Sentence examples for con by from inspiring English sources

Con connoisseurs should enjoy: The Big Con by David Maurer (Anchor Books, $13).

Thirty-two participants were randomly allocated into one of two groups – fish oil, exercise, and a Mediet (FEM) or control (CON) – by picking a paper marked "FEM" or "CON" out of a hat.

No doubt about it, the back and forth, carefully balanced between pro and con by the chairman, Robert Hendry, was full of passion.

I flew down to visit Mr. Israel after reading an advance copy of a book about him that is coming out in two weeks, "Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con" by Guy Lawson (Crown).

The chancellor said in his autumn statement speech he was helping families with their energy bills – not with a "transparent con" by pretending that the coalition could control the world oil price – but instead by focusing on the levies and charges that previous energy secretaries had "piled on" bills.

Claude Martingale, a Frenchman working at a Dublin investment bank in the wake of the financial crisis, is this novel's titular "Void" and "Mark": his life being empty, he falls for a con by a writer (winkingly named Paul) with designs on the bank's capital.

That effort, called Operation E-Con by federal agents, resulted in the indictment, and in some cases conviction, of more than 130 people on a variety of criminal charges.

I said, 'Why not come right out and tell 'em?' He thought it would hurt his career, but he was also afraid he might be exposed as an ex-con by someone else before he owned up.

Below are some of the stranger and/or more surprising pledges made at this year's Comic-Con by talented people involved with projects that will not be released or even filmed for several months.

Here are some of the stranger or more surprising pledges made at this year's Comic-Con by talented people involved with projects that will not be released or even filmed for several months.

Set for release on Christmas Day, the film was being talked up at Comic-Con by Weinstein representatives as a contender on the order of Mr. Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," which featured Mr. Tarantino as a scalped Nazi, had a climactic scene of movie theater violence and received eight Oscar nominations in 2010.