Sentence examples for use devious from inspiring English sources

As Viasna is not officially registered, it has to use devious means to import donations.

Conservatives add that, on the contrary, some judges use devious tricks to nudge the law leftward, such as citing foreign precedents, which can be cherry-picked from Europe.

The bill, roughly similar to one that passed the Senate last year but died in the House, would limit the ability of manufacturers to use devious legal tactics to keep generic competition at bay.

"Social engineers" use devious methods to obtain valuable confidential information from their victims.

Many passive-aggressive people, backstabbers included, feel they have to use devious and hurtful methods because their direct contributions aren't valued.

Last week Google was accused by MPs of "doing evil" by using "devious, calculated and unethical" tricks to minimise its liabilities.

"The Pacific Maritime Association has been using devious tactics," Mr. Ragland said of the group that represents the shipping lines and terminal operators.

This is a form of online fraud that uses devious e-mail messages to gull the unsuspecting out of account passwords and other vital information.

Eric Schneiderman contends that the bank was using devious tactics to lure unwary investors into a private trading pool full of sharks, aka aggressive high-frequency traders.

First, he used devious tactics to ensure that his Democratic Party won a summer general election that it would probably have won anyway; in the au tumn, it won local elections by fairer means.

He founded the knightly Order of the Garter and championed England's cause in the hundred years war, yet was not above using devious and brutal tactics, including scorched-earth raids on enemy territory that left the peasantry reeling.