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Sentence Examples She's peddling trendy tosh from the syllabus of some womyn's studies collective at one of Australia's institutes of higher learning. He's peddling relief for legions of businesspeople who are caught in a web of portable work, always-on technology, and bad habits. And he explained that the college lecture circuit was full of speakers peddling this propaganda. Widespread graft and influence peddling among government officials are hampering economic development. There's a guy peddling alternative healthcare all over Scotland, strutting about like a guru, who must be raking it in. The biggest Y2K doomsayers were the computer consultants who raked in big bucks peddling prophylactic programming. In this country, we fear psychiatry and we fear that it is the peddling ground for pharmaceutical giants. The ruined city of Vakith stood deserted, but the distant memory of children playing or merchants peddling their wares echoed in Drakas' ears. Your crusade to unseat them by peddling exaggerations and half-truths lowers you to their level. Here is the former head of the European Development Bank under investigation for influence peddling. As the state has grown, corruption, black marketeering and influence peddling have proliferated. Such tactics merely disguise the fact that the avant-garde of the art world has been peddling more or less the same idea for over eighty years. Today, the mapping agency is peddling special incentives for map-makers who leave their cars at home. Political influence peddling is a universal phenomenon, whether it is in a developed or developing world. Quite apart from whether political influence peddling distorts criminal policy, does such peddling weaken the case for privatization? The story about the aluminum tubes seems not to have been true, even though we're still peddling that. Whether intentional or through ignorance, the blog in question is peddling lies. Those people are said to have achieved their positions through a combination of hard work, influence peddling, and corruption. While all peddling of honours is reprehensible, the sale of peerages is most serious because it trades a seat in the legislature. It's also about an apparent culture of influence peddling and abuse of power in state government. Show More Sentences It was like peddling your guts out to get up a hill, only to freewheel down the other side. They were charged with such heavy-duty crimes as petty theft, peddling phony drivers licenses, and making unlicensed money transfers. The US also sees obstacles in the web of personal relations and influence peddling necessary to get business done. A gang of evil drug dealers have been put behind bars for a total of nearly 20 years for peddling cocaine, Ecstasy and amphetamines. But political watchdog groups are harshly critical of the arrangement, saying it smacks of influence peddling in Washington. What good do you do anyone by writing verses, getting cash for silly slanders, peddling iambs as a huckster peddles trash? But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling. Christopher will be back swearing, pimping, robbing convenience stores and peddling drugs within days. Sayles shows us characters peddling debased versions of history and culture put to the service of marketing. To appreciate the revival, you must buy into James Goldman's book, which is peddling a panoramically bleak take on marriage. Essentially, we had pretended to be representatives of a British defense firm peddling handheld thermal imagers to the Indian army. A suspect in a major investigation into a drugs gang that had a nationwide network peddling heroin is believed to be back in Britain. How come the fashion industry is still peddling the image of six-footer, stick-insect girl models with that funny cross-over catwalk waddle? The drug dealer, identified simply as XXXX, is ready to retire with the fortune he made peddling cocaine. He spent his early 20s peddling dope and stolen cars, and making bogus stock trades. But when low grades kept him from attending college, he hit the streets, peddling crack cocaine. They're operating high-volume barbecue and bar joints, peddling warmed-over versions of their mother's meatball recipes. They point to the dwindling numbers of street kids and handicapped persons who make a living by peddling lotteries. I am still facing totally vindictive charges relating to that little incident with that chap who invaded my doorstep peddling household goods. Are the media still merchandising Jessica Lynch now that she's peddling a book and a made-for-TV movie? Show More Sentences Trading standards chiefs found street sellers peddling the furry pandas, rabbits, cats and dogs in Rochdale and Oldham. The authorities argued that the black-shirt wearing, baseball-capped rockers were peddling satanism and debasing the morality of youth. He started peddling faster, and within seconds caught up with her, and passed her. Can someone explain to me why on earth an institution of higher learning is involved in the peddling of the last legal drug? National governments and state-sponsored monopolies played an active role in peddling opium across borders. An appointed body, the theory went, would be insulated from influence peddling, and thus better equipped than politicians to safeguard the public. On its pre-season tour of America, the club seized 600 counterfeits, including t-shirts and caps, while issuing 35 banning orders to firms suspected of peddling fakes there. A Hudson Institute analyst peddling a paper on Russian thoughts on cyberwar fell for it and when confronted aggressively argued that it was true because, well, just because. No doubt, he will go on peddling his twisted version of history until his dying breath. As she was peddling her wares one day at a local market, a visiting trader placed a large order for earthenware cooking stoves. We are surrendered by the deafening dim, peddling vigorously to clear the field. Lewandowski engaged in influence-peddling and blatant deception about influence peddling. Last year he faced allegations of illegal enrichment and influence peddling. There can be influence