Sentences with phrase «of sweeping under the carpet»

In a veiled reference to the Secretary to the Federal Government, Mr Babachir David Lawal, over an allegation of multimillion naira contract relating to the welfare of the Internally Displaced People of the Northeast, Fayose accused the federal government of sweeping under the carpet, the panel set up to try many of the APC's cronies.

«It's kind of swept under the carpet a bit, but for large - scale quantum computing, we are going to need millions of qubits,» said Dzurak.

Not exact matches

«They want to sweep right under the carpet the failure of school security.»

«Now is the time to get on the right side of this, because this is not something that we are going to let sweep under the carpet,» she said on «Meet the Press.»

Never forget full applause for Clinton by his liberal posse in the Senate when walked with head held high and the trail of women he abused swept under the carpet.

Church leader and theologian Steve Holmes wrote: «I agree profoundly with Steve in his concern that our pastoral practice in this area has often been appalling, and needs to change... his diagnosis of a real and urgent problem is spot on... [He] names a pastoral scandal that we have swept under the carpet for too long.»

He said opponents of gun rights want to «sweep under the carpet» the failure of school safety, families «and even the unbelievable failure of the FBI» to prevent the shootings.

Instead of shying away from the issue of divorce or simply sweeping it under the carpet, more effort should be made to come alongside and support Christian divorcees.

We complain that the festive season starts earlier and earlier, sweeping the spiritual roots under the carpet in favour of how many mince pies can be sold.

«If we got a huge influx of requests under the Falconer rules, we ought to ask ourselves why and what we're going to do about it, not sweep everything under the carpet by preventing them from expressing their reaction to being treated poorly.

I am off bashing and criticizing Ozil in recent weeks as I don't see the point, I have been highlighting the massive flaws in his game that are making him look out of place in the EPL but people will keep sweeping them under the carpet but will highlight Girouds, Arteta's, Wilshere's, Cazorla's, Ramsey's, Sanogo's, Walcott, Mert... and the list goes on..

Of course, if you keep posting enough mock drafts you will eventually be able to proclaim that you «called it» after the fact when you sweep all of the wrong ones under the carpeOf course, if you keep posting enough mock drafts you will eventually be able to proclaim that you «called it» after the fact when you sweep all of the wrong ones under the carpeof the wrong ones under the carpet.

I believe some of us are used to this arsenal failure mentality and taking excuses... We fans must say the true all the time, is a combine fight if we want arsenal to move forward, we fans can't be divided or be against each other or sweep the truth under the carpet....

The majority of you have been sweeping Cazorla under the carpet, 99 % of most fans formations exclude Cazorla for some reason, but why?..

The FA has rejected claims it was «swept under the carpet» and in March, in response to growing pressure from the likes of the family of ex-West Brom forward Astle who died in 2002 from brain injuries, the governing body set out its plans to tackle the issue with the most comprehensive study done in this area by any organisation.

followed by a swift sweeping of the incident under the carpet suggests that maybe Hull City realised that «spitting near someone» is tricky to prove and easy to misinterpret, let alone actually a monstrous crime.

First of all, in a world filled with hope & optimism for equal opportunities & progression, there are still many equally imbalanced viewpoints that are ignored and swept under the carpet.

According to the Executive Director of GII, Linda Ofori - Kwafo, such allegations if swept under the carpet could affect President Akufo - Addo - led government to root out corruption in the country.

They want to sweep right under the carpet the failure of school security.»

He does, however, talk about how «the position of the minority who abuse asylum is a genuine concern for local people» and how Labour have «swept the issue under the carpet».

Barely two months after leaving office, ex-President Mahama's exploits have demonstrated clearly that his contributions to the development of Ghana and the progress of the African continent would not be swept under the carpet.

«After a decade in which we have seen our politicians and officials caught up in the woeful abuses of the «war on terror», the last thing the government should be seeking is to sweep all of this under the carpet.

Its recommendations have since been swept under the carpet, perhaps because the initiator of the project died in office.

«I think members from all sides of the House will want to be sure that this issue is not simply swept under the carpet,» Ms Harman said.

