Sentences with word «scurrilous»

«This is simply beyond the pale and if anyone should be sensitive to such scurrilous charges it is Senator Gillibrand who spent years helping to shield big tobacco from disclosure,» said Chairman Ed Cox.

Conference members of NASUWT must be congratulated for their leadership of the profession and their continuing resolve in being prepared to make a stand in the face of scurrilous attacks, abuse, intimidation and lies.

During the alternative vote referendum, they channelled funding to Labour - led groups that specialised in scurrilous personal attacks on Nick, which led to one of the few cases of real verbal fisticuffs in Cabinet.

The former Alabama senator wrapped up his statement by saying that even though he recused himself from matters involving the Russia investigation, he did not recuse himself from «defending my honor against scurrilous and false allegations.»

Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter (Kely Reilly) and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral — and often comic — problems, he feels

Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter (Kely Reilly) and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral — and often comic — problems, he feels sinister forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.

There's only scant comic relief from Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter as scurrilous innkeepers, but the weakest link is Russell Crowe as the merciless law enforcer Inspector Javert.

What scurrilous comments you make about Indie authors and their publications!

So here's a picture by Jean - Baptiste Mauzaisse that pretty much sums up how the civil legal tradition saw the legacy of the great innovations of 1804: But of course, there has always been a much more scurrilous view of the law.

Hamer tells the story of how a massive fraud of shareholders and various other scurrilous activities acted as a severe brake on the development of electric transport.

I tend to keep my head down (when I'm not railing against my former employer for writing scurrilous lies about Kathleen Folbigg), so I've pretty much avoided negative comments at HouseGoesHome.

If the Competiton Bureau followed through on every single scurrilous complaint brought forward by whomever, through the initial inquiry (aka discretionary) triage stage, to the ultimate conclusion of an Application for each complaint, physically before the Tribunal, there would not be enough bureaucrats in all of Canada in all of the Silly Service departments lumped together to process these complaints through to their logical / illogical conclusions.

«I will say, again, that I much prefer the noisy, boisterous, sometimes scurrilous media of today to the monotonous, praise - singing, sycophantic one of yesteryear.

I may not go as far as Thomas Jefferson when he said that «were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter», but I will say that I much prefer the noisy, boisterous, sometimes scurrilous media of today to the monotonous, praise - singing, sycophantic one of yesteryear.

Mr McBride resigned after publication of the emails — which included scurrilous and untrue rumours about the private lives of leading Conservatives.

(You can blame the internet for this, giving scurrilous agents access to his impressionable mind.)

But of course, there has always been a much more scurrilous view of the law.

When you think about patent litigation today, you might picture scurrilous patent trolls lurking about, hoping to sue hapless small companies on frivolous charges of patent infringement.

The «approved» art style was propagandistic woodcuts which tended to focus on idealised portraits of reformers, scurrilous satiric depictions of Catholics or a lot of heroic martyrs being killed in a variety of gruesome ways.

If there is allegory here, it cuts both ways: not only must the shepherd resist the allurements of the false woman, but the bride must resist the advances of a charming but ultimately scurrilous suitor.

Long before Bill Clinton trashed his presidency by lying about his adulterous relationship with Monica Lewinsky, the political right heaped scurrilous accusations upon him and sought to expel him from office.

The remarks were plastered over the tabloids in England, while Eriksson's agent said the coach was the victim of «scurrilous entrapment.»

Trev Rumour has it you peak too soon but that's scurrilous rumour.

Both are the worst examples of negative campaigning based on out of context distortions and outright lies I have ever seen in politics.The Dems are serving up a huge helping of class warfare, exactly what a country already falling apart shouldn't have.These scurrilous tactics present a clear moral divide.

He argues that the Senate had «gaveled out» so the GOP's coup vote didn't count, and called his opponents» move a «scurrilous action.»

Scurrilous scandal!

David Ludwig: I think when we've got... The problem is there's so many supplements with commercial interests that have been marketed in scurrilous ways.

Streep's early scenes play like a bit of warm - up for both the character and the star, the nasty shtick beginning to take hold in loud, scurrilous moments that build until we reach the big dinner scene, a sort of decrepit centerpiece for the whole picture during which Violet insults every damn person at the table and especially aims to tear each of her daughters apart.

You might need a few uppers, or at the very least, some aspirin, by the time this noisy, scurrilous assault on your good spirits is over.

Mildred's idea of avenging Angela inevitably has a cascading effect, not only with Willoughby — played with upstanding directness and pathos by Harrelson — but also by his dumb - as - a-rock deputy, Dixon, portrayed in an amusingly scurrilous turn by Sam Rockwell.

And if I was a Blue author, I'd start quietly moving towards the lifeboats and just happen to have my lifejacket (friends on the Red Ship and lots of scurrilous stories about Blue editors to tell them) handy.

But Stezaker was a student too at a time when a wholesale critique of the pop - cultural image was being launched by such thinkers as Guy Debord; the Situtationists» scurrilous repurposing of media imagery became an exemplary strategy for him, alongside his abiding, and then unfashionable, interest in surrealism.

Because however scurrilous Dunham's line may be, it remains just as strictly within the given bounds, obeying the laws of extreme economy.

But as in the Galapagos this attracts more people and that attracts more people to accommodate them and then more scurrilous things start to happen and there is more trash and the area becomes more familiar.

You do the denialists argument a great disservice with your lazy attitude to research and scurrilous approach to instigation of rumour.

Be that as it may, as previously noted the RC AGW - denier club serves to refute scurrilous «echo chamber» accusations.

OK — normally, when scurrilous and bizarrely wrong - headed comments like this one are submitted to this website from out there in cyberspace, our moderation policy quickly consigns them to the «unapproved» category where negative - value - added material goes.