Sentences with phrase «under scrutiny because»

NAEP tests have come under scrutiny because of the inclusion or exclusion of students with particular disabilities.

The study has come under some scrutiny because the researchers assessed the participants» sodium levels via a single urine sample that was collected when the participants enrolled.

Boxing and American football are under scrutiny because of head injuries causing long - term damage to the brain, but the situation is much less clear for football where heading is extremely common, but head injuries are less so.

The source said no decision has been made on the attorney general's offer, mainly because Wojtaszek contends that he had nothing to do with the 2012 and 2013 campaign finance reports under scrutiny because he left the party chairmanship in 2009.

Aspartame is under scrutiny because it is not only an artificial sweetener, but it breaks down and creates toxic methanol in the body.

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That's because key benefits such as health insurance and retirement plans fall under government scrutiny, and it is very easy to make mistakes in setting up a benefits plan.

But because that type of loan has come under intense scrutiny, many lenders have developed what payday lender EZCorp chief executive Paul Rothamel calls «second generation» products.

I say «curious» because Marathon came under intense scrutiny for its initial plans to hike the drug's price to $ 89,000 per year even though it's available for a mere pittance in other countries (and doesn't actually address the root causes of Duchenne, but rather just some of its muscle - wasting symptoms).

But because of the nature of the product, cannabis businesses are under intense scrutiny.

The bureau, which was already under considerable political pressure because of its investigation into Mr. Trump, faced calls for even more scrutiny following the massacre.

He came under scrutiny last September after firing Austin Beutner, then publisher of the Los Angeles Times, because of a clash over whether the L.A. Times and San Diego Union - Tribune should remain part of the company.

Even before all this, though, Cambridge was under scrutiny in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election — both because Nix contacted Julian Assange of WikiLeaks that summer to discuss hacked Democratic emails and because of broader questions about whether Trump's digital operation collaborated with Russians in some way.

The Times investigative team was already exploring social media manipulation, «partly because of the Russia investigation, and reporting into firms like Cambridge Analytica,» said Nicholas Confessore, a reporter for the team, referring to a data company that worked for Donald J. Trump during the presidential campaign and is now under congressional scrutiny.

But its business model, which has also relied on aggressive price hikes for acquired drugs, has come under growing scrutiny because of political backlash against high drug prices, dragging Valeant shares down from record highs scaled in August.

Rather, it is the existence of a certain universalistic quality in the jurisprudence, the scholarship, the media and the religion that is decisive — a universalistic quality which, precisely because it transcends particular beliefs and practices, can bring the particulars of that situation under critical scrutiny.

Under the intense and relentless scrutiny of the ever - vigilant media, she has demonstrated a consistency of character, a commitment to service, a concern for others and a clear dependence on Christ that is all the more remarkable because it is ever - present but never domineering.

As you can see that it's a thorny subject because it challenges the assumption that God loves everyone equally but that also falls apart under scrutiny.

The reason charities are not under as much scrutiny is because they have FAR FEWER to answer to.

Dehydrated soups and sauces are under particular scrutiny because they suffer from an over-processed image.

The franchise model has come under scrutiny in the car industry because of egregious actions by some overseas car companies.

«It's never simple to deal with that situation mentally because you feel a bit more under scrutiny,» Wenger said on the official Arsenal website.

Scott, who was No. 1 in the world less than two years ago, comes under scrutiny more than most because he's supposedly got that very glaring weakness in his game: putting.

The Portuguese boss had come under scrutiny recently because of supposedly blocking aspiring players from the B team from playing in the first team.

He put the government arguments against the comparability of other country's detention systems under a lot of scrutiny and found them lacking, not least of all because the government has conducted no research on the subject.

But because it would exceed a zoning restriction of six units on the property, the plan is expected to come under scrutiny when it is presented to the Clarence Town Boar...

AR - 15 assault - style rifles are under increased scrutiny because of their use in several recent mass shootings, including the February massacre at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead.

But because it would exceed a zoning restriction of six units on the property, the plan is expected to come under scrutiny when it is presented to the Clarence Town Board at its work session on Wednesday

Loeb's donations to Gov. Cuomo and other New York Democrats and Republicans have come under scrutiny since last week because of a since - deleted Facebook post accusing Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood» by supporting public teacher unions over charter schools.

The government's flagship Free Schools are under greater scrutiny than most because their very existence is part of a huge political debate about the direction of education policy.

HCRA, a tax that insurers have paid since the late 90s under health reform legislation enacted during the Pataki administration, has come under scrutiny recently because of the role the tax's collections paid in an alleged fraud scheme by former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver.

Cuomo's selections — which must be confirmed by the state Senate — are likely to come under intense scrutiny because of the court's leftward tilt during his administration.

In the light of that, requiring the Government and the House of Commons to override the Lords by means of enacting primary legislation under the Parliament Acts seems entirely fitting and proportionate, not least because such a course of action would ensure that the disputed provisions would receive an appropriate degree of scrutiny by means of their inclusion on the face of a Bill.

In recent years, firms like Hilltop, SKDKnickerbocker, Mercury Public Affairs, and BerlinRosen with close ties to elected officials they help get elected have come under criticism and scrutiny because they have skirted state lobbying registration laws.

Many details in the case remain murky, however, because of federal laws designed to protect the privacy of the researchers under scrutiny.

Instead the finding crumbled under closer scrutiny, arguably because of «unforced errors» made while scrambling to secure credit for the discovery.

«As prescription opioid use is under national scrutiny and because surgery has been identified as an avenue for addiction, it is important to recognize effective alternatives to standard pharmacological therapy, which remains the first option for treatment,» the authors write.

The practice has come under scrutiny recently because several cases of uterine ruptures and deaths of babies and mothers have prompted lawsuits.

Microbats, the group of bats that emit echolocation signals from the larynx, came under close scrutiny because, surprisingly, some molecular studies divided them into two groups that diverged long ago, suggesting that echolocation evolved twice.

Developing that confidence took time, she says, because, being a woman, she was under constant scrutiny.

Costs associated with SSIs after surgery have been under scrutiny since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid stopped paying for increased costs associated with SSIs after some surgical procedures because many of these infections are potentially preventable.

But many projects come under public and federal scrutiny — the recent fracas over gene therapy trials is a case in point (Science, 24 March, p. 2163), often because the manner in which they were conducted led to concerns over the safety of the recruited participants or the protection of their confidentiality.

But that pronouncement came under intense scrutiny because of concerns that it omitted negative analyses that challenged the upbeat conclusions.

One of these substances called dichloromethane has come under recent scrutiny because of its increasing emission rates over the last few years.

Under intense scrutiny, the 2012 study was retracted because it was, well, bogus.

BMI, a ratio of height to weight, has come under scrutiny of late because it fails to distinguish body fat from muscle, or where fat is located on the body.

DUBAI: A teenaged Indian Muslim was kidnapped, raped and murdered before her body was dumped in a fridge in an apparent «honor killing» because she was Thanks to the work of the Roosh V Forum's Indian Race Troll, the subject of brown men and interracial dating has come under a lot of scrutiny.

I'm not going to spend too much time on this film because it is a throwaway type flick that doesn't fare too well under intense scrutiny.

Perhaps because the screenplay is based on a play («Farragut North» by Beau Willimon), it contains some front - of - the - stage monologues that Hoffman and Giamatti make plausible under the closer scrutiny of a camera.

«I want to do something original after this because I've been living under public scrutiny, as you've seen, for the last four years of my life,» he told the Los Angeles Timesabout his decision.

Even forming the merest friendship with the opposite sex is but under scrutiny here, the age old «men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way» conundrum still clear and present.