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"wangle" Definitions
  1. to get something that you or another person wants, but do not really have a right to have, by persuading somebody or by a clever plan

41 Sentences With "wangle"

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That helped AMC wangle cut-price admission into European movie screening.
I should have tried to wangle it after the first time I had it.
She also persuaded her husband to wangle a $20163 million House appropriation for the project.
But Business Insider managed to wangle a copy of her 46-page China roadmap report, out January 4.
Sadly, as it was three years since I'd bought it last, I couldn't quite wangle a replacement or a refund.
Either way, if Gulliver can wangle a week in Perth in 2018 to watch the Test match, his strategy will be clear.
She accepted an invitation to address a Republican retreat in Philadelphia in January, putting her in position to wangle a White House visit.
As a Columbia freshman, Mr. Simmons was sure of himself enough to wangle his way into the poet and professor Mark Van Doren's Shakespeare class.
He couldn't wangle his way into a position within the administration, but he did convince the Nixon team to use him as a consultant on media matters.
Josh Gad isn't just anybody, though — and as he tells Conan O'Brien in the clip above, he managed to wangle his way onto the set to watch a key scene.
Even though the Recode invite to the Goldman confab seems to have gotten lost in the mail, we still managed to wangle the rundown of speakers, courtesy of numerous attendees.
Wangle a nice hotel room next time you travel, and you can argue that a similar booking in the next hotel may be the only way to get a good night's kip.
By contrast, today, the situation is much different; too many foreigners come here illegally, wangle (sic) their way onto public assistance, and then sit as unassimilated clumps at best, as terrorists at worse.
And as the sold-out engagement would attest, it's hard to imagine anyone who has ever belted out "Born to Run" would want to miss this, especially if they couldn't wangle a trip or ticket to do so in person.
Anyone who has ever attempted to wangle a pay rise from their heart-of-stone boss or desperately prove to a Tinder date that they're totally normal despite having more cats than family members will know that gaining people's trust can be hard work.
Even if it's unapologetically rich content proves somewhat weighty, the Discogs brigade should note that the book provides a treasure trove of both classic and overlooked record recommendations, which collectively could destroy whatever upcoming Christmas or New Years' party you've somehow managed to wangle a gig at.
Meanwhile Stormy Daniels's attorney has virtually taken up residence in television studios, getting as much attention as Clark Gable playing Rhett Butler in "Gone With The Wind," dangling tidbits of dirt to wangle more invitations to appear, pollinating the airwaves with tales from the swamp, suggesting the president's former fixer will soon cop a plea deal with the feds.
Wangle Junction is an unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia, United States.
Dumisani Muleya, "Zimbabwe: Mugabe Bid to Wangle Speaker Post Backfires", Business Day, Johannesburg (allAfrica.com), 25 August 2008. Despite the MDC–T's objections, the members of Parliament were sworn in on the morning of 25 August."Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Wins Parliamentary Vote", allAfrica.
Research by Corporate Watch is often reused by mainstream news outlets. Investigations into the tax avoidance arrangements and corporate structure of payday lender Wonga.com, for instance, published in early October 2013, was then picked up by Accountancy Age and This is Money, amongst others.Wonga’s Swiss Wangle: payday lender moving money to tax haven Corporate Watch, 10 October 2013.
Though Winker often got into trouble, he always managed to wangle his way out of getting caned, well almost. Just the once he did get "six". Comparisons with Just William are inevitable, including the fact that Winker is always in Form 3, no matter how much time passes, and stories often involve ends and beginnings of new school terms.
Others managed to "wangle" the much coveted transfer into the Royal Flying Corps. Two attained captaincies in the R.F.C., Tracey, our former bandmaster, and W.A. Leslie, Annis, H.T. Leslie, J.H. White, Jones, Heakes, Crawford, Leary, Pinnock, Curtis, Henderson, Ferguson, and Harvey were all Flight-Lieutenants and Miles and J.G. Johnston were cadets. Lieuts. Annis, Curtis and Pinnock were killed.
Her film roles include Clara in Goldfish Memory, The Halo Effect, and The Stronger. Other theatre work includes playing Hilde Wangle in Lady from the Sea and Petra Stockman in Enemy of the People at the Arcola Theatre, London, and Amy in 'The Night Alive' at The Geffen Playhouse, in Los Angeles. She stared as Jessica Hyde in the television series Utopia. In 2015, she starred with David Troughton in the comedy romantic horror film Nina Forever.
Jack begins to suspect the Gingerbreadman is a hired assassin and attempts to question the Quangle-Wangle, a reclusive industrialist. The solution to the mystery involves secret industrial and government conspiracies and the mysterious Fourth bear... After more investigations Jack comes across a cottage of three bears who knew Goldilocks. They say that she ate the little bear's porridge and broke his bed, like the rhyme. He also makes investigations into Ursine Developments, the flats for bears.
