Sentences with phrase «kangaroo court of»

In Femi Olatunbosun's kangaroo court of hate and prejudice, the former Vice President is guilty for allowing the new Senate President, Bukola Saraki to visit him.

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Someone that reads this maybe a few years from now might snap out of it and think «My God, these people are advocating for kangaroo courts and witch hunts and they don't even realize it?».

Later, this same official is questioned in the midst of a kangaroo court and she gives an emotional recounting of her experience at the Pentagon on September 11th, and the thousands of terrorist attacks her methods have prevented since then.

My husband stormed out of his court telling him he was another despot, and ran a kangaroo court that rigged the decision any way his father and his friends wanted.

Kellner in an emailed statement to reporters blasted Silver, saying the ruling by Levine proved the Assembly Ethics Committee's review of the harassment case shwed it was «nothing more then a kangaroo court doing Speaker Silver's bidding.»

At a rally to support the legislation held in front of City Hall on April 16, Quinn compared the RGB to a «kangaroo court» because its decisions seemed to be preordained.

Frank described the panel as a «Kangaroo court» set up purposely to suspend him to pave the way for further illegalities by a handful of members of the Chief John Odigie - Oyegun - led National Working Committee.

Throughout the process, Johnson has said he is falsely accused, calling the closed hearings a «witch hunt,» «kangaroo court» and «public assassination of my character.»

In addressing members of Parliament and journalists in London, Lancman said «all of us are threatened» when «American journalists and authors can be hauled into kangaroo courts on phoney - baloney libel charges in overseas jurisdictions who don't share our belief in freedom of speech or a free press.»

According to him, this time, the plotters of the plan to procure the services of a compromised or malleable judge to get self - serving «jankara» and kangaroo judgment with the intention of having the Supreme Court reverse itself on the June, 2014 Ekiti election.

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Mychal Bell, 17, the first of the classmates to go on trial, was quickly convicted in a kangaroo court by an all - white jury presided over by a white judge in less than three hours.

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President Obama's science advisor, John Holdren, excoriated proponents of the idea in a recent Boston Globe op - ed, «The perversity of the climate science kangaroo court».

Holdren calls the proposal a «perversity» of the original intent leading to a «kangaroo court» for ulterior - motivated stone - throwers intent on obfuscating consensus science regarding the serious threat climate change poses.

But the report makes clear that the committee conducted Lindzen's interview in the finest traditions of a kangaroo court.

That «court» has been widely criticized by jurists around the world as little more than a kangaroo court in the service of a government owned and run by big - business plutocrats.

Nathan Whitling, one of Khadr's lawyers, has referred to the Military Commissions as «kangaroo court [s].»

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)

The prehearing was nothing short of a joke — kangaroo court comes to mind — and the initial fines that were proposed were so outrageous they left no choice but to go to a hearing.