Sentences with phrase «real scandal of»

That's the real scandal of «climategate».

In an interesting new e-book by Carl Trueman called The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trueman revisits the question originally posed by Mark Noll, but with an emphasis not on the mind of the evangelical, but with the term evangelical itself.

Investigations of this variety simply risk obscuring the real scandal of the story.

Not exact matches

The firm closed its latest fund, a massive $ 3.3 billion, last May, just as the Valley's harassment scandals were starting to mount — but before they gained real attention from the bulk of the tech world.

But this time there has been a mad rush to the «transparency and accountability» altar and because of a Senate spending scandal and a $ 90,000 payoff we may be heading to the type of real change so many, including this newspaper, have pushed for over the years.

The resulting deregulated and unregulated institutions have brought us one financial crises after another — the savings and loan scandal, the bubble and bust in Real Estate Investment Trusts, the collapse of the hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management, which threatened to set off a daisy chain of bond defaults, and more.

Perhaps we will have to add a new category to the definition of a Canadian political scandal involving no sex and no money — one involving no real serious terrorist threat.

As we track social mood in real time across the globe, we chart how its changes produce shifts in everything from the songs people want to hear to the leaders they elect to their desire for peace to their hunger for scandals to the trajectories of their stock markets, and more.

Here's the real scandal: Who would have confidence now in what ought to be the true message of Romney - Ryan?

@GFreas The real problem most people have regarding the pedo priest scandal is that the Roman Catholic Church is guilty of criminal conspiracy.

Church leader and theologian Steve Holmes wrote: «I agree profoundly with Steve in his concern that our pastoral practice in this area has often been appalling, and needs to change... his diagnosis of a real and urgent problem is spot on... [He] names a pastoral scandal that we have swept under the carpet for too long.»

But practices that screen the reputation of the Church and put that before the well - being of children, practices which HAVE NOT BEEN CHANGED, are the real scandal.

Halperin (and others too) pointed out that it ought to be a controversy that the general media in its reporting has ignored its own partisanship in favor of Obama in avoiding the reporting of a real scandal.

Of course it is a real leap from sex scandals and bureaucratic mismanagement to the argument that the Catholic Church will go to murderous lengths to stifle evidence that contradicts its teaching, and that the church's highest officials do this cynically, knowing that the faith is a fraud.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

In light of the scandal, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is understood to have cooled on Benzema's importance to the Merengues, with the club chief concerned that Benzema's latest headlines threaten to undermine the club's brand and reputation.

Real Madrid are keenly aware of the ongoing sex - tape - blackmail scandal surrounding forward Karim Benzema — a longtime target of Arsene Wenger.

While these various factions squabble in the aftermath of the Sandusky scandal, it is the victims who are seeking real justice.

Shonda Rhimes (creator of Scandal and other successful television shows like Grey's Anatomy) and her team have decided not to integrate Kerry's real - life pregnancy into her character Olivia's storyline.

In fact you have to wonder why any aspiring Chinese lobbyist would bother risking scandal by paying for access to washed - up former ministers like Straw and Rifkind, when the real deal can be bought quite openly, with a free glass of champagne thrown in to seal the deal.

NYC real estate developer and mega-donor Leonard Litwin, who made an art of exploiting the so - called LLC loophole and whose company, Glenwood Management, played a big role in the corruption scandal involving former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, has died at the age of 102.

The list of the mayor's 2013 bundlers includes a real - estate executive who cut a deal to testify against crooked ex-pols Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos — and another poised to take the witness stand in the NYPD corruption scandal.

Moreover, several of those pols (from both parties) who received funds from the real estate mogul are either in jail, facing charges, or forced out politics because of a scandal.

But the other is of real political importance - how much did the scandal Robinson was embroiled in earlier this year play a part in his downfall?

The real power of the blogosphere, as the US has proved ten years on from the Lewinski scandal is the power of grass roots organisation, online advocacy and peer to peer networks (especially for fund raising).

