Sentence examples for of a swindle from inspiring English sources

Givling was started by Lizbeth Pratt who was forced to declare bankruptcy shortly after graduating loan-free from Stanford University because of "a swindle" by the manager of the business she worked at.

Though she was more or less an innocent party - the hyperbolical stories were circulated not by her but by publicists - and there was no actual proof of a swindle, Thom was portrayed in the media as a cynical manipulator.

Even if you're working on a swindle of epic proportions, the person buying needs to feel confident that he's getting the better end of the deal.

In "The Man Who Loved Dogs," Padura writes that "the Utopia was betrayed and, worse still, reduced to a swindle of the greatest human wishes".

During the Great Depression, the firm lost much of its capital in a swindle of its own invention.

Yet Ms. Young makes you think about it again, if only to wonder if the price of admission was a swindle or a steal.

The famous sportswriter Jimmy Cannon, who hated Ali, called the fight a "swindle of a charade".

Harry Dhaul, the director general of the Independent Power Producers Association of India, questioned whether a swindle could even exist, given the heavy regulation of the power sector.

It comes complete with "dawa stick," to stir up the honey at the bottom. Robert Simonson New York: Rudy Kurniawan stands accused of a massive swindle, counterfeiting rare wines.

Prosecutors who put together the recent criminal complaint against Mr. Khan said his fraud was an outsized version of a familiar swindle — check kiting — in which the thief takes advantage of the time it takes for banks to clear checks.

And a stoic widower meets a solitary female traveler in a local restaurant and allows himself to envision a future together, only to find himself made the butt of a cruel swindle.