Sentences with phrase «abscam scandal of»

It should have: It was this scrappy, five - man team of mechanical engineers that first caught on to the German giant's emissions - cheating ways, kicking off the biggest business scandal of the year (and possibly the decade).

The school's associate dean, Murali Chandrashekaran, says many business schools began re-evaluating after the corporate scandals of the early 2000s and the 2008 crisis.

After allegations of phone hacking, fraud and general nastiness surfaced at its highly - profitable News of the World newspaper, the company decided that the best way to starve the scandal of oxygen was to shutter the 168 - year - old muckraking juggernaut.

Though there was never a major scandal of this sort on Bay Street, Spitzer's investigation made waves in Canada.

Yet Republicans have found themselves largely unable to capitalize on the moment, consumed instead by the latest scandal of their nominee, a video showing Trump admitting to making predatory and lewd advances on women.

After the Enron and WorldCom scandals of 2002, the Sarbanes - Oxley Act was instituted in the United States to, among other things, increase the independence of outside auditors when they review corporate financial statements.

Since the Donaghy scandal of 2007, the NBA has gone on to thrive.

Much of the increased scrutiny is the result of the corporate malfeasance scandals of the early 2000s, with which the now - defunct energy company Enron and telecommunication company Worldcom have become synonymous.

Enron was the most famous financial scandal of the early 21st century.

McFarlane, 80, is most remembered for his role in the defining scandal of the Reagan years: secretly selling arms to Iran and using the money to support Nicaraguan rebels.

A year ago, he agreed to do the same for money - losing Mitsubishi Motors that is struggling from a scandal of faking fuel economy test data.

Bryan Fogel's quest to show how easy it is for athletes to dope (by doping himself) led to his stumbling across the biggest Olympic doping scandal of all time — and we're there for the entire ride.

Of all the business scandals of 2016, Wells Fargo's took the cake.

Three months later, there was this scandal of guards at Guantánamo flushing the Koran down the toilet.

The accumulation of expertise and financial wherewithal along the way has allowed Lululemon to shrug off things like the departure of CEO Robert Meers (the one - time Reebok International president was replaced by Day, a 20 - year veteran of Starbucks and doubtless a better representative of the company's core customer) and the seaweed scandal of 2007, when clothing touted for its supposedly skin - friendly properties was found to contain none of the marine ingredient.

In the latest instalment, Kinsella and his Progressive Group colleague Mark Jiles are at the centre of B.C.'s scandal of the moment, thanks to a report by the 24 Hours newspaper that uncovered documents from Washington State where the pair bragged about their company's close connections with members of the provincial and federal governments, as well as the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee.

The seat came open after the incumbent was caught in a sex scandal of his own.

While Wells Fargo received harsh criticism for its abuse of customer trust in the fake deposit account scandal of 2016, its highly - regarded mortgage business remained safe from blame until recently.

The recent scandals of governments spying on its citizens are making «transparency» a scary thing so do n`t let anyone meddle in your private affairs!

Something remarkable about Vanguard is how it remained untouched through the financial scandals of the Great Recession.

For most of the year to date, Uber and President Donald Trump often seemed to be in competition for the scandal of the day.

The Liberals, mired in scandals of their own doing, are polling almost 20 points behind the NDP.

What started out as a scandal of moderate proportions has now snowballed into a behemoth that is threatening to crumble Facebook's very foundations.

We laugh at the 50s scandal of Elvis and his pelvis — but what does that say about us?

The craziest libertarians are now suggesting that Romney should go with the flow and carry the election by campaigning against the scandal of the untaxed.

For there to be a scandal of the evangelical mind, there must not be just a mind, but also a readily identifiable thing called «evangelical» and a movement called «evangelicalism» — and the existence of such is increasingly in doubt.

She was vilified in the 1990s for her association with the political scandals of her husband's administration, and more traditional parts of the country still struggle with a woman who exhibits unfiltered ambition.

This is the domestication of the scandal of God's death for us, accomplished by the fad of sticking the Cross onto handbags and the back pockets of jeans.

When discussing the scandal of «saying one thing and doing another,» he...

It's in our churches and be sure, the world will carefully watch how Christians treat scandals of their own.

Then, after reporting on the pedophilia scandals of the Catholic church, and almost losing his faith over it, he converted to Orthodoxy.

Geoff Holsclaw at Missio Alliance with «The Scandal of the Evangelical Memory»

The author thus succeeds in avoiding the «scandal of particularity» but leaves one wondering how he would relate his thesis to such Bible passages as Mark 10:45, Romans 3:21 «26, Ephesians 1:7, 1 Peter 1:18 «19, Revelation 5:9, and so on.

Best Point: Peter Enns with «The Deeper Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: We Are Not Allowed to Use It»

The Scandal Of The Cross «To the Jews a scandal, to the Greeks foolishness, but to those called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.»

There were scandals of clerical corruption and simony.

Eschatological faith is directed against any cosmological or metaphysical view that would attempt to resolve the paradox or scandal of faith.

The case made by Finkelstein appears unanswerable, and he deserves great credit for having the nerve to expose what appears to be a scandal of enormous proportions.

His mission is to attempt to soften the scandals of previous Popes and the RCC, and to re-cast the CULT as a truly caring organization, so non-critical thinkers will embrace his false humility, and return to the Roman CULT fold.

They were also in part a matter of pastoral sensibility, with Leithart seeing the greatest pastoral danger in the scandal of disunity, Trueman in the relativization of the doctrines of grace and subsequent weakening of salvific assurance.

A series of Popes sat on the throne of Peter the scandal of whose lives was not offset, as was that of some of the most infamous of the Pontiffs of the fifteenth century, by the outward splendor of their court.

Perhaps in reaction to the «scandal of the evangelical mind,» evangelicalism of late has developed a general distrust of emotion when it comes to theology.

That God appeared there, in Palestine, two thousand years ago and was born to these specific parents, Mary and Joseph, and was placed in that trough and no other, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate and left one grave exquisitely empty — this is the «scandal of particularity» so often named as Christianity's most challenging feature and its most world - affirming.

Laughing when the scandal of the boys» dubious parentage becomes known, Anne Boleyn says to Henry, «They could tell Boccaccio a tale, those sinners at Wolf Hall.»

Locating the special call of Abraham in terms of cosmic evolution, and its whole series of unique moments of novel development, may help soften the scandal of particularity involved in the special call of God to a particular people to bear witness to the divine promise to the cosmos.

These two characters exemplify the reverberations of the scandal of particularity, reverberations that extend horizontally across Jesus's contemporaries, but also vertically, backward through the history of Israel and the Gentiles, and forward into the history of the Church and the world.

It will persistently disclose congregations» faithlessness to who they themselves say they are, and the scandal of the roles they actually play in North American social and cultural life.

And if my suspicion that the move to immaterialism originated in the embarrassment of elite theologians over the scandal of the incarnation is even partly correct, then nothing could be more important for how Christians experience God than to think again about the metaphysics of matter.

The Psychology Today review, written by John Wren - Lewis, says that Paulus «appears to be a hasty production, so much so as to suggest the nasty suspicion that it might have been rushed out in the hope of counterbalancing the possible scandal of Hannah's revelations.»

But she must bear the scandal of their opposition and conquer it by herself becoming the higher unity that embraces it.