The jury heard dozens of conversations that showed him as foul-mouthed, boastful and conniving.
The defense rested, asserting an oblivious Taubman is being victimized by a conniving Dede Brooks.
The market is far to devious and conniving to allow such acts of gracious abundance to occur.
And Chancellor also found herself victim of many classic soap opera twists: conniving suitors, long-lost relatives, multiple marriages and memory lapses.
It could be a shot across the bow from a new competitor or a conniving, malicious act from an old friend.
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The characters include a genius inventor, his businessman son-in-law, a conniving Russian machinist, high-stakes litigators, wealthy buyout funds and, finally, federal prosecutors.
Vigilant Eurosceptics are usually keen to see conniving genius in European federalists.
When she nods understandingly at the sorry men who rail at her against working wives or job-stealing immigrants, is she conniving or condescending?
In fact, Fosca is so much of a harpy and so conniving that it's hard to believe her hellish persistence could ever turn Giorgio into her admiring lover.
The doctor was charged with two counts of consenting or conniving to a failure to discharge a duty as a director at Puretruce, these failures being attributable to neglect.
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Otherwise, if not me, who is going to shine the bright, glaring light of truth, justice, and the American way on the dark secrets of unscrupulous brokers and conniving brokerage firms?
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The original House of Cards told of a conniving chief whip, played by Ian Richardson, who uses duplicity and guile to have himself elevated to the post of Conservative prime minister.
In this season, the coveted Iron Throne is occupied by cruel young Joffrey Baratheon, counseled by his conniving mother Cersei and his uncle Tyrion, who has been appointed Hand of the King.
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Although the IMs did not offer any evidence to support the claim of theft, according to sources who have seen many of the messages, the IMs portray Zuckerberg as backstabbing, conniving, and insensitive.
Tontines have been outlawed by most states out of a fear they would incite the sort of criminal conniving featured in comic fiction (for example, a 1996 Simpsons episode and the 1966 film The Wrong Box).
It can rely solely on compacts with the region's existing power-brokers, which often means conniving at, or even reinforcing, the corrupt practices by which they shore up their own authority and squash the emergence of rivals.
Like the city itself, the show is getting a bit stagnant in the capital city even in spite of its cast of spies and vagabonds, from Varys to Littlefinger and a conniving Lannister every time you turn a corner.
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In April Mr Rajoub all but accused Muhammad Dahlan, who recently resigned from being Gaza's security chief but has since been offered the job of Mr Arafat's security adviser, of conniving with Israel's aerial bombardment of his headquarters in Ramallah to discredit him in the eyes of his people.
Coming on the heels of The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), in which a financially strapped and roguish outsider tries vainly to find a place in English society, Vanity Fair paints on a much broader canvass and finds the ultimate social climber in the talented, lovely and ever-conniving Becky Sharp.
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