It was not mere "legalistic argle-bargle" or "interpretive jiggery-pokery," to quote two recent witticisms.
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The clamour for direct democracy thus fosters the legalistic jiggery-pokery to which it has been a reaction.
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" That same month his dissent on a ruling affirming Obamacare dismissed the majority opinion as "pure applesauce" and "jiggery-pokery.
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The OCC responded to American Banker's report by releasing enough information to suggest that some banks were guilty of at least minor jiggery-pokery.
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The Court's next bit of interpretive jiggery-pokery involves other parts of the Act that purportedly presuppose the availability of tax credits on both federal and state Exchanges.
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Most of the micro-territories that are either sovereign states or depend on one have been cajoled into passing legislation and creating institutions that clamp down on offshore jiggery-pokery.
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He's accompanied by a younger, wet-behind-the-ears colleague (Ciaran Flynn) who will film the investigation and whose footage reveals a diabolical stew of torture, religious depravity and satanic jiggery-pokery.
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Led by his father and agent, Neymar Sr, he has faced a host of court cases in Spain and Brazil over what investors, former clubs and tax authorities contend are contractual jiggery-pokery.
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" RELATED: 'Jiggery-pokery': The best lines from Antonin Scalia's Obamacare dissent "And even in his early years of the Court, that came out at oral argument when he was the most aggressive questioner.
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Breaking this logjam, rather than any institutional jiggery-pokery, will be the first, and best, test of whether France and Germany can overcome their differences to put the single currency on a more stable footing.
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Just as important as the jiggery-pokery around the presidential election was the theft of the parliamentary one, which implausibly handed almost 70% of the seats in the national assembly to members of Mr Kabila's party.
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In some respects Hungary's descent into semi-authoritarianism follows a familiar storyline: the constitutional jiggery-pokery; the use of legal tools to neuter courts, intimidate media and tilt the electoral playing-field; the avoidance of outright oppression or violence.
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For Bowie, I think, it is only when we clear away all the fakery of social convention, the popery and jiggery-pokery of organized religion and the compulsory happiness that plagues our culture that we can hear the Yes that resounds across his music.
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Last summer, after the court upheld a central portion of the Affordable Care Act, and Mr. Scalia issued a blistering dissent that described the majority's reasoning as "interpretive jiggery-pokery," Slate posted an online "Scalia 'Sick Burn' Generator," which allowed users to put themselves in the justice's rhetorical sights.
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Scalia was famed for saying things like same-sex marriage was a "threat to American democracy" and that the other justices' opinions were full of "interpretive jiggery-pokery," but he was also the author of the important 2011 decision that established video games as worthy of protection under the First Amendment.
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She notes that because of the way people have bred dogs, there's a small gene pool within each breed, making the animals simpler to study: "The way the jiggery-pokery of genetics works means that it's remarkably easy to get to map the sites where disease-causing genes are in dogs," Raffan says.
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I'd been working on some mandala-like abstract pieces for a solo show that I was putting together at the same time I was making the work for this book, and thought that with some jiggery-pokery, they would work nicely to fill the blank spaces and add another level of weird magick to the book.
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Later on, Naeem is then joined by Asif in his diabolic schemes against Mona and his brother. Different kinds of jiggery- pokery and domestic politics come into limelight as the play progresses towards conclusion.
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Their local and touring shows, with names like "Bracing Curative," "Eat Circus," "The Beer, Bread & Cheese Cabaret," "A Raree Show," and "Gallimaufry: An Evening of Jiggery-Pokery," played to sold-out audiences. The troupe disbanded in 2009. Joe Albanese (aka Dexter Mantooth) and Drew Keriakedes (aka Shmootzi the Clod) and three other victims were killed in the Cafe Racer shooting on May 30, 2012.
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She led the stage production of Jiggery Pokery in London in 2009.Review, The Guardian, December 4, 2009Review, Liverpool Echo, November 12, 2009Review, The Times, November 4, 2009 In the 2010s she appeared in several television shows, including Above Suspicion, Dead Boss, Midsomer Murders “A Rare Bird” 2012 and Mr Selfridge. She also took roles in films, including Womb (2010) and Suffragette (2015). She appeared in a National Theatre production of Angels in America in 2017,Interview, Theater Mania and later that year took the role of Larma D'Acy in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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The Underdwellers delight in Melbourne's revolting tale so much that they don't notice when he and Perry suddenly vanish - Melbourne once again using his stolen gunpowder to provide cover for their escape (Jiggery Pokery). Back at Melbourne's nest, which is concealed in the thatching of Royal Baker Thomas Farynor's home and bakery, Perry encounters the baker's daughter, who thinks Perry is cute and takes him as her pet (What Is This That I See). Perry is instantly smitten (Adorable Me!). Melbourne disapproves of the relationship, insisting Perry break it off.
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The others find and surround Melbourne and Perry when, like a magician, Melbourne sprinkles some "Jiggery Pokery" (gunpowder) on the ground and the twosome disappear into the smoke of the explosion. Just then Bethesda returns, vowing to make Melbourne pay for his treachery (Melbourne Bumblescratch). Contrasting Bethesda's tirade, Melbourne expresses his own, more laid back approach to life (and connubial fidelity) in (At Least A Rat ‘As Got An Excuse). Meanwhile, Socrates' oafish henchmen, Fats and Charmer, have caught up to Melbourne, following him and Perry into the Cock Lane Rat Pub only to lose the duo once again. Later on, they try to justify their incompetence to Socrates who will hear none of it (Socrates’ Scorn).
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