Sentence examples for underhand ways from inspiring English sources

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By the eve of the American Civil War there were hundreds of such speculative brokerage firms on Wall Street; warring cliques of bulls and bears would routinely drive prices artificially high and low, respectively, often in underhand ways that angered more legitimate stockbrokers.

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"It might be an underhand way to run a tax system, but it serves Luxembourg well.

Tory and Lib Dem sources rejected Labour claims they had acted in an underhand way.

"Some member states saw it as an underhand way for the UK to get an advantage".

Governments need to be sure that standards are not just an underhand way of keeping the data business within their own borders.

But I wanted it to be a literary journal that could find an underhand way of being literary; to take the self-consciousness out of being literary.

This isn't – it is compellingly idiosyncratic, and funny in an overwhelming, underhand way, as if someone had made you laugh in your sleep.

The third and mildest critique was that although it might have been necessary to release his name, the government did it in a shabby, underhand way, thus contributing to his suicide.

Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer watchdog Which?, said: "Shrinking products can be an underhand way of raising prices because pack sizes shrink but the prices don't," he said.

The ISP then gets a cut when someone clicks on an ad, which is why ISPs are so keen on the technology.In recent weeks this technique has caused a rumpus on both sides of the Atlantic, however, because it has been deployed in an apparently underhand way.

If you doubt the gravity of what's being proposed and the underhand way that it's happening, have a look at this blog by The Spectator's Fraser Nelson, which draws a comparison with the coalition's plans for the NHS, and points out that no legislation will be needed to push through what the headline calls Theresa May's "quiet revolution".

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