Sentences with phrase «political purposes of»

His mutual compensation was possibly for political purposes of gaining favor or out of ignorance of the laws of the Bible.

What the «Hockey Stick» tried to do was erase the Medieval Warm Period for the political purpose of making the present warming appear to be a crisis.

Ibbitson's column makes clear the political purpose of the deniers» letter — to help Harper out of a tight corner.

What the «Hockey Stick» tried to do was erase the Medieval Warm Period for the political purpose of making the present warming appear to be a crisis.

Their conformity is intact, they never directly acknowledge the underlying political purpose of the AGW meme from inception so it's really more a case of dropping the burdens of forced servitude of being expected to be green activists rather then contrition for what the AGW movement truly represents.

If they are still obfuscating the central political purpose of climate agenda science through abstraction they are still serving a purpose to that agenda.

Not exact matches

President Obama has taken flack for not speaking empathetically to the fears of many Americans, while certain candidates have been accused of stoking such fears for their own political purposes.

Expanding on its allegations, WSJ said on Tuesday that hundreds of millions worth of unreported political spending flowed from public sources or programs intended for other purposes, including at least $ 140 million that was spent on charity projects to boost the party's election chances.

At no time did I ever submit a request for personal or political purposes, or to voyeuristically look at raw intelligence, nor am I aware of any instance of such abuse by anyone else.»

(Whether the 50 million affected Facebook users will be notified that their data was used to build «psychographic profiles» for the purposes of shaping their political beliefs remains to be seen.)

«This is just one part of a larger investigation into the use of personal data for political purposes,» the office said in a statement after a judge granted the request for a warrant.

«DonorsTrust makes grants only to other publicly supported 501 (c)(3) organizations,» Whitney Ball, the President and CEO of DonorsTrust said via email, «and as a condition of accepting any grant the grant recipient must agree that grant funds will not be used for lobbying or other political purposes.»

Potholes the size of P.E.I., mummified patients spending eternity in emergency room lineups, a Senate whose sole purpose is to reward political cronies, our troops arriving in Afghanistan equipped with Swiss army knives and Korean War surplus.

Fortune will go on a limb to predict he will cast the deciding vote in a 5 - 4 ruling in Gill v. Whitford that will declare the redrawing of election districts for political purposes to be unconstitutional.

«Given the huge amount of volatility next week in case of a Yes vote, the Bank of England would have put high pressure on the banks to move south for the purposes of preserving financial stability and confidence,» said Ronald MacDonald, a political economy professor at the University of Glasgow.

Last year, President Donald Trump insinuated without citing evidence that Rice may have illegally attempted to learn the identities of Trump associates for political purposes, The New York Times reported.

The economist who originally devised the measure of all the cash flowing through an economy, Simon Kuznets, warned the world not to use his invention for the very purpose it has served: as a guide to political and economic choices.

This week's revelations about a British political consultancy's use of data from 50 million Facebook users for potentially shady purposes has prompted many people to declare they will quit the social network in protest.

AggregateIQ is now among 30 companies being investigated by the UK's data watchdog, the ICO, as part of an ongoing (and now almost year - long) investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes.

The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.

Using a personality profiling methodology, the company — formed by high - powered right - wing investors for just this purpose — began offering its profiling system to dozens of political campaigns.

In testimony to the UK parliament yesterday, CA whistleblower Chris Wylie told MPs that senior Palantir employees worked with the firm on the Facebook data to help it build models off of the dataset to use for political ad targeting purposes.

The company's activities are being looked at as part of a wider investigation by the ICO into the use of data analytics for political purposes.

The abuse of Facebook's platform for political purpose

Last month the UK's data protection agency obtained a warrant to enter and search the offices of Cambridge Analytica — as part of an ongoing investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes which it kicked off in May 2017.

In the wake of revelations that the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users was used by data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2016 for political purposes, reports indicate Facebook will contribute raw, anonymized data to a new Social Data Initiative via what is described as an independent, transparent and peer — reviewed process.

Almost a year ago, in May 2017, the ICO announced a formal investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes — including looking into complaints related to Cambridge Analytica's use of data for ad targeting.

[5] It is intended to exclude proposals made primarily for the purpose of promoting general social and political causes, while requiring inclusion of proposals a reasonable investor would believe are relevant to the value of his investment.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

It is intended to exclude proposals made primarily for the purpose of promoting general social and political causes, while requiring inclusion of proposals a reasonable investor would believe are relevant to the value of his investment.

The proposal asks Berkshire Hathaway to disclose all of its political spending, including payments to trade associations and other tax exempt organizations used for political purposes.

And while Facebook has claimed it was unaware that ~ 50M Facebook users» data was passed to Cambridge Analytica for political targeting purposes, Facebook has itself long been actively encouraging politicians and political campaigns to make use of its tools — at a time when there was a complete lack of regulation for political ads on digital platforms.

At the time, Trump's entire political staff consisted of his lawyer Michael Cohen, veteran operative Roger Stone, and all - purpose aide Sam Nunberg.

The proposal asks the Company to disclose all of its political spending, including payments to trade associations and other tax exempt organizations used for political purposes.

Confusing matters is that a number of exemptions were phased into the law that protect email exchanges between businesses, emails by charities and political parties for fundraising purposes, the first email sent after a third - party referral and emails in response to consumer complaints or inquiries.

The documents show Ailes to be an engaged, brilliant, and often catty adviser with an obsessive, almost evangelical focus on the power of television to manipulate people for political purposes.

Shipping indices, including the Baltic Dry Freight Index, World Container Index, and Shanghai Containerized Freight Index — the sort of data that can not easily be massaged or beautified for political purposes — have all shown significant recent declines.

It is a way of reducing the risks that monetary policy might be misused for short - term political purposes.

We also believe in the original purpose of mining pools — stabilization of mining income — so we try to maintain neutrality and not to make important political / technical decisions on behalf of our miners.

«The Wildrose was not founded on political principles, like the fiscal conservatism of the Progressive Conservatives, or the social democracy of the New Democrats — but rather it was created, out of nothing, for the sole purpose of exerting political pressure on the PC government.»

He added: «Our preference is that the Iraqi political system demonstrates unity of purpose here and avoids fragmentation on security lines, and that's what we'll be watching.»

The Apple chief has also called for stronger data privacy regulations in light of the scandal, which saw the data of 50 million Facebook users improperly harvested and used for political purposes.

Swann's bill defines PACs as «a corporation or group established or maintained for the primary purpose of accepting political action contributions and incurring political action expenses to engage in political promotion but does not include (i) a registered party, or (ii) a registered constituency association.»

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)-- Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has faced multiple investigations on a variety of issues, including allegations of sexual misconduct, misusing charity resources for political purposes and ignoring open - records...

The Spanish Inquisition is another example of abusing the Christian faith for political purposes.

But, he said, the church must respond to the new political / social / spiritual environment, which did include the end of the Cold War and other global shifts, as the WCC discerns and defines its purpose.

Written between 50 and 300 years after the death of Christ, over 300 books at one time, vetted down by the Emperor Constantine to a mere 78 at one point, a few more take out later, modified many times to suit it's political purpose.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

The cynical conversion here, the sort of denominational and theological change for political purposes is... where exactly?

It was made the state religion for political purposes and elimininated the competing religions with the oppressive power of the Roman Empire.