Sentences with phrase «accusers took»

Not exact matches

Laura Fitton told Axios she came forward after Pishevar announced he would be taking a leave of absence to pursue legal action against his accusers.

Unlike the public trashing that other women have gotten when accusing powerful men in the past — think Anita Hill, called «nutty» and «slutty» in 1991 or the long line of Bill Cosby accusers who, until very recently, were dismissed as gold diggers — Carlson's claims that Ailes ogled her and forced her out when she rebuffed him were taken seriously, listened to, and investigated.

And that's why Stormy Daniels, more than investigators or any of Trump's other accusers, is just the person who can take him down.

They're adults now, but it's not clear if the alleged abuse took place when they were adults or children — the coverage of the third lawsuit makes frequent mention that the accuser was 14 when he joined the congregation, but not why that point is being emphasized.

With all this talk of «you must believe the accuser always and immediately» we lose sight of the real issue that has plagued the church — not taking abuse allegations seriously.

Wendy Guarisco also criticized Long for portraying himself as «David,» when his accusers are taking on such a powerful pastor.

Instead of condemning the woman «taken in adultery, «Jesus asked about the sins of her accusers; his point is that adultery is one sin among many.

For what it's worth, my take on it is (because contrary to what some of my accusers say, I don't think Wenger's perfect -RCB- is, that he has sometimes put TOO much faith in certain players, or even the team.

Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra — three of Harvey Weinstein's accusers — took the stage and introduced a segment highlighting the importance of diversity in film.

Speaker Silver took heat for authorizing a secret $ 103,000 settlement to a pair of Lopez accusers in June, before Lopez was censured following the two additional harassment allegations.

In a separate development, McAlpine himself looked set to take some of his Twitter accusers to court, after it emerged legal action could take place against people who mentioned him on the social networking site.

Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.

Bill Collins, the lawyer who negotiated a secret settlement with accusers of ex-Assemblyman Vito Lopez, was let go after 15 years with the Assembly for taking no action when he learned of the complaint.

Hundreds of people — including one of Harvey Weinstein's accusers — took to the streets of Hollywood yesterday afternoon to march against sexual assault, as the worlds of politics and media continue to be rocked by a flood of allegations.

Cuomo on Tuesday praised Schneiderman's accusers for having the «courage» to «take on an attorney general they believe threatened them not to go public.»

Council members also will provide space for CCRB investigators to take the accusers» «formal statements,» which are needed for the board's probes to proceed.

The film will feature Kree characters, including Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) and Korath the Pursuer (Djimon Hounsou), as well as introduce some Skrull villains, and much of the movie will reportedly take place in space.

take didn't go over so well: «Go fuck yourself scumbag,» wrote actress Rose McGowan, who has become one of Weinstein's most vociferous accusers, capturing the general sentiment.

In a Hollywood climate that has promoted accuser empathy and largely avoided direct public mentions of figures like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, the hosts gleefully took jabs at the disgraced men before a crowd that included Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig and Salma Hayek.

Last appearance before Infinity War: Avengers: Age of Ultron; disappointed by Loki and Ronan the Accuser's failures, Thanos vows in an end - credit scene to take matters into his own hands.

The accuser is Ben Solomon, whose family took in the orphaned Piatek as a child, only to be brutally betrayed by him during the war.

A direct descendant of Rebecca Nurse, the last person to be tried and hanged during the Salem witch trials, and Ann R. Putnam, one of her accusers, his first novel, Salem VI, is an altogether modern take on Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

The memo's most «damaging» phrase is prominently mentioned in Al Gore's movie, yet none of you can read it in its full context in any accuser's book, web site, magazine article in order to prove this central bit of evidence isn't taken out of context.

A counter-strategy of those who have been so accused — whether or not they actually committed sexual assault — can be to take the offensive and sue their accusers for defamation, thereby putting their alleged victims on the defensive.

In taking that action, it seems to me that you not only took the prerogative to act out of the hands of the judges, but also that you took the prerogative to complain out of the hands of the public; specifically, perhaps, in this case, the rape accuser (who, as I said in my blog post on the Robin Camp inquiry, might not have chosen to make a complaint).

«Nothing Clifford did resembled the disastrous approach taken by Stuart Hall who, prior to pleading guilty to abusing them as girls, denounced his accusers as gold - diggers and liars.»

Patrick Brown has stepped up his campaign to defend himself against sexual misconduct allegations, challenging his accusers to take their complaints to police and lashing out at CTV News as the broadcaster reported one of the women quoted in its original story has now changed a key detail in her account.

Moreover, each component or section is urged to punish people found to have committed harassment or misconduct in a consistent manner and to take steps to protect accusers from harassment.

In addition to publicly smearing his accusers on a personal level, Lebsock infamously promised to take others «down with me» — a threat that prompted at least two lawmakers to start wearing bulletproof vests at the Capitol.

Defensiveness tells the accuser you don't take them seriously and puts the blame back on them.