Sentences with phrase «public mea culpa»

Many automakers are probably indulging in a bit of private schadenfreude following Hyundai / Kia's public mea culpa for inflated fuel economy figures that the company blames on a procedural error during testing.

Nothing short of a public mea culpa will even begin to earn back a trust systematically thrown away for more than a half - century.

Ali himself, after his public mea culpa, kept piously mum for as long as one could reasonably expect of so loquacious a fellow.

Two years later, after Kellogg's public mea culpa, Kashi's sales haven't recovered.

Not exact matches

Despite mea culpas and the public backing of his boss, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a conservative campaign against his long - ago actions as a schoolteachers.

This speech desperately needed a mea culpa, a break with the past, a first step towards changing the public perception of the Lib Dems as shameless two - faced car salesmen who'll do anything for power.