Sentence examples for try to defraud from inspiring English sources

People sometimes try to defraud their insurance.

If you try to defraud the most powerful Internet companies and smartest technologists in the world with some cheap electronic forgeries, you're gonna have a bad time.

Recruiting-industry magazines talk about new services being launched to help headhunters ferret out those who would try to defraud them and about legal services that protect recruiting firms from the lawsuits that follow when referred candidates have lied about their backgrounds.

For The Producers, Mel Brooks adapted his own Oscar-winning screenplay about a down-and-out Broadway producer and his accountant who try to defraud their angels by selling 25,000% of a sure-fire flop he wrote the song "Springtime for Hitler" for the film, rhyming "faster pace" with "master race".

Generally, two types of people try to defraud the government -- the deceitful and the desperate.

Others appear to be trying to defraud victims.

I was misled by Mr. Justin Sisely… I believe he is trying to defraud me and others".

In 2009 and 2010, Mr. Karzai's supporters tried to defraud the national elections.

In February, a federal grand jury indicted him on 28 counts of trying to defraud investors.

In March, the head of Park Avenue Bank in Manhattan was accused of trying to defraud the government bailout program.

Once, she said, she had a major problem — a man trying to defraud her over a piece of land.