Sentences with phrase «also scathing»

But Clegg is also scathing about Gove's decision to scrap the national Connexions careers service soon after the coalition came into office.

He was also scathing about the intelligence and legal advice given before the war, along with what he called «wholly inadequate» planning for the post-conflict rebuilding of Iraq.

He was also scathing about attempts to disassociate leading Conservatives like Mr Cameron and George Osborne, from images of their Bullingdon Club days in Oxford.

Mr Spalvins was also scathing about the attempts by Foster's Group to manage such a large stable of wine brands prior to Treasury splitting off as a stand - alone wine company in mid-2011.

Not exact matches

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

The column also made no effort to qualify one of its most scathing arguments.

The Justice Department also disseminated a scathing press release on Thursday evening in which it excoriated the conduct of the bank and named two executives that are being charged: Paul K. Menefee, who served as Barclays» head banker on its subprime residential mortgage backed securitizations and John T. Carroll who served as Barclays» head trader for subprime loan acquisitions.

Also like Congar, de Lubac was scathing about what he saw as the theological backwardness and intellectual mediocrity of the curial officials with whom he had to work in preparation for the council, and on whose views he was able to have little positive effect.

To their credit, they also highlighted some of the most scathing responses, including this from Jimmy Kimmel Live writer Bess Kalb: «You know who had nice manners?

Ferdinand was scathing in his criticism after the game, as seen in the video below, while he also questioned Alexis Sanchez who has not performed to his usual high levels since arriving at the club in January.

He was also quite scathing about the second - string but comprised of very experienced international players that he had picked for the match.

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Chloe Sevigny, Debbie Harry, Fred Armisen, and Tim & Eric also contribute their scathing wit to the book, and the end result is a New York fashion bible no bathroom should be without.

Some portrayed this as a very scathing account, but when people actually read it, they see that it's actually a serious and thoughtful look, not only about what happened to take this administration so badly off course, but it also shows some of the problems surrounding the Washington culture.»

Smith, who was named in the scathing IG report on the AEG mess along with Senate Minority Leader (then Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson) and Sen. Eric Adams, among others, also said the question of whether Kruger should retain his ranking position on the Senate Finance Committee is «a matter for the leader to decide in the conference.»

Most recently he's been criticized for sending a scathing email to fellow Representative Debbie Wasserman - Schultz, a gentle lady also from Florida.

Nadler's support of the Iran deal also led to a scathing editorial in the New York Daily News, which urged its readers to toss him from office and accused him of «helping lead the world in a disastrous direction.»

The lawyer cum politician is known to be ascerbic in her public discussion especially on radio and televison, vehemently defending her party (New Patriotic Party) and also launching scathing attacks on her political opponents.

NYCLASS, at least so far, has also met its match in the Teamsters union, representing the carriage drivers, and the Daily News, which has blasted the group in scathing editorials and launched a petition drive to keep the horses in Manhattan.

The Conservatives, as mentioned, could also adopt much of the policy that the Lib Dems propose, but Cameron has been scathing about forgoing prison sentences of less than six months, and policies like the mansion tax would surely never make a Conservative budget.

Residents also gave LIPA scathing reviews.

The Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, which lost 37 members on 9/11, also put out a scathing statement last week accusing Lazio of politicizing the mosque issue.

The book, by James Macintyre and Mehdi Hasan, also claims David is scathing about his brother's performance, and that he thinks Ed is «heading in the wrong direction».

He also launched a scathing attack on the Tories, branding their plans for deeper spending cuts after the election «slashing for its own sake», and complaining that the prospect of a referendum on EU membership is undermining business confidence.

State ethics regulators on Wednesday released a report that offered a scathing assessment not just of Mr. Lopez but also of the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, and his staff.

In the view of one scathing critic, she is «as dull as it is possible to be while also leading a major western power».

Winterton also reveals that both of her parents now have a scathing attitude towards MPs who use their phones in the Commons chamber.

Tory MPs were also privately scathing about the performance, with one of their number telling TP: «He tried to cuff it and got found out.

Ponte's travels were first exposed in a scathing report by Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters who also discovered that more than two dozen other corrections big wigs were improperly using their city cars for personal use.

That scathing DFS order said Bonomo made millions in improper charitable donations, including some that personally benefited him, and that he also abused his management agreement to benefit himself at PRI's expense.

Hideaki Anno and Shinki Higuchi (of Evangelion fame) bring a storyline that is not only satisfying on a destruction level, but also plays out as a tense political drama with scathing commentary on the current geo - political climate in Japan.

Crimmins, also a comedian in the 1980s, held nothing back onstage; whether ranting about abolishing the Catholic Church or eviscerating the political figures of the time, his style was always scathing, clever and sardonic.

While publishing one of this year's biggest and most lauded titles, the Tokyo - based fitness company has also been on the receiving end of scathing criticism and been the subject of alarming rumors.

What makes Zoolander work is that underpinning the absurdist stylings of Ben Stiller — who returns as not only Derek Zoolander but also the co-writer and director of the sequel — is a fairly scathing satire aimed at the fashion industry and how clueless and insular it can be.

Both films are also darkly comic, though Point Blank is more socially pungent, offering a darkly scathing indictment of corporate America, where crooks are indistinguishable from so - called legitimate businessmen.

At the core of the film is a story about the physical and emotional abuse disgraced figure skating champion Tonya Harding endured throughout her life from her mother and her husband, but the film also explores the very traditional, staid world of competitive figure skating, while also offering a scathing indictment on the behaviour of the media.

FIRST REFORMED is not only a rich and detailed character study, but it also serves as a timely and scathing critique of politics, the church, and society's middle finger to the environment.

Lina Wolff's 2016 novel, «Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs,» also covered similar frustrations in the literary world, but where these take the form of scathing and witty reprisals, Miller takes a more frivolous tack and laughs at the absurdity of it all.

They also deliver a scathing indictment of the media, American class consciousness, and its corrosive impact on a superlative athlete who was apparently on thin ice from the get go.

Now the department's inspector general, John P. Higgins Jr., has also given a thumbs - up to the department's ethics - screening procedures for contractors and peer reviewers, some of which were instituted last year after a scathing 2006 review of Reading First found potential conflicts of interest in that program.

«It is particularly concerning that the government has also failed to listen to the victims of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham who were, according to the Jay report, «scathing» about the education they received on this area.

I also enjoyed writing in the voice of Concubine Swallow — she is so scathing, darkly humorous, and self - loathing.

It also includes a hefty amount of hindsight toward her baby's father and a scathing depiction of Meghan McCain.

Kojima has yet to comment publicly on this surprising development, instead tweeting a picture of a grilled cheese sandwich that may or may not also be a scathing indictment of world politics, and society and shit.

Cattelan's subjects range widely, being derived from popular culture, history and organized religion; while bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique.

Rather than delivering the scathing critique that Ms Laframboise suggested, the IAC's report concluded that «the IPCC assessment process has been successful overall and has served society well», while also recommending some fundamental changes to ensure its future success.

Answer: Possibly, but sometimes firmwide searches of emails for the term «muppet» also result from a departing employee's scathing op - ed in The New York Times.

Sino - Forest also sued in that same court Muddy Waters Research, a short seller that issued a scathing report last summer on the Mississauga, Ontario - based company by calling it a fraud for exaggerating the value of its holdings.

Sometimes scathing in its dissection of Labour policy, it also gives opinion on the steps the party must take to win the next general election.

Professor Peter Brooks, from the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, also wrote a scathing piece for Croakey imagining a future «Royal Commission into Premature Deaths» caused by the budget.