peddling on the committee for it to go in a different direction than it was taking. That is how seriously those who drafted the Criminal Code wanted to condemn the practice of influence peddling. Influence peddling is a very serious offence under the Criminal Code of Canada. Last week, a Health Canada director, Patrick Nottingham, was convicted of influence peddling and fraud. The difference between lobbying and influence peddling is about five years in prison. All this came about through influence peddling and the direct interference in the contracting process by ministers and high level bureaucrats. Upon his conviction it was revealed that there was an organized influence peddling operation inside the Liberal Party. Show More Sentences How does the Prime Minister explain this influence peddling and this partisan use of taxpayer money? Some of the offences highlighted by the Convention are currently not covered by Uganda's penal law e.g. influence peddling. The seller in the photo is peddling collared aracaris to passersby. And Mr Berlusconi, peddling amiability and showmanship, has persuaded many Italians that he at least stands for something new. To this day he can be found peddling his crackpot drawings and skewed view of popular culture from the glamorous haunts of East London. The New Democrats are peddling paradise while they are flouting the open and transparent budgetary processes of the House. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many folks regard the manly appeal these pols are peddling as a bad thing. Diagne tried his hand at many things: peddling bags and sunglasses in Genoa, washing dishes in Corsica, working at a warehouse in Florence. Galleries which stage blockbuster shows are peddling a myth, and they know it. Despite this, the authors of this motion have been peddling shameful and unfounded accusations in their speeches. This confirmed the involvement of organized criminals peddling counterfeit products using common supply chains and distribution networks. This cynicism is based on peddling pessimism while calling on other politicians to do something. Ahead of me, a moustachioed middle-aged man is peddling toward me. This time he's peddling reimagined Asian street food at Spice Market. However, styling does remain a vital part of fashion's vocabulary, and if it's not hollowly peddling the same old clothes it can be rather thrilling. Ironically, however, they failed to democratize their parties due to closed-door policy making, influence peddling and eventual corruption after they gained power. As long as there are institutions with lots of money and an interest in seeking rents and favors, there will be corruption, and more mundane influence peddling. What can be done about such corruption and influence peddling? But, they persist, peddling garbage, contradicting themselves in public, asserting the illogical without evidentiary support from real sources, etc. By peddling merchandise and aligning with other high-end brands, it is also evolving into a broader business. Show More Sentences In other words, smoking dope is equivalent to a parking violation but the penalty for peddling it is equal to that for manslaughter or aggravated rape. Men combined agriculture with seasonal migrant work, charcoal burning, woodcutting, and peddling, while women took up wet-nursing, spinning, and weaving. The show has been accused of peddling the kind of tawdry sentiment that has driven the inhabitants of Detroit to distraction. For seafood try Clamman in Southhampton, proudly peddling tuna, bass, scallops, and squid all caught by local fishermen. From politicians to con artists, rapists to flesh peddling pornographers, we all have a certain visual reference point for the redolent and the reprobate. By WWII, Lemkin had been peddling his ideas on genocide for more than a decade. Talk Radio Network was the house that wingnuts built, with its on-air talent peddling radical views. What is the difference between peddling a stock or a product as having value, when in reality, insiders know what is being sold is unreliable, unsound and unworthy? Former sport stars who joined the high-stakes game of peddling illegal substances are winners no more. If, as officials suggest, Favaro has been peddling skulls from the Congo, it is unclear when he began the practice. There are only about a thousand real addicts in Britain, and nobody is going to make a fortune peddling heroin because the addicts can get it on prescription. Instead of peddling drugs and booze, they now peddled women. A bungling bootlegger peddling pirate DVDs was caught red-handed when he attempted to sell his loot to a Surrey trading standards officer outside the trading standards office. Whether they can actually negotiate voluntary restraints remains unclear, since presumed offenders are peddling cut-rate steel in part to keep shaky economies afloat. Do you know how hard it is to find plain old black shoes with covered toes, when all everyone is peddling seems to be strappy sandals in pink and blue? In peddling the cheesesteak as a dining option, he noted that restaurants in other parts of the country don't know how to make a proper cheesesteak. It seems a mortgage company that briefly held my loan two years ago is still peddling my personal financial information to every huckster with a LaserJet printer. It is a fact because he was convicted of influence peddling. Still, Sarkozy and his lawyer risked accusations of influence peddling. In some of its background material, it picked up on one very important point and that is that the Conservatives are peddling this bill as a bill that will deal with drug dealers, that is who they are really going after. Show More Sentences But somehow a few morons slipped through the net and are still peddling homophobia. She is facing charges of influence peddling. An old man from Michoacán, peddling mango and papaya from his pushcart in the freezing weather, says he arrived 21 years ago and still doesn't speak English. Until this fundamental reality is accepted then politicians are all guilty of peddling the delusion of a self-determined future. If someone is influence peddling, it does not matter if there was