Sentences with phrase «startling revelations by»

The case is the latest stage in a protracted effort from the organisations to challenge the UK's extremely wide - ranging surveillance powers following startling revelations by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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But the court spent most of an hour Tuesday discussing Enron's bankruptcy in 2001 amid startling revelations that its top executives manipulated the company's earnings and stock price by lying to employees and investors about Enron's financial health.

Chairman Wuntumi made this startling revelation on Accra - based radio station, Okay FM, monitored by GhanaPoliticsonline.

Checks by the Nigeria Politics Online have it that more startling revelations are set unfold in the coming weeks and months as the recent events have sent jitters down the spine of other bank CEOs.

Not a startling revelation, but it does pose some questions as to how young politicians integrate into a system traditionally dominated by more senior generations, and cope with being in the public eye in an increasingly volatile political environment.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne said last night: «These startling revelations from the NAO call into question the entire defence mounted by the prime minister of this catastrophic failure in his government.

The use of flashbacks, too, far from being a cheap narrative device, serve to enrich and heighten earlier scenes marked by either cruel acts or startling revelations.

One by one Poirot interrogates his fellow travellers, sifting through their obfuscatory answers and a fistful of hard clues to piece together a startling revelation.

BLACK WIDOW infiltrates the group to uncover an even more startling revelation: Their weapon is powered by shards of the COSMIC CUBE!

It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way.

For the ARM Cortex A5 processor that Apple claims to have dual cores and a clock speed of 1 GHz in reality is showing to be capable of doing just 900 GHz at best.The startling revelation comes on the wake of software benchmarking test that the iPad 2 was subjected to by the good folks at AnandTech.

But while the story by Bendis and DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee lit a fuse on a startling revelation about the Man of Steel, that hook is only the tip of the iceberg for both Superman's future and Bendis» tenure with the publisher.

Of the many startling revelations in his book, perhaps the biggest news is that you can ensure your retirement nest egg grows faster than your current 401 (k) Plan and managed Super funds, by spending just 15 minutes a week on it.

President Barack Obama made a startling revelation about his finances while trying to connect with younger voters on the campaign trail by saying that he and Michelle had only paid off their college loans eight years ago.

This revelation sometimes startles people, but I have never lost a sale by saying it, and it frames the purchase in a way that acclimates the family to a worst - case scenario, one that probably will not happen.

Last week the world was shaken by the startling revelation that everyone's favourite former plumber...

Startled by this revelation, Abe sets off to escape the factory whilst rescuing the rest of the Mudokon slaves before they become tasty snacks.

Many are startled by this revelation and changing it can be hard work.