Sentence examples for egregious tactics from inspiring English sources

UBS employed particularly egregious tactics.

The final bill represents a compromise that takes aim at the most egregious tactics used by junk e-mailers, like harvesting e-mails off the Internet.

Making repeated home visits and early morning phone calls, securing written commitments and eliciting oral commitments in front of witnesses might be egregious tactics when used by, say, a credit card company.

In a stunning rebuke, Alan Simpson, former Republican senator of Wyoming, has spoken out dramatically against his Republican Party, blasting the GOP for its egregious tactics of recent years.

Covert breastmilk substitute promotion happens everywhere: An egregious tactic used to market infant formula is using medical professionals, especially pediatricians and nurses, to 'prescribe' or push formula onto mothers.

No city has drafted broader and more robust rules than the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which, with an assist from the British Parliament, criminalized the most egregious ambush tactics and made lesser offenses punishable with fines of $30,000 or more.

Instead, silver flooded out of U.K. coffers to buy the tea and porcelain coveted by increasing numbers of British citizens — until British traders stanched the torrent by shipping opium to China, an egregious trade tactic that ended in war.

Instead of being there to help students receive an education at an affordable cost to better prepare them to join the workforce, these "for-profits" are employing the most egregious money-grubbing tactics to bilk their students and the federal government.

But recently, the Federal Trade Commission moved to shut down two California-based operators that handled collections nationally, including one that is accused of using tactics so egregious that they resemble scenes from a film noir script.

As the Chronicle reported, Herrera and Cohen specifically cite one such center, First Resort, claiming that the center's tactics are "nothing short of egregious".

Says Patrick Dorton, an Arthur Andersen spokesman: "This is the most egregious example of the blame-the-auditor tactic that we have seen this year".