Sentences with phrase «political scandal»

Following a week of political scandal it was hardly surprising to see the collective poll ratings of the party leaders fall to their lowest levels ever recorded.

It was, quite simply, the biggest political scandal of the decade.

I eagerly await the first political scandal involving the Canadian economic blogosphere, all ten of them.

And all it took to create competitive races was a major political scandal?

We've heard enough about past political scandals to know that the games are nothing new.

The default setting for a film about political scandal is to have characters conduct an endless stream of conversation and frame them in tight shots that make their environments irrelevant.

This was, in truth, a poor year for political scandals.

In many ways there's nothing the British public enjoy more than a good political scandal, especially if it involves a high ranking politician.

It was a good old British political scandal: Sex, speeding tickets and constitutional precedent.

From interviewing academics on a daily basis, I can tell you it's not common for them to be in the middle of a multinational political scandal.

Rather, the official attitude appeared to be that it would blow away like most domestic political scandals, forgetting, surprisingly, that this was prime time and the whole world was watching.

Such is the extent of the turmoil which British society now finds itself in that it's hard to tell where political scandals end and begin.

She has turned what should have been a minor matter into a huge political scandal which has ended her time in government.

At the same time, that is the saving grace of this long overdue film on a character who played the pivotal role in an incident that would come to define political scandals.

She's living the high life until her boss is implicated in a very juicy political scandal — and she is shown the door right along with him.

There have been a series of political scandals in recent months: the Channel 4 sting on Jack Straw MP and Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP, during which the former cabinet ministers allegedly offered their services to a fictitious Chinese company; claims of tax avoidance by Tory donors; suggestions that Labour wanted to keep secret the identity of a hedge fund backer secret; and the resignation of a Lib Dem peer on Friday over claims that donations were given for access to Nick Clegg.

In the latest installment of CNN = Politics Daily, CNN's Drew Griffin has the details as political scandal erupts in the Illinois State House.

It has been argued that, following a series of high - profile political scandals over the Code (David Blunkett resigned for a second time over a conflict of interest; and Tessa Jowell's husband was implicated — separately — in a furore over his financial dealings), that it should be administered by a more impartial figure than the Prime Minister.

Amid an environment of greater scrutiny following the recent political scandals in Albany, the Real Estate Board of New York slashed its campaign spending...

Timothy D. Sini, a 37 - year - old Democrat serving as the Suffolk County Police Commissioner, handily won the race for Suffolk District Attorney Tuesday night, and said he would prepare quickly to take over an office marred by political scandal in the...

«It's not all 50 states, but four out of 50 is pretty bad,» said Brendan Nyhan, an expert on political scandals at Dartmouth College.

And just to make things more complicated: there's the possibility of a falling anvil from what may be the country's worst - ever political scandal from the debt - ridden economic development fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

Two superintendents abruptly departed following political scandals surrounding past governors» use of their security details of troopers.

The fund has become what is likely Malaysia's worst - ever political scandal.

With unrestricted access to Anthony Weiner's New York City mayoral campaign, this film reveals the human story behind the scenes of a high - profile political scandal as it unfolds, and it offers an unfiltered look at how much today's politics are driven by an appetite for spectacle.

However, although the hotel's name has become synonymous with political scandal in general (hence Irangate and Dieselgate), instead of trying to distance itself, the property embraces the notoriety.

«Like many political scandals, it could be that the cover - up is worse than the crime,» Walsh says.

The crystal meth of political scandals continues to claim more victims.

This week Theresa May experienced her worst political scandal since she became prime minister.

Political scandal reportage by Maxa was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by the Post, and he has written two non-fiction books.

Kinsella was convinced to come west, and quickly got into his first political scandal in the province.

It is steeped in the paranoia and iconography of post-Nixon America, drawing heavily on real - life political scandals like Watergate and Chappaquiddick, but more directly it operates as a comment on the craft of filmmaking.

Watergate and other other political scandals over the years certainly deepened and solidified the cynicism.

Click to see international political scandals that raised eyebrows and kept the tabloids in wide circulation.

Russia has nothing to do with the ongoing political scandals in the United States, the chief of one of the biggest Russian lenders told CNBC Thursday.

The latest political scandal to hit Brazil is likely to put an end to President Michel Temer's term before the end of 2018, an analyst told CNBC on Monday.

Malaysia's budget due at 4 p.m. local time (0800 GMT) may be the toughest yet for embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak as he struggles to balance declining oil revenues, spending priorities and a growing political scandal.

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is facing a severe political scandal and it's not clear if he can survive the rest of his term, raising questions over the future of Abenomics.

It is the party that perpetrated and embodied the largest political scandal in Canadian history.

Considering Trump's rants against «Crooked Hillary,» it's a bit ironic that Pinchuk is now appearing as a player in Trump's own political scandal.

Though the deals earned Goldman outsized fees, a brewing political scandal involving the fund leaves the bank exposed and raises questions about its processes for vetting reputational risk.

«The current political scandals expose structural weaknesses in the system that need to be addressed, but not in ways that entrench the powerful and preclude a more nonpartisan process,» the party's release declared.

Three additional factors contributing to the planned departures are the stunning round of political scandals now unfolding involving nearly a dozen Democrats in the Legislature; Hilary Rodham Clinton's emergence as the presumptive front - runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016; and Cuomo's failure to win pay raises for state commissioners and his senior staffers, many of whom are being paid at a rate set in 1999....»

«It was,» we wrote, «perhaps the broadest political scandal of the century».

If the court unseats Temer, it would be a classic «Brazilian solution» — using a legal process to justify a decision essentially defined by an unrelated political scandal.

A news publication, Voize Iz Neias, also known as The Voice of the Orthodox Jewish Community named Monsey Chosid as the cooperating witness in the statewide political scandal.

The subsequent movie adaptation of the scandal, All the President's Men, featured a dashing Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, and their exquisitely coiffed and feathered hair as they unraveled an exciting and hot - button political scandal.

«Our county and state have been hit by bipartisan political scandal and arrests today — Democrats in Spring Valley, Albany & Queens; Republicans in Albany, Queens & the Bronx.