Sentence examples for shady figures from inspiring English sources

Many a summer on Martha's Vineyard has taught me that its dirt-tracks are littered with ex-CIA operatives and other such shady figures.

From the spectre of spiralling property prices to the shady figures of estate agents that haunt Britain's high streets, homeowners are all too ready to regale us with their horror stories of late.

The media can create an environment in which politicians would be reluctant to be friends with and do favors for mafia leaders, whom Grinda argued need to be seen as shady figures to be feared.

It takes a while to acclimatise our eyes to the gloom but when we do it's to make out the shady figures of men making lewd gestures in our direction.

On something as small as a bowler's footfall, the shady figures in global gambling, running sophisticated operations from transient addresses, are a little bit richer, and the sport's fans that bit poorer.

"When we hear that some members of the opposition are in touch with Hezbollah or with shady figures like the Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi, of whom we think he is acting on behalf of Iran, then this worries us," said a French intelligence official.

Peter Farrington never wears a raincoat, and dislikes being thought of as a shady figure.

The beautiful Zingarina, played by Asia Argento, is in love with someone else; her companion Tchangalo (Birol Unel) is a shady figure.

Reacher's Army training serves him well when he is recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a shady figure named Edward Lane.

Mostly "Hellhound on His Trail" is a tight two-man story, cutting back and forth between Dr. King and a shady figure who in 1968 was calling himself Eric Starvo Galt.

His father, "Big Jim", was a heroic but shady figure whose law-keeping days were cut short by gambling and embezzlement; his later business ventures soon led him to bankruptcy.