Sentence examples for nefarious practices from inspiring English sources

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As Dr. Paris suggests, much of the new birth-control skepticism comes from the suspicion that contraception is allied with more nefarious practices.

It also requires insurance companies to end various nefarious practices, such as refusing to insure people with existing conditions or cancelling their coverage just when they need it most.

During wartime, anxieties about hoarding and profiteering no doubt shortened tempers, and, in the Boston Gazette, Joyce Jr. threatened "Judgment without Mercy" to anyone else guilty of "such nefarious Practices".

"There is no reason to think this is a case where local authorities are collaborating to secure an immunity for their own police officers' nefarious practices because it reflects the will of their community," Mr. Van Alstyne said.

Meanwhile, David Cameron announced an inquiry into nefarious practices at the late News of the World, Britain's bestselling Sunday newspaper until it closed its doors in shame on July 10th, and into press ethics and regulation more broadly.The terms of trade have shifted swiftly and sharply against Mr Murdoch in a way that Hosni Mubarak might appreciate (see article).

Put has served a three-year ban in his native Belgium for match-fixing and has always protested that he was a victim rather than a willing perpetrator of nefarious practices that he says were widespread in Europe when he was the manager of Lierse in 2005.

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In general, scholars do not think of impression management as an intentionally deceptive or nefarious practice.

Mr. Czernin had also, in a series of exposés, described the nefarious practice under which the Austrian government returned certain looted artworks only if the owners agreed to sign away their rights to other seized art.

Making clear the affect this was having on Londoners, Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking East, said anonymous ownership – a "nefarious practice" – negatively affects ordinary families across the capital by inflating the costs of homes, directly linked to the rising level of homelessness.

It encourages lots of nefarious work practices and it's a really backwards step in a civilised country that led the way with the NHS.

Merely controlling 90% of the virgin aluminum market got Alcoa in trouble in a landmark 1945 case, even though there was considerable evidence that its dominance was due more to superior foresight and engineering than to nefarious business practices.

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