Sentences with phrase «most public scandal»

Not exact matches

The royal family have faced many scandals and other public scrutiny over the years, and they most certainly don't want another riff in the family due to a silly little board game.

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Can shareholders of Bank of America, Citigroup, or JPMorgan learn anything about their potential exposure to the burgeoning LIBOR - fixing scandal from the banks» most recent public disclosures?

The ride - hail company has recently seen a parade of executives leave the company — either after being fired or resigning — and has suffered through a series of public scandals, the most recent of which involved an executive obtaining the medical records of a rape victim in India.

The passage most picked up in news reports is this: «We urge those Catholic officials who choose to depart from Church teaching on the inviolability of human life in their public life to consider the consequences for their own spiritual well being, as well as the scandal they risk by leading others into serious sin....

Anyone holding to the hope that more simple methods can be effective is invited to read the daily headlines chronicling the scandals and corrupt practices of public and private officials, most of whom, sad to relate, are church members technically in good standing.

«No serious link has been drawn between the scandal and the issue of most pressing public concern, relating to the recession and the state of the public finances.»

After the string of public corruption scandals that we have brought to light, many may rightly resign themselves to the sad truth that perhaps the most powerful special interest in politics is self - interest.

First and most obviously is the argument that after the expenses scandal, and new questions being asked about politicians» pay, it's highly doubtful whether the public would approve of their tax revenues going towards political parties, especially in the amounts needed to make an impact.

The array of harassment scandals began this fall with Hollywood bigwig Harvey Weinstein, then went on to include Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, NBC «Today» show host Matt Lauer and most recently public radio host Garrison Keillor.

Strong campaigning against factory farming of poultry, assisted by public examples of obvious mistreatment of animals and food safety scares - the most well - known being the salmonella in eggs scandal - was having an impact by the 1980s.

The most high - profile call for mediation came from Alistair Carmichael, the Scottish secretary, who urged the party to stop washing its dirty linen in public and branded the row a «scandal without the sex».

Perhaps the most famous scandal resulting from the A-F school grading model arose in 2013 in Indiana, when the Associated Press obtained emails exposing the state's former schools superintendent, Tony Bennett, to have manipulated the grading system to benefit one of his political donors, who ran a public charter school that was in danger of receiving a low grade.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

The scandal is the most serious blow yet to the reigning Thatcherite orthodoxy on privatization, which has dominated public policy under both Conservative and Labour governments for nearly four decades.

In A Vast Conspiracy, the best - selling author of The Run of His Life casts an insightful, unbiased eye over the most extraordinary public saga of our time — the Clinton sex scandals.

Seventy images, most of which have never been seen before, reveal the public and private face of «Scandal» model Christine Keeler.

Scientists» response has been to commission reports to clear CRU of scientific wrongdoing, without realizing that these reports are ignored by the public, most of whom are still fixated on the «scandal» through corporate enabled organs of the press.

Suddenly it seems that everyone in the e-discovery world is putting Enron's e-mail on display, offering the public a window into one of the most notorious corporate scandals of our times.