Sentence examples for swindling of from inspiring English sources

Or that the swindling of oil reserves from Native American lands is presented as a matter of rib-tickling hilarity?

The seduction and swindling of Olga Rudge, Ezra Pound's mistress, by the director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, is enthralling; whether an electrician intentionally left a blowtorch burning is not.

In retelling the story of Foxwell J. Sly (Mr. Dreyfuss) and his swindling of the vultures who gather at his make-believe deathbed, the show offers firm evidence of Mr. Gelbart's gift for melding low humor with high polish.

The Rock Hall has never seemed entirely certain of how to address the more odious foundational elements (egregious sexism; the manipulation and swindling of black artists) of the genre that it exists exclusively to immortalize, but still this was a particularly preposterous start.

Thousands of British travellers are being swindled out of millions of pounds each year through scams involving flights, accommodation and religious pilgrimages.

Mr. Taubman was convicted in December of conspiring to fix commission fees and of swindling customers of more than $100 million.

But he was swindled out of much of it through some tax-avoidance scam involving containers.

Lehman Brothers isn't calling it anything at all or saying anything about being swindled out of upward of $50 million.

By Eugene Kinkead and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, March 25 , 1939P. 11 The most appealing figure of the week is Erich Pinker, a literary agent who has been arrested on the charge of swindling - of all people - E. Phillips Oppenheim.

Allen Stanford is serving a 110-year term after being convicted of swindling investors of nearly a $7 billion.

In a new case that began this year, 10 men have been accused of swindling millions of euros from Bettencourt, who is reported to be suffering from dementia.