Sentences with phrase «fox guarding the hen house»
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«This is a classic case of the fox guarding the hen house,» Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.
That move would be tantamount to letting the fox guard the hen house.
Herman said Saladino's proposal for an inspector general sounded like «the fox guarding the hen house.»
He calls it «the fox guarding the hen house», and says it fails to prevent the «rampant abuse of the disabled».
Some environmental groups claim that the CIR is run by the cosmetics industry, for the cosmetics industry, and is trapped in a classic case of the fox guarding the hen house.
«You don't want the fox guarding the hen house,» Pulsipher says.
Talk about the fox guarding the hen house!
As Sharpe's sordid past came to light, the Jumoke / FUSE charter school management company collapsed and Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor (aka the fox guarding the hen house) put the charter school management company on probation and ordered an investigation.
Perelman observed, «it is a case of the foxes guarding the hen house.
Whatever the program will look like in B.C., it must have a thorough and independent evaluation component or be likened to the fox guarding the hen house.
«The foxes guard the hen houses,» said David Kwass, a personal injury attorney based in Philadelphia who is also a co-chairman of the American Association for Justice's Guardrail Litigation Group.
«It's not the fox guarding the hen house; it's the fox designing the hen house,» said Paul C. Light, a professor of political science at New York University, who studies the federal work force.