Sentences with phrase «many sordid»

Van Beurden takes one basic lesson from this sordid history: Shell failed in renewable energy before because it didn't regard it as strategic.

For a decade author JT LeRoy captivated the literary world with his sordid stories of his childhood.

The boats set sail from Libya, where a main base of the traffickers is located, and migrants wait in sordid conditions, often for months, for the opportunity to be crowded into the boats after paying thousands of dollars.

The PRI's somewhat sordid history, both recent and historical, of patronage and links to the criminal underworld makes it possible for critics to raise uncomfortable questions about its fulmination against the Venezuelan government.

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

But new was the artist's social justice embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement — several videos on Lemonade and her song Formation prominently feature black women whose loved ones were killed by police — and thinly - veiled, sordid details of the singer's apparent marital strife.

A sordid trial is underway in Florida this week, pitting the debased former wrestler Hulk Hogan against the digital tabloid Gawker in a fight over a video showing Hogan having sex with his best friend's wife.

By the end of Gilded Age, the work of muckraking journalists who had exposed the sordid abuses of workers helped fuel recurring labor strikes.

If that's not enough public embarrassment for you, tune into the sordid affairs and finances of Toni and her kin in the Braxton Family Values reality show on WE.

It all suggests that the dramatic day and a half of legal proceedings are but a prelude to even more courtroom theatrics and combat in what has become a sordid, long - standing matter (for the full saga, read the Disturbing Decline of Sumner Redstone) that reflects poorly on countless participants, not least the boards of CBS and Viacom, which took no action to remove Redstone as their executive chairman until Herzer's case forced their hand.

«There is a long and sordid history of people coming out of the woodwork with bogus claims when huge amounts of money are on the line,» Altman wrote.

The lives of the very rich are fascinating, particularly when those lives turn grubby and sordid and tinged with tragedy.

Anybody who's seen Chinatown can guess at the sordid history of the real estate deals that helped transform Los Angeles from a dusty burgh to a global capital of glamour, and for Gross — who sold truckloads of his previous book, 740 Park, a history of New York's richest apartment building and its residents — the estates of Beverly Hills and Bel Air prove fertile ground.

A little patience and ethics and Waksal and Stewart could have avoided the whole sordid mess... and been richly rewarded.

There is a long and sordid history of people coming out of the woodwork with bogus claims when huge amounts of money are on the line.

The sordid business then descended into farrago of charges and counter-charges between Cohen and Daniels's lawyer, and hints that Daniels has lascivious information about Trump, including photographs, tapes, and something about «paternity.»

Three decades later, when Redstone stepped down as chairman of Viacom, at the age of 92, embroiled in a public family melodrama and sordid lawsuit over his mental capacity, Dauman, then the C.E.O. of the media conglomerate, was tapped to replace him as executive chairman.

Once the sordid operation was complete, Europe had automatically acquired another reason for refusing to discuss debt restructuring: it would now hit the pockets of European citizens!

The fund's custodian, HSBC, which sources and stores its gold, has a sordid history of unethical behavior.

By slinging insults with Trump, they are simply reducing themselves to his sordid level.

Weather modification has a long, sordid history and hurricanes have inspired some of the more far - fetched proposals, from bombarding cyclones with sonic booms from aircraft to beaming down microwaves from space into nascent storms.

«Not only do we need to take note of this movement but we also needed to act collectively so that this sordid reality becomes never again,» Brault said.

This is, in our assessment, a much fairer practice, and we believe that the application of such a practice across the entire binary options broking industry would go a long way toward improving the sometimes sordid reputation of the industry.

Leaving aside the question of whether there can be amnesty for anything but the past, this is yet another in a sordid series of instances in which unbridled vindictiveness disguised as a passion for justice has done great wrong.

But while denying the reports, which said the butler was merely a courier in a behind - the - scenes struggle for power in the Holy See, the Vatican acknowledged that the often sordid affair would test the faith of Catholics in their Church.

And perhaps even close the lid on your sordid scandals with the priest.

Tell him you can read the morning paper and digest the television commentaries, and think through the day's superficial problems, and manage the community's weary drives, and bless the sordid baked potatoes and green beans, ad infinitum, better than he can.

Within the entertainment world in the UK, it began with the sordid child abuse revelations about Jimmy Saville, and it's featured other one - time heroes such as Bill Cosby along the way.

A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

Colina — What David said is true — you keep trying to control the narrative by pulling the conversation back to it being about a «divorce», when nobody really talked about that at all until you initially brought it up, then David addressed it (everyone else ignored it because obviously they weren't interested in the «sordid details»), and you again directed the conversation (attempted to direct it) right BACK to an over simplification of it being about the divorce between two people!

Go read the blog entries over at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/ to get the continuing sordid drama.

Julie McMahon September 16, 2014 at 8:39 pm -LSB-...] A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

A fresh round of sordid revelations will probably not hinder some evangelicals from the dream of golfing with our current president.

Some express their search in their automobile shrines, while others kneel at the altar of Superlative Experience: they're seeking the highest high, the biggest vehicle, the most extreme sport, the most sordid confession on a reality show.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Matthew and Luke weren't hiding the truth, but they did want to distract their readers from the real problem about Jesus» birth: the sordid assumption that Jesus was a mamzer (Hebrew for «bastard»).

Mr. Jordan came out of the closet at the University of Notre Dame, where he was engaged in sundry and sordid scandals, and now holds an endowed chair in philosophy at Emory University.

The only cult that can truly thrive in the aftermath of Christianity is a sordid service of the self, of the impulses of the will, of the nothingness that is all that the withdrawal of Christianity leaves behind.

The story of strained race relations at Moody is sordid, but many students and faculty told me they felt a sense of hope in recent years.

I have a Sister who swears by «the sinner's prayer» but is beholding to «the secret» and her life has not been radically transformed, she still engages in sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage and feels this is natural... I would never be able to participate in this sordid activity now that i am truly saved for there was a time i myself was being deceived in much the same way as my Sister is now, I just couldn't bring myself to do these acts and further, would not place myself in such a predicament that I would..

He seems to have had an instinct — or shall we say, a gift of the Spirit — for taking any situation however sordid and saying something that would ring through the ages to inspire us.

Second, there is the matter of his sordid personal history and, again in the mind of the New Yorker, his even more offputting convictions as a born - again Christian.

In Canada, the church has been living with the sad and sordid story of «residential schools» for native peoples.

The meeting, along with the multiple public references to the scandal, may have marked the end of a sordid chapter in the Church's life, although the victim organizations and their lawyers continue the long march through the courts and chanceries in search of payouts that now exceed more than $ 2 billion.

An army of police officers has marched forth to investigate the most sordid of crimes in the most up - to - date way.

If he can make use of snob appeal to sell automobiles, washing machines, or beer, he may sponsor a symphony orchestra, but if a sordid murder drama would commend itself to a larger public, he will present that instead.

We must recognize that behind these sordid struggles there lay a real conflict of ideals.

Joe Kennedy, was a bootlegger, and there are others who have a sordid history of crookedness.

They am «idle talkers and deceivers,... teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach....

No doubt money may have passed, but it is unlikely that so human, if so sordid, a motive as plain avarice had much to do with it.