Sentences with phrase «politician claimed he had made»

The 46 - year - old politician claimed he had made a mistake with dates concerning his web marketing work, which he undertook using the pseudonym Michael Green.

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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.

The reason a politician's «religion» matters (and it does even if you are an atheist voter), is because so many religious people claim to have a direct line to god and allow that belief to inform their decision making.

The tradition has been appealed to by journalists and politicians, as if it were common knowledge, as a basis for making (or denying) the claim that the war in the Persian Gulf should go on.

Some prominent figures — French politician Jean - Marie Le Pen and columnist / presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan, for instance — have given Holocaust revisionism a major boost simply by making reference, albeit in a slyly noncommittal fashion, to some of its claims.

I hope you realize that the other side has made the same claims and had the same hopes for previous presidents / politicians.

Whenever the banks claim this is a law, a regulation, I keep saying to everybody that's interested in changing the growing distrust in parliamentary institutions and politicians is that all laws have been made by people and thus all laws can be undone by all people.

I have already published my councillor expenses on my website for some time and I have been critical of those politicians making frivolous claims.

According to ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo - Danquah, the secret tape making rounds on social media, indicating that she covered up the corruption claims against Francis Asenso - Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor, despite CID investigation at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital proving otherwise, has been doctored; a line often used by Ghanaian politicians anytime they are secretly taped.

Cardiff University analysis of television news bulletins found that while politicians — unsurprisingly — made up the vast majority of actors informing election coverage, few expert sources have been used to challenge the parties about their policies or claims.

Some politicians in predominantly Catholic countries like Spain and Poland have embraced nudity as a way of making similar points, Carr - Gomm claimed.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Kingsley darkly notes that «European politicians believed that the continuation of a rescue mission would only makes things worse encouraging more migrants to make the journey» — a journey the author claims can not be stanched, no matter how much invective against immigrants is unleashed.

Gore, in my view, is accurate on all the key conceptual issues, and does not make errors typical of many politicians, as, for example, the many politicians who claim a tax cut will more than make up for lost revenue by encouraging growth — now that is a fundamental conceptual error, and Gore does not have any of those.

He could have avoided making any specific claims about climate, after all he is not a climatologist, he is a politician.

By Dr. Dietrich E. Koelle [Translated, edited by P Gosselin] Announcements that the Arctic sea ice would soon disappear have been among the most favorite of claims made by publicity - seeking climatologists and leading American politicians.

It does mean however that some activists, politicians, journalists, corporate and government agency representatives and even scientists who should know better have made claims that are unsupportable based on evidence and research.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.

Indeed, it would probably be quicker to list Coalition politicians who have never publically made denialist claims.

Yet, while ASA has the power to protect the UK consumer from misleading toothpaste claims, it currently has no power to protect the public from misleading, exaggerated or discriminatory claims made by politicians; regardless of whether they are featured on a bus or a bill - board; and regardless of how many complaints such adverts attract.

The fact that politicians make politically expedient attacks on lawyers — whether it be Chris Grayling's recent attack on «left wing» pressure groups, or Jack Straw's berating «BMW - driving civil liberties lawyers» — does not mean that claimant law firms don't have a case to answer in relation to drumming up «spurious claims».

The BBC has settled with Lord McAlpine over a libel claim concerning allegations of child abuse made on the Newsnight programme which implicated the former Conservative politician.

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.

An hysterical chorus of rightwing commentators claimed that the walkouts and protests and angry rebukes of NRA - flunkie politicians by Florida high school students had been orchestrated by leftie political operatives, «Everything they're doing is right out of the Democrat Party's various playbooks,» said Rush Limbaugh, as if a teenager couldn't possibly make the connection between NRA largess and pro-gun politicians without adult guidance.