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dishonest and car
) The reason for the change from BR-549 to BR-1Z1Z was during the 1980 season, Junior gave up the car lot and became a " consumer advocate " whose job was to save the public from dishonest people like himself.

dishonest and salesmen
It typically refers to a room where salesmen work using unfair, dishonest sales tactics, sometimes selling penny stock, private placements or committing outright stock fraud.

dishonest and calling
He berates Nora, calling her a dishonest and immoral woman and telling her she is unfit to raise their children.
Local opposition group Cayugadeer. org has accused the Board of Trustees actions as deceptive and dishonest while calling for alternatives to killing of the deer such as cutting off the main food source for the deer by requiring fencing home gardens.
At a Civil Rights rally marking the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Gregory criticized the United States, calling it " the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.
The official assignee, Sarjit Singh, opposed Jeyaretnam's appeal, claiming that Jeyaretnam had lied about his assets and calling him " the most dishonest bankrupt I have ever come across ".
When Carol felt he had enough control of the situation, he ordered a brutal suppression of the Iron Guard and had Codreanu arrested on the charge that he had slandered Iorga, based on a letter Codreanu sent to the latter on March 26, 1938, in which he had attacked Iorga for collaborating with Carol, calling him " morally dishonest ".
Finally, after Drew misheard Temple calling him dishonest, the two men were restrained before they could come to physical blows with each other.
Blogger Glenn Greenwald has taken Ledeen to task for what Greenwald calls his history of false statements and inaccurate predictions, calling him " one of the most dishonest and ludicrous jokes on the political scene.
Thus, Shakespeare is not calling into question Shylock's intentions, but the fact that the very people who berated Shylock for being dishonest have had to resort to trickery in order to win.
He was accused of being dishonest and eventually apologised, calling the deal sloppy.

dishonest and themselves
" Journalist Ronald Bailey called the criticism " disturbing " and " dishonest ", writing, " The subhead of the review section, ' Science defends itself against The Skeptical Environmentalist, gives the show away: Religious and political views need to defend themselves against criticism, but science is supposed to be a process for determining the facts.
For this reason, immigrants from civil-law countries where civil-law notaries exist, particularly those from Latin America, are often confused by the office of notary public and have been defrauded by dishonest notaries misrepresenting themselves as having legal powers.
: Since reconstruction, the masses of my people have been, as it were, enslaved in mind by unprincipled adventurers, who, caring nothing for country, were willing to stoop to anything no matter how infamous, to secure power to themselves, and perpetuate it ..... My people have been told by these schemers, when men have been placed on the ticket who were notoriously corrupt and dishonest, that they must vote for them ; that the salvation of the party depended upon it ; that the man who scratched a ticket was not a Republican.
When the Cardinal, Duchess and Cariola enter to speak with Ferdinand, Antonio and Delio have a moment to themselves to discuss the Cardinal ’ s character ; he is found to be a very dishonest, disagreeable person, as is his brother, Ferdinand.
In addition to the allegation of dishonest dealing arising from the consulting contracts themselves, Abramoff and Scanlon are accused of illegally giving favors to senior Republicans Tom DeLay, Conrad Burns, John Doolittle and Bob Ney.
Some research shows that students studying business describe themselves as being academically dishonest more often than students pursuing other types of degrees.

