| Both efforts seem like cunning attempts to fob off used goods on a gullible reading public. |
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| When the driver grabs the door handle a sensor receives a signal from a transponder in the fob, and unlocks the door. |
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| If she turns around, she'll see the silver fob and chain, marked by their daughter's teething. |
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| Instead, the investigator turned out to be a grave young man attired in a three-piece suit with Edwardian collar and gold watch fob. |
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| He always wore a dark blue pinstriped suit, waistcoat with a gold fob, a red carnation, a trilby, and an umbrella. |
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| They had three type of manzanilla sherry on the wine list but none in stock and tried to fob us off with white port. |
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| There, stepping from his car in the shadow of the castle, is Christopher Lee, still imperious at 82 with his gold fob and frock coat. |
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| Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go press my wing-collar shirt and see if my new fob chain for my grandfather's watch fits my waistcoat. |
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| Its fob chain, stretched across the workingman's waistcoat, became a new symbol of respectability. |
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| In New York in 1890, the latest pocket watch and fob chain could carry seals the wearer could use to demonstrate their place in society. |
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| The fob is rarely seen because its primary use is to anchor a watch chain on clothing. |
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| Somewhat similar to a car's key fob, home security key fobs include buttons to activate and deactivate the house alarm system. |
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| Until the advent of the wristwatch in the twentieth century, men's pocket watches were suspended from a chain with a watch fob at the other end. |
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| A 10-way adjustable power driver's seat is linked to a memory system that can be controlled by the key fob. |
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| I just picked up my key fob, pointed it at the Botany Bay, and clicked the LOCK button to see if the car's lights would flash. |
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| Although aftermarket starters are available for any car, the Malibu's is conveniently integrated into the key fob. |
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| I didn't want Sunday to have an early warning of my arrival so that she would be able to fob me off with pre-planned excuses. |
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| Real ones aren't that hard to find, but beware unscrupulous merchandisers who attempt to fob you off with fakes. |
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| It needed a lot of work on the mechanism and a new loop made for a fob chain. |
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| Rather, it was deliberate policy to ignore those annoying Red Cross reports and fob them off on the legal staff for their amusement. |
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| Someone would buy it, discover they'd been had, and fob it off on the next poor sap. |
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| Detroit has long pumped out cars that no one wants, only to fob them off on rental fleets for next to nothing. |
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| My love for her is as unilateral as my desire to punch that guy, and I can't fob it off on her. |
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| If the poem doesn't work for me then I can't in conscience try to fob it off on anyone else. |
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| The entire remaining Iraqi Army force remained holed up at fob Speicher, north of Tikrit. |
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| It was a silver fob, about six inches long, with a key ring at one end. |
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| She pulled them out and clicked the key fob to unlock the doors. |
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| He spotted Ford's keys and nodded toward the silver fob attached. |
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| Every time I ring them up they try to fob me off with different excuses. |
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| It then tried to fob off survivors with quiet payments through a private foundation. |
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| They and Cao had been having their units report fictitious night patrols and ambushes to fob off the Americans. |
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| Our customers are extremely knowledgeable — we can't fob off poor-quality goods on them just because they have our label. |
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| The Commission, I believe, uses them to fob off responsibility, but then interferes arbitrarily in their business in specific cases. |
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| However, this should not be a reason for us to fob off the Macedonians with mere thanks, as it were. |
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| Once, people who tried to fob off items that were visibly inferior could at least be expected to feel a bit embarrassed about it. |
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| The problem is that the Government gives such a small band to operate in and effectively the radio wave we use for the key fob is restricted because of that. |
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| The move was largely an empty fob to Mr Poroshenko and another way to ward off more Western sanctions. |
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| The passengers receive a key fob that emits a signal when they are near a talking bus stop. |
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| If he is really serious about giving up, and is not just saying that to fob you off, he should seek professional therapy to help him to kick the habit. |
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| A new security system has since been installed, requiring each student to swipe a key fob through an electronic reader in order to gain access to their room. |
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| In Stack, it managed to fob off a nuclear bomb to the Taiwanese bank. |
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| Police seized a collection including handguns, a grenade and pistols that hold two rounds but are designed to look like a harmless key fob. |
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| On April 22nd a new version of the bill took into account many of the protesters' concerns. But it will not be easy to fob off the government's online critics. |
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| If you really want to help victims of trafficking and exploitation, you should not hide behind the interests of European law enforcement authorities and fob victims off with short-term residence permits. |
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| A small transmitter chip embedded in the key, or integrated key fob, provides a digital signal to the vehicle's engine computer which determines if the key is valid for this vehicle. |
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| For the Ukrainian exporting producer, the weighted average normal value fob India national frontier was compared with its own weighted average export price fob Ukraine national frontier at the same level of trade. |
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| A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people. |
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| You can fob off the foibles and embrace the great. |
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| For years the British Government has tried to fob off many politicians and environmental groups in Ireland with reassurances about the Sellafield and Thorp nuclear plants. |
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| We hear about Murry, the client on whom Tatum intends to fob off Mona. |
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| I hope that the Commissioner will not fob us off again with a bromide that our textile industry has had ten years to adjust, for that would be the height of oversimplification. |
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| So it may not be too long before you can pull out your key fob, press a button and instead of someone from valet parking delivering your vehicle to you, it will arrive on its own. |
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| Those caught out trying to fob off fake goods on the voting public may, of course, suffer the consequences at the polls. |
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| British shoppers could soon benefit from a key fob or sticker, which would allow them to make contactless payments. |
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| For those who do not have a compatible iPhone or iPod Touch, Kevo has an included key fob that will allow access to the designated Kevo lock. |
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| Caernarfon Crown Court was told the dentist left a key fob spy camera in a bathroom at his Colwyn Bay surgery. |
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| They would fob us off with that and once more make it six and two threes. |
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| Armed with a simple bit of equipment, acquired online, criminals can programme their own key fob, circumventing a car's security system and allowing them to drive it away. |
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| A MAN who sold a Transit van and then arranged for it to be stolen back with a key fob he had retained was branded a thoroughly dishonest man yesterday. |
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| Many manufacturers are replacing the traditional key and ignition barrel with keyless systems that use radio waves to exchange code between key fob and car. |
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