Sentence examples for a crook for from inspiring English sources

Ms Landrieu would still have a tough time winning, but she might be able to get out the vote.If so, it would be the biggest political event in Louisiana since David Duke, a white supremacist, fought Edwin Edwards, a crook, for the governorship in 1991.

"Vote for a crook, not for a fascist" was their rallying cry: for the scandal-tarnished Mr Chirac, not the xenophobic Mr Le Pen.The challenge, therefore, is for Mr Chirac to make his victory real.

Eventually, a federal judge in New York called Brennan "a big crook" for his actions with First Jersey Securities, then a symbol of opulence, now quite terminally defunct, along with the aspirations and savings of his followers.

Remember that a crook always looks for the easiest route to riches.

"A creep fronting for a crook" was one British official's characterisation of him.Mr Khodorkovsky was worse.

"It was just like a little hat, and when the dog searches for a crook you see what the dog sees.

Blake was only in handcuffs for 15 minutes, but he wants an apology from the officer who mistook him for a crook.

He is truculent, calling the American ambassador to London a "chiselling little crook" for not making embassy officials pay the congestion charge.

Upon spotting a teenager carrying a garden-variety orthopedic cane — simple wood, J-shaped crook for a handle — the officers pulled over and seized it.

Republicans say the ex-governor is nothing more than a crook who ran a "pay for play" administration.

John Henry was a fool, Ira Hayes a sot, and John Wesley Hardin a crook; but it is fitting for songs to dwell on their emblematic grandeur and ignore formless facts.