Sentences with phrase «of a witch hunt»

The film paints the accused as targets of a witch hunt.

A black housing - project manager in The Bronx claims she was the victim of a witch hunt because City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito demanded a Spanish speaker in the post.

I am sure you would have thrived in the era of Witch Hunts.

While it is true that hoarding is a real problem for many people, I think it could easily turn into a sort of witch hunt if it gets out of hand.

[We also wanted] to make clear what we have been through at the universities — a kind of witch hunt carried out with dismissals, forced resignations, and disciplinary investigations.

«Frankly I see it as more of a witch hunt by certain groups and entities to go after the Republican majority in the Senate.

The civil rights and women's movements broke the chill of the witch hunts and blacklists of the «fifties and provoked, in turn, the new virulence of fundamentalist and other orthodox attacks on minority rights, science, textbooks, education, and academic freedom in the «eighties.

Belief in the reality of Satan certainly promoted the frenzy of the witch hunts that seized all denominations and delayed the Enlightenment.

Comments by communicators of government and the ruling party and trials going on in the media about allegations levelled against Dr Opuni, have apparently shown that the administration of Mr Akufo - Addo and his Party are on vendetta mission of witch hunt molestation, blackmail and persecution of the opposition or dissenting voices.

«Absent specific charges against Liu himself, the Queens party may be hard - pressed to support someone other than John Liu,» he said, adding that hints of a witch hunt may not sit well with voters, who may come out to support him.

Exton Cubic, however, expressed worry that the challenges faced by its exploration at the Nyinahin bauxite concession might have been a result of a witch hunt against it.

Or the Dusky Doomed Dales theme, which really does sound appropriate for a middle ages village in the middle of a witch hunt:

The savagery of the witch hunt and of breast cancer itself are unified within the maligned body, both feared and desired.

During the period of the witch hunts of the Middle Ages, the definition of gossip took on a largely negative connotation; a «sign of the degree to which the power of women and communal ties were undermined.»

The climate change denier has become the Left's favourite bogeyman, pursued with all the zeal of a witch hunt in 17th century Salem.

When James Clapper himself, and virtually everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt, says there is no collusion, when does it end?

Just compare it with the sort of witch hunt / public execution style coverage we've seen for the likes of Arsenal's Eduardo da Silva or former Liverpool striker David N'Gog when they've taken a tumble under minimal or no contact.

His statement said, «It is important to note that Justices Ngwuta and Okoro have alleged that they are the targets of a witch hunt because they refused offers of inducement and bribes made to them by the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi; and the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, to subvert justice in appeals against the decisions of lower courts in election petitions in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Ekiti and Rivers states.

A variety of critics appear to be «on some kind of witch hunt,» Dr. Overpeck says.