Sentences with phrase «in public disgrace»

Not exact matches

There are passages in the Qur» an which suggest that those who fall away will not be given another chance, but then the Epistle to the Hebrews warns that «It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace» (Hebrews 6, 4 - 6).

Jim Bakker — TV evanglist, affair with coworker Marvin Gorman — TV evangelist — affair with congregant Bob Moorehead — Pastor of Overlake Christian Church — arrested for indecent exposure, resigned in disgrace after evidence of his molesting congregants at weddings and baptisms for 20 years went public.

At a recent public gathering in the heart of the nation's capital, with former civil rights hero and disgraced Mayor Marion Barry on the podium as an object lesson, Farrakhan prepared his black audience for the coming race war.

Since Stalin's death, however, science has been given top priority in financial allotment, in the educational system, and in salaries and public prestige; in addition, the climate of work has improved, and most of those exiled or disgraced have been rehabilitated.

Disgraced former Queens Sen. Hiram Monserrate and the former gal pal he once slashed bizarrely surfaced in separate public events.

Spitzer's chief complaint about then - Assemblyman Tom DiNapoli when he was up for disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's job back in 2007 was that he was a life - long public servant and lacked financial expertise.

McGrath, an attorney and first - time candidate for public office, faces Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky in a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by disgraced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Cuomo declined to comment extensively on the prospects of New York City Public Advocate Tish James being appointed to the post after Democrat Eric Schneiderman resigned in disgrace on Tuesday.

That's not to say more people are in the «go for it» column when it comes to a return to public life for the disgraced former governor.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie promised public hearings within two weeks to select an attorney general to replace Schneiderman, who resigned in disgrace Monday night.

He's another disgraced state judge who, like Feeley, after being born in New York drifted into Massachusetts to go on a public payroll.

The admission by Bob Diamond, disgraced former Chief Executive of Barclays Bank that the bank has behaved in a «reprehensible manner» and profited hugely at the expense of both its customers, the public purse and, potentially, the global economy is surely sufficient justification for cancelling the contract.

«It is a disgrace that a former cop took a walk from the chamber and refused to stand up for law enforcement and let politics get in the way of public safety.»

Any party which allows a Party Official to suggest in public l that an MP «should be lynched» — and does not discipline him — is a disgrace.

Or whether the former disgraced Tory MP Neil Hamilton should be given a route back to public life via being elected as an Assembly Member in Wales.

Cuomo, a Democrat who's seeking a third term in November, called the city's public housing «a disgrace» and described it as both a «public - health emergency» and a «public - safety emergency.»

The disgraced public official pleaded guilty in 2010 to felony charges for accepting nearly $ 1 million in gifts for funnelling $ 250 million of the state's public pension money to a particular private equity fund.

Part of it, he explained, was based on whether the public was willing to give him «a second chance» after he admitted several digital affairs and resigned in disgrace in 2011.

She released a new TV ad today that continues her ongoing effort to link Martins with disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who lost his job in a federal corruption scandal — though his conviction was recently overturned, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» in connection with public corruption.

But A Leader without Self - Confidence working with unintelligible appointees will never defer questions to them in Public for the fear of being disgrace and that was exactly the case between 2012 - 2016 in Ghana where a Vice-President was hiding and operating from the Kitchen at the FlagStaff House.

Prominent men in a variety of fields — media, politics and entertainment — have left the public stage in disgrace following a cascade of accusations leveled against them.

And the governor donated the more than $ 110,000 he received in campaign contributions from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein to Women's Justice NOW, NOW - NYC's charitable partner organization that supports public education and outreach efforts and offers legal advocacy and referrals for women.

In Jonathan Darman's titillatingly good Newsweek profile of Eliot Spitzer, we learn that the disgraced ex-governor has no plans to run for his old public offices again, doesn't want to admit whether he went to therapy, and always knew what he was doing wrong when he paid prostitutes for sex behind his wife's back.

Disgraced former Queens city councilman Ruben Wills cried like a baby as he was sentenced to two to six years in prison Thursday for looting public coffers, pleading for leniency and maintaining his innocence to the end.

It is pretty sad that rather than helping the children in the public schools in this district be able to read, write or do simple arithmetic at grade level, it is more important for our disgraced assemblyman to provide basketball nets, rather than educational safety nets.

Over in southeast Queens, Community Board 12 Chairwoman Adrienne Adams, a Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged Queens State Sen. James Sanders last year, is replacing disgraced former Councilman Ruben Wills, who was expelled after he was found guilty of stealing public funds.

