Sentences with phrase «rotten state»

Facebook's response to the clutch of users who are suddenly woke — triggered to delve into their settings by the Facebook data misuse scandal and #DeleteFacebook backlash — to the fact the social behemoth is, quietly and continuously, harvesting sensitive personal data about them and their friends tells you everything you need to know about the rotten state of tech industry ad - supported business models.

It's an absolutely rotten state of affairs when politicians can make things up and spread disinformation with impunity, especially on such as massive scale.

And see why, in spite of the rotten state of the book market, we keep the faith and stay true to our standards.

In that statement — probably unintentionally, much in the way one might relieve one's employers of a grand in mortgage expenses — our new - broom speaker has crystallised the short - termism inherent in parliament's response to its rotten state.

He said various governments had over the years failed and put the country in a «rotten state».

Something stinks in the Rotten State of the United Kingdom it seems to me.

Not exact matches

«Take rotten governments like the one in Egypt before the riots of 2011, supported by the United States for four decades in order to «avoid chaos,» he writes.

Something rotten in the state of Denmark?

In their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering society.

Many have publicly stated that it smelled as a cross between rotten egg salad and animal remains in a hot Arizona desert.»

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

I would say that the issues we raise about referees, the media, financial issues and so on, are done in terms of analysis and deeper consideration — and they reveal something rather rotten in the state of football — and that something is not Mr Wenger.

The campaign of Alvarado Muñoz has highlighted several dynamics that indicate that something is rotten in the state of Costa Rica, a country long characterized by political moderation and stability, and, also remind of recent elections elsewhere.

February 3, 2005: Something is rotten in the Garden State.

TechCrunch's Natasha Lomas puts her finger on the «something rotten in the state of social media» — that is, she writes, «Slowly but surely the freedoms that initially drew us into these glittering social spaces are being withdrawn, as barred gates drop into place — limiting our usage options, and controlling and constraining the social content we see.

Writing in the Guardian, he delivered a scathing attack on Labour, assailing the nanny state and listing Labour's perceived failures: the government's treatment of the sick and disabled, its tremulous retreat on freedom of information, its centralising instincts and the cosy corruption of old Labour rotten boroughs.

The New York Times isn't buying Sheldon Silver's apology, saying the former assemblyman «felon, symbol of all that is rotten in New York State government, is still ducking and weaving, saying much but revealing little, heedless of the shame and opprobrium clinging to him like cat hair on a coat.»

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described the President Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government as one that is rotten and covered with scandalous corruption.

And something is rotten in Albany, de Blasio continued, where the governor has been allied with the Independent Democratic Conference, which has helped Republicans run the State Senate.

Add to that rotten core state Sen. Thomas Libous (R - Binghamton), who was found guilty of lying to FBI agents, and state Sen. John Sampson (D - Brooklyn), who was convicted of obstructing a federal investigation.

Ahead of the primaries for the 2010 gubernatorial election in New York state, candidate Carl Paladino of the Tea Party sent out thousands of flyers impregnated with the smell of rotten garbage, with a message to «get rid of the stink» alongside pictures of his rivals.

The survey is small, but it does suggest there is something rotten in the state of stem cells: a worrying number of respondents admitted knowing about fraud or unethical behaviour.

Dating in the Sunshine State can be difficult both for successful sugar daddies who have confidence in their bodies, personality and bank account, and for sugar babies who want to be spoiled rotten and enjoy special moments with a caring gentleman.

According to a study by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, 73 percent of Rotten Tomatoes» top critics are men.

While a great deal of uninformed critics seem to be falling all over themselves about The Fate of the Furious (the Rotten Tomatoes website actually states, «The Fate of the Furious opens a new chapter in the franchise, fueled by the same infectious cast chemistry and over-the-top action fans have come to expect.»)

It currently sits at a 16 % on Rotten Tomatoes, with the general consensus stating that «The Mummy suggests a speedy unravelling for the Dark Universe.»

Something smells rotten in the state of California right from the get - go: Cotton Weary (Liev Schrieber), the former lover and would - be killer of Maureen Prescott, Sidney's mother, is juggling phone calls in his luxury car.

Upon returning home, Thor learns that much is rotten in the state of Asgard, as usual due to his mischievous brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston, «Kong: Skull Island»), and the stage is set for much intrigue, bombast and humor.

There's something rotten in the state of journalism, and the emblem of that rot is Louis Bloom, played in a daring, go - for - broke performance by Jake Gyllenhaal.

If there's something rotten in the state of Denmark, we wouldn't know it by A Lego Brickumentary.

A scurrilous Facebook event page, whose stated purpose was to «give Black Panther a rotten audience score on Rotten Tomatoes» purported to be a grassroots protest against Disney and its «treatment of franchises and its fanboys&rrotten audience score on Rotten Tomatoes» purported to be a grassroots protest against Disney and its «treatment of franchises and its fanboys&rRotten Tomatoes» purported to be a grassroots protest against Disney and its «treatment of franchises and its fanboys».

An unholy alliance is formed, but not without the price of one's soul, and it soon becomes apparent that, yet again, something's rotten in the state of Heotor.

In an essay for The Hollywood Reporter, the legendary director lauded the film while also taking aim at the state of modern film criticism, particularly that pesky Rotten Tomatoes.

When Ann filed, it was proof positive to me that something's rotten in the state of Denmark... er, EC.

However, as the cliche goes — something's rotten in the state of Denmark.

We had her back x-rayed, we did a geriatric blood panel to determine her general state of health (good except she has a slight heart murmur that is not slowing her down at all, but may require medication in the future) and we had her plaque - covered teeth cleaned and two rotten teeth removed at a cost of $ 563.00.

You see it in the mansion's dilapidated state where cockroaches are feasting on rotten food and opening a lunch box reveals an equally disgusting colony of maggots.

Inspired by the famous quote in Hamlet, «Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,» Rondolini's juxtaposition of high - glam luxury and organic garbage shows the contradiction between the facade and the interior.

«When you have the super-rich paying for an immature Rose Period Picasso $ 104m (# 57m), close to the GNP of some Caribbean or African states, something is very rotten: such gestures do no honour to art: they debase it by making the desire for it pathological.»

The text continues with an outside description of Soapy, who shifts throughout the text from a masculine he pronoun to feminine she one: «After his death, the physician who practiced his autopsy stated that her body did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; she had a single testicle, black as coal, and her head was full of water.»

If it doesn't then something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Fortunately, for most of us, it did derail Copenhagen but in an increasingly febrile atmosphere the epithet «denier» was hurled at anyone suggesting that something is rotten in the state of climate science.

In early September, NSIDC described large areas of rotten ice in an advanced state of disintegration.

«Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark: A skeptical look at The Skeptical Environmentalist,» Grist Magazine, December 12, 2001.

Because I knew something was rotten in the state of Denmark.

Something is definitely rotten in the state of Georgia.

I have long thought there's something rotten in the state of climate science — and this reflects on the rest of science too.

The level of confidence that each showed in the mainstream (climate model - driven) global warming meme (despite this new research suggesting that something may be rotten in the state of Denmark) appears proportional to how much professional advancement still lies ahead.

Combined with the recent move by the Conservative Reform Alliance Party (CRAP) to drop CFCAS (the main funding agency for climate science in Canada), something smells a bit rotten in the state of the great white north.

A new investigative documentary released this week by Al Jazeera, «Peru's Rotten Wood,» shows with new evidence that illegally logged timber stolen from the Peruvian Amazon is still coming to the United States markets, making U.S. customers unwilling accomplices of forest destruction, corruption, and human rights violations.