Sentence examples for and the rigging of from inspiring English sources

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But he also cheated, and the rigging of the 2002 presidential elections was sufficient to deny Tsvangirai victory.

The last decade has seen a steady stream of financial scandals and crises: mortgage frauds, insider trading, the illegal fixing of global interest rates, money laundering, and the rigging of the Treasury bond market.

So far the allegations attached to his name include the illicit financing of his political party through years of corporate kickbacks when he was mayor of Paris; fictitious jobs for party members, paid for by the taxpayer; and the rigging of electoral lists to ensure a clean sweep of the capital in the local elections of 1989.

Since the crisis, the reputation of bankers has been damaged even further by a range of scandals such as those over mis-sold payment protection insurance in the UK, the repossessions that followed the US sub-prime mortgage bond debacle and the rigging of Libor.

I took the little passenger ferry at Hengistbury Head, then the one across Southampton Water from Hythe (that's about a dozen ferries since Land's End), and then the one from Gosport to Portsmouth, a city I've long loved, its littoral landscape – Martello towers, ramparts, and the rigging of HMS Victory and Warrior – now embellished by the sinuous beauty of the 170m Spinnaker Tower.

Scott Patterson, of the Wall Street Journal, published a book called "Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market".

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Last week provided fresh evidence of the cost to the banks of the mis-selling of payment protection insurance and of the rigging of the Libor and foreign exchange markets.

That investigation has been under way since 2011 and involves the rigging of games in Italy's lower divisions.

Transporting it to Stanford required a dozen wide-body flatbed trucks and specialists in the rigging of objects on this massive scale.

Costs have increased as regulators have clamped down and unearthed scandals such as the rigging of Libor rates and foreign exchange markets.

Three months later the army stood back and refused to facilitate the rigging of national elections, allowing Musharraf's party to suffer a crushing defeat.

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