An MP endangering national security would be a disgrace; an MP exposing embarrassing facts about Home Office policy that Ministers are hiding is doing a job in the public interest.

This selection weighed against the selection of Zach Carter as Corporation Counsel (because he reportedly befriends disgraced public official John L. Sampson, but was a John Gotti, Jr. slayer and Abner Louima defender and knows that «Stop & Frisk» is not racial profiling when done right) may suggest bi-polarity for the mayor - elect, but I trust not paranoia for me as I am at a befuddled disadvantage on what to expect next: but we can ask a de Blasio agreement with Gov. Cuomo that neither of them will be involved in selecting the next Council Chair (because that would not only be unlawful but power prejudice ugly in these times of moral decay by the elected).

He was cleared of the allegations but gave a speech attacking the motivations for his arrest, saying: «An MP endangering national security would be a disgrace; an MP exposing embarrassing facts about Home Office policy that ministers are hiding is doing a job in the public interest.»

Bill Clinton may be the most powerful person in the world, but infidelity brought him mortifying public disgrace.

Brianne Randall, who reported her abuse by disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to police in 2004, will receive a public apology from Meridian Township, Michigan, officials for their handling of the case.

Drake is at the end of his rope, disgraced because of a botched missing persons case that has put him in the bad graces of the police and the public.

It proved the most prominent and public display yet for the movement that has swept through Hollywood, leaving a trail of disgraced men in its wake.

See, Tricky Dick, advised that Frost was a soft journalist who would lob fluffy, happy questions his way, thought he'd finally get a chance to come off looking good in the public eye after the Watergate disgrace — not to mention he was promised a fee of $ 600,000.

Paley later says she spoke with Franco after disgraced studio mogul Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault allegations became public, when Franco allegedly told her that while it was wrong for him to have a sexual relationship with her since he knew she was in recovery for substance abuse, he hadn't done «anything illegal,» and called himself «a changed man.»

Going public about being sexually assaulted by disgraced ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 has, unsurprisingly, been a difficult process for Italian writer / director / actress Asia Argento.

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.

When Congress passed charter school legislation for Washington, D.C., in 1995, our public schools were a national disgrace, characterized by decrepit buildings, a meddling school board, patronage - based employment, sky - high truancy, and some of the nation's lowest graduation rates and test scores.

This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child» system that has left troubled schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those schools.

Lender, who led the Courant's investigation of «Dr.» Michael Sharpe, the disgraced former head of the Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain, turned his attention to the highly touted education reform export who the Malloy administration was bringing in to join Special Master Steven Adamowski to «turnaround» New London public schools.

The fact is that no Connecticut governor in the last forty years has done as much damage to Connecticut's public education system than Governor Malloy and that includes a realistic assessment of disgraced Republican Governor John Rowland.

have been among the most vocal proponents of diverting scarce public taxpayer funds to Achievement First, Inc, the large charter school management company, to former charter school operator Dr.» Michael Sharpe and his disgraced FUSE charter school chain and Steve Perry, the controversial anti-teacher former Hartford school administrator and self - described «most trusted educator in America,» who, thanks to Governor Malloy is opening his own privately owned but publicly funded «boutique» charter school company.

As more and more facts come out about Michael Sharpe, the CEO of the Jumoke / FUSE Charter School Management company, parents, public school advocates and the taxpayers of Bridgeport and Connecticut are turning their attention to the decision by Paul Vallas and former Bridgeport Board of Education, Chairman Kenneth Moales, Jr. to hand over Bridgeport's Dunbar School, its students, staff, parents and millions of dollars in public funds to the disgraced charter school fraud.

Sharpe realizes that many «white» liberals are susceptible to wishful thinking: the white liberals see quite clearly that American public schooling, steeped in class and racial segregation, is a moral disgrace.

Puppy mills are a national disgrace and the simple fact that public consciousness of the issue is at a level to challenge a status quo that has been in place for decades is very good news.

It is a disgrace that members of the public have to be the leaders for change due to the failure of self - interested experts / professionals in the veterinary vaccine industry.

That phrase may also be expressed in English as «to suffer public disgrace», i.e. to be unable to show one's face in public.

«Forecast the Facts» tries to stir up controversy about one of the projects described in the fake memo circulated by disgraced climate scientist Peter Gleick, characterizing it as an effort to «infiltrate public schools» with a climate change curriculum.

As of yet, disgraced scientist Peter Gleick has not appeared in public to receive the award the enviro - left would like to give him for his willingness to commit crimes in the service of destroying all who present real science.

In a nation where close to a tenth of the population has diabetes and heart disease is the number - one killer, our food system is a national disgrace and a public health disaster.