Sentence examples for swindle from inspiring English sources

According to him, the upper classes think of slum residents as lazy, criminal elements out to swindle the resources of the city.

And the beauty about writing about the music business is that everybody is prepared to believe that there is a great rock'n'roll swindle out there.

Thanks to the Bernie Madoff swindle, investors want to see sturdier back-offices staffed by compliance types.

The term refers to scams in which the perpetrator uses personal contacts to swindle a specific group, such as a church congregation, a rotary club, a professional circle or an ethnic community.

He lived in great style in Havana for many years until he too was accused of trying to swindle his hosts.

We are tired of being an unwilling party to what appears to be a deliberate attempt to deceive voters and swindle investors.

This is particularly true of money managers who work in the shadows or seem beyond reproach even more so during booms, when the temptation to swindle grows along with the propensity to speculate.

With 9,000 hisba officers, Kano state has a slightly higher number of sharia cops than federal ones, according to each organisation's data.Their duties range from checking that market traders do not swindle customers to tracking down brothels.

This is particularly true of money managers who work deep in the shadows or seem beyond reproach even more so during booms, when the temptation to swindle grows along with the propensity to speculate.

He writes identical love letters to them, hoping to swindle some money from them while also enjoying them as sexual partners.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.