Sentences with phrase «whisper campaign»

There's part of us that anticipates some kind of whispering campaign against the film involving how much of her work was CGI and / or abetted by puppeteers.

Could the government's whisper campaign against Huawei make customers think twice about buying a Mate 10 Pro — or any phone from the company?

After Forrest's testimony, the pro-Iverson whisper campaign began in earnest: Steele was friendly with the judge's family; there was another videotape somewhere showing Iverson running for his life; an unindicted Bethel student was about to confess that he, not Iverson, had struck Steele.

2.13 pm: The continuing Conservative whispering campaign about the future of the Human Rights Act is beginning to unnerve some leading Liberal Democrats, writes my colleague Alan Travis.

Among the other awkward little spats he's had to deal with are a Chinese whisper campaign between Jeremy Hunt and Theresa May over Chinese visas, independents kicking up a fuss over the unfair nature of the police and crime commissioner elections, and Philip Hammond giving up on the private sector overnight after the failure of G4S.

The campaign also launched web pages and online action groups to fight the underground, e-mail whisper campaigns and robo - calls that surfaced in battleground states.

The bitterness and pettiness that has characterized this contest ---- including determined whisper campaigns waged by surrogates for both candidates ---- are disappointing, and both Johnson and Kurland bear responsibility for not having waged a more positive race.

So why not a video - driven whisper campaign?

McDonnell and Fletcher are understood to disagreed over the direction of travel for the Labour party, with the shadow chancellor accused by some of orchestrating an anti-Fletcher whispering campaign.

Then, the growing whispering campaign that neither Godwin Obaseki (GO) nor Osagie Ize - Iyamu (OII) is of any good?

It's one reason charters in Newark, despite the fact that they greatly outperform Newark neighborhood schools, remain the target of effective whispering campaigns that charters are the leading edge of a movement to reclaim Newark for white folks.

Mr. Biddle wrote about FSA again on 12/21 and finally mentioned the school's ties to the Gulen movement, describing efforts to present those ties to the American public as «xenophobic whisper campaigns... that are subjecting the entire charter school movement to scrutiny.»

Pope.L's VIA - supported project, entitled Whispering Campaign, is a sound installation of whispers emitted through speaker systems, installed both in public spaces and on mobile maintenance trucks, disseminating their content throughout the streets and in restaurants, bars, shopping centers, public transit, and more.

Whispering Campaign first premiered in Athens (April 6) and remained there through July 16, 2017.

This cloak and dagger whispering campaign is juvenile and petty.»

What used to be a public exchange of information and democratic dialogue is now a customized whisper campaign: Groups both ethical and malicious can divide Americans, whispering into the ear of each and every user, nudging them based on their fears and encouraging them to whisper to others who share those fears.

An entire year of campaigning, of film festivals, of parties, of screenings, of critics praising or condemning, of whisper campaigns, of buzz, of hashtags and super fans.

Mr. Kalanick sent his own surrogates at Uber's headquarters in San Francisco to begin a whisper campaign among investors and try to work out some sort of compromise in private.

While he didn't want to risk alienating them — and a whisper campaign went around questioning Jean's own Christian devotion, Jean's team had fumed — it's unclear what Kenney could actually promise them, short of not completely stifling their views.

The same christians that will pray for you will cut your tires in the night and start a whispering campaign to get you fired if you express disbelief.

Alexis fled Lithuania just before Hitler's whisper campaign, but was turned away at Ellis Island because he was Jewish.

Republican House whip Dick Armey charged that Hillary Clinton was a Marxist; Thomas protégé Clint Bolick pinned the title of «quota queen» on the nominee for assistant attorney general, Lani Guinier; Senator Jesse Helms railed that Housing and Urban Development nominee Roberta Achtenberg was «a damn lesbian,» and various conservatives started a whispering campaign that Attorney General nominee Janet Reno was an alcoholic and a lesbian.

David Gold has given has reacted humorously on the whispering campaign over Andy Carroll's future at the club.

I just find it disheartening that we apparently live in a society where if two women hold hands it must mean that they are girlfriends, and that Bert and Ernie can't just be friends without a whisper campaign about whether they are secretly gay or not.

George Osborne was the subject of another whispering campaign today, as the chancellor was increasingly singled out for criticism for Britain's economic stagnation.

«The problem is that certain peeps had created a situation via a whispering campaign in which backing became irrelevant,» Fae wrote to me in an email.

This week, insiders began a whisper campaign that Alice Cancel had the most votes from the committee going into tomorrow's (S) election process in which new votes are taken over and over again until a candidate reaches 50 %.

George Osborne faces a whispering campaign at the highest levels of the Conservative Party over his competence and judgment

Fighting the viral emails and the whisper campaigns has taken more time and resources than Obama would like, and it's still unclear how many votes they'll sway in the end.

He had been relying on the supposed support of activists to dampen the whispering campaign against him in Parliament.

One factor may have been the growing nastiness of the whispering campaigns gathering in volume at Westminster.

, waiting until the day after the comptroller debate to clear dinapoli with a tepid statement... and this was after he exhausted all back channels to get someone, anyone, to primary dinapoli... and this after he engaged in a whisper campaign to tar dinapoli with implications of scandal... and why?

Michaud came out as gay one year ago in an op - ed, saying he didn't want his campaign for governor to be undermined by «whisper campaigns.»

DeFrancisco failed to seal the deal, and a whisper campaign for Molinaro led by some of his former colleagues in the state Assembly began to get traction.

I felt, however, that the «whispering campaign» from those bearing personal grudges against me meant that my role in the 2010 General Election was limited (at some cost to the party) and I did not help the AV referendum campaign in any significant way.

Walsh denied there was a whisper campaign.

And in a debate Sunday night, Perez Williams and Republican candidate Laura Lavine accused Walsh's campaign of launching a «whisper campaign» about Perez Williams» temperament.

Spitzer also has been the target of a whispering campaign — that because his wife, Silda Wall, has not yet shown her face in the race, questions about his personal life, it appears, are fair game.

So - called «whisper campaigns» rarely reach the papers, and most of it is not printable anyway.

Miliband has been the subject of a whispering campaign by Labour MPs from rival camps that accuse him of running a 1980s - style «left - wing», even «Bennite», campaign.

But, by allowing a whispering campaign to develop against one of the party's leading women politicians and apparently sanctioning the undermining of a Member of Parliament, he is giving us a foretaste of what his Government could be like.

Upon joining our Party, Steve was hit by a well - coordinated negative smear campaign, which included unsubstantiated material, whispering campaigns, blogosphere misinformation and anonymous internet accusations.»