Sentences with phrase «peddling in»

Michel Bastarache, a former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, submitted his official report yesterday into allegations of influence peddling in the nomination of municipal and provincial court judges in Quebec.

CEO Rupert Murdoch that the media conglomerate is joining the battle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the big question here at DeSmogBlog is whether this means Fox News will end its peddling in global warming junk science.

«No matter what these companies are peddling in their press releases, this negotiation is not only about upfront compensation.

Long before the Kindle e-reader was a figment of the imagination libraries were peddling in the electronic format.

Peddling in social satire, Jordan Peele has made a career prodding and teasing racial stereotypes.

The few Mercola articles I've read, when I actually checked his sources, stated completely different conclusions than what he was peddling in his article.

The testimony of Todd Howe, a former consultant with longtime ties to Cuomo and Percoco, pulled back the curtain of campaign finance practices and influence peddling in state government.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York, was found guilty on seven federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York State, was found guilty on Monday of federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

Reports say the raid wasn't Bruno related; the probe of Powers is about influence peddling in DC.

The next big battle of influence peddling in City Council will be the Horse - Carriage Ban.

Just keep peddling in the air, don't look down!

Technical criticisms of what Bitcoin Core is doing are being banned, with misleading nonsense being peddled in its place.

The preacher had peddled in the book of Revelation, successfully scaring my friend to death, who in turn scared us to death.

Spong offers no evidence for this speculation beyond Schaberg's already highly tendentious appropriation of anti-Christian slanders (apparently deriving from Jewish sources) peddled in the second century by Celsus.

meaning, we are all about intimacy and being together in every other way except what is ruthlessly peddled in those * little blue pill * ads.

As is, the only thing the Rangers can do is let Profar hit, and hope he hits enough for a first baseman, which would allow them to peddle him in the offseason as a shortstop out of water.

The first role Hudson found for Both was the publicizing of an extraordinary collection of «leisure clothing» that the eccentric Hudson hoped to peddle in England under the label Hudson's Hardware.

Technically no, but this is not just some sordid hit peddled in a backstreet — at least not yet.

It is hard to see the kind of muck Hopkins peddles in a national newspaper without wanting to do something to stop it.

«We urge the public to disregard the misinformation peddled in the false and malicious publications as well as desist from propagating same, in their best interests.

Same untruth was peddled in the media by the ACP and Npp which.

It was gathered that Tinubu, who presided over the meeting, informed the aspirants that he was not personally involved with any of the candidates as it was being peddled in the media.

Now mass - produced in East Asia, it is peddled in the party scenes of San Francisco and elsewhere as a «legal» and «safe» alternative to ecstasy.

They've plowed tens of thousands into lobbyists who are trying to get vitamin and supplement use restricred to the low levels drug companies peddle in drug stores - or to require a prescription.

(Shondaland) «She doesn't peddle in bromides or offer a shoulder to cry on — she's too busy trying to shake you to your senses, insisting on your agency, your vitality and your complicity in what happens in your marriage.

In depicting Harding's brief, defiant triumph over poverty, abuse, and the perverse norms that define grace and athletic achievement, director Craig Gillespie's film goes some distance in correcting the record on the Kerrigan - Harding affair, even as it peddles in speculation and misremembered facts.

Alleged «European - style» pizzas peddled in the U. S. never seem to achieve that micron - thin crust covered by the faintest wash of tomato sauce, a mere garnish of cheese, and earthy ingredients that can include artichokes or thinly sliced eggplant, generous oregano, and tiny Cannes - grown olives (complete with pits).

One way you might be able to figure out if it's the front bearing is if, while moving where you'd normally hear the noise, put the transmission in neutral and push the clutch peddle in.

Ubisoft Mission Statement: Show off games that; 1) will work upon release; and 2) don't adhere to the tired Assassin's Creed - style open world formula peddled in Far Cry, Watch Dogs and The Crew.

Not exact matches

And succeed she has: In the 10 years since, Jahshan's idea has grown into a loose - leaf empire with annual sales of more than $ 20 million (and growing) and 9,000 salespeople peddling tea and accessories across North America — enough to earn her the No.

The reason for the shift stems in part from a campaign by controversial food blogger and non-scientist Vani Hari, also known as the «Food Babe,» who frequently peddles misinformation and sundry nonsense on her blog.

Klepper said he noticed while covering Trump rallies that the information, language, and arguments that people were making had less in common with Fox News and more in common with Breitbart News and even the conspiracy - peddling Infowars.

Sixth - grader Mira Modi is on a roll peddling Diceware passwords, and she says it's «so much better» than being popular in school.

Rooftop installers like SolarCity enjoyed rapid growth thanks in part to a marketing message that peddles the romance and freedom of generating emissions - free power at home.

While half the population requires food aid to survive you can see multi million dollar (U.S.) homes going up around Harare in gated communities with expensive shopping centers peddling fine imported foods and goods.

How to Become a Social Entrepreneur: Build the Brand «Nicholas Kristof wrote in the New York Times that any brand of toothpaste is peddled with far more sophistication than all the world's life - saving causes,» says Harrison.

With no experience in sales beyond a gig peddling Estee Lauder in a department store, DiMaggio started knocking on doors of major retailers.

From the low - level shysters who peddled dodgy mortgages to the Wall Street investors who packaged them into securities and the investors who bought them, everyone involved in the subprime debacle always seems somewhat put - off when reminded that at root this was a crisis about actual people and their actual homes.

On shelf after shelf in the Indigo bookstore downstairs, they're peddling the same story, that of a dystopian future where teens are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of adults.

An eccentric inventor and a murky group of retired military brass — most of them with plenty of medals but no experience in commercial nuclear energy — have peddled various incarnations of the plan for years.

TapouT was launched as a T - shirt peddling business out of the trunk of a car in 1997.

Writing in the Telegraph on Wednesday night in conjunction with f ormer chancellors Lord Norman Lamont and Lord Nigel Lawson, the open letter accused the BoE and Treasury of «peddling phoney forecasts and scare stories to back up the attempts of David Cameron and George Osborne to frighten the electorate into voting Remain.»

The company hopes to sell Glass in 2014 and developer versions of the headset are already being peddled for $ 1,500.

Only when an American company began peddling the model in Canada, around the same time Kids & Company launched, did corporations start considering the service.

Earlier in the day, Trump had retweeted inflammatory videos posted by a leader of Britain First, an ultranationalist far - right group that peddles anti-Muslim conspiracy theories.

Those concerns, surrounding an influence - peddling scandal that engulfed the country, ultimately resulted in the impeachment of Park Geun - hye, then South Korea's president.

Prior to identifying internal communications as a critical component to employee retention, Bruce Peddle, president of Risk Innovations in Atlanta, Georgia, told me he had made little effort to provide consistent companywide updates.

But whether Bitcoin can actually replace gold (let alone traditional government - backed currency) has been a matter of fervent debate — quite literally, as evidenced by an event last week entitled «Gold Versus Bitcoin,» held at a New York comedy club, in which well - known gold proponent (Jim Rickards debated James Altucher, a self - help author now peddling Bitcoin investment advice under the moniker «crypto - genius.»

The problem is that this approach makes it easier for demagogues and anyone who is unconcerned with the actual truth of a statement — a group that Donald Trump demonstrably falls into — to peddle rumors and innuendo in order to advance their view of the world.