How To Use Fly-by-night In A Sentence
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`That's why I didn't want to fall in love with a fly-by-night.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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Can we believe in the credibility of fly-by-night companies?
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If it were a matter of sneaking up buildings without permits, or choosing fly-by-night builders, or the result of some freak accident, then it could be argued to be the customer's problem.
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In the frenzy of the bubble, much home lending was undertaken by fly-by-night companies trying to generate as much volume as possible.
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Most fly-by-night spam websites are registered for only a single year.
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It is a pity that the Government is still unable to prevent unscrupulous fly-by-night money chains, and schemes from exploiting the common man's urge to make a fast buck out of nothing.
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Maybe he'd hoped for more, but when he didn't get it... Father was a stayer, not a fly-by-night.
LOST CHILDREN
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Those things are pretty much the ‘female equivalent’ of those shady fly-by-night websites that promise to sell a guy a book of tricks on how to ‘score’.
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The admission brochure of a fly-by-night school will often emphasize that the president received this or that doctorate insgroupsto persuade readers that it is a good school.
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If they feel we'd be less likely to suspect a high-end ship as opposed to one of the fly-by-night cruise liners, they'd use that route," he added.
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Though each precinct was unique, all of them included both highly stable officers and fly-by-nights.
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If we get knocked it will be by fly-by-nights, not by those who have supported us over all these years.
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After all, they weren't fly-by-night schlockmeisters with a reputation for creative bookkeeping.
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If drunken herds of fly-by-night goobers in cowboy hats and Free Republic tee shirts want to stumble up and down Broadway or the Lower East Side at two a.m., so be it.
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the symphony is no fly-by-night venture
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Why would marine farmers continue to invest if they knew that they would be shifted out after 20 years and that some competitor - a fly-by-nighter - would take their space?
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This situation presents an important challenge for small businesses: how can I convince my potential customers that I am not an unethical, fly-by-night operation?
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A marine farmer who is already established and who is a good tenant should not have to have his or her space taken over by a fly-by-nighter because there is no right of refusal.
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The problem is, it's not just that some fly-by-nighters are slipping pharmaceuticals in.
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‘We must crack down on fly-by-night operators who set up premium-rate line services, only to disappear days later before the regulator has a chance to investigate complaints,’ he said.
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And she can see no point in having dinner with a fly-by-night.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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You should only relate to this movie if you're a bit of a fly-by-nighter.
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It is just the fly-by-nighters, who come into the industry to build a structure and then disappear, who will be affected.
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Hopefully, this will deter the fly-by-nighters who would endanger the well-being of New Zealanders.
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It's better to stick with the better-known players or use recommendations from savvy colleagues, friends or reviewers, since fly-by-nighters operate in the computer arena as any other.
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Is there anyone who cares or are those who raise their voices on behalf of the environment doomed to be condemned as fly-by-nighters out to frustrate the ‘development ‘of the island?’
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The movie program isn't just some fly-by-night crackpot invention, either.
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Thousands of fly-by-night operations have long scoffed at inspections, sanctions, and other familiar methods to ensure compliance.
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But these are just episodes, mere fly-by-nights.
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Sometimes the counterfeiters are fly-by-night operations, but just as often they're legitimate companies that have a dark side.
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If you have a storefront, post its address along with a telephone number for those who want more than a virtual connection or assurance that you're no fly-by-night operation.
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Excessive controls and interference in private education institutions could encourage fly-by-night operators.
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a fly-by-night operation
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I understand that, and let that be accepted, but we have to test your propositions and those of the appellant against what Justice McHugh called the fly-by-nights, and they exist, Mr Tracey.
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I leased out part of the shop to a mixed bag of fly-by-nighters.
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During the period of active Y2K remediation last year, much was made of the possibility that unscrupulous, fly-by-night contractors might install back doors to networks they were engaged to repair.
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In a world of fly-by-night operations, this is a long-term investment..
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And the fly-by-nights they are worried about are not moths.
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One can't discount the importance of protecting the public from charlatans and fly-by-night operations.
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It is down to profits and too many fly-by-night companies.
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These are not fly-by-night firms and fortunately so far the offending firms have backed down.
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We've come into this when e-learning has a bad reputation thanks to the dot-com bust with its explosion of fly-by-night operations.
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Some are fly-by-nighters who don't even care where the buttons are.
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Normal Fortune 500 firms shy away, and when the bidding starts, it is always by the fast buck artists, and the fly-by-nighters.
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The survey also finds that many Chinese have little faith in the unfledged domestic soccer league which, in their eyes, is full of fly-by-night operations and scandals and therefore unsuitable as betting targets.
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A production crew for a fly-by-night paranormal investigations program Emily Booth, Nick Smithers, Jodie Shaw…and more actors you’ve probably never heard of – Seriously, I could be making up these names and you wouldn’t know the difference…unless of course you are one of the parents of these fine actors investigate a local farmerette impregnated by…mysterious means.
Evil Aliens (2006)
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The music business hasn't got a lot of patience for fly-by-night bands which enter the stage door running only to end up careening right out the other side.
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The company is an internet based recruitment service, one of the many but long established and from what I knew of them before today quite a good one - definitely not fly-by-nights.
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It's really widespread, and it's an industry characterised by fly-by-nighters, and you will often find that the employers or the contractors who are handing out the work are often one step ahead.
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There are 1,200 such homes in the country but there are also fly-by-night operators.
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The Next Big Thing is always out there as are the fly-by-nighters trying to convince some VC that they've hit upon it.
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The story that I am talking about is a fraud on the New Zealand Government that has been perpetrated by immigrant operators and foreign fly-by-nighters.
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We're not interested in building flats - we're not get rich quick fly-by-night developers.
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And fly-by-night exchange operators weren't the only ones with a casual approach to the law.
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To have this four-flusher, fly-by-nighter talking about a loser is pretty rich, is it not?
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These shonks, often fly-by-night backyard operators, take full advantage of recent arrivals and just don't comply with minimum Award standards.
