Sentence examples for nefarious role from inspiring English sources

The ruling allows the public to know "so much more about Vides's deliberate acts of misconduct and nefarious role in the carrying out of grave human rights abuses in El Salvador," she said.

Mr Lieven paints a series of vivid portraits of the Russian decision-makers and functionaries, and their attempts to overcome a system of government which elevated autocracy to a virtue: the tsar had to be "pope, king and dictator" at once, and was bad at each one.What nowadays would be called civil society played a "nefarious" role too, Mr Lieven argues.

Inhofe has been quite busy lately -- engaging with Barbra Streisand on Twitter -- about her nefarious role in promoting "environmental alarmism".

Yet, every fascinating serial (which is what Star Wars essentially is) depends on having a key villain in a recurring nefarious role.

The House oversight committee chair, Darrell Issa of California, is setting up hearings to investigate an alleged nefarious White House role in cooking the health care site.

Most of the time, this is for a nefarious purpose.

In "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," opening Dec. 16, Harris takes on the role of nefarious Professor James Moriarty opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.

Richard Burton, in his final role, played the nefarious O'Brien, with Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, the object of Smith's doomed affections.

It shows Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Quicksilver and Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch encountering Ultron in what may be an early scene, and also features Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark/Iron Man lamenting his role in the nefarious machine intelligence's creation.

Gotham Former series regular Jada Pinkett Smith reprises her role as the nefarious Fish Mooney in a new episode of the before-Batman drama.

The period that followed included some high-profile roles — he was a nefarious super-hacker in "Live Free or Die Hard" in 2007 — but not much fulfillment.