Sentences with phrase «prompted by the revelations»

This was Mr. Zuckerberg's first appearance before Congress, prompted by the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign, harvested the data of an estimated 87 million Facebook users to psychologically profile voters during the 2016 election.
The probe was prompted by revelations on the prematurely released dust jacket of Peter Golenbock's book on the Wolfpack program, Personal Fouls (SI, Jan. 30, et seq.), which is to be pubished in September.
The confidential survey, which was completed by more than 1,000 women and men, including MSPs, their employees and Scottish parliamentary staff, was prompted by the revelations of historic sexual harassment and assault that rocked Westminster, Holyrood and the Welsh assembly last November.
The sexual harassment firestorm prompted by revelations about producer Harvey Weinstein has since burned through careers in Washington, Silicon Valley and statehouses around the country — including Sacramento.

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The revelation ultimately prompted the resignation of former party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and elicited widespread outcry and protests by Sanders supporters.
On the day that Daniels canceled the deal, protesters gathered in front of Trump Tower in New York City to express outrage over week - old revelations that the Republican presidential nominee had once bragged about grabbing women by the crotch, news that was prompting a number of women to come forward with stories of alleged sexual misconduct by the candidate.
Broadly speaking, it may be said that the defense of the poor, prompted in the first place by Christian sentiments of solidarity or charity, crowded out all the rest of Christianity and ended in total abandonment of faith, in indifference to the revelation, and in the atheism that appears to be a normal revolutionary position.
Revelations about «embarrassing» strategems used by a lobbying firm have prompted further demands for reform from Labour.
This suggests that Mr Cameron was helped into Downing Street by a man who has already prompted the resignation of two of Britain's most senior policemen, following the revelation that he worked for the Met after leaving the newspaper.
And there was of course the revelation on Christmas Eve that the Cabinet, reportedly at the prompting of Andrew Mitchell, discussed how to maximise the Liberal Democrats» chances of winning the by - election.
A story posted on the Telegraph website today claimed that Blears» resignation was prompted by further damaging revelations about her expenses.
It was the revelation that millions of pounds in undeclared loans had been received by both Labour and the Conservatives, and that several of these donors had been nominated for peerages, that prompted the police inquiry.
Elsewhere in the city, incumbents largely were returned to office, though Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., running unopposed, faced a surprisingly strong, last minute write - in challenge from Marc Fliedner, an out gay ex-prosecutor prompted to jump in when revelations surfaced about the incumbent's failure to pursue fraud charges against Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr., in their marketing of the Trump Soho and sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein brought by an Italian model who captured a partial admission from the former film mogul on tape.
When he expresses his bewilderment to the other party members, they are flabbergasted by this revelation, and then proceed to prompt him about their journey and its purpose.
This revelation prompted the extensive «Waterfall» series of large - scale paintings, which she made by hurling washes of black and white paint onto the top portion of the canvas and letting them drip to the bottom to create the illusion of waterfalls.
The revelation may have been prompted by an article by Kendyl Sebesta in The Law Times, which obtained a review obtained by a freedom of information request and showed inconsistent and negative results and funding problems,
The whistleblower's revelation, first reported by the Observer last May, prompted Canadian authorities on Thursday to launch yet another investigation into AggregateIQ and Facebook dealings, to see if the «organizations are in compliance with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and [British Columbia's] Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).»
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