Sentences with word «poisoned»

The former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter have been deliberately poisoned, in an apparent act of chemical terrorism.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an international watchdog group, has confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned using a military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

The Canadian whistleblower at the center of recent international furor over misuse of Facebook data told UK lawmakers on Tuesday that one of his predecessors may have been «poisoned» a half decade ago.

Officials from Britain and Russia are still fighting over who exactly poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with the Soviet - era nerve agent Novichok.

• BP's C.F.O., Brian Gilvary, dismissed a claim that its C.E.O., Bob Dudley, had been poisoned in Moscow as «a complete urban myth.»

Quevedo - a little known former housing minister who replaced two executives jailed for alleged graft - has further poisoned the atmosphere, according to the two dozen sources who spoke with Reuters.

I'm hopeful that the global economic contraction that is occurring will put a kibosh on the plans to expand the oilsands, for the sake of our children and grandchildren whose world is being poisoned and raped for a few more years of fossil fuel - based «growth».

He has spent so much time with resolute fibbers that it seems to have poisoned his view of human nature.

20 March 2018 A Facebook video alleging that pinholes were found in bottled water caps morphed into rumors that people died after ingesting poisoned water.

But there are obvious limits to this — confidential information has to stay confidential, and people can't be making comments that are going to create a poisoned work environment or directly denigrate their employer.»

After a series of incidents where coal mines poisoned local water supplies, the rule was written to force mining companies not to begin new projects without first developing a plan to restore affected streams after the coal is hauled out of the earth.

Viktor Yushchenko, then a Ukrainian opposition leader, was poisoned during the campaign for the 2004 presidential election in which he stood on a pro-western ticket against the current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich.

In the pages of The Masses, cartoonist Art Young depicted how the AP poisoned the well of truth with a potent mixture of «lies,» «suppressed facts» and «slander.»

Asked about British media speculation that Russia had poisoned Skripal, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin said: «It didn't take them long.»

An outspoken critic of Putin, Litvinenko fled Russia for Britain six years to the day before he was poisoned.

Just when an evidence - based debate about American war involvement was most needed, fake news poisoned the well.

«The greatest peril in America today,» he wrote his own journal in 1918, «is a knavish press... pouring out the floods of falsehoods, like poisoned gas which blinds us and makes it impossible for us to see straight or to think straight.»

Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain last month, issued a statement saying the «entire episode is somewhat disorientating».

Unless you've been poisoned, you have a built - in, super-efficient system for filtering out most of the harmful substances you eat.

The check, which was from the singer's Parkwood Entertainment group, was presented to the United Way of Genesee County and will help Flint residents who are still coping with the city's lead - poisoned water, reported the Detroit News.

In an unsigned editorial, the editors argued that the investment ethos has poisoned that of the traditionally more cautious retail set.

With our planet screaming its accelerating anguish via contaminated oceans, poisoned soils and polluted atmosphere — we indifferently add 80 million of ourselves annually and one billion more every 12 years.

Most famously, former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in 2006 after being poisoned with polonium.

«If you attack people personally, as opposed to attacking their ideas, you've poisoned the well,» he says.

The OPCW collected samples at the site of the attack in Salisbury, as well as blood samples from the Skripals and Sergeant Nick Bailey, who was poisoned while responding to the attack.

«@TheCeltic666 has poisoned our meat supply,» the tweet read.

As the merger proposal sees things, the global recession and its aftermath have poisoned the political attitude toward unions.

Fishing practices that use dynamite, chemicals, or gear that drags along the seafloor have blasted apart and poisoned reefs.

Also, I deeply respect the hard - news reporters at Fox, who continue to do their best as talented professionals in a poisoned environment.

It often results in quick turnaround of employees, a poisoned office environment, and high stress.

Chernobyl poisoned their way of life by turning the reindeer radioactive.

«These kinds of failures rarely happen, but when they do, people die, people lose their jobs, organizations are broken, the water is poisoned,» says Tilcsik.

Gu had reportedly commissioned Heywood to move a large sum of money out of China, and poisoned him after he threatened to expose the scheme unless he got a larger cut.

So is Manitoba, though the 2005 collapse of the Crocus Investment Fund there appears to have poisoned the well among retail investors.

The «poisoned chalice» has been a political trope since the day it was uttered on stage in 1606 during the first run of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and a bitter aftertaste was pretty much the only thing the PC party left behind for Notley.

The participatory promise of the early web has been poisoned by trolling and misinformation, and businesses are starting to push back

«If the government winds up seeing privileged materials, it could blow up a case, because any evidence you get from privileged materials means that anything else related to that is the fruit of the poisoned tree.»

«I worry this will turn immigration itself into a poison pill,» says Vivek Wadwha, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, and an Inc. columnist.

Pick your poison: plunging energy costs taking a bite out of stocks in related industries, an erratic Canadian dollar, Greece, interest rate uncertainty.

The G7 meeting is the first high - level gathering of the allies since the United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles targeting chemical weapons facilities in Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack on April 7.

Little drops of poison seep into our bloodstream and cause health problems often very serious health problems.

The Syrian government and its Russian ally deny involvement or using poison gas on April 7.

A Chinese doctor was detained for three months for describing a popular medicinal liquor as poison.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

The S&P / TSX composite index was up 17.31 points to 12,757.81 as investors wondered if the United States will end up leading a military strike against Syria, which it accuses of using poison gas against its own civilian population.

You will poison the relationship and kill the account if the discrepancy is ever discovered.

But the fix is political poison

You did not know what would happen to you, how bad it was, whether you will die of radiation poisoning, and government could no longer be trusted when they said «It will be OK.

Both died from radiation poisoning.

The rest would likely come around, too, if Sanders offers it as a poison - pill amendment to an Obamacare repeal package.