Sentences with phrase «national shame»

In a statement by its President, Joe Ajaero, the labour group demanded that Okorocha apologises to the citizens of the state for bringing national shame and disgrace to them.

That this deluded man is head of our Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council is a terrible indictment on our present government and no less than a matter for national shame.

Second (and more importantly), Bill Clinton was elected president twice (to our profound national shame), and his LIFE has been a lowbrow sex comedy.

When they used to make movies like these (All the President's Men, for example), they presumed a certain level of intelligence in the audience or, failing that, an attention span and a feeling of sobriety before a great national shame.

There has to be a time of repentance, not of parading national shame, but of establishing a coming together to acknowledge the failures and sins of the past.

Calling the crisis a «national shame and a human tragedy,» Trump vowed to crack down on heroin imports from Mexico and fentanyl imports from China.

Calling the crisis a «national shame and a human tragedy,» Trump said ending the epidemic «will require the resolve of our entire country.»

President Donald Trump last month declared the opioid crisis, which claimed the lives of 64,000 Americans last year, a public health emergency, calling it a «national shame and a human tragedy.»

Most of the veterans we see on the street have been there for years (which in itself is a national shame) and haven't found it easy to get out of that situation.

Ley, from the regional electorate of Farrer, last week wrote to Agriculture Minister David Littleproud saying that: «In the face of what is rapidly becoming a national shame, it is my view that Australians have crossed a line on this issue.

We can manage embarrassment, but when we allow another outbreak to occur in August this year, it will become a national shame to all of us.

Mr Lammy said it was a «day of national shame» and called on Home Secretary Amber Rudd to apologise for the threat of deportation facing some people who arrived from the Commonwealth as children.

The system for receiving asylum seekers in the UK is «not fit for purpose» and should be seen as a source of national shame, a report has said.

The PM gives his verdict on our «national shame».

After years of revisiting the national shame of Vietnam in the war films of the seventies and eighties, Steven Spielberg steered Hollywood back to the pride and accomplishment of «the greatest generation» with Saving Private Ryan (1998).

He lists Chinese banks (or anything China really), Commodities companies dependent on single governments (such as Vale, 59 % of revenues from the Chinese demand), liquidating trusts such as oil and gas royalty trusts (he believes Exxon to be an example), analog to digital distribution (GameStop — idea is that margins will continue to decline), and for profit education (example ITT — he calls this a national shame)

And that will help resolve the national shame that is referred to as the «access to justice crisis.»

Described by some as a hidden crisis, Dawn Lavell - Harvard, former president of the Native Women's Association of Canada, refers to MMIWG as a national tragedy and a national shame.

Ten years on, Khadr saga remains a national shame, by Roméo Dallaire and Shelly Whitman, The Ottawa Citizen, July 26, 2012.

Australian governments must join forces with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations to urgently address the national shame of a widening life expectancy gap for our nation's First Peoples.The Close the Gap campaign will today release a...

The past treatment of indigenous people is, as Sir William Deane says, «a matter of national shame».

Violence against Aboriginal women is at the very core of the national shame of family violence in Australia.

It is, and should be, a moment of national shame, and of urgency to put things right in the NT and wider juvenile justice system.

«It is a national shame that Australia scores 94th on an international physical activity index and that nearly one in four children is overweight.

This was the people power that we used that leverage to help secure political support and we've been very successful in laying the foundation that will, it is hoped, bring the national shame of health inequality to an end by 2030.

«In any other country, in any other part of the world these statistics would be a cause of national shame and soul searching,» Cooke said.

It's an international embarassment and a national shame.

Australian governments must join forces with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations to urgently address the national shame of a widening life expectancy gap for our nation's First Peoples.