Sentence examples for in the swindle from inspiring English sources

A lot of the problem, I think, is that on television Penn and Teller can't lure the audience into a constant but ever-changing role in the swindle.

Over roughly the same period, the authorities said today, he was engaged in the swindle that led to today's guilty pleas.

One woman in her mid-30s said she had lost $7 million in the swindle, according to Lamberto Domenici, who sat behind the cash register.

In The Swindle, you're always just one false move away from death.

Despite these precautions, Denver White (also known as DJ Denver), 26, one of the musicians commissioned by the scam gang to take part in the swindle, was the reason the whole thing came crashing down.

Like the value of diamonds, her prestige depended upon a controlled and limited output; and, in those terms, she was a royal success, the queen of the writer-in-residence swindle, the prizes racket, the high-honorarium con, the grants-in-aid-to-struggling-artists shit.

Mr. Norton, a financial planner who pleaded guilty to mail fraud in connection with the swindle, testified in the case, held in the Superior Court of San Diego, that an escrow officer and a local office supervisor at Chicago Title had known that what they were doing was wrong.

Foreign films have also done well in America this year, with the holidays bringing limited release alternatives such as Carlos Saura's "Tango", Claude Chabrol's comedy thriller, "Rien Ne Va Plus" (released in America as "The Swindle"), and the Berlin Film Festival favourite, "Central Station" from Brazil.Last year's "Scream 2" phenomenon upped the number of horror and science fiction flicks.

LATE in "Il Bidone" ("The Swindle"), Federico Fellini's stark 1955 portrait of confidence men who bilk the poor out of what little money they have, the group's leader, Augusto Broderick Crawfordd), begins addressing the matter of his conscience, which had never troubled him until recently, when by chance he ran into the daughter he had abandoned.

The men, Achilleas Kallakis and Alexander Williams, are facing 21 counts of conspiracy to defraud in the alleged swindle.

Indeed, they and others affiliated with them have sought, in effect, to be compensated as losers in the vast swindle.