Sentence examples for attempt to con from inspiring English sources

But I came to the conclusion that any attempt to con a con man would end badly.

3) It's a deliberate attempt to con you and cheat the opposition - but your hands are tied.

"It is a whitewash as it is an attempt to con people that there has been a full and independent investigation when there has not been.

(Jenkins) "Quantum Mechanics clearly has no practical applications as Philosophers cannot determine its metaphysical interpretation" (Mark Tibbetts, tweet) "This astronomical gardeeloo is an attempt to con the public into accepting the "value" of scientific research".

"Making an occasion out of a delayed announcement is an attempt to con the people into believing that we have moved a step towards independence when we haven't".

"It is a whitewash as it is an attempt to con people that there has been a full and independent investigation when there has not been," he said.

I told them about my father's scams, domestic and foreign, everything I could remember: how he attempted to con the Prime Ministers of Singapore and Malaysia in Britain's two largest football pools and, within a whisker, brought it off.

But the number of e-mails, the seniority of the people writing them, the variety of positions they hold and the language they use — including comparisons to Ponzi schemes and attempts to "con" Wall Street — suggest that questions about the shale gas industry exist in many corners.

Attempts are made to con referees, by collapsing scrums and mauls, and then there are incidents such as the one indulged in by Neil Back in a Heineken Cup final for Leicester against Munster when he illegally diverted a Munster scrum put-in with his hand.

To ward off any attempt he might make to con me, I dashed off a text message, the most poetic medium of our era.

The fight had an intense dignity, unblemished by any attempt on Ali's part to con or ridicule his opponent.