Sentences with phrase «things under the carpet»

«Over time, through our work like the Treasury Single Account (TSA) investigation; the NEITI Report investigation; and the North East Humanitarian Response investigation, we have shown that this is a Senate that does not sweep things under the carpet.

He also cautioned the committee against pushing things under the carpet or being sympathetic to groups or organizations.

Sweeping things under the carpet would only have made things worse in the long run.

Much as I love Britain, we have a tendency to sweep things under the carpet.

It only brushes things under the carpet for the time being.

Not exact matches

When things like this happen in our churches, we must expose them and stand up for the truth rather than sweep them under the carpet to protect those in power.

Babies and toddlers have ways of finding the tiniest things in couch cushions, under area rugs and embedded in carpet pile.

«After a decade in which we have seen our politicians and officials caught up in the woeful abuses of the «war on terror», the last thing the government should be seeking is to sweep all of this under the carpet.

I think even about the simple things like I am grateful to have carpet under my feet, a blanket to sleep with at night, etc. and it brings back that positivity and joy back into my life.

That would be totally unrealistic, but I am saying that if you are diligent, (and read my training articles on Potty Training & Housetraining) and do your part in keeping your puppy off carpet, well supervised and confined to puppy safe areas when you are not in puppy watching mode, you can expect our puppy kids to sleep through the night from night # 1 typically and be MUCH easier than the average canine to get all things firmly under her paw in the house training department.

Some of these aspects are shocking and can be all too easily swept under the metaphorical carpet in our endless search for that illusive thing called beauty.

Capitalist free maket competition is a great thing and economically efficient, but has the well known negative side effect of environmental damage as costs are transfered to third parties, future generations, or swept under the carpet to fester.

I read often a Science Daily News under the Global Warming section where often I find interesting studies and articles on AGW subjects, but sometimes articles appear that really reach to blame things on AGW like some guy carrying a bowl of cereal across his living room accidently slips his big toe under a loop in his carpet, trips falls, spills his cereal, falls over a piece of furniture and exhales a abnormally large amount of CO2 followed by a burst of expletives (more CO2) leading to increased warming in his neighborhood.

Lawyers think they are accomplishing two things, qualifying the witness to testify as an expert under the evidence rules, and «building credibility» with a good credential carpet bombing.

In the beginning married couples try to ignore, forget or put under the carpet all the minor things that create tension between them that eventually lead to a state of unhappiness.

The first thing to do when renovating one of these homes is to find out if there is hardwood under the dingy carpets.

The good thing is that you will still have the original hardwood under the carpet to refinish at a later date and time.