How To Use Chicane In A Sentence
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He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos.
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
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What deals, games and other chicanery is going on in this leak investigation?
Think Progress » Judith Miller discovered new notes
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The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.
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As Michael travelled agonisingly slow down the pit lane, Brawn watched for Hakkinen to come from the chicane and seize the lead.
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He also welcomed plans to stagger parking bays along the one-way road to create chicanes to slow vehicles.
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In the last eight months a bus stop has been built out into the road, chicanes have been installed, and anti-skid surfacing has been laid.
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In the end the cars were going too fast, and so the straight was broken up with two chicanes.
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After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once -- Mr. Hawley,
Middlemarch
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Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
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Captain Bermudez, that past master of astrogational chicanery, gave a derisive chuckle.
Perseus Spur
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I know the mode has been chicaned upon; but it was substantially obeyed, and much better obeyed than I fear the Parliamentary requisition of this session will be, though enforced by all your rigor and backed with all your power.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
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This fiscal chicanery is part of a larger pattern.
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In Direct Line's latest he's convinced there must be a catch to salesman Chris Addison's straightforward pitch, and so congratulates him for non-existent chicanery.
The Hard Sell: Direct Line
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In reality, it is the outcome of the growing national opposition faced by the occupying forces, which no amount of chicanery will forestall.
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The remark was not brought on by some thieving or chicanery on my part, but rather by a political speech I'd made which this person didn't like.
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I truly hate traffic engineers along with the rest of you - all their road humps and chicanes and one-way systems getting between me and where I want to get to.
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It's the same car, but it seems better suited to tracks where you have chicanes and heavy braking, like Imola.
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We put them through a range of activities, such as chicanes and slaloms so they fully understood the limit of the vehicle.
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In terms of car set-up, we try to spring the cars quite stiffly in order to get a responsive change of direction through the chicanes.
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He chicaned every detail of the design.
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If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic chicanery.
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Set aside the usual circus ring tricks of political chicanery.
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That other honour to our profession, Roker, is well versed in chicane, and knows more of the law, or rather of its abuse, than an honest man would wish to know; but Fisherton is so ignorant that, while his lavish expences continually reduce him to necessities that drive him into bold attempts at robbery, his skill in managing them is so inferior that he is almost always baffled, and has been more than once exposed. '
The Old Manor House
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The two schemers fall for each other but there's a lot of revenge-fuelled chicanery before love wins through.
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Computer experts at respected universities have sounded the alarm over the potential for high-tech chicanery.
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We come down here in sixth gear into a chicane which is really amazing because it drops away totally and its quite difficult to get it right.
WN.com - Articles related to Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel escape punishment after pit-lane misdemeanor in China
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Fortunately, Judge Jones sounds reasonable and sensible, and not a little put out by the obvious chicanery of the drug addict and his flunky laundering donations through a church.
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To be sure, force may no longer take the form of plunder and extortion, and fraud may no longer appear as deliberate imposture and chicanery.
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But the notion that Wall Street somehow has a monopoly on "disastrous chicanery" is laughable, as big corporate scandals from a few years ago -- Tyco, Adelphia, Enron, WorldCom -- make clear.
Yvette Kantrow: Making it
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These include barricades and vehicle chicanes and checkpoints outside the SECDET as well as internal defences.
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The social stigma of losing necessitated strategy, even chicanery.
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To play fast and loose now means to behave in a deceitful or irresponsible manner. shell game This old gambling game (earlier known as thimblerig), in which the operator openly places a pea under one of three walnut shells, then rapidly shifts the shells around and challenges a sucker to bet on the location of the pea, has given its name to any kind of chicanery or subterfuge.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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The straights aren't so long that they place an absolute premium on outright power, while the chicanes and bumpy track surface demand good handling characteristics.
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Blagojevich is regularly described as the apotheosis of the shady Illinois politician -- a genus that rivals the Louisiana and Jersey City variety for chicanery.
Allison Silver: A Lesser Class of Rogue
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The run for the presidency is no joke, rife with political chicanery, espionage and blackmail.
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A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.
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The rest of it was just more modern houses tacked onto the road, and heavy traffic trying to get through chicanes in the road.
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Pettifoggery has come to mean legal chicanery, and last week a Senate subcommittee consultant used the word to describe a weakness of U.S. negotiators in dealing with Communist powers.
