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Examples of sharp practice


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The expression "sharppractice" has been used already several times in the debate.
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He discharged those duties with remarkable success, and without any suggestion that he ever resorted to insincerity or sharppractice.
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I do not like to suggest that there was any sharppractice about the matter of language at all.
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It has come to my ears that a lot of sharppractice is being undertaken in this process.
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This is where the sharppractice comes in.
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There are people who feel that the development corportion is indulging in some sharppractice.
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He said that it was close to "sharppractice".
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I understand that this kind of sharppractice is still going on.
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I believe that the timing was entirely fortuitous and that no sharppractice was intended.
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That may be small comfort to them, but there can be no question here of sharppractice or deceit.
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There is a feeling that sharppractice has been involved here.
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A common element in many of the scandals is the prevalence of sharppractice and the industry's inability to get on top of it.
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I am sorry, but this is coming very near to sharppractice.
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I do not think that it is sharppractice.
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I am bound to say that all this is somewhat redolent of government inspired hints of some form of corruption or at least sharppractice.
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That sounds to me very much like sharppractice.
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That is very sharppractice, to put it mildly, and it may be a little more than that.
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It would inevitably be interpreted as a piece of sharppractice or even of bad faith.
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But we need to protect the consumer from the cowboy operators, those who engage in sharppractice, and the rip-off merchants.
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I would say that that is sharppractice.
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Why should we put up with this sharppractice?
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Many of us thought it was sharppractice to use price restraint legislation to slip through huge sums to prop up a pension fund.
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I am not saying that this is sharppractice.
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One wonders whether there has been some sharppractice in this or whether it has been a simple case of negligence.
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We have had evidence tonight in some speeches of sharppractice on the part of dealers and one or two finance houses.
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They have not been engaged, as has been suggested this afternoon, in any form of sharppractice whatsoever.
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I think that that was the only sharppractice in the course of the legislation.
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This is causing my constituents a great deal of irritation and hardship and it is regarded as sharppractice.
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The inference was of either discourtesy or sharppractice—at any rate, something which was undesirable.
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In ordinary commercial life that would be called very sharppractice.
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He threw about loose charges of gerrymandering and sharppractice and corruption.
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It is a piece of political sharppractice.
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That was a bit of sharppractice, in my opinion.
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Does he not think that that savours of sharppractice?
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It is something of a sharppractice to seek to amend that act under the guise of necessity because of the reorganisation of local government.
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That, even if true, is a very far cry from sharppractice.
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To me the essence of new clause 1 smells of sharppractice.
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No one suggests that because a bank is allowed to withhold certain information it is indulging in sharppractice.
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I realise that there are possible loopholes for sharppractice.
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They may be good or bad, but at least they are not an acquiescence in sharppractice.
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The last two pages are an apologia for dishonesty and sharppractice.
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Anybody who has had experience of local government knows quite well that there are safeguards against that kind of sharppractice.
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It is one of broken promises, sharppractice and had faith.
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I fully support the draft directive's main provision, that consumers who buy expensive goods and services at the door should be protected against sharppractice.
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I do not know whether it was sharppractice.
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I am anxious to refute that that was sharppractice.
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That is sharppractice and it should be outlawed.
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Many salesmen are employed through an agency, which means that there is less control and a greater likelihood of sharppractice.
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Therefore, the industry does not indulge in sharppractice and put pressure on its customers.
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The scope for problems and sharppractice are so wide that such arrangements are undesirable and unrealistic.
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It can be described at best as sharppractice and in the worst cases as outright fraud.
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That seems to me to be sharppractice.
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It is right that steps should be taken to protect the consumer against such sharppractice.
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Surely all of us are subject to sharppractice sometime in our lives, certainly on the doorstep.
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Nobody would wish to justify sharppractice as between dock and dock, and port and port.
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I do not wish to use the expression "sharppractice".
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It is sharppractice to try to get the question across.
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I do not think that there was any sharppractice.
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Those who conduct the auctions are no doubt guilty of sharppractice which goes just as near the edge of crime as they dare go.
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I do not accept that there has been sharppractice or that anything unethical has been done.
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It goes on to refer to sharppractice.
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There could be no evasion or sharppractice.
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This is surely a bit of sharppractice.
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Any reduction in the standards relating to traditional hallmarks in this country may well open the door to sharppractice, which we can do without.
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To do that—and it has been suggested in some quarters that it is at present happening—would be verging on sharppractice.
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They are particularly vulnerable to such sharppractice.
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In this country we do not in general do things that are sharppractice.
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I wish to withdraw the words "sharppractice".
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The provision with regard to "own occupation"or"occupation by relatives" is merely another loophole for sharppractice by slick operators.
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I suspect that private operators rather than local government operators are more guilty of sharppractice.
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It is not crooked behaviour or honest failure, but sharppractice.
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Frankly, if that happened in business, we would call it sharppractice.
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We believed it to be a bit of sharppractice, and we still believe that to be the case.
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I suggest that it was really a little in the nature of sharppractice to rule out this claim on that basis.
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I understand the expression "sharppractice" to mean that people are led to do things which they would not otherwise do by being deceived.
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This is tantamount to sharppractice, to a swindle.
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I am not prepared to accuse myself of sharppractice.
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This provision should provide a warning to than: small proportion of salesmen who indulge in sharppractice.
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We get the kind of wholesaler who buys up manufacturers' rejects or seconds; we get the sharppractice of the one-day carpet sales.
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Prohibiting cold calling for property repair, improvement and maintenance would help to tackle that range of crime and sharppractice.
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What they have done today is sharppractice on a scale that no one expected.
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In fact, the argument boils down to financial and political sharppractice for very narrow ends.
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That is probably unnecessary during an agreed bid but in a contested bid it that can give rise to sharppractice and should be stopped.
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They feel that they are being unfairly accused of sharppractice.
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The distributors complained that there have not been these discussions: they complain of sharppractice, in fact.
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It has all the appearance of sharppractice by the only individual who seemed to know what he was doing in his own interests.
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That is not only uncompetitive practice; it is sharppractice.
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There is evidence of sharppractice and the constant moving of goal posts.
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An eminent legal gentleman whose opinion has been taken by the council has described any transfer of the land as being sharppractice.
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I did not understand my noble friend to say that they had been guilty of any sharppractice, or anything of that sort.
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He was not guilty of sharppractice, but we were guilty of negligence.
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The computer business is not for the faint hearts and no doubt there is some sharppractice in virtually every major deal.
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In other words, it can be demonstrated unequivocally that there is no sharppractice.
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He made it clear that we are talking not about dishonesty or sharppractice, but about a major error that has had serious consequences.
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I agree that protection against wilful fraud or sharppractice is desirable.
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Publishing the results of an investigation will throw light into this grey area and clarify a possible area of sharppractice.
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One justification for such a restriction is that there is known to be much sharppractice in these quarters.
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How can the consumer be protected against such sharppractice unless some test is available to establish whether food has been irradiated?
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But, as it seems to us, this was a bit of sharppractice that went badly wrong.
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