Sentences with phrase «public back then»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Then, it won't seem merely reactionary — or worse, weak — when you ask them to back you up and help steer public sentiment into an authentically positive light.

We've seen them look totally in love while announcing their engagement back in November, then we quickly saw them reach peak couple goals while rocking perfectly coordinating outfits during their numerous public appearances.

As Amino CEO David Vivero told me back then, the firm's platform is «based on insurance claims data from both public and private players,» allowing for a more accurate depiction of how much medical care costs.

Back then, the release of a major candidate's paid speeches to a leading firm in a highly controversial industry — speeches that the candidate had refused to release, despite considerable public interest — would have been an important event.

Back then, the risk was concentrated in the public markets, which included millions of relatively novice investors in mutual funds or newly opened online brokerage accounts.

And then our staff came back with a recommendation to rethink whether the public could vote online or not.

And then we will look to public banking options, and perhaps to Dennis Kucinich's American Monetary Act to turn you commercial banks back into savings banks to stem your wild speculation at the economy's expense.»

«Looking back now, it is clear to me that all of us that were involved at the time - and certainly myself - should have done more to protect the American public through aggressive regulation, comprehensive regulation,» he said during a grilling by then - Iowa Senator Tom Harkin during his confirmation hearing.

From public pot shots by then chief executive and co-founder Rahul Yadav, directed at the company's investors and board members, which led to his ouster later, to high cash burn, the once revered startup has been struggling to get back on its feet.

They snap up struggling publicly traded companies, with the help of some debt financing, spend a few years turning them around by restructuring or shedding businesses and then they sell them back to public stockholders, ideally at a gain.

Then Fannie and Freddie begin buying back delinquent mortgages, paying off the lenders in full, and taking the losses at public expense.

Those agencies package thousands of similar loans together and then sell them to public in the form bonds which are known as agency mortgage backed securities.

Neuhaus commented on the book in The Public Square back then (scroll down to the second....

Dimitri Cavalli, source of many WWAI items over the past few years and author of the Washington Examiner story from which these quotes are taken, explains the change this way: Back then, Lynn was defending progressive causes, but now that «the so - called Religious Right has eclipsed the influence of the Religious Left in American public life,» it's time to shut down religious influence.

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

As it happens, enough people did sit down, examine their consciences and then stood right back up again: the public outcry eventually forced Steinberg's clinic to suspend the service.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

When you do a good deed in public and get your pat on the back, then you got your reward.

There are passages in the Qur» an which suggest that those who fall away will not be given another chance, but then the Epistle to the Hebrews warns that «It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace» (Hebrews 6, 4 - 6).

The Roman Coliseums back then were as Ampitheaters which did parlay toward the public's wants and desires to see people being murdered and / or killed for pure entertainments» sake, satisfying the Romans needs to be enlightened and / or emotionally stimulated, giving them something to later talk about after seeing someone die and / or maimed.

If no such evidence is forthcoming, then one may fairly conclude that the real backing for the warrant must be found elsewhere than in a public realm of discourse — for example, in the personal belief of the theologian.

Rather, the prehensions have public origins, the objective data; they have private subjective forms, based on the private aim of the actual occasion; and then the occasion, having unified its prehensions, passes back into publicity, providing data for new prehensions.

I went back to school, too, first as a public and then as a Catholic high school teacher.

Last year, the city of Eugene, Ore., barred Christmas trees from public property, then backed down a bit and allowed firefighters to put up a tree on Christmas Eve and Christmas.

The decision is the result of several turns in a prolonged drama, from Rice's arrest on assault charges in February, to the release of video depicting the running back as a he knocked out his then - fiancee with a punch, to reports that the Baltimore Ravens and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell misled media and the public about what they knew regarding the case.

However, Sherwood's own future at the club is still in doubt after a series of shaky results and public outbursts, but should the former midfielder still be at the helm next term, and depending on whether Spurs inserted a buy - back clause in Caulker's contract then a deal could very well be on the cards.

no doubt the papers made up this # 50 million to make the board look bad and tight (both are myths made up by press during the lean years), but they have said in public they will back wenger with the big money on world class purchases, then i believe they will.

However, the very early line moves on the Falcons indicated some sharper money to move the line up to -5.5, which the public then bet back down again to -4:

And if the latest reports are true then Bellerin has supposedly had two meetings with Wenger since the player returned from international duty, apparently begging to be allowed to move back to Barca and he doesn't want his wishes to be made public.

We expect the public action to move this line to -10, -10.5, and then look for Sharp action to beat it back to -9.5.

Then came weeks of public, ugly, back - and - forth, open feuding between the programs, and Florida being accused by media members of «being scared» to play LSU.

The statement we have 200 mils in cash looks very ridiculous now (as it did back then because anyone could have done a quick check on public statements AFC publishes every year).

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

«The line is currently Louisville -2 and we do not expect for the line to move to -3 because if it gets to -3 then the public and the sharps will hammer that back down to -2,» according to Ryan Oakes, a spokesman for William Hill.

Back then, you could actually skate in the Public Garden, which they don't offer any longer... but you can walk across the street and take the kids to the Frog Pond.

Going further back in time, the UN established the Nuremberg principles as justification for the Nuremberg trials, and then turned a blind eye to post-war violations of plundering public / private property, and forced civilian population transfers.

Spitzer's chief complaint about then - Assemblyman Tom DiNapoli when he was up for disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's job back in 2007 was that he was a life - long public servant and lacked financial expertise.

«If the PDCT wants genuine public backing for its plans, then it should put them out to a vote of the people.

Then there was the most recent stick in the eye: forcing on Dinapoli a pilot public financing program — only for his race — that would make the comptroller give back more than two - thirds of his campaign money or suffer a P.R. hit.

According to the published reports, Heastie would support James, who would then back Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., a Heastie ally, as her replacement as public advocate, which would be a springboard for Diaz in the 2021 New York City mayoral election.

Congestion pricing has died multiple deaths in public policy debates, most recently 10 years ago when the Assembly declined to take a vote on a plan backed by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

If you make your case well then the public will back you.

If Labour need to make a break from New Labour then get rid of Blair because it stinks of his control within Labour at the moment, saying immigration is a Tory problem would make the public laugh out loud, saying we did make some mistakes, to try and get UKIP voters back, will not work, you tried to change the voting pattern by bringing in poor immigrants who did not end up voting.

The then running mate of the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party's warning is back in the public...

It is too important for its future to be determined in a back room deal which would then be bounced on MPs with precious little scope for proper debate let alone public consultation.

But even that school, like other public schools back then, was run as a «secular» school, hinged on Euro - Christian tradition!

The Gov. gave a nod to state public leaders, and then gave the back of his hand to state employees.

Stretching back to the Neil Hamilton cash for questions saga, the committee on standards in public life was established in 1994 and then in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was painfully born.

Put it another way, if the plan were to have come from George Osborne today — or Gordon Brown in his glory days as Chancellor — then the public might well have backed the idea enthusiastically, for it would be seen as a public interest measure being advanced by people who knew what they were talking about.