, after Jeannette Ann Neil. Jenkins competed at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women in 1963 in Karuizawa, Japan, finishing 33rd overall (500m: 49,6 (28th); 1000m: 1.45,3 (34th) and 1500m: 2.55,4 (33rd) [Total 160.717 points]). As of 2008 she has stil the 500m rink record on Lake Ida in New Zealand with 59.5s, set in the early-1970s at the Inter-Dominion skate meeting.
Jeltz reading poetry at Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in the television series. Vogon poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe" behind that of the Azgoths of Kria; four members of an audience died of internal haemorrhaging during a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" while the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos himself was later killed by his own major intestine, which leaped up through his neck and throttled his brain when he attempted to read his twelve-book epic "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles". Their poetry was also behind that of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex, which was destroyed when the Earth was.
He was acquitted amid talk of "jury nobbling" and interference with witnesses, but the following year was accused of Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH), convicted and sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment. It was at the Astor in December 1965 that the infamous East End (East London) Kray twins had a confrontation with the South London criminals known as the Richardson Gang; during that face-off, the gangster George Cornell is said to have referred to Ronnie Kray as a "fat poofter" (in another version, "a big fat poof"), a remark which led to a gangland war (Cornell himself being shot dead in March 1966 in front of witnesses at the bar of the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel) and so, ultimately, to the trials and sentences which destroyed both the Kray and Richardson gangs. Indeed, when the Krays were arrested for the Cornell murder (two years after the fact), they were drinking (at 6 a.m.) at The Lion pub, Bethnal Green, intending to move on later to the Astor.

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