taking part in the promotion, formation or management of a company. However, a disqualification order may be made: i. with leave to continue to act as a director for a short period of time, in order to enable the disqualified director to arrange his business affairs (...
Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My niece is already in the belief that he's mad: we may carry it thus, for our pleasure and his penance, till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt us to have mercy on him: at which time we will bring the de...
69. respect:regard, heed, -- the usual meaning in Shakespeare. 73. drachmas.The drachma was a Greek coin equal to about twenty cents. Where have we had the word before? 75. indirection.Literally, an action not direct or straight and sodishonest means, or "crookedness." Cf. "thestraight...
[LORD GORING, dressed in the height of fashion, is lounging in an armchair. SIR ROBERT CHILTERN is standing in front of the fireplace. He is evidently in a state of great mental excitement and distress. As the scene progresses he paces nervously up and down the room.] LORD GORING. My ...
are we more dishonest than the rest of Mankind? What we win, Gentlemen, is our own by the Law of Arms, and the Right of Conquest. CROOK.Where shall we find such another Set of Practical Philosophers, who to a Man are above the Fear of Death? WAT.Sound Men, and true! ROBIN.Of ...
the darkness of complex conspiracies to defraud has not been a pleasant experience; you cannot expect anyone to work miracles or have evidence by rogues’, seen as nonsense, by those equally dishonest or corrupt, or convey factual truth when Planning Inspectorate are harmoniously adjoined in fraud...
Why don’t we turn those blackguards out of Constantinople, and hang the Sultan, and make an end of the whole business in the good old English fashion. Old Dizzy would have done it long ago. I’m ashamed, positively28 ashamed to be English. Eh, what?” And he turned fiercely on Mr...
taking part in the promotion, formation or management of a company. However, a disqualification order may be made: i. with leave to continue to act as a director for a short period of time, in order to enable the disqualified director to arrange his business affairs (...
The spread of information about dishonest drug manufacture and marketing was accompanied by a growing horror of similar duplicity in food manufacture and sales. Especially effective at generating public outrage on this front was Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle (published serially in 1905). The mos...