Sentences with phrase «meddling by»

Our former business model is certainly broken, thanks to uninvited intervention and meddling by our illustrious government.

Twitter decided to deal with the effects of Russian meddling by deleting the tweets from Russian troll accounts.

Election meddling by Americans appears to have become rarer in recent decades, though such covert operations sometimes don't come to light for years.

Although Stamos» team had found evidence of Russian meddling by November 2016, it wasn't until April 2017 that Facebook even nodded at the idea publicly.

Any meddling by other means will just make the situation worse for everybody in the long run.

The combination of the burst of the Japanese economic bubble, rising emissions and crash safety requirements, and continued restrictive market segment meddling by General Motors forced Isuzu out of the car making market and brought an end to the Impulse.

A retired educator familiar with the Renewal program blamed meddling by officials from the DOE's seven Borough Field Support Centers, which Fariña established in 2015.

Bush et al. are now beautifully positioned to say, «We think the Common Core is good for our kids and our country, and that» s why we» re full - throated supporters — but that» s also why we need to protect it from federal overreach or partisan meddling by a Democratic administration.»

Things get complicated once again involving Vicky and some meddling by her Barcelona host, Patricia Clarkson (wasted in miniscule supporting role which mainly consists of greeting people as they get out of cars) and come to rather abrupt, somewhat satisfying, if only for its slightly non-standard, conclusion.

Never in my 40 years as a professional in the health sciences have I seen such meddling by the executive branch in the National Institutes.

Until recently, there was little love lost between researchers and the E.U. Scientists have long bemoaned Europe's Framework Programmes for their focus on applied research, the forced collaboration between many labs and companies across the continent, the crippling bureaucracy, and what many see as too much meddling by politicians and bureaucrats in Brussels (Science, 8 December 2006).

As most readers of this essay surely know from experience, anything that undermines that motivation — pressure to produce, meddling by management, fear of sanctions, anxiety, resentment, even gratuitous performance bonuses — worsens work performance.

Indeed, the executive's recently appointed in - house auditing team would seem a direct response to what some see as meddling by the comptroller.

But that panel reportedly was plagued by many of the same problems as the anti-corruption Moreland Commission — including heavy - handed meddling by top Cuomo aides — that are now under federal investigation.

Mr. Russell rejected Mr. Lake's allegation that meddling by a local fire department over a chief's drunken driving arrest caused his termination.

Welsh Liberal Democrats want to start from scratch with new health watchdog that's completely independent of meddling by Labour ministers, properly resourced and able to do its job without fear of repercussions.

However, Obama was worried about the appearance of partisan meddling by himself, so he called together the leaders of the House and Senate, both sides, had the intelligence people brief them, and wanted to make a joint / united bi-partisan announcement about what was going on.

The digital ad disclosure reforms come after a 2016 presidential election that fueled concerns of social media meddling by Russia in an effort to inject fraudulent information into the political bloodstream.

Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy says he had no direct knowledge of alleged meddling by his boss into an ethics commission the governor set up.

But he added that it could create new problems for large authorities and agencies like the MTA trying to coordinate huge projects — especially if it's seen as meddling by the governor.

Politicians from his own party criticized this meddling by the executive branch, and accused the governor of acting like a dictator.

This meeting most likely means there is meddling by donors and this is a way for them to apply pressure to her to get what they want.

The selection also ends a two - month search that was met with constant speculation and reported meddling by Kalanick, which lead Benchmark, one of its largest investors, to sue the former CEO over allegedly pulling strings to return as chief.

The talking heads on Sun News champion the free market, and rail against meddling by government bodies.

When he leaves the monastery, Arn soon proves his meddle by fighting to defend his family's honour.

Not exact matches

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who hosted the event, said G7 ministers expressed deep concern about the «despicable» nerve agent attack in Britain and Russia's efforts to destabilize democracies by meddling in elections.

Ryan's retirement announcement was preceded by a string of tweets from Trump, who touched on subjects including special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian election meddling and the response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria on Wednesday.

And yet over a year since the election meddling took place, little has been done to counter efforts by Russia to intervene in future elections that are already underway.

This year's F8 comes amid backlash against Facebook over user privacy and election meddling, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from up to 87 million users was inappropriately obtained by a third party.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

Other key matters under investigation by Mueller's team, with its 17 career prosecutors, include whether Trump or any of his associates helped Russia meddle in the 2016 campaign.

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.

Then there's the fact that the investigation into Russian meddling is currently spearheaded by Robert Mueller, a lifelong Republican who headed the FBI under George W. Bush.

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

In an indictment brought Friday by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, PayPal has become the latest tech company pulled into the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Thursday's sanctions target Russians indicted last month as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling on charges of conspiracy to interfere in the election by waging a social - media influence operation to sow discord and sway public opinion in the US in favor of Trump.

An ad created by the pro-Trump Great America Alliance — a nonprofit «issues» group that isn't required to disclose its donors — casts Comey as a «showboat» who was «consumed with election meddling» instead of focusing on combating terrorism.

Trump frequently calls Mueller's investigation a «witch hunt,» and believes it is motivated not by a desire to make sense of Russia's meddling in the US electoral process, but rather a partisan plot to undermine his presidency.

Currently, the President - elect is an ongoing spat with the intelligence communities over claims by the FBI, Homeland Security, and others that Russia hacked the email of American politicians in a bid to meddle with the U.S. election.

By the time it received Steele's dossier in September 2016, the FBI had already been investigating Russia's election meddling for two months and had begun looking into possible ties between Trump campaign officials — like Page — and Russian actors.

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.

It's not too much of an exaggeration to say the 2012 budget was inspired by, and might as well have been written by, Ethical Oil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealth.

The only production that could be brought back on line fast is shale oil, but without the extremely low interest rates caused by government meddling, shale drilling will be much more expensive in the future.

The decision, reported by Bloomberg News, contrasts with his decision to recuse himself from the FBI's probe into Russian meddling and any potential collusion — which later became the special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller.

International Iran urged by UN to respect environment activists after wildlife campaigner death, The Guardian Moscow says it has evidence of Western meddling in Russian election, Reuters

But most make the claim and then disappear or claim to add value and actually decrease value by micromanaging, meddling and controlling.

In October, NBC News reported that Cohen was questioned by congressional investigators digging into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

When I asked about the controversies that Facebook is currently embroiled in (Russia meddling, out - of - control ad platform, data abuse by third - party developers, tech addiction), Cook called out advertising - based business as problematic.

Paul Krugman and others have blamed these financial crises on the Gold Standard, but, as explained in a well - researched article by Brian Domitrovic, the financial crises of the 1800s had similar causes to the financial crises of the 1900s and 2000s: monetary inflation and government meddling.

Premier Ed Stelmach «s meddling with natural resource royalties led the oil industry to quickly begin funnelling donations to the Wildrose, then led by a photogenic former school trustee named Danielle Smith.