Sentence examples for cons by from inspiring English sources

CRUNCHY CONS, by Rod Dreher.

"The pros outweigh the cons by a long shot," the mayor of Cascade Locks, Tom Cramblett, argued recently.

The Treasury is distributing a summary of a magisterial study of EMU's pros and cons by Lord Currie, an economist at London Business School.

CONS: By maintaining the house in its original condition, the owners have kept both the charm and the outdated fixtures -- all four baths and the kitchen need updating.

CONS: By combining four penthouses into this single one, 10 rooms have become eight, and while the entertaining spaces are of grand scale, the bedrooms have been shortchanged.

Verisimilitude determinations can supplement the usual pros and cons by forcing judgement of the evidence for hypothesis a when assigning values to CTv(a) and CTf(a) [14].

In interviews last week with about 200 people in all five boroughs, this view was repeated again and again -- by young gang members and tired ex-cons, by prostitutes and bodega owners, by scrawny heroin addicts and by public housing tenants.

"People have been conned by my grandparents," Ms. Koper said.

-- just exactly who is getting conned by whom.

Being conned by her recruitment officer is typical of Judy.

That's a problem in Lucky's world: con artists being conned by other con artists.