Sentence examples for dodgy action from inspiring English sources

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For starters there was a dodgy action, a dabbling with cocaine and an eagerness for the odd bet on the outcome of a cricket match.

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It's may also be about trying to distract us all from the dodgy actions of the Conservative Senators and how they're spending taxpayers' money.

Mortimer, whose dodgy running action, as I reported, had to be edited from her new movie Transsiberian, met with further embarrassment on the shoot in Lithuania.

"Unpaid interns are in a vulnerable position, afraid to take action against dodgy employers.

We expect the authorities to take swift action against dodgy sites and we advise people to keep their wits about them.

Mike Childs, head of climate change at Friends of the Earth, said: "Rich countries are once again pushing the con of carbon offsetting at UN climate change talks, which means avoiding real action through dodgy accounting and putting pitifully inadequate targets on the table.

He rocks in on dodgy knees, flings himself into his action and keeps his fingernails short by scraping them on the ground in his follow-through.

But Schwarzenegger, Stallone's mercenary rival in the first picture (just as he had been his rival in movies), and Willis, a dodgy CIA type, are back for more action this time around.

Such a climate puts everyone on their guard, fearful that their actions might be misinterpreted as dodgy.

He's overconfident," says a foreign investor.Mr Rajan knows the ultimate solution for the droopy rupee is government action to address a weak manufacturing base, dodgy fiscal policy and sky-high gold imports.

Our deputy news editor, Ray Fitzwalter (later to run World in Action on ITV), had heard rumours of dodgy dealings between a Pontefract-based architect called JGL Poulson – whose business contacts included the Tory home secretary Reginald Maudling – and a number of local authorities.

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