The involvement of the Swiss company and the transfer of the trademark to it in 2012 have been seen by Corporate Watch as part of a scheme by the firm designed to avoid tax. According to Accountancy Age, in 2012, a net amount of £35 million was paid to WDFC SA, the profit on which will only be taxed in Switzerland.Wonga's Swiss Wangle: payday lender moving money to tax haven Corporate Watch, 10 October 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
Mukesh is Anil, a smarmy stud with an exuberant lack of scruples. While managing to wangle his way to a promotion, a Mumbai trip, he looks up to Shyam, despite the obvious rivalry, Anil decides to move in as acolyte. Shyam is a pro, and wants Anil out of his life, but has to begrudgingly admit that he's a huge help with the ladies. Anil might act unflappable with others around, but grovels in front of Shyam to let him stay.
These pioneering night fighter victories resulted in Ancillotti's third Silver Medal for Military Valor. On 6 September 1918, he was withdrawn from combat to serve with the Commissariato Generale Aeronautica (General Commissariat of Aeronautics). He remained in the rear area until 27 October 1918, when he managed to wangle his way back into combat for the war's final offensive, the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. He scored his final aerial victory on 27 October 1918, when he shot down an opposing Pfalz D.III right over its own airfield.
Frol and Annushka also manage to wangle money and valuable items from them. Annushka feigns an illness and her parents send a bejeweled icon; they also begin to send carriages with money and food on a regular basis. Finally, Nadrin-Nashchekin offers Frol Skobeev a large estate, three hundred rubles and Frol secures a position as his heir. The story concludes by telling us that Frol also managed to arrange a propitious marriage for his sister, and that he and Annushka lived happily after ever.
In June 1992, during a live performance of Public Enemy in Nikaia, B. D. Foxmoor and MCD met each other and created one of the first Greek hip hop groups, Active Member. In 1995, hip hop music was not well known in Greece. Active Member attracted big discographic companies and signed up with the consortium Warner (Warner Music Group). A few months later, the third album of Active Member was produced, under the name To Megalo Kolpo (The Great Wangle), and became widely known.
Jeff MerkleyThe Independent Party became the first Oregon minor political party in more than 80 years to cross-nominate major party candidates for public office. Its candidates generally fared better than other minor party candidates in terms of votes garnered. Joel Haugen received 19% of the vote in a five-candidate race for the U.S. House of Representatives in the first congressional district. State legislative candidates Terry Rilling, Pete Belcastro, and Keith Wangle garnered 40%, 44%, and 30% of the vote respectively in their races for the Oregon House of Representatives.
The highly fictionalised story sees "Schani" dismissed from his job in a bank. He puts together a group of unemployed musicians who wangle a performance at Dommayer's cafe. The audience is minimal, but when two opera singers, Carla Donner (Miliza Korjus) and Fritz Schiller (George Houston), visit whilst their carriage is being repaired, the music attracts a wider audience. Strauss is caught up in a student protest; he and Carla Donner avoid arrest and escape to the Vienna Woods, where he is inspired to create the waltz "Tales from the Vienna Woods".
After knowing of the return of Chenna Kesava Reddy, his wife and son come to see him. Now the movie turns to the flashback, in which Chennakesava Reddy is shown as a generous and the most revered man in the village, but has a rivalry with Venkata Reddy (Jayaprakash Reddy). In one of the worst incidents between the rivals, Chennakesava Reddy's rivals hack his entire family members to death. When their bid to kill Chennakesava Reddy falls short, they wangle some false case against him and send him to Tihar Jail.
Jerry comes across Ruby's jewelry case, and inside the box she discovers a secret compartment containing a letter written by notorious gangster Milton Militis in which he threatens Ruby for cheating on him. To wangle her way closer to Militis, Jerry auditions at one of his nightclubs, Hell's Bells. After several weeks of working there, she lures Militis out of town with a bogus telegram, and breaks into his apartment to search for concrete evidence. Militis returns too soon, and thinks she has finally consented to being his girl, however one of his henchmen, Rocco, exposes Jerry's identity.
Befriending him and Rodney, they hatch a plot to assassinate Del with the intention of fooling everyone into thinking that the Don himself has been murdered, thus sparing him the trial and likely imprisonment. After arranging for their camper van to be robbed, the group invite Del and Rodney to stay at the family mansion. Over the following days, several attempts to assassinate Del, including shooting him in a beach-side restaurant and sending him off on a jet ski with a broken throttle, prove unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Rodney contacts Cassandra and learns that Del knew Cassandra would be unable to go on holiday that particular week and therefore booked it to wangle himself a free holiday with Rodney's pension money.
