Sentences with phrase «by public accusations»

Facebook is facing mounting pressure over Cambridge Analytica's behavior, spurred by public accusations from former research director Christopher Wylie.

But mostly, he seemed spooked by the magnitude the story had taken in the daily news cycle, and he was visibly upset by the public accusations of racism.

Not exact matches

Those kinds of personal attacks are meant to wear down and break a target — to push a public figure out of public life by bombarding them with a never - ending avalanche of smears and accusations.

Pressure had been building on the Vatican to proceed with criminal charges against Wesolowski, a Polish native ordained by Saint John Paul II, since the accusations against him became public.

Nor should we fail to acknowledge the tragedy and injustice when priests who have been faithful for many years are subjected to public disgrace by the exposure of, or even no more than the unverified accusation of, a wayward act twenty or thirty years ago.

Is it you contention the pastor should condemn Sandusky because of the accusations in order to be perceived by the public as «righteous» or «authentic»?

Both by the methods used in some Congressional committees and through public hysteria, accusation, and spread of evil rumors, this has happened to an appalling degree.

The golden rice trial was being conducted by the government's Philippine Rice Research Institute, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and other public sector partners — contrary to the activists» accusations, there is no private corporate involvement.

For example, in the spring of 2004, when accusations of European anti ‐ Semitism filled the air in America, separate surveys of European public opinion conducted by the Anti ‐ Defamation League and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press showed that it was actually declining.

Mr. Afoko, who had been duly elected Chairman by delegates of the NPP in Tamale in April 2014, had been suspended by the National Executives Committee of the ruling party in October 2015 over accusations that Paul Afoko had discussed party finances in public.

Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey's claims on governance to be a genuine love for God and country, but last week, his sincerity was questioned with the accusations from his former Public Relations Officer (PRO) that his utterances, have been influenced heavily by an opposition political leader with cash and an expensive brand new SUV car.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said his campaign has donated some of the money given by Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood movie mogul under fire for a cascade of public accusations of sexual assault and harassment.

One of the accusations against Silver is that he, in Bharara's term, «monetized» his public office for private gain by steering clients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the law firm that has long paid Silver a salary to be mysteriously «of counsel.»

Falola said the Osun Muslim Community had dragged the Osun government to court to allow Muslim female students use hijab in public schools which had led to series of letters and accusation by Counsels of both Muslim and Christian community.

The accusations of me distributing anti-Semitic statements on blogs were initiated by notorious human rights campaigner Scott Long who had to quit his position at Human Rights Watch (HRW) due to his involvement into slandering British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell for which both Mr Long and HRW had to make a public apology.

We have a no - man's land being created between the public and political parties whose positive attributes are drowned out by the accusation of corruption.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation this morning that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids by using the threat of teacher layoffs to try to scare lawmakers — and the public — into opposing the governor's education funding cuts hasn't stopped them from doing... well... just that.

Public scepticism has been re-enforced by the blockbuster accusation by General T.Y Danjuma, former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister that the Nigerian Military under Buhari are «colluding» with «armed bandits» (read Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen) to carry out ethnic cleansing across communities in central Nigeria!

One of the big accusations made against me is that by handing control to GP consortia means I'm reducing public accountability.

The probe by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics looked at the accusations against Lopez, and also investigated Silver's role in trying to mediate the situations.

Cuomo also declared he'd like to see the Lopez accusations investigated by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which could keep the chatter going for months and raise the prospect of uncomfortable testimony by Silver.

In recent days, other women have gone public with accusations of sexual misconduct by Mr. Weinstein, including a former news anchor who said he had trapped her in the hallway of a restaurant that was closed to the public and masturbated in front of her.

Ryan made his accusation and formal complaint public by sending off the complaint in front of reporters.

An appearance on BBC2's Newsnight by Chloe Smith, the economic secretary to the Treasury, was widely judged to have been a disaster, leading to accusations on social media of cowardice being levelled at the chancellor for not taking a greater public role in defending the government's latest budget policy reversal.

Within the foxholes of New Jersey's charter school wars, the target de jour is special education, specifically the accusation by school - choice opponents that alternative public schools intentionally discriminate against children with special needs.

«I am interested in insulating my political activities from my professional duties so that there can be no confusion about my role for the Dodgeville community, by the voting public, or any accusations by my political opponents,» Humphries wrote in a Nov. 28 email to Dodgeville School District superintendent Jeff Jacobson proposing the idea.

The Obama administration's initiative to tighten oversight of public - school disciplinary practices by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, based on racially disparate effects of standard penalties (such as suspensions) as well as hard - to - assess accusations that minority students are being treated more harshly for similar infractions, has put additional pressure on integrated schools to equalize rates of disciplinary sanctions by race and class.

Forget the #ExxonKnew effort to re-invigorate the otherwise 25 year - old accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid corrupting money by fossil fuel companies to lie to the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

or are you the one «poisoning the public discourse» by making unsupported accusations?

Michal Mann, who has been a subject of the accusations of ClimateDepot, said that Morano is funded by «vested interests to «swiftboat» climate scientists, to try to distort our work, to try to undermine the public's credibility in the science.»

Demonstrate how the accusation, led by a particular small clique of enviro - activists, potentially strayed into libel / slander territory with the intent to hoodwink the public, and you instead have a potentially monstrous courtroom drama backfire situation that any average citizen can understand.

And the larger question is, why do no others corroborate his accusation that skeptic scientists were paid to lie to the public by fossil fuel interests about the global warming issue?

The accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» has two parts: the 1991 - ’95 span when it got little public interest, and late 1995 to the present, when it became far more widespread.

Here, the role of the infamous public insults are now played by the blogs — but instead of a few names hurled through the papers over a very brief period, it is a never ending stream of bile, invective, accusations and poorly formed argument.

Climatologists are often frustrated by accusations that they are hiding data or the details of their models because, as NASA's Schmidt points out, much of the relevant information is in public databases or otherwise accessible — a fact that contrarians conveniently ignore when insisting that scientists stonewall their requests.

However, if Mr. Buisnessman was not a public individual (i.e. most people wouldn't know who he was until the news reported your accusation) then malice isn't required to prove (or you could say it has been because you put the public spotlight on him by this accusation, immediately giving him a reputation for something he did not do).

Such accusation may not be proposed without prior clarification of the facts by the defendant and the opinion of the federal public prosecutor on the compliance with the requirements in italics above (even though, such opinion is non-binding).

The legal profession has an ethical obligation to protect the criminal justice system by pushing back vigorously against untrammelled public shaming, particularly when it involves accusations of criminal behaviour.

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)

I'm not aware of any ethical difficulties Slater & Gordon has experienced, or any accusations that have been made by clients or judges, that public ownership of the firm has corrupted its lawyers» professional duties or harmed their clients» interests.

Uber — which is the public relations equivalent of the Hindenburg — is currently experiencing an exodus of users following the disclosure of accusations of rampant sexism in its technology team by former staffer Susan Fowler.

The magnitude of the public outcry and the amount of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even in the context of the scope of the incident which is said to have seen Cambridge Analytica harvest data of some 50 million Facebook users while informing less than one - percent of them of that activity several years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, an accusation made by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.

The dispute has involved lawsuits, accusations of public defamation, and an effort by Gevers to set up his own competing foundation and appeal to Swiss regulators to grant him authority over funds raised in Tezos» USD 232 million initial coin offering (ICO), which closed in July, 2017.