Sentence examples for in the phony from inspiring English sources
The regulators have said that Enron Energy Services was one of several Enron divisions that participated in the phony transactions.
They didn't work and, in all probability, hundreds of lives were lost as a result of misplaced trust in the phony devices.
In "The Phony Solyndra Scandal" (column, Sept. 24), Joe Nocera dances around the extracurricular behavior surrounding the Solyndra loan that may cost the taxpayers more than half a billion dollars.
So, she said, she paid several hundred dollars for a bogus Social Security card, which she bought at MacArthur Park near downtown, where there is an open market in the phony numbers.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have convicted all of the Department of Agriculture inspectors who were arrested last fall in the phony inspection scheme, including an eighth inspector who pleaded guilty last December and who is cooperating with the government.
Despite its many virtues, Taleb's book is hard to like, since while its author endorses Nietzsche's maxim "What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent" he writes according to the opposite principle, dismissing with a sneer all with which he disagrees, such as those in the "phony professions" of journalism and academia.
In the phony-adoption scheme, Mr. Duncan also worked with an employee of a Brooklyn foster care agency, Concord Family Services, the authorities have said.
In the phony-adoption scheme, the officials said, Mr. Duncan worked with the second employee, Nigel Osarenkhoe, who they said used the agency's computers to create false names and issue checks as if they were subsidies for real adoptions.
During an internal inquiry, one of those agents, Robert Friedrick, admitted to his role in creating the phony alibi.
A legitimate set of pads for a Ford Taurus would cost the equivalent of $47 in Egypt; the phony ones might go for $30.
Not a single executive who ran the companies that cooked up and cashed in on the phony financial boom -- an industrywide scam that involved the mass sale of mismarked, fraudulent mortgage-backed securities -- has ever been convicted..
