Sentence examples for as a swindle from inspiring English sources

Others, however, see it as a swindle or deception.

It would be explosive if high pay continued to be seen as a swindle.

He would conceivably have seen it as a swindle, a fraud, literally an illegal pitch, like a scuffed ball.

Drouy-Ayral asked that the court use its own judgment in deciding the fate of a seventh defendant who denounced the Church of Scientology as a "swindle" after three months as a member.

Malvern, who was becoming perturbed by the RF's actions, dismissed the indaba as a "swindle", claiming that the chiefs no longer had any real power; the British, meanwhile, ignored the whole exercise.

Despite this, critics such as Member of Parliament Frank Field described it as a "hammer blow" and the Sunday Times described it as a swindle, with the hypothetical £1.5 m income described above falling to £1.2 m, a fall in income of 20%, because no tax would be reclaimable.

Raúl Esparza stars as a swindling faith healer; Christopher Ashley directs.

"Sutlers, as a rule, were described as a swindling, hard-fisted and grinding race," stated a member of the 19th.

Leonardo DiCaprio will get his shot at best actor in a comedy or musical for his turn as a swindling stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's tale of American greed, "The Wolf of Wall Street".

On May 19/20, 1856, he denounced the "Crime against Kansas" (the Kansas Nebraska Act) as "in every respect a swindle" and characterized its authors, Senators Andrew P. Butler and Stephen A. Douglas, as myrmidons (followers) of slavery.

To them, Beneš' stunning triumph was not diplomacy, it was a swindle As Polish Prime Minister Wincenty Witos warned: 'The Polish nation has received a blow which will play an important role in our relations with the Czechoslovak Republic.