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That would get back at them for their currency chicanery which cost us so dear.
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After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once -- Mr. Hawley, Mr. Toller, Mr. Chichely, and Mr. Hackbutt; but Mr. Hawley's outburst was instantaneous, and left the others behind in silence.
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
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I chicaned to secure him a fine room, which his lady-mother furnished "like a bridal chamher", if our Nassau cynics were to be credited, -- introduced him where it was necessary, and exercised generally towards him that distinguished patronage which one who "knows the ropes" is able to bestow upon a very Freshman.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
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If this were to actually come to pass, it could open the door to all sorts of chicanery.
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He had tried his best to get rid of them, advanced the rent, implored, chicaned, but all in vain.
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II
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All I notice is that these experts in chicanery are vying for jobs at BP.
"My sins my own. They belong to me, me."
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On the track, they became nothing more than obstacles, rolling chicanes that endangered up-to-speed drivers.
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He estimated the vehicles were travelling at up to 65 mph in a 20 mph zone, where traffic is controlled by speed chicanes.
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Lies, fraud, chicanery and self indulgence are endemic in society today - or am I being presumptuous?
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Vain to call in universal-suffrage parliaments at that stage: the universal-suffrage parliaments cannot give you any breath of life, cannot find any _wisdom_ for you; by long impiety, you have let the supply of noble human wisdom die out; and the wisdom that now courts your universal suffrages is beggarly human _attorneyism_ or sham-wisdom, which is _not_ an insight into the Laws of God's Universe, but into the laws of hungry Egoism and the Devil's Chicane, and can in the end profit no community or man.
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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The managers hope that, through chicanery and fraud, they could save the dollar from sudden death.
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They have just spent £60,000 of public money, plonking speed bumps and concrete chicanes on a country road where accidents were rare and dangerous speeding was nearly impossible.
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Routes included woodland sections, hill climbs, obstacles, chicanes and slaloms across 1,000 metres to 2.5km courses.
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In the last few months, we've found that chicanery sometimes extends to companies' nutrition information.
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I wonder if he will allow this bit of chicanery to stand.
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He, on the other hand, loves the intrigue, the subtle manipulation, the backstairs chicanery, and there's no one better to convey it.
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Mountbatten, Slim and Baldwin are not the sort of men to put their names to anything which in the slightest degree smacks of chicanery.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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Though he had refused to admit the notion that the men could be chicaned, as his agent had implied, he certainly did wonder a little whether a certain measure of security might not in some way be guaranteed, which would still leave him and the farmers a free hand.
The Freelands
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And that could lead to small-scale schemes, possibly road humps and chicanes, being built within the next 18 months on rat-running routes.
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This sort of constitutional chicanery is really not how we ought to conduct our Parliamentary affairs and I am quite sure that we need no lessons in democracy and the parliamentary process from a country like Germany whose democracy is but sixty years old.
The Fixed-Term Panacea
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Le Mans has become so concerned with something called "safety" that they chicaned the Mulsanne Straight!
Autoblog
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A CBS movie revisits Enron, with all its chicanery, flimflam, excess, hanky-panky, and its descent into the dark, if darkly comic, side of capitalism.
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Being man-driven or chicaned, is different from being managed.
Evan Harrington — Volume 3
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They are matter-of-factly attempting to snatch the youngsters from us by chicanery.
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We have had long experience of that unmemorable felicity which consists in having no history, so far as history is made up of battles, revolutions, and changes of dynasty; but the present generation has never been called upon to learn that deepest lesson of polities which is taught by a common danger, throwing the people back on their national instincts, and superseding party-leaders, the peddlers of chicane, with men adequate to great occasions and dealers in destiny.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
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The very possibility of public agency, by which such petitions could authentically arrive at Parliament, has been evaded and chicaned away.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
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It is tough for the brakes, there are the chicanes where you need to be precise and the track surface is very slippery, so it is quite easy to make mistakes.
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Her son unfilially doubled, and, Eve having chicane -- a tragedy which her partner evidently seemed to consider could have been avoided by the exercise of ordinary common sense -- Peter and his partner, despite Peter's best efforts, won the game handsomely.
Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories
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The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection.
