Sentence examples for Swindler from inspiring English sources

In his closing statement, he said the trial had resembled a television series set up to depict him as a thief and swindler.

Tilden was called a syphilitic swindler and Hayes was accused of murdering his mother in a fit of insanity an impressive double calumny.Tilden won 51% of the popular vote and came just one short of a majority in the electoral college.

It is very disappointing that you choose not to report any of these new findings in your article, which merely repeats outdated views of Kreuger the swindler and that you have refrained from mentioning the other views and theories that have been put forward by renowned journalists and writers.

In one cartoon a swindler, hugging a big pot of cash, sits atop a human pyramid, representing the Ponzi principle at work.The Ponzi principle has even tempted some of China's banks, according to a widely cited article in China Daily, an official newspaper.

It is a far cry from the scene in Ivan Goncharov's 19th-century Russian novel "Oblomov", when the crook Tarantsyev explains the concept of shares to a colleague in crime:It's a German invention!...Some swindler undertakes to build a town of fireproof houses, for instance.

Mr Wei said that China needed to adopt democracy in order to modernise properly, and called Deng a dictator and a political swindler.

As a Sunni in this overwhelmingly Shia region, a former colonel in Saddam's army and a suspected swindler to boot, he was an odd choice to begin with.

Which incident requires the greater leap of faith?Hosea MartinChicagoBusiness ethicsSIR – It is a great pity that Ivar Kreuger, "the world's greatest swindler", lived before his time ("The match king", December 22nd).

Occasionally his papers still lure curious visitors to Vadstena.If Birgitta is the patron saint of Europe, Kreuger was the patron saint of sinners; he was arguably the most brilliant and ambitious swindler who ever lived.

Someone a deranged Singaporean cyber-stalker, she claims—has posted around 4,000 internet messages in the past five years, depicting her as a talentless, sex-crazed swindler.

Chorizo is also slang for a swindler or cheat.