Sentence examples for mischievous act from inspiring English sources

— Defense Secretary Robert Gates "What is happening in Syria is a mischievous act of Westerners, particularly Americans and Zionists".

"This mischievous act once again reveals the adventurist nature of the Zionist regime [of Israel] and added another black page to this fake and warmongering regime's file which is full of crimes," said the Revolutionary Guards' statement.

Relying on the recent research of Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali in the Soviet archives, Thomas writes that in 1964, "in an irresponsible and potentially mischievous act of backdoor diplomacy, a Kennedy acolyte, New York painter William Walton, was sent to the Soviet Union to meet with R.F.K.'s old back-channel friend Georgi Bolshakov".

The difference between the two is that the latter is an expression "such as to constitute…a positive instigation to some mischievous act," (1978, 53), namely, to place the rights, and possibly the life, of the corn dealer in danger.

Aquarium workers have confirmed that certain mischievous acts, which sound like more tall tales in Pliny, do occur.

By laying down penalties for mischievous acts, the legislator would make it unprofitable for a person to harm his neighbour.

"Iran is not a place for any individual or group to make mischievous acts or any other action," Mr. Lari was quoted as saying by the Iranian News Agency, adding that the Ministry of Intelligence was reviewing Mr. Hekmatyar's case.

The original idea was to build a story around the actor and comedian Robin Harris and characters he created in his stand-up act: mischievous kids he describes as "up at 4 in the morning drinking coffee and taking No Doz". After Mr. Harris died of a heart attack, the executive producers of "Bebe's Kids," Reginald and Warrington Hudlin, turned to animation.

That was an act of mischievous digital benevolence so typical of Radiohead, a band rewriting the rules of pop engagement on the fly.

The A.C.L.U. filed what it acknowledged was a "mischievous" Freedom of Information Act request in an effort to force the government to acknowledge counterterrorism operations that it had refused to discuss on secrecy grounds and that were mentioned in the cables.

This season they perform as a group, as the mischievous church choristers in Act I of "Tosca," for example; or as a group of soloists, like the three angelic boys of "The Magic Flute"; or individually, like the child who announces the arrival of the character Gianni Schicchi in "Il Trittico".