Sentences with phrase «hijacked by»

Maybe you think we should place politically motivated constraints on people, but that would seem to then make it difficult to prevent science from being hijacked by politics.

Exxon, Milloy explains, like most Big Oil companies has effectively been hijacked by green activists.

The various inquiries into Climategate studiously failed to expose the extent to which the IPCC process had been hijacked by a coterie of climate scientists and their supporters.

First you if you cherish the objectivity of science then you would strive to ensure all hypotheses are well vetted, and not hijacked by politics.

In the US, science has been hijacked by partisan politics.

The present situation is squarely to be blamed on (a) the success of political conservatism in ensuring economic progress, thereby depriving political left of virtually all oxygen in this area (as in, no credible lefty argues for a traditional left position), and (b) the failure of political conservatism in not caring for science and allowing «science» to be completely hijacked by the political left, to be used as a tool and flag - standard.

So I wonder how the people at ANZ bank are feeling this week after their logo and «In Your World» catchphrase was hijacked by Greenpeace and replaced with» Polluting Your World».

This thread has been hijacked by a series of trolls who have attempted to deflect any serious discussion of the subject of this thread and / or of climate science.

Parts of the green movement have become hijacked by a political agenda and now operate like multinational corporations, according to two senior scientists and members of the House of Lords.

When an area of science mutates into pseudo-science and attracts a large following, it is always hijacked by political forces, which give it a whole new and terrible dimension.

Trouble is, the term progressive has long since been hijacked by centrists seeking a middle way or third way or some other term for the exploitable cleavage between the twin cheeks of British politics.

We use comment moderation because we have seen too many blog comment sections hijacked by people who go off topic and start arguing with each other with a lack of civility, or whatever.

RealClimate has allowed almost the whole of the comment thread to be hijacked by a venal idiot who revels in the posting of a constant stream of ridiculous statements and questions to which many individuals then feel obliged to respond.

So my comments on this should not receive any undue consideration; they were made when i thought my mention of the Wegman Report was going to be hijacked by the plaigarism issue being raised at deepclimate.

If I try to get rid of that boaty bit, then to a certain extent I have already been hijacked by figurative thinking (in particular, my concept of what an abstract painting should look like) and the abstractness of my work has already been compromised.

Artists aren't alone in being distracted by the new administration of child brats; we are being hijacked by thieves and incompetents.

This is art history as it used to be taught before it was hijacked by academic theorists.

Conveying personal events or conditions, these are the results of matter - of - fact circumstances shaped by personal pain: A woman married to the Berlin Wall, Israeli soldiers and prostitutes at nightclubs, and a man whose story is absurdly hijacked by an artist.

It's been hijacked by an ever expanding group of hobbyists who have turned it into something between a fundamentalist religion and an outdoor sport.

Scholars and activists such as Angela Davis, Nancy Fraser, and bell hooks have criticized second - wave feminism, calling it a movement that has been whitewashed and hijacked by women driven by the desire to acquire status and material gain within a capitalist economy, rather than achieve reproductive rights across gender, class, and race categories.

These are set up in some fun and interesting ways, such as a wiki being hijacked by Tentomon, or a music shop being inundated with the singing Etemon's terrible CDs.

We used to enjoy linear stories all the time before the third - person action genre was hijacked by car theft and vendetta killings, as I recall.

When an American satellite is hijacked by The Federation and hacked to attack targets on American soil, a military unit known as Ghosts are dispatched to save the red, white, and blue before imminent annihilation is unleashed.

It's sequel, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, removed much of the wackiness in favor of more standard Mario fare, and eventually the side - series was hijacked by Wario for a run of fantastic Game Boy platformers that eventually dropped the Super Mario Land moniker completely.

The bus is then hijacked by a group of military guards with rifles, and after the men open fire at the bus, the main character ends up crawling out the back of the bus to escape.

The U.S.S. Mt. St. Helens, a Naval supply ship, has been hijacked by Somali «pirates» lead by Ghassan al - Bitar.

Regarding the phone ads, I gave up surfing this site when every browser I tried was getting hijacked by certain ads.

However, it may also be an aberrant expression of the predatory behavior that is, if you will, hijacked by the laser movement.»

The sad truth is that the moderate, mainstream adoption movement has been hijacked by animal rights extremists as a vehicle for moving forward their own radical agenda.

Not to mention a final Brexit could still take years to negotiate & fully materialise... well, if it doesn't end up being derailed or hijacked by UK political events to come.

The Federal Government is being urged to ban a highly speculative investment scheme that has been hijacked by international fraudsters to steal millions of dollars from Australians.

With so much work and information hosted in the public domain, the repercussions of any of it being hijacked by cyber criminals could be a costly disaster.

Put it down to being hijacked by a plot that has been trying to take over my life for the last couple of days coupled with WordPress changing its interface (which isn't fair when I haven't had enough coffee to try to figure it out).

Has the entire Internet been hijacked by close relatives of Steve Jobs?

It seems it was hijacked by a third party.

The plane is hijacked by Armenian terrorists, but before the Turkish authorities can fulfill their demands, the plane explodes in midair.

Shortly after this first website opened, the word «Web» had been hijacked by the Internet technos so people associated the word «Web» with the internet, not a particular type of printing press.

In the masterfully comic «Saturday Teatime,» a woman trying to relax in a flotation tank is hijacked by memories of her past.

What they're tapping into is something very profound, which is a level of frustration, a genuine level of anger and frustration with the way our society is organized, and the imbalances in the economic inequality and the imbalances in power and the way that the political system has been hijacked by special interests.

I avoid the term «Indie» because it has been hijacked by self publishers for some time, to refer to self publishers.

The film has already received some rave reviews and is based on a true, gripping story of a US cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama that was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009.

More and more parents and teachers are awakening to the realization that the word «reform» has been hijacked by people who want to dismantle public education and the teaching profession.

It is hard to imagine anyone having a problem with this, so, of course, Shavar Jeffries of «Democrats» for Education Reform laced into the changes saying that the platform had been hijacked by the national teachers» unions, and DFER tried, unsuccessfully, to block the language.

«Eisner's eloquence in writing and speech gave heart to and bolstered many educators who felt that the humanities, qualitative approaches to evaluation and artistic criticism had been hijacked by those who wanted only numbers as a sign of effectiveness.»

We have all kinds of groups all over the country forming as... almost a guerilla force, saying, «We want to protect our kids from all this over-testing, and the education is being hijacked by a philosophy of big data, and it's bad for kids.

In recounting the history of charters, the report reveals how a cause originally supported by education reform advocates, including the leader of a national teachers» union, was hijacked by libertarian ideology, advocates for big business, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who view the public education system as a playground for exerting their influence and ideas.

Their education has been hijacked by an unrepresentative, unelected corporate school board, acting at the behest of a mayor who has no vision for improving the education of our children.

«But we allowed the CCSS to be hijacked by the federal government,» said Horn, «for the sake of money.

That has led to criticism in some quarters that grammar schools have been hijacked by the middle classes.

It's been hijacked by the standardization movement.