Sentence examples for squalid deal from inspiring English sources
Republicans have often denounced what they say is a squalid deal in which public-sector unions spend generously to elect allies to office and then those allies lavish generous wages and benefits on union members.
David Cameron has repeatedly refused to explain why the British government agreed to a "squalid" deal with Saudi Arabia, as the country prepares to behead and crucify a teenager for engaging in pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring.
He seemed uncomfortable in a television interview in October when he was asked about the squalid deal in which the two governments agreed, in 2013, to support each other's election to the UN Human Rights Council.
If the union represented journalists, as it claimed to do, it would have been up in arms at yesterday's squalid deal which has granted politicians power over newspapers for the first time in more than 300 years.
By now, squalid dealings in Albany surprise no one.
But in the end they settled for a squalid little deal stitched up behind closed doors.
Slim told me that the donations were intended to help Salinas set up a fund for independent financing of elections; in any case, it looked like a squalid backroom deal.
It's the terrain, rather, of squalid little deals, nasty skirmishes and forgotten massacres — where the reverberations of great events wreak distant havoc on singular, unchronicled lives.
A century and a quarter after that famous brush-off, Europe's richer, smugger parts are still tempted to turn their backs on their continent's most unstable and wildest corner.To a European Union that views itself as part of the world's elite a huge, if rather sluggish, economic power that can be rather choosy about who it deals with its squalid Balkan backyard is an embarrassment.
Too many have their passports confiscated, work without pay, suffer squalid conditions, work excessive hours, and deal with staggering levels of debt.
And to say she's contradictory is not a criticism: how exactly should we deal with the knowledge that something ethically squalid can also be exciting?
