Sentence examples for the con of from inspiring English sources

Booth, the younger brother who cannot master the con of the street game, shoplifts, quite spectacularly.

The con of performance is to rob the audience not of money but of its preconceived notions.

No minister for the environment could look at the data of global temperatures and think their work is done – especially if the majority of their work involved pushing the con of Direct Action onto the public.

But in this show Izzard doesn't quite succeed at the con of his own performance: he comes across as an actor who's been asked to play Eddie Izzard playing a part.

Mike Childs, head of climate change at Friends of the Earth, said: "Rich countries are once again pushing the con of carbon offsetting at UN climate change talks, which means avoiding real action through dodgy accounting and putting pitifully inadequate targets on the table.

The political leaders must now unblock the process". Mike Childs, head of climate change at Friends of the Earth, said: "Rich countries are once again pushing the con of carbon offsetting at UN climate change talks, which means avoiding real action through dodgy accounting and putting pitifully inadequate targets on the table.

Of course, it's a terrible drag to constantly have to write something like the cons of 1 onto the cons of 2 onto the cons of 3, whenever you want to make this thing.

For the National Hockey League, the cons of the Olympic Games probably outweigh the pros.

That's the cons of this diamond system.

Take time to really think about the pros and the cons of continuing versus the pros and the cons of quitting.

One of the site's lessons explains the cons of buying a bottle of light juice.