Sentences with phrase «more accusers»

It is tempting to submit to the mob rule of #MeToo, of a tweet, a news story, even a rumour to immediately terminate the employment of an employee or manager for an indiscretion alleged by one or more accusers (with unproven motives) to have occurred many years and decades ago.

The #MeToo movement might have begun last October, but the fallout continues as more and more accusers find the strength to speak out.

Since then, two more accusers have come forward, with one saying Kramer engaged in statutory rape with her younger sister's 16 - year - old friend and a then - aspiring stuntwoman accusing Kramer of forcing her to perform oral sex on him after a party in the»70s or»80s.

Of course, politicians who have proclaimed their innocence and rejected initial calls to resign have later stepped down under changed circumstances like more accusers coming forward.

Not exact matches

Conway hoped to encourage more women to come forward with allegations against Bill Clinton, building on the campaign's decision to bring three of the former president's accusers to the second presidential debate.

Trump himself has called his accusers «horrible liars» and said he will prove the allegations aren't true, but Hillary Clinton and ally Michelle Obama say Americans are learning more about Trump's unacceptable behavior every day.

And that's why Stormy Daniels, more than investigators or any of Trump's other accusers, is just the person who can take him down.

In the case of the dozen or more allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump himself, as in the case of ousted White House staff secretary Rob Porter, the weight of the available evidence comes down conclusively on the side of the accusers.

If the accuser gets more specific, he'll probably offer two reasons that it's foolish to make a fuss over the high incomes of a few people at the top of the income distribution.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 traitors, heady, high - minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

«Evidently,» he said, «you don't have any accusers any more.

A long drawn out trial in civil court would have cost millions and would have eroded his name even more with accusers sitting in open court saying aloud things that aren't true.

And since people who are accused of Nazi thinking don't appear threatening — they don't wear «SS» insignia on tailored black leather coats or boast funny mustaches, and they haven't swallowed the poisonous ideology of fascism — the Nazi epithet is more likely to undermine the accuser's credibility than persuade his audience.

The article said that the accused had passed away and can not confront the accuser (s), so there has to be more than multiple allegations to back this up.

He shows very convincingly that his most prominent accusers are motivated by misguided and vain moralistic indignation far more than any grasp of what Strauss actually wrote.

The existence of God has millions more witnesses than the accusers of Jerry Sandusky.

Tyson's 18 - year - old accuser, who was a contestant in the Miss Black America pageant in Indianapolis at the time of the alleged rape, is a freshman at a prestigious New England college who is likely to earn more points for credibility from the jury than did the woman who filed charges against Smith.

And now, more Harvey Weinstein accusers are finding the strength to come forward.

In certain medieval European chivalric romances, such as Marie de France's Le Fresne, a woman cites a multiple birth (often to a lower - class woman) as proof of adultery on her part; while this may reflect a widespread belief, it is invariably treated as malicious slander, to be justly punished by the accuser having a multiple birth of her own, and the events of the romance are triggered by her attempt to hide one or more of the children.

Memory of events 10 or more years ago — where were you, who were you with, what were you doing that particular day, what are the details, what did others see or hear or do — is difficult for both the accused and the accuser to recall with accuracy.

«It is even more hypocritical and anti-democratic for the President to have turned himself to the accuser, prosecutor and judge, carrying on as if those he accused of corruption have already been convicted.»

Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.

Alabama's increasingly bizarre Senate race was convulsed again as four more women came forward to describe encounters with Moore, and the candidate's campaign sharply questioned the credibility of another accuser.

Sometimes these provisions are desired by the accuser, but most often they are simply demanded by the employer, and more often end up protecting the tormentor over the victim.

And before that, Captain Marvel will introduce younger versions of Ronan the Accuser and his ally Korath (Djimon Hounsou) in March 2019 which we expect could retcon their characters to add more personality and complexity to the villains.

Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra, all accusers of Harvey Weinstein, delivered a speech and introduced a montage that was all about the importance of diversity in movies — a message that was reinforced by del Toro's success later in the evening, and Frances McDormand's acceptance speech, in which she got all the women nominated for Oscars to stand up, calling for recognition, plus more financial backing from producers.

And three Harvey Weinstein accusers, Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra, were given a moment to themselves on stage for nothing more than the fact that they were brave enough to speak up before a hopeful video played highlighting a changing industry, post #MeToo and more diverse.

To suggest these exultant visions of beauty constitute a reflexive confirmation of existing stereotypes of Los Angeles as a vacuum filled with pretty airheads speaks more to the biases of the accuser than to those of Malick.

As played by Mads Mikkelsen, Kaecilius could bear more than a passing resemblance to Ronan the Accuser, the Kree zealot portrayed by Lee Pace in Guardians of the Galaxy.

I found the «green jersey» attacks pretty amusing too, but I must lodge an objection: As usual, to be labeled unpatriotic simply confirms the accuser detests what you're saying — nothing more, nothing less.

Pt 7, «Cancerous Greenpeace / Desmogblog / Gelbspan Stuff»: What's detailed in this post is how Dave Rado's Ofcom complaint is first and foremost pushing absolutely nothing more than guilt - by - association «evidence» to indict skeptic climate scientists of industry - funded corruption, and secondly, how Rado, much like any other prominent accuser, is enslaved to an accusation narrative which ultimately relies on sources who repeat material which inevitably traces back to Ross Gelbspan and the clique of enviro - activists surrounding him when he and they got the first real media traction for the accusation.

Such accusations generally say much more about the accuser than accused.

Doing so suggests that you think accusations of media bias are acceptable so long as the accusers bias their reporting of the actual numbers by no more than 50 %.

FWIW, this is much more generous than under U.S. law in which no compensation of any kind is payable to an acquitted criminal defendant in the vast majority of cases either by the government or by an accuser.

At a minimum, organizations may want to consider more narrowly tailored NDAs that keep key terms of a settlement confidential without preventing an accuser from publicly telling her story.

There is palpably more of a risk that the truth will not be forthcoming if a citizen is unable to challenge an accuser, than if the accuser, on issues of credibility be identified to the defendant.

[Danielle Paquette, Washington Post «WonkBlog»] «Getting rid of NDAs reduces accusers» bargaining power so they end up with lower money settlements or perhaps no settlements,» notes HLS Prof. Jeannie Suk Gersen on Twitter and at more length in The New Yorker.