Sentence examples for finagle from inspiring English sources

In a classic DC scheme, the cost to the employers is clear but the benefit to the worker is not; in fact the outcome is a bit of a lottery.A collective DC scheme tries to finagle this problem by giving workers a claim, but a claim that can be reduced if the assets fall short of tareget.

So claimed Alfred Winslow Jones, the manager of the first modern hedge fund, who in the 1950s used the (perhaps apocryphal) precedent to finagle a 20% cut from his backers.

Indeed, nearly 11,000 are now "sinking in the mud" in Hope, Arkansas.Moreover, the Government Accountability Office found that it was laughably easy to pose as a flood victim and finagle a $2,000 cheque intended to keep newly-homeless families fed.

In the meantime, countries try to finagle the accounting system under which cuts would be assessed to their best advantage.

Despite her lack of talent and Ricky's firm belief that a woman's place is in the home, Lucy continually dreamt of a life beyond domesticity and concocted hilarious (and ultimately doomed) schemes to finagle her way out of the kitchen and into the limelight.

There ensued what Hugo Young described as "the Blessed Plot": a conspiracy to finagle Britain into Europe by pretending that it was only a free-trade area and that membership would enhance our prosperity.

His solution is to have his mother bumped off and thus finagle the $50,000 insurance money that's supposed to go to his dreamy young sister Dottie (Juno Temple).

His son Godfrey, in his determination to transform the club, and the surrounding village, into a world-class year-round resort, the St. Moritz of North America, managed to finagle government and Olympic officials into granting Lake Placid the third Winter Games.

A more fitting sports metaphor would be to compare him to one of the lawyers who helped finagle a lucrative anti-trust exemption for professional football and baseball.

During the Games, the lift is restricted to athletes and coaches (and the media — The New Yorker did finagle an accreditation), but none of the coaches or athletes would ride with me.

In thirty-five years of teaching high-school English in New York City, I knew never to read my students' Regents essays, let alone finagle with their tests.