Representatives of StubHub and Ticketmaster faced an inquisition from MPs on the culture, media and sport select committee, who are looking into allegations that touts use underhand methods to secure tickets at the expense of fans.
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) exists to make sure schools abide by it, and don't use underhand methods to disadvantage some families while engineering a more favourable intake.
In particular, Nuri al-Maliki, the tough Shia Muslim who has been prime minister since 2006, shows increasingly authoritarian, sectarian and democracy-sapping tendencies, ruthlessly ousting or outmanoeuvring rivals, and using underhand methods to impose his will.
Using underhand methods, Hopkins was able between 1644 and 1646 to secure the conviction and subsequent execution of 230 people for witchcraft.
We had to resort to some very underhand methods to obtain decent oligonucleotides, from the commercial, next-day delivery oligonucleotide company down the road – who into the bargain were cheaper than the in-house option.
Johnny Dee looks back through history for some pointers … In the mid-17th century publican Matthew Hopkins appointed himself the Witchfinder General with underhand methods to decide if a person was possessed by evil forces much as Simon Cowell decides if someone possesses talent or not.
He added that he felt his rivals had resorted to underhand methods to try to destabilise Red Bull - although he did not specify what those were.
Last week Barclays was ordered to pay £290m to settle claims that it used underhand tactics to try to rig financial markets.
The banking industry is engulfed in a fresh scandal after Barclays pays £290m to settle claims that it used underhand tactics to try to rig financial markets.
