Sentences with phrase «meddling at»

This is «big» government meddling at the level of ordinary people trying to get on.

In 2011, the RCMP were called to investigate meddling at the federal level.

I think on a personal level, I don't think I was as emotionally prepared to leave the company and not meddle at that time in my life.

As Stuart Rice of the University of Chicago put it in a recent Nature article, this type of active control «meddles at the very heart of a reaction.»

Not exact matches

Last Thursday, moreover, both The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that Flynn had spoken with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, about the US economic sanctions on Russia before Trump was sworn in — including at least one call on the day President Barack Obama imposed new penalties on Russia for its election - related meddling.

Trump, in fits and starts, has indicated his support for the broad federal investigation of Russian meddling, but he has more often bristled at the notion that Kremlin operatives were working on his behalf or that his campaign coordinated with Russia to meddle in the election.

The Times editorial comes at a time when there are growing concerns that Trump could look to undermine or completely shut down special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election and Trump's alleged ties to Russia.

William D. Cohan's 6,000 - word Vanity Fair piece observes that after Finke laid into Loeb on her blog for meddling in Sony affairs, «a source close to the situation says that Loeb tried at least three times to have Finke fired.»

President Donald Trump lashed out at the «Fake News Media» in a series of tweets Saturday in which he distanced himself from special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

Mueller's detailed charges against Russian nationals and companies for election meddling aimed in part at trying to boost Trump's candidacy said they cooperated with «unwitting» campaign staffers and outside advisers.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

He goes on to say that they meddle in the marketing of their portfolio companies because «we can fake it far more convincingly than in other areas...» As I always say, marketing is like sex; everyone thinks they're good at it.

The president suggested Saturday that the indictments proved he or his campaign couldn't have been involved in a Russian effort to meddle in an election because the effort began in 2014, which was at least six months before he would announce his bid for the presidency in June 2015.

At the time of his firing, Comey was handling the bureau's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to meddle in the 2016 election, creating a firestorm of controversy for the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have been relentless in pressuring Sessions to take a fresh look at Obama - era dealings, in an effort that Democrats contend is aimed at steering attention away from investigations into Trump campaign ties to Russian election meddling.

They're much more basic: When we should take action early in our lives and start investing in something — anything — we typically do nothing; and later, when we have investments that we should patiently leave alone, we can't resist meddling, usually at exactly the wrong moments.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

Some of the queries deal with Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, who at the time was heading up the investigation into Russian meddling in the election, and reports that the president ordered the White House counsel to fire Mueller.

After the US / Russiam election meddling scandal, Wikileaks documents, probably Voting is one of the most critical issues to look at.

The president is mad at Sessions, of course, because of Sessions's decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.

At a conference on Saturday in Munich, McMaster said that evidence of Russian meddling is «incontrovertible» — but the same day, Trump tweeted a correction, claiming that McMaster «forgot to say» that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted and that it was instead Hillary Clinton and Democrats who colluded.

The United States imposed major new sanctions against Russia on Friday, striking at senior Russian officials and some of the country's biggest companies in one of Washington's most aggressive moves to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other «malign activity».

«Meddling in elections within the U.S., or any other nation for that matter, by another country is the new norm and will continue for as long as there is a chance of success,» Lee Munson, security researcher at Comparitech, told Newsweek.

If we look at history, I think it will tell us that the US has been meddling in the Middle East for the past 75 years with warfare, exploitataion, murder, espionage — the list goes on and on.

There is something perfectly Reagan-esque about a government that is at once malevolent, omnipotent, and vulnerable to the meddling of precocious children.

He makes them think about other people all the time, worry about other people, assume responsibility for other people, meddle with other people, until at last these victims of his wiles reach the estate which Jesus pictured — a man with a beam in his own eye, trying with laborious unselfishness to get a mote out of his brother's eye.

Con: This still doesn't offer teams from every conference an equal shot at the title (meaning the Orrin Hatch's of the world would still find reason to complain and meddle).

Raiola has been described as a «disruptive influence» by the Times as his «meddling» has added further tension at the club, and it would seem as though he's merely making the situation worse by getting involved and discussing where Pogba should be playing.

Pep isn't the guy making terrible decisions with the football and throwing awful picks, he's not the guy whose bad draft picks and missed trades have hurt depth on the roster, and he's not the guy meddling in places he shouldn't be meddling (I'm looking at you, Ryan Grigson and Jim Irsay).

That's an abhorrent way to treat employees in any industry, and it's worth noting that Angels weren't exactly assigned Hamilton and his contract against their wishes by a meddling dictator, but I at least understand the motivation.

The Dodgers would tie things at 5 - 5 shortly afterwards, and if not for that meddling Springer they would have won the game in the bottom of the 11th inning.

At this point I've just come to the conclusion Gaglardi is meddling, so I interpret little nuggets like this from that perspective.

Despite the brevity of Ciccarelli's incarceration, some hockey people were upset at the «meddling» from outside.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

He agreed that at present there is «too much» of Europe at present and accepted the EU provided «too much meddling» in the lives of British individuals and businesses.

If he wants to force another type of governance on NYC schools he owns the outcomes... if you look back at the history of NY State meddling into local school operation it is not a positive one.

Rather, he said it's about looking extensively at whether and how foreign governments are using cyber means in order to meddle in U.S. affairs.

Former President Obama's chief of staff said the United States» response to Russian meddling in the 2016 election was «watered down» at the insistence of U.S. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell.

Certainly to Westcountry (by which I mean roughly everything south of the M4 and west of the Hampshire Avon) Liberal Democrats, the Tories are the party of the City, of finance and wealth, while their party is the party of the slightly anarchic rural tradition that thumbs its nose at both fat cats and state meddling.

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) is looking at Cambridge Analytica's work for President Donald Trump's campaign as part of its investigation into Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 race, according to sources familiar with the probe.

At the same time, Cuomo has still failed to answer basic questions about charges that he himself meddled in the commission.

No this answer just has too much of a modern feel to it and I know that the stories of political meddling goes back at least to the times of the greek city states.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- A new memoir by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lays out his philosophy on politics but steers clear of his national ambitions or allegations that he meddled with an anti-corruption commission, according to two publications that got a sneak peak at the book.

Russian efforts to meddle in American politics did not end at Facebook and Twitter.

WHAT IT FOUND: This was the first poll fully conducted since Theresa May's angry rattle at Brussels for «meddling» in the election.

Answering questions with substance and going on the offensive against Cuomo for meddling with a federal fracking report, meddling with the Moreland Commission and his overall pandering to the 1 % that funds his campaign at the expense of the working and middle class.

In a speech that was equal parts wish list, progressive victory lap and ominous critique of the federal landscape, the governor issued an ambitious list of 30 - or - so proposals, including implementing a uniform sexual harassment policy for state and local officials, tightening up efforts to combat election meddling, ending homelessness and expanding access to food at school to combat child hunger.

The Republican National Committee is picking up at least some of the legal tab for President Trump during the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a...

If you accept that our moral codes reflect to a fair degree the depth of our knowledge of contemporary issues at any one time, then just as our view of homosexuality morphed from repugnance to acceptance in under a century, so the multiple ways in which we can meddle with the body are likely to become the norm in the near future.

Scientists in academia and at government agencies have raised concerns that climate sceptics within the Trump administration — particularly at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- might try to meddle with the document.