Sentences with phrase «escape public scrutiny»

The estate has been called the Camp David of the West by its owners and by the «Desert X» brochure, which also refers to it as «a place of welcome and solitude,» a description that sidesteps the fact that only 7.5 percent of it is open to the public and that President Nixon went there to escape public scrutiny during Watergate.

That a single organization like the Patriots could control the flow of information and ideas in society is a truly frightening thought and since the existence of the Patriots is unknown to the general public, their actions escape public scrutiny as well.

Unlike lawmaking which takes place during scheduled legislative sessions, oversight activities are not scheduled and are typically not considered as urgent as other legislative activities, thus largely escaping public scrutiny.

This allowed tiny outfits like AEY to get into the game and make millions by underbidding the big guys on the smallest of the contracts up for bid on a publically visible website that, disturbingly, escaped public scrutiny.

This decision, and the fate of the $ 777 million allocated to it in 2013 - 14 has escaped public scrutiny.

Not exact matches

These so - called «reformers» reify test scores, making them the be-all and end - all of education and are eager to fire teachers and principals whose students don't get the test scores that the computer says they should, and equally eager to close public schools with low scores and replace them with privately managed schools that all too often escape the same scrutiny as the public schools they replaced.