Sentences with phrase «on a witch hunt of»
Diane Ravitch finds textbooks crippled by censorship, but all too often she is on a witch hunt of her own directed against the living language.
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Going on a witch - hunt because someone says «Bless you» to another employee that sneezed (real example) creates an environment of paranoia and stifled self - expression, without improving how people treat each other.
On Tuesday, President Trump tweeted that the leak of the questions was «disgraceful» and he again called the investigation a «witch hunt.»
Trump publicly fumed in the weeks after the raid of his longtime «fixer,» saying the FBI «broke in» and calling it «a witch hunt» and «an attack on our country.»
The president, who reacted to news of the raids on Monday by lashing out at his top law enforcement officials, described the investigations in a Twitter post on Tuesday as «A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!»
The Mormons have been on an anti-Jewish witch - hunt ever since Joseph Smith said he found the Breast Plate and Urim v «Tummim in the possession of a native American tribe and said that he was not allowed to show it to anybody.
No, you are not directly responsible for the Spanish Inquisition, the thousands (or millions) of women killed during the various witch hunts, the millions killed by missionaries, the millions killed by Hitler, the suffocation of science, the persecution of free thinkers..., but you did sign on with the same group that IS responsible for all of that.
The key organs of popular culture have declared dissenting views on sexuality and marriage unfit for polite conversation, setting off occasional high - profile witch hunts against dissenters and enabling an environment of intimidation well beyond those.
really, Salem witch hunts, Baptist views on slavery, cover - ups of paedophiles, what the hades are you talking about, try and make some sense for a change.
There may be oblique reference to the problem in the charter's words on seminaries and priestly formation, but the bishops knew that the H - word is a media H - bomb, and they cringed at the thought of the almost certain headline if they had used it: «Bishops Mandate Witch - hunt Against Gays.»
The crusades, witch hunts, etc. are just examples of the horrors it has inflicted on humanity.
What we had here, it seems to me, was very evidently nearer to the phenomenon we call today a «witch - hunt» than to a common understanding based on an equitable analysis of the reality of the situation.
When you look at birth certificates and voter registration and spend all this time hunting, with this witch hunt that's been going on for the last number of months, I can't help but question whether the same thing would have been done from another team from another place, another race.»
Anyone seeking an explanation as to why this happens at the Arsenal needs to address this question and find the answer before rushing off on a witch hunt to castigate Arsene Wenger — unless of course he is to blame for this state of financial incompetence.
Nothing wrong with questioning a players motivation but after the kind of run he's had, this has witch hunt written all over it shame on you.
All this is accepted blindly as being the norms of football for no other reason than it is what the Market wants and does (sic ``... like «trading», football is a results business»)-- indeed these values are lauded and held up on high so that we now reach the point here when even a truly great manager is being subjected to a witch - hunt by sections of the media and so - called fans who question his tenure of his post and ask what has he got to do to be sacked.
Well it is good to see Moncs with the view that Nobes is dropable.Im fed up of reading people say he is undropable & anyone who dares mention it is on a witch hunt against the lad.Maybe they will accuse Moncs of being oart of the conspiracy now, lol
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.
The governor also accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of embarking on a witch - hunt of the contractors handling the state's projects in order to frustrate his government and prepare the ground for the All Progressives Congress» return.
Government spokespersons, Npp spokespersons and the President himself made certain reckless statements which showed clearly that the Akufo - Addo administration was going to embark on massive witch hunt, harassment, intimidation of activists of the NDC.
Others screeched «witch hunt» and wrote poor - me articles about how hard it was to be on the receiving end of an accusation — without showing any empathy for women on the receiving end of assault.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday June 20 organized by the National Democratic Congress [NDC] to react to some comments made by President Akufo - Addo at a media encounter at the Flagstaff House in Accra, the minority leader said the NDC will resist the «blackmail witch - hunting» of the head of the election management body who was appointed by the past Mahama administration.
(Recall that Diaz Sr. is the most outspoken defended of another Bronx Democrat, Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who insists the Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner, AG Andrew Cuomo, is on a political witch hunt against him).
«Call it the political witch - hunt of the Attorney General, calling the press to watch folks show up at someone's house to take away electronic information and trying to suggest that somehow work wasn't done when the Buffalo News themselves did all the printing of the direct mail, makes it laughable on its face,» Collins said
The president said that a partisan memo released by House Republicans «totally vindicates» him in the investigation into Russian election interference, complaining that the «witch hunt» would go «on and on» even though there had been no collusion or obstruction of justice.
«The situation in Ghana today is that party B after winning power witch - hunt party A and because of that the youth will begin to pounce on politicians and that is what I am corned about.
Espada has repeatedly accused Cuomo of targeting him in a political «witch hunt» in order to boost his own credentials as a erformer — a reputation on which he rode to the governor's office in 2010 while pledging to clean up the infamously dysfunctional and corruption - ridden state Capitol.
Trump and his allies have seized on the report to question the origins of the federal probe into his campaign and Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential race, which the president had labeled a «witch hunt.»