Hence the only commands during the Maypole are to start the plaiting of the pole, to reverse the plaiting and to end the plaiting. The other type of performance done by the Landship on parade is basically a march with commands in-between which changes the pace and the actions of the parading members as they enact the movement of the ship, the piloting of the ship and the activities on board the ship. For example, during the march there would be commands such as: "Rough Seas" - meaning that the ship is going through rough waters and the crew must take corrective action; The Wangle Low - when the crew is exercising on the Deck; and "Man Overboard" - when the crew would spring into action to save the man who fell overboard and revive him.
Jackie takes her friend into a back room away from the other girls and it takes a lot of calm words and her 'trusty five fingered friend' which is basically a yellow washing up glove that Elaine uses to breathe into much like others may use a paper bag. The girls are then told by Tony (Paul Nicholls) to be a formal cab company, that they must attend a driving exam. Episode two opens as business picking up following Jackie and Elaine's television appearance and they are thrilled when footballer Eddie Shannon books Candy Cabs to provide the transport for his high-profile wedding at the local stadium. The dastardly Dennis slyly tries to wangle his way back into Witney's good books when she is left out of the wedding excitement.
The Countess has seen Dorina and her jealousy overcomes her again; she is angry with Poppone for the boorish treatment received (Aria: Chi son io, pensate prima / "Before, think about who I am"). When the Countess leaves, Poppone speaks with the Count about the treasure in the cellar and reveals his attraction for Dorina; the Count panders to the strange behaviour of Poppone (Aria: Un tenero affetto / "A tender feeling"). Falco advises Poppone to pay in advance the Turks for their help in discovering the treasure. Falco meets then Dorina and realizes that Poppone thinks she is the Countess; he advises Dorina to try to wangle as much as possible out of Poppone and for himself asks only a benign glance (Aria: Se con quell'occhio moro / "If with your brown eye").
Eventually Curzon has command of four divisions or a hundred thousand men: "as many as Wellington or Marlborough ever commanded." [9/82, [9/80] At the outbreak of war, "someone in London had done his work extraordinarily well to "put an Army” (Expeditionary Force) ashore lacking absolutely nothing. Curzon is promoted to (temporary) Lieutenant-Colonel as a "vigorous younger man" to replace his predecessor, who is near retirement and is given an (unwelcome) promotion to train a brigade of yeomanry. [chapter 4] But with the Ninety- first division, one of the new armies, "the War Office was found wanting … they were left unclothed, unhoused and unarmed (and) shivered in tents pitched in seas of mud" So Curzon got Mackenzie to wangle allocations of duckboards etc to make life bearable by saying he was dining with influential people (he was dining with Emily).
In August 1950 the Sea Scouts faced another tragedy when the Wangle III, a whaler owned by the 1st Mortlake Sea Scouts, was lost and all ten Sea Scouts on board drowned. The post-war period also saw the retiring of a number of training vessels used by the Scouts: the was transferred back to Royal Navy ownership in 1954 when the Scouts could no longer afford the upkeep and is now in the ownership of a maritime trust and can be found in Dundee and in 1968 the was retired and is currently at Chatham Historic Dockyard and is being restored as its previous persona of HMS Gannet. To compensate, in 1956, Marlow, Buckinghamshire on the River Thames became home to Longridge Scout Boating Centre to train in seamanship and other water sports with training equipment transferred from RRS Discovery. Lord Amory in the London Docklands.
As the uniformed group marches towards the riverboat to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", Sam joins them as the last marcher. Accompanied by an image of a night battlefield, Adams' voice is heard proceeding with the story, "I didn't run across Sam again until just after Shiloh [April 6–7, 1862]… one of the worst days in American history… over thirty thousand casualties… that first night I was out lookin' for my wounded…" Adams meets Sam on the battlefield and lights Sam's cigar, illuminating his face. Sam tells Adams, "they run out of lead pencils… I managed to wangle my way back into the Army". As Adams asks Sam to take the second lieutenant's job held by Tim Molloy who was killed that day, Sam grimly replies, "I don't know, Seth… after today I'm not so sure I'm qualified to be a second lieutenant".
On the advice of his friend and fellow-Drone Hugo Carmody, he once again uses his uncle, this time to wangle the post of secretary to Lord Emsworth, recently vacated by Carmody. He spends a few happy days at Blandings, in company of his former fiancee Sue Brown, before events conspiring against him, particularly Lord Emsworth's suspicions of anyone connected to the Parsloe-Parsloe camp, lead to his expulsion from the post. He tries to get back in with Lord Tilbury by stealing Galahad Threepwood's reminiscences, but is scuppered by Percy Pilbeam; he later takes revenge on Pilbeam, but repents and ends up paying him handsomely for the chance to work for his Detective Agency, the Argus, for a year. In "The Plot That Thickened" Monty manages to hold down a job in the entertainment industry, only to be informed by J.G. Butterwick that it does not count.

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