Sentences with phrase «of a smear campaign of»

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Nabarro says he didn't authorize the release of the allegations while Ghebreyesus denies the charges altogether, classifying them as a «smear campaign» against his candidacy.

At a subsequent rally, Trump said he was the «victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country.»

She rejected Porter's public assertions that the claims were part of a «coordinated smear campaign» against him.

House Speaker Paul Ryan staunchly defended the controversial American Healthcare Act that passed the House of Representatives last week, claiming that allegations about people with preexisting conditions losing insurance are false and that the Democratic Party had engaged in a smear campaign against the bill.

In a complaint aimed at blocking the certification of Alabama's special election, which is scheduled to take place later on Thursday, Moore's campaign makes accusations of voter fraud and smears against him.

«There's clear evidence of the Clinton campaign colluding with Russian intelligence to spread disinformation and smear the president, to influence the election.»

Company officials have long insisted that the product is safe and healthy, and blamed the closure of three plants and roughly 700 layoffs on what they viewed as a smear campaign.

The sites, which often act as launching pads for smear campaigns against entertainment properties that users don't like for one reason or another, are being credited for sinking films before they even see the light of day.

This week, Mr. Trump and his allies seized on the fact that Democrats had paid the firm for the research as evidence that the dossier was part of a political smear campaign.

One of the many tactics that are used against anyone who does not support Blockstream and the bitcoin developers who work for them is that you will be targeted in a smear campaign.

In an emailed statement last week, Fabiani said Pishevar «is the victim of an organized smear campaign.»

Uber investor Ashton Kutcher is defending Uber from comments that one of its executives made on Friday, in which the exec casually threatened to launch a smear campaign against a specific journalist who had written negatively about the company.

BAGHDAD (AP)-- Iraqi women running for parliament this month are undaunted, despite many challenges they face ahead of the May 12 elections — including unprecedented smear campaigns complete with sex...

One of the reasons that the campaign has revolved so much around the latest Obama smears is that there is a hole where Romney's positive message should....

if there were a satan, he has obviously been the victim of a smear campaign.

@snowboarder: «if there were a satan, he has obviously been the victim of a smear campaign.

The rhetoric contradicts North Korean officials who claimed they had been the target of a smear campaign by the US.

Whether right or wrong, the «discernment group» has been accused of covering an affair and either joining a smear campaign against Julie or attempting to have her committed.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

It's nice to know that a campaign based on lies can not yet fool the majority, and that the smears that have plagued our President from the likes of Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump (and why does he even matter?)

I reiterate, as I have over and over again, that it is not about the details of a difficult divorce, but how questionable actions and statements were lied about, covered up, and used to develop a smear campaign about victims, all to protect important people.

To call Breivik a fundamentalist is is nothing but slander, and smacks of a deliberate smear campaign against Christians.

In the early 1960s, Soviet intelligence launched a multi-pronged smear campaign against Pope Pius XII with the aim of undermining the authority of the papacy and with it the authority of the Catholic Church (which at that time was the main focus of resistance to communism in Eastern Europe).

Some of these organizations are apparently out for power at any cost, and they're making victims of Chik - fil - A and apparently any other openly Christian group, which will now have to be more hesitant about being openly Christian for fear of letter - writing smear campaigns and being demonized.

If nothing else, he will exit the presidential campaign with a larger donor list because of Politico's attempt to smear him.

A recent example of just such suspicion and mistrust took place in August, when an anti-trafficking nonprofit called Agape International Missions (AIM) came under fire from the Cambodian government for purportedly working with CNN to stage a smear campaign against Cambodian women.

In response, TBN has filed half a dozen lawsuits nationwide accusing Koper and her husband of engaging in a smear campaign to divert attention from their own financial sins.

And yes, there are smear campaigns done in the name of family and / or church.

I've been on the receiving end of a SMALL word - of - mouth smear campaign, beginning with family but with leaking into church.

Planned Parenthood and its defenders have tried to portray the abortion behemoth as a victim of a dishonest right - wing smear campaign.

Smear campaigns usually have at least a grain of truth to them.

To pretend that some «well - being» surveys somehow refute that statement by Hitchens is to lose all journalistic credibility and gain the disrespect of those who see this article for what it really is... a smear campaign.

There are tragic victims, cover - ups, false allegations, demands for money, denials by those who can not face up to what has happened, campaigns by those who see tolerance of paedophilia as a liberal concept and by those who seek to use every anecdote, particularly of clerical abuse, to keep the story going and smear an entire group.

After running a savage smear campaign against California Chardonnay for most of my early twenties, I want to publicly say I am sorry.

In a separate statement, Furnival said he had resigned to avoid the «political distraction» of the «smear campaign» against him, but also insisted there had been no conflict of interest.

Of course, after leading what appears to be a smear campaign against Freeman and thoroughly destroying any chance of the quarterback rejoining the team at any point in the future, the Bucs don't exactly have much trade leveragOf course, after leading what appears to be a smear campaign against Freeman and thoroughly destroying any chance of the quarterback rejoining the team at any point in the future, the Bucs don't exactly have much trade leveragof the quarterback rejoining the team at any point in the future, the Bucs don't exactly have much trade leverage.

I have a close relationship with some journalists because I have known them for many years, but I can distinguish the relationship of friend with that of journalist,» explained Casillas, who said he «did not want to think» it was a smear campaign orchestrated by the Coach or the President.

which is bull because he and Ms.Diane Sawyer both have a smear campaign going... he was asked to not use the term «Pink Slime» anymore as the original report of Pink Slime was images of seperated chicken... he then said he would continue to use that term because the nation knows it as that and wouldnt know what LFTB or lean finely textured beef was....

With 3 BPI plants suspending production because of your smear campaign... it is possible that after the 60 day pay period... that up to 3000 people could lose their jobs.

Gov. Terry Branstad on Monday called for a congressional investigation into the source of what he called a «smear campaign» meant to discredit the Lean, Finely Textured Beef made by a Siouxland company.

Witnesses would be under oath and they're of course obligated by law to tell the truth, those who have been the ones who have perpetrated this smear campaign against one of the stellar companies in the country... I think they'll have an obligation then to explain themselves why they could not base their allegations on facts and what they've done to damage an industry.

One by one, the governors of the three states that are home to BPI plants spoke of the media's «smear campaign» and (predictably) the potential job losses in their respective states.

Unfortunately, rather than encourage more active parenting in both parents, it's been used to create an even more adversarial system where suddenly parents are crazed and criminal and facts are taken out of context in smear campaigns.

Latest smear campaign against homebirth from Amer J ObGyn contributes to the wrongful and avoidable death of at least 100 mothers every year from unnecessary C - sections.

Mr Wolfowitz had attempted to shirk full responsibility for the lavish pay rise, and insisted he was the victim of a smear campaign.

In an unexpected warning of Cuomo's smear campaign tactics, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer yesterday reminded voters that Andrew Cuomo is «the dirtiest, nastiest political player out there.»

PDP said it is improper for the occupant of the exalted office of the vice president to engage in smear campaign, making unsubstantiated statements to score cheap political points.

Grimm's attorney promptly released a statement denying the allegations, calling Weiner's remarks part of a «Democratic smear campaign.»

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

Excuse me Mr. Thompson, but you are taking words out of context to promote your personal smear campaign, just like the liberals do it.