The discovery of William Baah's deep involvement with the NPP comes at a time when members of Delta Force, a goon squad of the ruling party, had overthrown court proceedings and freed members of their group facing trial with the state going through the motions to sweep the case under the carpet.

Rojo Mettle - Nunoo, who managed the electoral campaign for the late President John Atta Mills, said he was part of a research team that found that the then incumbent party's 2016 campaign messages were out of touch with electorates, but their recommendations were swept under the carpet.

Wike said the Rivers state government needs the money to complete an array of projects, insisting that on no account would this criminal activity be swept under the carpet.

The group frowned at the way and manner at which the allegation is being handled by the concerned authorities, saying the investigation of abuse of privilege of members and subsequent suspension of Honourable Jubrin by the whole House, across parties line, is an indication of the House resolution to sweep the matter under the carpet.

«The Nigerian Police has since swept the matter under the carpet, even though majority of the fake result sheets were used on December 10, 2016 by APC and pliant INEC Officials under police protection.

«The vast majority of young Asian men are fine, but there's a minority who do not behave properly towards white women and sweeping it under the carpet will only make matters worse,» she said.

Indeed, it made so many mistakes in its 16 - year rule; a notable example being its constant effort at sweeping issues of public interest under the carpet.

Yet this particular agency is working hand in gloves with Kuku, shielding him from the wrath of the law but I'm certain this is an issue that will not be swept under the carpet.»

«The authors had to sweep a lot of poorly understood effects «under the carpet» and not address them directly,» Sinervo states, meaning that the search generated an abundance of hard - to - interpret signals.

Nevertheless, he said that Goodall and others have been told that personality in terms of non-human primates is best «swept under the carpet» when doing field research.

What's clear is that we shouldn't sweep research on sex - based brain differences under the carpet in the interest of political correctness, just because some misguided writers use the field to make sweeping generalizations about men's and women's abilities and personalities.

If any of these were local authorities it would be headline news, whereas these academy trust failures are quietly swept under the carpet and the myth of the success of the academy programme is allowed to continue.

Regardless of the accuracy of that figure, to suggest behaviour isn't a prominent issue for teachers would be to sweep it under the carpet.

Casey is bemused to discover that Moon, Star and the rest of the commune members seem to expect him to sweep these inconvenient bodies under some kind of magic carpet rather than call in the local constabulary.

The cynic would say that the mutual fund industry's rapid birth and infanticide cycle simply allows some of the fund industry's inferior performance history to be swept under the carpet and obscured or erased.

I prefer to take an education and awareness type approach instead of coming across too harsh and negative or sweeping issues under the carpet.

Some of these aspects are shocking and can be all too easily swept under the metaphorical carpet in our endless search for that illusive thing called beauty.

It might appear to the casual observer as though there has been a concerted and co-ordinated effort to double down on the message for the cause by character assassination of respected academics, perhaps in the hopes that Their climate guru might have his alleged criminal perversions swept into the ever - growing hillock of ignorance under the carpet.

So there is a question of direction, and not just a question of how much innovation is happening but in which direction. And that opens up, in effect, all kinds of important political decisions that can be easily swept under the carpet.

Hmm, well an IQ of 137 certainly doesn't make me a genius, but I think it is quite enough to detect the smell of scientific bullshit — and the pathetic attempts to sweep it under the carpet.

Shame someone can't find some more incriminating evidence, as most of last years has been carefully whitewashed and swept under the carpet...

Capitalist free maket competition is a great thing and economically efficient, but has the well known negative side effect of environmental damage as costs are transfered to third parties, future generations, or swept under the carpet to fester.

So yes — I think this is an outrage, and no amount of reconciliation between scientists can sweep it under the carpet.

Honest businessmen did not discourage an investigation of Enron or try to sweep it under the carpet.

And in my experience, those that «sweep problems under the carpet» and have a general culture of excusing poor quality because they are «trying their best that are usually the ones with the greatest gap between the quality they think they are producing and the actual quality of what comes out.

Was he perhaps preparing such a report, or part of one, but for this purpose sweeping the data discrepancies of which he was aware under the carpet?