«Mr. President Leave Charlotte Osei alone,» «Mr. President Stop the lawlessness by your vigilantes,» «Stop the witch - hunting» were some of the inscriptions on the placards.
«The firing of Andrew McCabe is the first time I've seen true justice on the federal level since the corrupt witch hunt I personally endured,» stated Grimm, who pleaded guilty to a charge of federal tax fraud.
Speaking on Citi FM's The Big Issue, Casely - Hayford said the frequent claims of witch - hunting by spokespersons of both the NDC and NPP anytime one of their members is prosecuted for wrongdoing does not augur well for the country's democracy.
Speaking on the Andrew Marr programme, John Whittingdale, Conservative chair of the culture media and sport committee, said he had to find the right balance between scrutiny and witch - hunt.
President Trump on Thursday told TV anchors at a luncheon he is the victim of a «witch hunt» when asked about the investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia and possible interference.
The responses of the two Deputy Commissioners who had been longer on the job than the Chairperson can not be said to be witch - hunting by the NPP.
We'll get by the character stuff - just show us how you are going to make New York State a better place, where people can go to parks without worry of shut down, where schools will have quality teachers and performance, where roads are taken care of, where bridges don't collapse, where state police do police and are not used to go on witch hunts, where budgets wont be made by more hidden fees and regressive taxes, and the list goes on.
The General Public are hereby implored to disregard and discountenance the resolution of the Senate on the IGP as a deliberate blackmail, witch - hunting and mischievously aimed at casting aspersions on the hard earned integrity of the Inspector General of Police and the Nigeria Police Force.
A sincere war against corruption campaign, especially on past misdeeds, can be handled in a more refined, matured and responsible manner devoid of suspicious antics that could be condemned as mere political witch - hunt.
Rep. Grimm dismisses fraud charges as «witch hunt»: Rep. Michael Grimm, R - New York, was indicted on charges of perjury and hiding more than $ 1 million in restaurant income from the IRS on Monday.
The Presidency on Tuesday reacted to Mrs. Patience Jonathan's claim that she is being witch - hunted by the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
«The Office of the Special Prosecutor focuses on the past only, it only will become an instrument of witch - hunt, and if it does not deal with the present, it will lack credibility and impartiality that is required of the office,» Haruna Iddrisu said.
Suspended member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, representing Kiru / Bebeji Federal Constituency, Kano State, has dismissed an invitation to appear before the Ethics Committee of the House of Representatives over fresh petitions bothering on absenteeism and poor representation of his constituency, saying it was a witch - hunt by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and his cabal in the House.
I love you DEMS on the Blog that are ripping on Charlie Rangel... Most of you were defending him just a few weeks ago and either calling it a Republican witch hunt, or using the old, George Bush is a thief line...
Critics have accused Schneiderman of engaging in partisan witch hunts and Maziarz's dismissal request is said to note how the attorney general, a Democrat, focused prosecution on the former Republican senator from Niagara County.
In this masterful biography, Bird and Sherwin draw on thousands of documents to create an indelible portrait of a brilliant, naive physicist undone by a merciless McCarthy - era witch hunt.
But now climate change hysteria has taken on new, more extreme witch - hunting dimensions that are on par with, if not even surpassing, those of the Dark Ages — a time -LSB-...]
Established Avengers (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye) team up with more recently introduced heroes (the Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, Spider - man, Vision, Scarlet Witch, and Black Panther) to take on the biggest villain in the MCU, Thanos, whose ongoing hunt for Infinity Stones brings him face to face with Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
They are certainly not above mocking themselves, for instance, the plot, such that it is, involves at one point, a loopy fantasia on the era's witch - hunt of communist writers infiltrating Hollywood by kidnapping movie stars and indoctrinating them into the fold.
«Conducting a witch hunt is an irreversible evil in itself,» concluded our own Ben Mercer, and the sentiment could naturally be applied to the old - world puritan horror of The Witch, which could be pro- or anti-religious hysteria, depending on how you read it, but whose merits — the meticulously researched period details, the striking imagery — are indisputwitch hunt is an irreversible evil in itself,» concluded our own Ben Mercer, and the sentiment could naturally be applied to the old - world puritan horror of The Witch, which could be pro- or anti-religious hysteria, depending on how you read it, but whose merits — the meticulously researched period details, the striking imagery — are indisputWitch, which could be pro- or anti-religious hysteria, depending on how you read it, but whose merits — the meticulously researched period details, the striking imagery — are indisputable.
Set on the eve of the Great Depression, Fantastic Beasts deals with issues of inequality and xenophobia — not least with magic driven underground amid hunts akin to the Salem Witch trials.
But as U.S. Congressman J. Parnell Thomas (James DuMont) and the House Un-American Activities Committee fire up their anti-communist witch hunt in Washington, with the staunch support of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren), Trumbo and his friends are called on to admit their Communist Party connections and out all the other radicals and subversives they've allowed under their roofs.