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According to Suetonius, Domitius was a wealthy man with a despicable and dishonest character, who, according to Suetonius, was “ A man who was in every aspect of his life detestable ", and served as consul in 32.
In the US, magazines and newspapers often do not use it, instead printing " family-friendly " censored versions, usually " n * gg * r ", " n ** ger ", " n ——", and " the N-word "; however, historians and social activists, such as Dick Gregory, criticize the euphemisms and their usage as intellectually dishonest, because using the euphemism " the N-word " instead of nigger robs younger generations of Americans of the full history of Black people in America.
In Italy, the character is so familiar in popular culture that his name has been occasionnally used as a metaphor for " unlikeable and / or dishonest wealthy person ", " go-getter ", or " rival millionaire " ( i. e., a millionaire who is the rival of another millionaire, in this instance, Bill Koch, rival of Raul " Uncle Scrooge " Gardini ).
T. C. Byrne suggests that this expressed support was dishonest, that Reid considered social credit in all of its forms to be " complete nonsense ", and paid it lip service to it only because of its popularity among voters.
" Tatchell responded saying Livingstone's remarks are " dishonest, despicable nonsense ", adding " The Grand Mufti was not singled out ", he further said the Mayor had brought his " office into disrepute " and " has revealed himself to be a person without principles, honesty or integrity.
Notwithstanding his vices and his lack of all solid capacity, there is no reason to suppose that Napper Tandy was dishonest or insincere ; and the manner in which his name was introduced in the well-known ballad, " The Wearing of the Green ", proves that he succeeded in impressing the popular imagination of the rebel party in Ireland.
The heavily advertised " See Clearly Method " ( of which sales were halted by a court order in November 2006, in response to what were found to be dishonest marketing practices ) included " palming " and " light therapy ", both adapted from Bates.
Olsen resigned as Premier following an adverse report from an inquiry into his questionable dealings with the Motorola company in 2001, known as the Motorola affair, which revealed that Olsen had misled parliament, as well as representations made by Olsen to Chief Magistrate Jim Cramond labeled " misleading and inaccurate ", " dishonest " and had " no factual basis ".
Chess historian Edward Winter criticized Evans's work, asserting that it was sloppy, dishonest, and riddled with factual inaccuracies, International Master John L. Watson, has noted that Evans has " huge bias ", " long histories of ignoring and distorting evidence ", and " absurd arguments ".
" Toward the end of the show, Richards reveals that he did, " use money from the statue to make my own palace in Hawaii ", another reference to dishonest televangelists who trick people out of their money.
In 2011, the Kansas state Board of Discipline of Attorneys recommended that Kline's law license be indefinitely suspended, citing a pattern of repeatedly misleading statements, " dishonest and selfish motives ", and a failure to " take any responsibility for his misconduct.
Therefore, by this line of argument, the results do not constitute a " process " or " effect ", and to describe it as such could even be misleading because it would conflate two distinct sorts of behavior: one legitimate and positive, the other dishonest and harmful.
" Gregg reacted by saying Brewer was " absurd ", " fundamentally dishonest ", " irresponsible " and lacked " integrity " for her handling of interviews, and stated " in your introduction to me, you said that, that education funding would be cut.
" In the same journal, Roz Kaveney calls it " a stupid and dishonest book ", and says " intention is to claim Wittgenstein for his own brand of contemplative mysticism, which he defines as the great insight that IndoEuropeans ( or, as he unregenerately terms them, Aryans ) brought to Hinduism and Buddhism.
Since the political smear campaign conducted by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against John Kerry, the term " swiftboating " ( or " Swift-boating ", or " Swift Boating ") commonly refers to a harsh attack by a political opponent that is dishonest, personal and unfair.
Schwartz said she was also motivated to run due to Mara's " extremely nasty, dishonest and unfair efforts to undermine my record ", as well as his efforts in convincing local college students " with no real vested interest in the District " to register as Republicans in the District.

dishonest and Jones
In 1962, she appeared as a dishonest Southern belle in the NBC sitcom Ensign O ' Toole with Dean Jones.

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Early modern era in Germany also witnessed the so called unehrliche Leute ( dishonourable or dishonest people ), an outcaste group.
In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.
There are claims that Canaris, who was extremely shocked by this ' dishonest and stupid decision ' ( his own words ), decided to be cautious and wait for a better time to act against Hitler.
Sophie soon learns that Howl, a rather self-absorbed, dishonest and cavalier but ultimately good-natured person ( and an extraordinary wizard ), spreads these malicious rumours about himself to ensure his privacy and smear his own reputation to avoid work and responsibility.
" Some seven men form an association " ( Mr. Goldbury with Chorus ), " Well, at first sight it strikes us as dishonest " ( Ensemble ), and " Henceforward of a verity " ( King Paramount and Ensemble )
In the 1970s, Chamberlain enjoyed success as a leading man in films such as The Music Lovers ( 1970 ), Lady Caroline Lamb ( playing Lord Byron, 1973 ), The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ), The Lady's Not for Burning ( 1974 ), The Towering Inferno ( in a villainous turn as a dishonest engineer, 1974 ), The Last Wave ( 1977 ), and The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1975 ).
For example, an adjective can be negated by using the prefix un-( e. g. unable ), in-( e. g. inappropriate ), dis-( e. g. dishonest ), or a-( e. g. amoral ), or through the use of one of a myriad related but rarer prefixes, all modified versions of the first four.
Elaine greatly resembles her cousin Gwenhyfar in looks ( albeit not in personality ), which plays into her plan to marry Lancelet under dishonest circumstances.
Information may be obtained from insiders ( such as dishonest bank or government employees ), by fraudulent offers for employment or investments ( in which the victim is asked for a long list of personal information ) or by sending forged bank or taxation correspondence.
The dishonest, oily salesman Mr. Haney ( Pat Buttram ), who sold Oliver the Green Acres farm ( the Old Haney Place became the New Douglas Place ), continues to con his easy " mark " in most episodes.
Using partly dishonest methods ( Spota bribed the postman who delivered letters to Torsvan ), the journalist found out that Torsvan received royalties payable to B. Traven from Josef Wieder in Zurich ; on his desk, he also found a book package from the American writer Upton Sinclair, which was addressed to B. Traven c / o Esperanza López Mateos.
The New York State Consumer Protection Board issued an alert, naming it the largest example they had found of a photo mill scam ( in which agencies force models to shoot portfolios with photographers on their own payrolls ), and a State Senator called it trying " to make a quick, dishonest dollar ".
* Swizzle ( practice ), a British English term for swindle or an unfair or dishonest practice
According to the Shiji, there was no emperor (), between the Yellow Emperor and Zhuanxu however Shaohao is mentioned as a person living between the two who was fretting over a dishonest son.
That would identify the dishonest son as Jiaoji ( 蟜極 ), Xuanxiao's only known offspring, who was also passed over as emperor.

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