New-fangled finance has its flaws, from the procyclicality of its leverage to its fiendish complexity.
While I prepare this fiendish brew, I wear latex gloves, face mask and eye goggles.
If the economics of Mr Paulson's plan are broadly correct, the politics are fiendish.
Sister Assumpta becomes the fiendish Peg Leg, a motorcycle-riding villain who destroys kingdoms with her evil sword.
The medical device tax is particularly fiendish and businesses need to be focused on the ways to reduce this tax.
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The usual approach is to serenade engineers with online postings involving wandering monkeys or battling robots, which rapidly morph into fiendish challenges of math and logic.
Aha, say the knowing, a fiendish device to weaken the influence of a southern secretary-general (Mr Annan is Ghanaian) by harnessing him to a western female deputy.
The result: a rat task-force, a rat tsar, a rat hotline (500 calls already) and fiendish talk of limiting the rodent population by distributing contraceptives (presumably of the oral sort).
And special advisers of whom cabinet ministers are generally allowed two, and ordinary ministers none at all would need fiendish brilliance to exert their supposed influence over much more numerous civil servants.
When in doubt blame it all on fiendish derivatives.
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The Ecuadorian Andes are a fiendish proposition for any transport planner: a three-mile high spine of mountains that runs down the centre of the country, unfolding into high plateaus, fissuring into canyons and sheltering mist-shrouded old towns.
The public does not want to understand the fiendish complexity of the EU. Many in the EU establishment draw a simple conclusion from that: never ask voters directly about something as complicated as a treaty.
Doonesbury 2002Now that the mainstream media have apparently run out of bluesnarfing stories to stir up public concern, they've turned back to an earlier "threat" fiendish wardrivers out to purloin bandwidth for unknown and nefarious purposes.
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