Sentences with phrase «story about the government»

Back in 2012, a short film called Montauk from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi story about a government research lab conducting strange experiments outside of a small American town (which leads to a bunch of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster from another dimension being released).

This is a story about government intrusion into personal matters (regulating healthcare is not the same as regulating the speed limit, one is designed to keep you from hurting others, and one is designed to force you to lead a certain lifestyle).

In a big interview with the Washington Post about gun control, Mayor Michael Bloomberg portrayed his opponents as extremists who rile their base with false stories about government plans to seize people's guns.

This film documents dissident activity in 2009 Iran through the use of gorgeous animation, telling a series of chilling stories about government oppression.

It is a story about the government making a «black box» mandatory in all new cars.

Not exact matches

I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me... I want it to be about what the US government is doing... I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

Cohen said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by, or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party, or about creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Clinton campaign.

Investigative reporter and blogger Eliot Higgins has talked about how Facebook's haste to censor what might be disturbing or controversial imagery can directly impact our understanding of a developing news story: the site removed several pages and posts from Syrian dissident groups and terrorist factions, but in doing so it effectively deleted a key source of information about chemical weapon attacks by the Syrian government.

Rely on the U.S. Chamber for analysis, commentary and real stories about the intersection of government and business.

The cover story pretends to be about trade, but the real agenda is to force privatization and disable government regulation.

The fallout from the story concerning Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, the misuse of personal data and how much Facebook knew about all this, has quickly made its way into the halls of government — and with it Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting a lot of invitations in his inbox.

This week's in the loop includes stories about WeWork possibly going public, a new coworking market report by Instant Group, and Canada governments invests on coworking spaces.

There was a story in the Financial Times about the Brazilian government cutting the tax on ethanol producers.

The media coverage of the Tumbler Ridge story, which suggested Chinese workers employed by a Chinese company can only be bad news because the company is likely controlled by the Chinese government, begs the question of why we don't see protests about Filipino or Mexican workers.

He said he told the panels that he never engaged with, was paid by or communicated with anyone representing the Russian government, or anyone else, about hacking or interfering with the U.S. election, hacking the Democratic Party or creating fake news stories to assist the Trump campaign or to damage the Hillary Clinton campaign.

If her children are off limits for the media or public to comment on, why was she using her government e «mail to write a fictional story about her child?

This might provide some insight as to why news editors are killing stories about curing cancer with cannabis, and why the government is still handing out lifetime jail sentences to dispensary owners for selling the possible cure to cancer to sick and dying patients.

When I heard about this story locally, I was so happy to see that there was finally someone pushing our local police and government to do what so many have been begging them to do for YEARS!!!

There is a story about Davy Crockett the frontiersman opposing the house of represenattives setting up a pension fund for the widow of a distinguished navy officer, saying «this is not the job of government.

Even more disturbing than the now - familiar horror stories about what government agents have done to protect America are all the report's examples of how little was done to protect us from them.

No, the real story is that motherhood has become a stress - laden and guilt - ridden project due to the societal veneration of stay - at - home moms, the workplace requirement that women be overachievers just to stay even with their male colleagues, economic anxiety about class standing and, above all, government and corporate refusal to devise family - friendly policies.

The story is true to history, of course, in that former President Nixon declared political and even legal war against The New York Times and The Washington Post for myriad reasons, including the publishing of government secrets exposing lies about the Vietnam War.

I could tell you some stories too, about trying to teach in the parochial system with next to no government funding and lacking resources, about situations that have not worked out well.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

That was from a Think Progress story about the preparations the Missouri government has been taking to prepare for the Grand Jury's verdict about whether officer Darren Wilson will face charges for shooting unarmed teenager Michael Brown six times and taking his life.

It is also a story that illustrates important questions about the jerry - built child - care system that exists in the United States: To what extent should government regulate child care?

I think part of the story about Scandinavia is about government support for breastfeeding.

The story here is about a millionaire government axe - wielder who decided that the best way to spend # 40,000 of public money was on his own relationship who then orchestrated one of the most intensive attacks on the public sector since Thatcher.

Scottish Tories currently campaigning for local government elections on May 4th tell stories about encountering long - standing Labour voters in local authority areas not exactly known for being friendly to Conservatives and who now declare their intention to vote for «Ruth» and the Tories.

We have taken notice of frontpage stories in the Tuesday, March 22, editions of the state - owned Daily Graphic, and in newspapers belonging to the «rented press» stable of the ruling NDC government, about the arrest of 3 South African nationals on suspicion of engaging in «acts that threaten the country's security.»

I spoke to a contact who admitted that he and one other guy, also now working for the government, came up with the idea of the campaign over a drink while they were reading a story about Labour's policy in the Guardian.

The Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger admitted this week to regrets over not seeking government approval for a story about GCHQ bugging world leaders during the G20 summit in 2007.

Having a partner in government may have helped the Lib Dems in some ways: though the Tory campaign on the ground denied it, stories dominated the national press about the limited extent of David Cameron's support for his own man on the ballot paper.

You might have missed the news in the never - ending blizzard of Trump - related stories, but digital politics now has a role in the investigation about possible ties between his campaign and the Russian government.

How to ensure that the government does not wriggle out of telling the full story about what Brexit...

Expect endless stories about the Conservative leadership — articles which arguably distract from what the Tories will be getting up to in their first majority government in many young voters» lives.

It was a week or so after I had brought trouble upon myself by publishing a story about a Ford Expedition «gift» a contractor who had been awarded government of Ghana contracts gave to the President of Ghana.

David Laws and others seriously dispute the Andrew Adonis story about 2010, but the accusation raises the question of the extent to which the relatively right - wing nature of the Liberal Democrat leader and negotiating team might have on the government formation process.

Quite aside from stories about # 300 light bulbs, this lack of transparency is problem enough with any system of government procurement that it should be replaced.

Defense attorneys thus far have attacked Singh's credibility as a government witness and sought to use his own words against him — in part by playing secretly made recordings in which Singh says he has no story about politicians to share with federal investigators and Mangano gave him «nothing» for gestures such as hiring Linda Mangano.

There have been a great deal of contradictory press stories about whether Andrew Lansley's plans for the NHS would be diluted or pruned; or whether the government would go full steam ahead.

There's a story that the UK government needed to tell to population about how everything will be fine.

Andy Coulson The thing about having Coulson in Downing Street was that no one in government would take the story seriously, because they didn't want to do anything that might embarrass Andy.

Joe Spector, Gannett's Albany bureau chief, characterized Miner's letter as «scathing» in a story about how much money local governments are borrowing to pay for pension costs this year.

He is the county executive in a county with almost 1 million people and he has a story to tell about reducing spending and the size of government and negotiating to keep big businesses in Westchester County.

I refer to the story reported this morning on Labour Uncut and in the Local Government Chronicle about your refusal to comply with an extremely straightforward freedom of information request.

He's been reading the Guardian this morning and he said that the Peter Hain quote in our story about Lords reform illustrated why Conservative MPs should vote for the government's timetable motion.

Whenever Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney starts talking government consolidation, it generally begins with a story about snow and the 19 towns, 15 villages, and city, county and state snowplows that clear the streets after a snowstorm.

Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night — about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder - to - shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

The Vice President Dr Bawumia is telling us the facility is not a loan, the deputy Finance Minister described the facility as a loan and government communicators are giving us conflicting stories about the facility.