Sentences with phrase «many scare stories»

Writing in the Telegraph on Wednesday night in conjunction with f ormer chancellors Lord Norman Lamont and Lord Nigel Lawson, the open letter accused the BoE and Treasury of «peddling phoney forecasts and scare stories to back up the attempts of David Cameron and George Osborne to frighten the electorate into voting Remain.»

Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin says in a press release accompanying the launch: «Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne have tried to fool the public using scare stories from cronies or subordinates.

«The market is holding up a little better than some of the scare stories that were out in the early part of the year [predicted],» said Peter Kozel, executive managing director and chief economist for the New York office of Colliers.

In February, scare stories about potential defaults set off tidal wave of selling.

The actual number, however, is still proportionately small, despite scare stories in the press.

Santi Cazorla has also been missing for the last couple of seasons, and we had a scare story not long ago that said our little Spanish magician would miss at least 90 % of this year, but the 32 year - old seems determined to get himself back to full fitness and is desperate to play for Arsenal again.

Similar scare stories appeared on the websites of Fox News and USA Today.

In May we had scare stories about the banning of the England shirt and the flag in The Sun and The Express - which eventually turned out to be groundless.

At the same time, if the scare stories are proven to be unfounded nonsense, and if Brexit goes without a hitch, then what impact would that have?

The same old scare stories simply don't wash.»

This is not the first time myself and my retailer colleagues have been fed a constant stream of tobacco industry scare stories, from front groups and via the trade media, in which doomsday was predicted for small retailers at any measure to cut young people smoking.

«There will be people like the energy companies who will have scare stories.

But today's report warns that, while the health risks of smoking are well documented, the risks associated with passive smoking do not justify a ban, and suggests ministers may have been unduly influenced by media scare stories about the issue.

Tabloids railed against the party's rise and its Nazi origins, without ever pondering the fact that their daily dose of anti-immigrant scare stories had contributed significantly to its growth.

From Vote Leave's absurd claims that Turkey is about to join the EU (along with their implicit threat of millions of Turkish people coming to Britain) to scare stories about hoards of foreign criminals arriving in the UK — it's been a one - way deluge of negativity about free movement.

In a series of high production value TV adverts, senior Republicans highlighted scare stories from the NHS, angering British officials and healthcare staff.

It was a scare story based on a false premise and some badly flawed polls.»

The banks used to threaten, the banks used to conjure up scare stories, the banks used to talk about the impact of regulation, and the Conservative party supported them.

It's now the career route of choice: they can use that platform to attack this Government and make their name, lining up alongside former special advisers, MPs and councillors to argue for more spending, or to spread scare stories that are often exaggerated or wholly untrue.

Business Secretary Vince Cable is set to anger his Conservative coalition colleagues today as he hails free movement in the European Union and attacks immigration «scare stories».

You can now hear for yourself the arrogant and outrageous way that Harriet Harman continued to peddle scare stories about the Tories scrapping the winter fuel allowance and Sure Start Centres, when challenged by Ben Gummer on Thursday.

We've heard scare stories about hospitals not being able to cope if a Paris - style attack happened during the strike, and Jeremy Hunt has done his best to portray the strike leaders as politically motivated rather than actually caring about patient safety.

Even police officers and members of the judiciary declare as facts what are actually Daily Mail scare stories.

Tory Leaver Michael Gove is swimming in the same moral cesspit as floundering Farage after the UKIP leader peddled his scare stories about Turks coming to Britain.

The Independent previews five pledge card - style pledges and scare stories that Labour strategists hope will get the Labour Party moving up in opinion polls.

The Scottish Conservatives have this morning launched a poster to rebut Labour's scare stories:

Last night, after the Conservatives overturned a 5,000 Labour majority to win the Norwich seat by 7,348 votes, Labour MPs gave warning that, unless the party did more than peddle scare stories about possible Tory spending cuts, it faced a wipeout at the next election.

(The fact that this hasn't had catastrophic effects on Earth, if it happens at all, is one reason that researchers at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, are so confident that scare stories about black holes being produced by their Large Hadron Collider are baseless.)

It's time to get past the scare stories and start discussing the real uses and abuses of machine learning

Although the results suggest that scare stories over alpha - PVP may be somewhat overblown, the fact that it is comparable to MDPV makes it a highly dangerous drug.

Q. «I've always had a fantasy about having sex in the ocean, but I've heard some scare stories.

The old scare story about fasting was that your body will break down muscle when fasting for the purpose of creating glucose from the protein.

In fact, the new messages are getting crowded out as mythical and another «scare story» because of the way we have been presented with food scare stories.

You may have heard scare stories about red meat and how we should restrict it, but this is based on epidemiology with so many possible confounders.

It should also be said that Ancel Keys was behind the original scare story on saturated fat; the seven countries paper which showed a big correlation between saturated fat intake and heart disease.

It's barbecue time, and scare stories are already in the news about the dangers of cooking meat, fish and poultry on the grill.

Needless to say, the teachers unions happily jumped all over the new scare story.

From its shock opening right out of a horror movie, this graphic novel sets the scene for an old - fashioned scare story.

But so what, he clearly holds the reins anyway... And his record to date has actually been pretty good: The company has stated its commitment to international governance standards, related party deals have been cleaned up / eliminated since the IPO, KPMG was appointed as auditor, and lots of media scare stories (buying US poultry companies, deposits in related party banks, getting into cattle raising, etc.) have proved to be untrue.

A successful investor needs to put aside the scare stories and stick with the facts.

Essentially I find that the scare stories are easier to understand, thus have more potential to motivate people to change.

Speaking of which, since «An Inconvenient Truth» used the satellite image of hurricane Katrina as the single most scary image in that scare story of a wannabe documentary, will the sequel (there always has to be a sequel) contain a satellite image of the cloud free open ocean we've seen for most of the last two years?

It would be easier to swallow this response if Nature hadn't just published the AJC paper (and Stainforth et al previously) to a fanfare of scare stories about the threat of 10C warming.

The take - home point, made by Sam Kazman, the group's general counsel, was: «As this 1922 story demonstrates, scare stories about the environment should always be treated with a degree of skepticism.»

Alas, the last two hurricanes seasons have been busts in the Atlantic for those who are hawking global warming scare stories.

I'm a skeptic when it comes to scare stories.

One environmental scare story always seems to follow another.

This is not a scare story.

But with Trump's inauguration it will be the beginning of the end for the Green Blob — that sinister cabal of corrupt politicians, UN - and EU - technocrats, bent scientists, shrill activists, rent - seeking corporatists, blood - sucking lawyers and gullible journalists which has held the world to ransom these last four decades by promoting the man - made climate change scare story and other, related environmental scams.

You could also criticize environmentalists, whose tendency has been to stray too far in the other direction, extrapolating scientific assumptions to create scare stories so dispiriting that they create apathy rather than activism.