Sentence examples for dodgy world from inspiring English sources

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There were a few torrential minutes on Monday afternoon when it seemed as if Gotham Chamber Opera, entering this dodgy world of outdoor performance with a production at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, should have followed Mr. La Selva's lead.

Diane Abbott, the MP standing for Labour's London mayor nomination, said: "Boris seems happy to offer Tottenham as a possible investment opportunity but ignores Qatar's treatment of foreign workers and the dodgy World Cup bid.

"You quickly forget that it is a popular hit," the magazine wrote, "and simply celebrate this mix of electro and Arabic, an exercise in style that avoids the pitfalls of dodgy world music".

Its acting general secretary, Brian Rye, said: "Maybe with this latest example of what we consider criminal behaviour, HMRC will finally allocate the resources to clean up the dodgy world of employment agencies and put a stop to the daylight robbery carried out against the British taxpayer and the British construction worker".

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Dodgy's world of illegal file-sharing leads to contracting cinemas, reduced to a single screen.

What we came up with was Tony not getting indicted for war crimes, going on to make a fortune out of doing deals with dodgy third-world dictators and ending up in a California hot-tub with Wendi Deng.

There's something passive-aggressive in the degree of the Academy's imprecision here, and in general the dodgy largesse to "world cinema" (as if the US variety is somehow separate).

Before this, before they did SM tv on ITV, before they hosted Pop Idol and the Brits, before they became the new Likely Lads and took responsibility for the dodgy official England World Cup song ('Campbell to Rio, Rio to Scholesey...'.), they used to hang out at a fictional youth club in Newcastle called Byker Grove, and it is here that they met at the age of 13 and became friends.

Tracy Borman has worked hard to uncover the man's character.Cromwell grew up in a world of dodgy brewers and fist-fights.

In 2008, when dodgy dealings in the world's financial markets finally came to light, there was also an emblematic episode of market manipulation in the art world.

Sounding like a futuristic take on Fight Club, the game features a nefarious organisation that holds violent spectator sporting events in dodgy locales around the world.

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