| Certainly, she has an axe to grind, and a battered reputation to rebuild, and so like most political memoirs this one is one-sided. |
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| Everyone will have one person who's had a bad experience, or has an axe to grind or something. |
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| What great art or entertainment is stillborn today, afraid of reprisals from some easily offended group with an axe to grind? |
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| It was like a monkey house, and the head monkeys were snooty intellectuals with an axe to grind. |
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| Those anxious to shout corruption either have an axe to grind or are self-righteous types. |
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| I don't have a connection with any one club, which is not a bad thing because I don't have an axe to grind. |
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| It's all innuendo and unsubstantiated intelligence given by people who clearly have an axe to grind. |
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| Many of those neighbours have an axe to grind with the former Yugoslav republic. |
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| Second, their fate being in their own hands, they needn't worry about being manipulated by a third party who normally has an axe to grind. |
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| Today, anyone with an axe to grind can do so over the Internet and with a look of authority. |
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| I learned that having a point of view can be different from being biased, from having an axe to grind. |
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| A clever writer or editor with an axe to grind can paint a biased picture even in an apparently impartial report. |
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| Needless to say, those who still have an axe to grind and who wanted to have their say in an election, are the people of Quebec. |
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| They are also dependent on informers who, as we journalists know, can sometimes misinform, especially if they have an axe to grind or a political goal to pursue. |
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| The Charter of Rights and Freedoms added to our Constitution has given everybody with an axe to grind the right to challenge. |
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| You might argue that it's August and those with an axe to grind saw a story. |
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| Anyone who says no progress has been made has not been to Afghanistan, is not listening to the people who have been there or has an axe to grind. |
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| The Yale-Columbia group is hardly an ideological group, hardly a group with an axe to grind in Canada. |
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| Naturally, you'd expect a Labour councillor to have an axe to grind with the Coalition, but Darren's anger went deeper. |
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| It doesn't do to upset the Canadians and, with an axe to grind, they're going after London's double act. |
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| The man who wrote that mantra last week clearly has an axe to grind. |
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| I wasn't inspired into public service because I have an axe to grind. |
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| This is persistent damage by someone who has an axe to grind. |
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| And if we form an alliance with the Indians, who have an axe to grind against Pakistan, we'll destabilize Pakistan and maximize our problems in Afghanistan. |
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| But his prime minister, Ibrahim Mahlab, criticised their credibility and said the channel had an axe to grind. |
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| Those opposed to the application will cry foul, and those who have an axe to grind will jump on the bandwagon, heedless of the merits and demerits of the scheme. |
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| Those who propagate it are considered paranoids or activists with an axe to grind. |
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| Anyone in the medical profession who does not have an axe to grind and a bent on this one would recognize that. |
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| The evidence we are hearing at Gomery, not from witnesses who have an axe to grind, but from witnesses who are senior representatives of the Liberal Party of Canada, is that there legitimacy to those accusations. |
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| People chose to take part so many who did would have had an axe to grind. |
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| Often, only people with an axe to grind pursue replications with vigour a state of affairs which makes people wary of having their work replicated. There are ways, too, to make replication difficult. |
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| I heard a Conservative member in the House say that it is only those who have an axe to grind who think that the Internet prescription system damages the health care system. |
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| She does not have an axe to grind, as politicians do. |
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| Those who write about religion tend to have an axe to grind. |
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| Mr. J. Clifford Mackay: To start off on the numbers, I tend to rely on independent analysts when I look at these market share numbers, because I find they're the people who least have an axe to grind. |
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| You had better believe I have an axe to grind with him after what he said about me! |
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