Sentences with phrase «whispering campaign about»

But on the op - ed page of the Hartford Courant, Norm Pattis urges an end to the whispering campaign about another federal judicial nominee, Vanessa Bryant to the U.S. district court in Connecticut, who received a «not qualified» rating from the ABA earlier this week.

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.

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«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

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.

ALBANY — Amid reports that actress Cynthia Nixon has been whispering with people close to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about a gubernatorial campaign this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo escalated his yearslong feud with the mayor, lashing out at his progressive credentials and calling his record «repugnant.»

The campaigns themselves have even whispered about the competition, which was also raised during the Florida primary.

The criticism of the election campaign came amid the first signs of whisperings about Cameron's leadership.

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.

But the political stand down is a sign of forward progress for talks about a new package of tweaks to ethics and campaign finance laws that have proceeded as a whispered backdrop to the Moreland Commission's investigatory work.

Those who spoke with the Times Union didn't so much as whisper a negative word about the Bronx native — a sign of his quiet skill at building the sort of warm, collegial alliances that paid off in Heastie's lightning - fast campaign to secure the speakership.

Spitzer is also 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.

Woody's successful older son Ross (Bob Odenkirk) is bitter about his childhood and evokes the doctrine of dad's «best interests» in a whisper campaign to put the old man in a nursing home.

His contribution to Documenta 14, the prestigious international exhibition in Kassel, Germany — and this year also in Athens — is the slyly subversive «Whispering Campaign,» featuring performers who walk the streets of both cities, confiding in strangers the artist's elliptical yet biting aphorisms about race and color.

His contribution to Documenta 14, the prestigious international exhibition in Kassel, Germany — and this year also in Athens — is the slyly subversive «Whispering Campaign,» featuring performers who walk the streets of both cities, confiding in strangers the artist's elliptical yet biting aphorisms about race and color from his word - based «Skin Set» drawings.

Just the other day, The Atlantic ran a piece about the «whisper campaign» regarding Kagan's sexual preference, and how both sides of the political spectrum could exploit it.

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

The campaign to defund PP «relies on the assumption that abortion is to be whispered about.»