no benefit to peddling influence, it is still a criminal offence under section 121 of the Criminal Code. First came rumours of prostitutes and cocaine use, influence peddling and tax havens. Now there are new revelations from the private detective who provided the information in the first place. It looks pristine, but drug peddling, gang violence and a staggering number of murders every year make for Goa's seamier profile. But they keep peddling them like a costermonger selling rotten fruit. And that is quite separate from the new potential for influence peddling. Ryan Skelly was arrested for peddling the class A drug on the streets of South Shields and was given police bail. Influence peddling, which means that a person solicits or accepts some form of benefit in return for influencing activities or promoting someone else's interests. Corruption manifests itself in various forms like bribery, nepotism, patronage, influence peddling and outright plunder of resources among other forms. Unlike bribery, which is aimed at buying a decision directly from the decision maker, the concept of influence peddling involves paying a third party to exert influence on the decision maker. It is also likely the sort of thing you were peddling was produced in sweat shops around the world where children are being exploited. Wallin did not seem to be a neophyte in the ways of narcotics peddling. Influence peddling is another example of improper use of office. As a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, she has charted how the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting by with even less, and the middle are peddling harder to stay in place. Many have been forced to eke out a living peddling from street stalls. If bribery and influence peddling represent clear forms of unethical behaviour, the receipt by public officials of gifts, benefits or other extensions of hospitality is much more difficult to classify. The duo denied charges of peddling drugs but admitted to using them, specifically crystal meth. Show More Sentences His right hand man, Dimitri Soudas, and his trusted friend and Conservative fundraiser, Léo Housakos, engaged in influence peddling on two specific issues. His Common Sense was enormously successful in peddling Hobbesianism for the people in America. One of the first things that happened when I was a new member here in 1997 was a situation where a Liberal fundraiser, whose name I believe was Pierre Corbeil, was charged and then convicted of influence peddling. Does the minister realize that she is in fact saying she had no concern about the real problems that worried the public, namely fraud, patronage, influence peddling and cronyism? They say the mainstream media is largely to blame for peddling feelings of doom and gloom and, that with awareness of environmental and social issues at an all-time high, the tide is finally turning. It is in that place and since the Middle Ages, that medicinal plant pickers have been peddling their distilled herbs that they had cautiously collected. This applies not only to the websites of extreme right-wing parties but also to other less well known groups peddling negative messages about foreigners. Ricky, Coco, Théo and co. spend their days scooting around, peddling everything from sweets, cigarettes and matches to mini-packs of gin, whisky and vodka. The head of Shell has launched a stinging attack on increasingly vocal critics who are calling for fossil fuels to be left in the ground, accusing them of peddling naive and impractical solutions to climate change. It was a cute line, but one peddling an outdated image. Political offices are more prone to influence peddling. Many spammers have switched to peddling fake handbags and baldness cures via online ads, which are often cheaper and more likely to be clicked on. In this section Has Apple peaked? It is the same one that the party began peddling, with less substantiation, at the time of the financial crisis of 2008: the virtues of a benevolent, active state, especially during economic strain. As we in this House know, even the perception of influence peddling can be just as damaging to Canadians' views of the political process as unabashed influence peddling. Among them was the firebrand pastor Scott Lively, who first came to Uganda in 2002 and began peddling his distinctive variety of hot-headed and active homophobia. Pierre Corbeil, a Liberal fundraiser, was convicted of influence peddling, of shaking down companies to cough up cash to the Liberal Party of Canada. Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law. Following the successful operation, determined to get fit and well, there she was in her mid 90s, peddling on an exercise bicycle to build up her strength. Would-be informants came crawling out of the woodwork, drawn to McCarthy as moths to light, each peddling a new version of Lattimore's evil deeds. When you have such an enormously influential group peddling misleading information, it's going to lead to skewed regulations and skewed standards for cleanup,'' she said. Show More Sentences He said the loophole will allow lobbyists to bankroll charity events, including freebies for invited lawmakers, while using the charities as fronts for influence peddling. It's the closest Morris comes to peddling gratuitous muckiness. Examples from Classical Literature I believe I had as much right to exaggerate in peddling as I had in writing verse. You forget that I am a peddling attorney myself, made so by your own wishes, monsieur. It looked like paltering and peddling, like sale and barter. Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt. What a change from peddling cakes from door to door in Kidderminster! To be sure, peddling in the good old days was most attractive. But to-night he went out a peddling, you see, and I don't see what on airth keeps him so late, unless, may be, he can't sell his head. Well, just like the little Mexican, he seems to spend his time peddling puzzles. Do you pretend to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town? Main parties all peddling rubbish WHICH party leader is the idiot? Find more words! 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