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Harkening back to the grand old days of Sino-Soviet diplomatic chicanery, Moscow and Beijing yesterday jointly vetoed a watered-down United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its escalating brutality against democracy protestors.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Syria's Double Diplomatic Muscle
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The combination of long straights, tight chicanes and hairpins is very demanding on the brakes.
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I will therefore engineer, via chicanery, a meeting between Andy and Marks.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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Monza in 1971 was a chicane-free circuit so the cars slip-streamed for all 55 laps, repassing each other several times a lap.
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Apparently he considered adultery a lesser crime than financial chicanery, and by pleading the one, he avoided the other.
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It is a quick, undulating circuit with a series of demanding corners broken by chicanes.
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The e-Vote system must cope with a bewildering array of potential electoral chicanery: impostors, double voters, and enforcers.
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Again, such chicanery is only possible in the human world.
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The straights aren't so long that they place an absolute premium on outright power, while the chicanes and bumpy track surface demand good handling characteristics.
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What do the Austrians have to say about all this chicanery?
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It's a big sweeping right-hander that's a complex of three corners, going in in fifth gear, pretty much top speed, and then coming down to a third-gear corner that's a real slow chicane.
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His sky-rocket ascent was almost certainly powered by bribery, manipulation, and other chicanery.
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It's time for a new politics of genuine social justice for all the peoples of the world; not the chicanery, deceit and lies to which we've been treated to in the last weeks and months.
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The major types of traffic-calming measures used for speed control in the US and other countries are speed humps or tables, chicanes, chokers, nubs, raised junctions, traffic circles or roundabouts and street closures.
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Unfortunately, confusion about the Earned Income Tax Credit has created opportunities for chicanery.
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People visiting the exhibition are being handed leaflets listing all the options open to the council, including chicanes, mini-roundabouts and road humps.
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The emerging malpractices and general chicanery of these cash-driven outfits defy belief.
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There are also scores for holding no trumps ( "chicane"), and for winning all the tricks or all but one ( "slam").
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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As if that chicanery is not horrible enough, now those bringing the truth to the surface, as Carson Fire puts it, are being made to look like “meanies”.
Correcting the facts and missing the truth « BuzzMachine
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Hawkers of such chicanery have made claims that youth and restored body functions could be brought about through nerve tonics and elixirs of life.
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He could not forgive himself, though, for that last bit of disgraceful chicanery.
THE LONGEST WAY HOME
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And one of the main reasons for boardroom chicanery is that far too much of the ‘money out’ goes to governments, which may pay lip service to reducing taxes but, like the secular sermonisers of the left, talk a much better game than they play.
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In due course, traffic management became a village issue, acrimony flourished and, as the anti-speeders campaigned for road humps and chicanes, opposition hardened.
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Surely Kimi was under no obligation to make room for the McLaren (and he didn't), so cutting the chicane was the only sensible option.
FastMachines.com
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They have just spent £60,000 of public money, plonking speed bumps and concrete chicanes on a country road where accidents were rare and dangerous speeding was nearly impossible.
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The temperature differential between the shoulders is more marked at this track as the right-handers are generally fast but the left-handers generally slow, including the chicane which is the slowest corner on the calendar.
PaddockTalk Racing News
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But all these examples are nothing more than political chicanery.
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This kind of chicanery is what gets you thrown in prison if a private business does it.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Argument Works for a Libertarian…
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But you guys are the second commencing class since the last election, and a mighty change has been made, a page of sheer unadulterated chicanery, mass murder and horror written in embarrassingly awful subliterate prose has been turned, and on the very next page, to what in my opinion should be our continuing surprise, relief, ecstatic joy, it turns out that the story of a functioning, participatory pluralist secular democracy is still being written.
Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration'
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It's just 10-15 seconds after braking at the two previous chicanes and the brakes are still hot.
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Fortunately, Judge Jones sounds reasonable and sensible, and not a little put out by the obvious chicanery of the drug addict and his flunky laundering donations through a church.
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The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels.
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There are some fast chicanes with quick changes of direction, there are slow hairpins and fast sweeping bends.
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Set aside the usual circus ring tricks of political chicanery.
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A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.
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I'm too an at using chicanery to accomplish my mission.
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So there you have it, it's another case of British achievement being brought down by foreign chicanery.
