Sentences with phrase «like public scandals»

Candor, temperance, courage — these traits preempt problems like public scandals, harassment and discrimination and foster a positive moral pragmatism among coworkers and practical wisdom among leaders.

Not exact matches

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

The Stormy Daniels scandal feels like the kind of salacious yet pointless story that distracts the public from the truly important issues of the Trump era.

«If you're a billionaire and you don't like the coverage of you, and you don't particularly want to embroil yourself any further in a public scandal, it's a pretty smart, rational thing to fund other legal cases.»

The fact that so many Christians here, and not just people like Naomi, consider it a scandal that they for once can't hijack a public event and turn it into a Christians worship service shows how laughable it is to think that it is atheists who need lessons on tolerance and co-existence.

For our public schools beleaguered by budget cuts, teacher layoffs, scandals, it seems like another nail in the coffin.

In a refreshingly candid discussion, he reveals why the «public mood» is a myth, what it's really like on the campaign trail, why the legacy of the MP expenses scandal makes him fear for the future of our democracy, and how Alex Salmond predicted the key role of minor parties almost a decade ago.

The Democrats have said they plan to give the money to the Child Care Council because vital public services like child care suffered because of the scandal.

With so many scandals of corruption that effect and relate to constituents like me who have practically had to beg for proper representation with regard to honest, ethical city and state government leadership, I should not have to lose my pension, present and future because of false, fake and failed leadership — and the very public representatives who have collectively been the obstacle to fair labor practices and treatment, that now overshadow any corruption and misconduct by the Transit Authority and MTA.

So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?

Republican strategist Rich Galen, a former top Newt Gingrich aide who has seen a sex scandal or two up close, agreed: «People who run for public office, especially high public office, are not like regular people.

While the bubbling scandal is not sexy or catchy enough to put Cuomo in a Chris Christie — like spot, there are other, potentially bigger consequences than bad press and public perception, as Chris Smith wrote on Intelligencer last week:

(CNN)- Hours after his inauguration as Virginia's 72nd governor — and in the wake of a scandal that engulfed his predecessor — Terry McAuliffe has made ethics reform his first order of business, instituting tighter limits between public officials and lobbyists like he once was.

There are many scenes like that one, as Weiner's 2013 campaign and potentially his marriage come apart at the seams when more information about the scandal is introduced to the public — including pictures of him fully nude and details of phone sex with a disillusioned (and, likely, attention - seeking) fan.

This exposure about the whole rating scandal is nice, but it feel like it is preaching to the choir b / c outside of cinephiles who follow more artsy films, the general public still doesn't know what is going on (or care.)

Gove's earnestly pursued and widely touted «academies» scheme, which allows district - operated public schools to convert to charter - like status and be managed by outside groups, has led to a major scandal in Birmingham, where a handful of such schools were taken over by fundamentalist Muslims.

But then again no one calls for the public school system to be shut down as a result of these scandals like folks are calling for an end to McKay.

Ready Player One in not wrong to suggest that we should be skeptical of corporations like IOI, which wants to gain control of the OASIS in order to datamine its customers and bombard everyone's headsets with targeted advertisements (the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal is the latest reminder that Silicon Valley works for shareholders, not the public interest).