Sentence examples for shady state from inspiring English sources

But last month, just as Mr Avci was concluding an investigation into shady state energy contracts, he was ordered to the western province of Edirne, as the new police chief.

A thorough inquiry into the shady state auctions of the country's early capitalist days - when some of Russia's most valuable assets were sold on the cheap - is exactly what big business wants to avoid.

During a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he described his alma mater, the University of Georgia, as "a shady school that has the name of a shady state that tried to pass a shady law," a reference to House Bill 757, which would have allowed faith-based organizations to discriminate against hiring LGBT workers.

In 2004 he claimed to Songwriter Universe magazine that he had written the foundations of the hit Eminem song "The Real Slim Shady", stating, "I initially played a bass line on the song, and Dr. Dre, Tommy Coster Jr. and I built the track from there.

But with a government now under Prince Albert, who acceded to the throne in 2005, keen to present itself as financially responsible rather than overseeing, in Somerset Maugham's unbeatable phrase, "a sunny place for shady people", state funds were not made available in the quantities required for modern top-flight football.

One problem, though: Something's up with Security Tracking Solutions, the predictably shady company stated in the contracts as providing all the gear.

Shady middlemen dominated state procurement, using offshore companies to syphon cash to insiders, while inflating prices the government paid for crucial goods.

The Council measure could be a model for statewide legislation to regulate "this proliferation of shady operations," added State Senator Diane J. Savino, a Democrat who represents parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island, and who has been drafting such a bill.

Although Yukos has its roots in the shady privatization of state assets in the 1990's, he said the company had become a model of efforts to adapt international standards of accounting and corporate government.

Rod Blagojevich, to shady deals involving state pension funds -- among the crimes that ultimately would send him to prison.

Meanwhile, Kingston campaign spokesman Chris Crawford argued that television ads from Perdue's "shady, out-of-state super PAC" represented an effort to "mislead voters" about Kingston's "proven conservative record".