Sentence examples for tricks operation from inspiring English sources

He sought the advice of a "security bloke" who "does work for the government", and claims that this and a similar post were the apparent products of some kind of dirty tricks operation.

The former MP George Galloway has issued a court apology and agreed to pay damages to his former assistant Aisha Ali-Khan over claims that she helped her former police officer husband run a dirty tricks operation against him and his Respect party.

Mr. Smith said he sat across the table from Patrick Gray, listening in shock to details about Donald Segretti, who helped run the Nixon campaign's "dirty tricks" operation, and John Mitchell, who had stepped down as attorney general to run Nixon's re-election campaign.

The Senate Judiciary Committee was also involved in investigating the matter, holding hearings beginning June 29 , 1996 and focussing on allegations that White House was engaged in a "dirty tricks" operation reminiscent of the Nixon administration.

Barack Obama's campaign team today accused Hillary Clinton's beleaguered staff of mounting a desperate dirty tricks operation by circulating a picture of him in African dress, feeding into false claims on US websites that he is a Muslim.

Even more suspicious is the fact that Chevron has not allowed reporters covering the story to speak to its former contractor, or the American businessman for whose benefit the meetings were set up. 

Steven Donziger, an American lawyer who advises the Amazonian communities in the lawsuit, says it "reeks of a Nixon-style dirty tricks operation and Chevron's fingerprints are all over it".

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Not only was the F.B.I. spying on these groups, they were also running all sorts of "dirty tricks" operations, including sending death threats and blackmail warnings in an effort to neutralize any group J. Edgar Hoover didn't approve of.

There's some kind of dirty-tricks operation in play against us".

Based on hacked e-mails from a blogger with links to the National Party, it alleged a dirty-tricks operation run out of the prime minister's office.

Le Monde said that the President's office had deployed France's equivalent of MI5 like a "cabinet noir", or dirty-tricks operation, to uncover the source of leaks in the L'Oréal family feud and political financing scandal.

The Rookie One warm Friday, the anticrime squad tries its own trick, a pick operation.