Gov. Cuomo said Monday voters will just have to trust him to do the right thing when asked why he won't return more than $ 1 million from a real - estate firm involved in two of Albany's biggest corruption scandals.

What happens in the privacy of the bedroom is a matter of taste, I suppose, but in light of the recent, high profile Chris Brown / Rihanna scandal, you kinda can't help but wonder whether harmless sex games and real - life violence toward women are connected.

In recent weeks, the SNP has been bogged down in the sort of scandals that, under normal circumstances, have the power to do real damage yet the party of Scottish Government continues to ride high, seemingly impervious to their effect.

Big real estate political donors are at the center of the ongoing Sheldon Silver scandal, the end of the Moreland Commission, and further investigations by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Big real estate political donors are at the center of the ongoing Sheldon Silver scandal, the end of the Moreland Commission, and -LSB-...]

Cuomo holds his father and his legacy in a sacrosanct state, making the kicker of the letter a real punch to the solar plexus and will do little to advance either man's relationship (part of this bad blood may stem from way back in 2010, when then - Attorney General Cuomo settled with the lobbying firm Faso worked for as part of a major pay - to - play pension fund scandal).

«The public is tired of the ever - expanding litany of scandals and this must be a wake - up call to the leadership in Albany that real, comprehensive solutions must be enacted for the few who have let power go to their heads,» said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause - New York.

George has also received millions from New York City real estate developers and from Leonard Litwin, who was at the very core of the Dean Skelos corruption scandal.

«The scandal is a mind - boggling mélange of «From Here to Eternity,» «You've Got Mail,» «The Real Housewives of Centcom,» and «Keeping Up With the Kardashians.»

The real anger I feel about woman acting in a purely politically calculating manner concerning sexual scandal, is that it has really hurt woman in general and in terms of passing legislation in NYS this year.

Among his clients: Glenwood Management, the luxury real estate development firm that has played a role in the corruption scandals of both Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Real estate giant Glenwood Management, which played a role in the corruption scandals of both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, also contributed $ 200,000 to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's legal defense fund ahead of his 2009 corruption trial.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

The RSA represents a wide range of New York City property owners, like Glenwood Management, The real estate firm implicated in the corruption scandals of both, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The mayor has personally blamed the real estate developers at the center of the scandal — accusing them of hoodwinking the city administration into dropping deed restrictions on the former nursing home.

SUNY Poly's two non-profit real estate arms, the Fort Schuyler Management Corporation and Fuller Road Management Corporation, were effectively been brought under the supervision of Empire State Development after the scandal.

«I think what it shows is that in the wake of the real scandal and the missteps of the Moreland Commission, Andrew Cuomo is scared,» she said.

The contracts at the center of the SUNY Polytechnic bid - rigging scandal were between state controlled non-profits «Fort Schuyler Management Corporation and real estate developers.

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

Sheldon Silver was convicted last week on all seven counts of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering that he faced over five weeks of trail in Federal District Court in Lower Mnahattan — becoming the latest New York politician convicted in a corruption scandal tied to real estate interests.

«With New York government scarred by a shameful parade of scandals, ethics reform is once again at the forefront of this year's legislative session and I call on the Senate and Assembly to include real restrictions on these taxpayer - funded mailings that serve no legitimate governmental purpose,» Singas wrote.

The LLC Loophole is the main way that real estate companies like Glenwood Management, a major player in both the Skelos and Silver scandals, have given millions of dollars to political campaigns despite contribution limits on individuals and corporations.

In the face of yet another scandal, we believe it is time for real reform of the upper chamber.

«This is the real scandal in Albany, the alarming fact that state government has stood by and done nothing as generation after generation of students have passed through failing schools,» Cuomo said in a series of press releases he issued Thursday naming each failing school and the legislators whose districts they are located in.

The scandal has led to criminal charges against a group of nine people including former members of the Cuomo administration and real estate developers.