Sentence examples for nefarious effort from inspiring English sources

Supporters of Moktada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, denounced the wall as a nefarious effort to divide the city.

And what's behind this entire nefarious effort to make America a gun-free zone?

In a statement, Butina's attorney said her actions amounted to "open and public networking" by a foreign student rather than a nefarious effort at covert propaganda.

But this is probably more a combination of the man's temperament and his party's ideologically-blinkered policy options, rather than a nefarious effort to airbrush the triumphs of Western civilization out of Canadian history.

American officials became aware of more nefarious efforts to secure Bout's freedom.

Those who battled Cheney's nefarious efforts to obliterate constitutional checks and balances and practice pre-emption can't look the other way when a Democratic president is caught up in the narcotic allure of drones and pre-emption.

Cutting from crude graphics of American dollar bills to standard shots of the Statue of Liberty to blurry footage of American leaders from George Washington to President Obama, the video bemoans the fall of the Soviet Union and warns that China faces a similar fate if it fails to counter Washington's nefarious efforts to infiltrate Chinese society.

Following the 2004 election, Griffin was accused of nefarious "caging" efforts to disenfranchise African-American voters in Florida.

When Chayes tried to generate a blacklist of especially nefarious Afghans, her efforts were blocked, because, she implies, the Central Intelligence Agency appeared to be making payments to multiple people on the list.

Ms. Hamsher attributes nefarious motives to this effort and the legislation.

Here the action switches to Paris as the nefarious Gargamel (Hank Azaria, again putting more effort into his role than anyone else is) sets out to increase his supply of Smurf essence.