Sentences with phrase «travesty either»
adding that such an action «can only amount to a travesty in Parliament [and] is a pathetic addition to the countless comedy of contradictions and conflicting accounts that Government has been engaged in since this scandal erupted.»
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Gresham said that 30 percent of New York home care workers are on food stamps, which he called a «moral travesty.»
Today's charade which can only amount to a travesty in Parliament is a pathetic addition to the countless comedy of contradictions and conflicting accounts that Government has been engaged in since this scandal erupted.
The Presidency, on Wednesday, described as outrageous and travesty of justice the acquittal of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, which upheld the no - case submission of the Senate President.
The «clean elections» bill passed in response to the Rowland scandals nearly a decade ago has itself become something of an ethical travesty.
Sen. Charles Schumer said the loss of funding for New York is a travesty for the state's transit system.
Wasting any of it would be a travesty.
«This is a travesty because this is actually stomping on people's first amendment rights,» she said.
Although charter schools will receive an additional $ 500 per pupil in 2017 — 18, she called the budget a «travesty» because charter aid is not going through the roof.
This is a travesty of our parliamentary proceedings.
No more will people be able to walk into an office on Broadway in Downtown Saratoga Springs and have immediate access to the tremendous Congressional power that they had prior to this «commonality carving argument» travesty of «independence» (meaning that to say that this Saratoga Springs has more in common with Arbor Hill in Albany than Wilton is absolutely ludicrous).
He said, «We saw the temporary «victory» of Sheriff as a travesty of Justice and victory for APC, which is interested in the destruction and decimation of opposition parties in Nigeria, particularly the PDP.»
«I mean if this is factual then this is a travesty and it's going to be addressed very severely,» promised Board Member Carl Paladino.
It is a travesty that the reporters reached the wrong conclusion.
«Honestly, I think to say this is a careerist sort of move would be a total travesty.
If this doesn't become an annual event, it will be a travesty.
Unite joint general secretary, Derek Simpson, said: «This case represents a travesty of justice by the US government.
What a travesty of justice.
Dick Dadey, executive director of the Citizens Union good - government group, said the process had been a «travesty.»
But it was still his allies who produced this travesty.
This is truly a travesty of government.
It is a moral travesty that 30 % of New York homecare workers are on food stamps.
It would be a travesty if the city Los Angeles can pass $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, and the City of New York leaves the tenants swinging in the wind with the cuts to rent stabilization,» Mr. Sharpton said.
Common Cause also cheered the decision: «It is now incumbent on the Legislature to makes sure that the public does not pay for the travesty of three unnecesary primary dates.
However, I find very little humor or anything cute in this travesty being played out.
«Guantanamo is built on an entire network of rendition and secret detention - it's yet another example of how everything about Guantanamo is a travesty of justice.
BOTH parties are to blame for this travesty.
«The people voted, they spoke, they chose who they wanted and it would have been a real travesty of justice for the court to actually overturn the choice of the people and I'm very happy that we've actually come this far and now work goes on,» she said.
«If you're in Brighton I think it'd be a travesty if we lost the voice of Caroline Lucas in Westminster.
«But deliberately issuing those numbers even when the DWP suspects, and in some cases knows, the document to be forged is a travesty of the system in place.»
«The declaration by INEC that one Yahaya Bello polled the highest number of votes is an embarrassing travesty of the nation's democracy and electoral process.
What a travesty.
Selective education The abolition of grammar schools was a travesty.
The picture has been rapidly overtaken by events and the Band 1 (overall performance is «of serious concern») awarded on the Prison Rating System for 2012/13 is a travesty.»
Likewise, Michael Miller is wholly aware of the evidence and Eric Ulrich's failure to investigate by re-ordering a completed investigation by the New York City Department of Investigations, but won't take any action of his own to help me reverse this travesty of justice and retaliatory sabotage.
When charters notched some modest victories in the latest state budget cycle, Moskowitz called the deal a «travesty.»
While distasteful in any race, it's an ethical travesty when you and your town board peers benefit from the shenanigans.
This is a travesty for all residents in Syracuse.
That would be a travesty of democracy, and would be regarded with fury by the English.
... More than Ken Livingstone's disastrous campaign, this hypocrisy, this abject political cowardice by Labour's senior political figures will be the real travesty.»
«It is a travesty of justice and we as the New York Immigration Coalition are committed to doing everything that we can to stop the detaining and deportation of people like Ravi Ragbir and we will commit to do that,» Steve Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said.
This is a travesty.»
Correction Officers» Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, who was arrested on fraud and corruption charges Wednesday morning, described the convictions in a statement as «an absolute travesty» that showed how correction officers are disrespected for doing their jobs.
The partisan crowd responded with applause to his one - liner — no doubt a staple all over the district — that replacing Maurice Hinchey with Chris Gibson had been «a travesty.»
Howie Hawkins, the recent, Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that it was a travesty of justice for Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan to fail to get a grand jury to indict David Pantaleo, the cop who killed Eric Garner.
His removal is a travesty.
Section 28, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities, is universally viewed as a travesty within mainstream political opinion.
It is therefore a disaster, travesty of justice and equity that many states use their entire FAAC allocation and even the Paris Club Refund to pay salaries.
«The decision by Governor Cuomo's Parole Board is a travesty of justice and a bitter insult to the law enforcement community,» he said.
[284] Karl Grossman, a professor of journalism at State University of New York at Old Westbury, accused Murdoch of building the most «dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt» media empire in history and of «making a travesty of what journalism is supposed to be about.»