Sentence examples for shady purposes from inspiring English sources
Marc Cain turned out to be a real person, a very good and decent person, whose name and contact details had been "borrowed" for shady purposes.
Now, go! Go and use this for totally legit and not at all shady purposes.
This is, of course, only the newest addition to the small army of services becoming available to mine the huge userbase that is MySpace for shady commercial purposes.
Eichenwald describes how Enron's Andy Fastow responded to the fig-leaf rules laid down by Andersen to ensure that the shady "special purpose entities" he was setting up were to remain supposedly independent of Enron control - requiring, for example, that outside investors put up at least 3% of the funding (yes, that's no typo: 3%, not 30%): "The three percent rule struck him as hilarious.
Not to mention some rather shady initiatives whose purpose is to mark Jewish--sorry, Israeli--merchandise with supposedly derogatory stickers intended for the attention of the vigilant French consumer.
Already we've got the sense there are hundreds of thousands of super-rich people setting up offshore bank accounts and shell companies for various purposes, many of them shady.
Along with some other shady details, it seems the company serves no purpose other than to sue people for patent infringement.
While secrecy may be exploited legally to avoid publicity, limit legal exposure or ease operations across borders, it can also be employed for nefarious purposes, such as evading taxes and hiding shady ownership histories.
"It is not the main purpose of our proposal to protect consumers and other unsophisticated investors from shady practices or their own ignorance," they wrote.
