Sentence examples for swindle on a from inspiring English sources

This is the logic that governs such improbable-seeming cases as that of Paul Frampton, the University of North Carolina physicist who, in 2011, fell for a sweetheart swindle on a dating website.

(Even the S.E.C.'s charges against Robert Allen Stanford, accused of running an $8 billion swindle — on a scale that would have been astonishing in the Before Madoff era — are second rate now).

It does not have much time to find out if it has been swindled on a payment before it has to produce the cash.

The leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution has 17%.In this section Fox puts a presidential face on some worrying electoral computations Swindled On the breadline Lighting a candle Reprints Related items Campaign finance in Mexico: Peculiar practicesMay 29th 2003Other polls put the PAN at 39%.

The only thing that would have made it worse would have been to be swindled on the ride home.

We've held our noses amid the overwhelming fish smells at Tokyo's Tsukiji Market; we've cherished each other during better meals and through worse food poisoning; we've bargained for Moroccan rugs in Fez and gotten swindled on cab rides in Marrakesh; we've navigated pharmacies in Oslo and been stranded at a train station in Kyoto.

John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908 2006), Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975)"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale".

Insider trading is especially odious because of the kind of swindle it turns on: an insider learns something he shouldn't through a breach of trust; basing an investment decision on the ill-gotten information, he makes a profit that is really a fraud.

His undoing came when he tried something less Olympian, a swindle on the £386,000 estate of widow Kathleen Grundy, a former mayor of Hyde, when she died in June 1998.

At worst it looked like a stock swindle built on a mountain of mathematical nonsense.

It believes the latest bail-out is a swindle on European taxpayers.