The country has been plagued by political scandals and infighting in government, and strikes and demonstrations are now the norm. |
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Keeping the child was out of the question, and not just because it was an era when unwanted pregnancies were scandals. |
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Corruption scandals involving presidential aides have also drained his approval ratings. |
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Jones accused the American authorities of a knee-jerk response to its corporate scandals and said it was symptomatic of a protectionist economy. |
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The parade of recent corporate scandals has further strained the notion that directors always know best. |
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How the Church will recover from the latest round of scandals remains to be seen. |
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There were government car loan scandals and shameless grabbing of land meant for the landless by officials. |
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Americans bounce back from failures, scandals, and bubbles with infinitely renewable confidence. |
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France is reeling from daily revelations about bribery and corruption scandals. |
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Secrets, lies, scandals, corruption, bribery and pretensions have made a laughing stock of Indian cricket. |
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It has transcended scandals and boycotts and will always remain the most sensual article of clothing next to lingerie. |
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But our island's towns and cities have been rocked by their own lesser-known scandals. |
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Spy scandals are a major reason why CIA has been overly reliant on technical methods of gathering intelligence. |
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The traditional Malay rulers and the King were disempowered, when some scandals offered a political opportunity to do so. |
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Does he feel people are naturally suspicious due to several high-profile scandals involving evangelists? |
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State subsidies have replaced donations in an effort to end the long series of scandals surrounding party finances. |
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It was finally hit by a series of scandals that involved both fraudulent personal enrichment and illegal party financing. |
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The code of conduct governing ministers' behaviour was drawn up after a series of scandals involving Tory ministers. |
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Financial scandals tend to involve politicians and businesspeople rather than celebrities. |
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Analysts, too, have grave concerns about the effect of expenses scandals on the public's attitude. |
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There are no major events, very few scandals, and not many people are having parties. |
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The party has also been involved in numerous financial and sexual scandals. |
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The American newspaper industry is gripped by circulation scandals, and I should not be greatly surprised if the backwash hits Australia. |
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The law was passed in the wake of terrific scandals involving railroads and other corporate titans. |
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Perhaps you've been pleased by the ongoing revelations of scams, scandals, and outright scuzziness in the executive suites of major corporations. |
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Jonah knows very well what a real story is because he was up to his ears in one of the biggest political scandals in history. |
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Yet, if you think back over the past decade or so the range and frequency of scandals is astonishing. |
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The distrust created in the aftermath of the scandals is still part of the landscape. |
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This is the week to indulge in your fondness for sports and pleasures, but beware of scandals. |
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During my playing career, what passed as scandals were more along the lines of tabloid tittle-tattle than criminal investigations. |
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Four years later he found himself both a millionaire and embroiled in the ugliest of financial scandals. |
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There aren't that many punches in football, and they are always shock-horror red-card scandals. |
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When the banking scandals hit a few years later, the gallery was shuttered and Salvestrini was out of a job. |
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Panorama's allegations of corruption in horse racing are just another twist in a long line of scandals which have blighted the sport. |
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The dot-com bust, the recession of 2001, and the corporate crime wave and accounting scandals of 2002 brought the party to an unceremonious end. |
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But then, if financial scandals made you blush, the entire reconstruction of the country would be pretty mortifying. |
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After a series of scandals and upheavals that occurred in the 1980s this huge economic conglomerate totally collapsed. |
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A third of journalists say they use blogs as a way of uncovering breaking news or scandals. |
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He's sounding off about corporate scandals one moment, and his record collection the next. |
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With greed left to take its course, a spate of scandals has erupted among foundations and charities. |
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Recent scandals are also cited as a reason for non-attendance, and I imagine that they also are part of the story. |
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Whether it's pitch battles, boardroom corruption, manager's bungs or ticket tout scandals, the whole league stinks of sleaze. |
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Until the recent scandals, I was calling this election as a shoo-in for the Republicans. |
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Its construction has been hamstrung by numerous delays and corruption scandals. |
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The amount covered other scandals where customers of the bank were overcharged, including business clients and university students. |
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It is a captivating memory play where the past's reflection is a murky place indeed, revealing curses, hushed up scandals, patupaiarehe demons. |
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The people who were implicated in major corruption scandals are still key personalities in high-level civil service. |
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There are swindles and scandals, sword fights at midnight, and complots at the palace. |
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These scandals are all part of the general social convulsions and sea changes of modernism-postmodernism. |
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Good governance practices by co-ops will help avoid such scandals, he advised. |
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We have pork barrel projects that our opponent supported and scandals where he didn't take a position. |
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Smarting after a succession of high-profile scandals, both have been eyeing up the immigrant sector to boost branch footfall. |
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As public discontent over foreign policy and consecutive scandals racked public life, radical oppositional movements flared. |
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Throughout his triumphs and scandals, and everything in between, he comes across as completely genuine and frailly human. |
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Critics of free enterprise have set their sights on business schools, blaming them for recent corporate scandals. |
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He is seen as something of a damaged figure in the wake of a number of scandals. |
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It was in this capacity that he became embroiled in a damaging series of scandals. |
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Today's scandals, however, indicate that too many public corporations have been gaming the disclosure system, either subtly or brazenly. |
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But, remarkably, the scandals passed over without denting his credibility, even among conservative voters. |
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The New York Times scandals have been a godsend to people who enjoy arguing about the media. |
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But again and again, he was dogged by scandals of his own making that made him as much of an embarrassment as an asset to the party he served. |
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You did not excuse the wrongdoings of the executives involved in the recently uncovered corporate scandals. |
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Maybe it's the sheer volume of scandals on the landscape today, robbing any one of its totemic power to shock and dismay voters. |
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I can only assume that the Republicans became so good at manufacturing these scandals and embarrassments that the press forgot how to do it for themselves. |
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There have also been scandals surrounding disaffected agents. |
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The uneasy alliance between Pharma and medical research has also resulted in major scandals. |
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Given the match-fixing scandals that are erupting daily from Africa and Asia, the departure of one of the few superstars above suspicion would be a huge blow to world cricket. |
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Other cabinet minister scandals have been reported in the media, and investigations may take place. |
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A unique report on the ultra-conservative Bob Jones University points to the theological roots of sexual abuse and scandals. |
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He's managed to get a lot of scandals off his balance sheet at what will probably be a fairly affordable political cost. |
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As scandals continue to unfold in front of him, they beg more questions than I am sure Scott Walker would like to answer. |
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The Czech government has been buffeted in recent months by a series of corruption scandals that have threatened to bring it down. |
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His constant worship of his wife stands in stark contrast to scandals of the domestic nature in other sports. |
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The recent US accounting scandals have rankled with Edelman. |
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Equity markets are reeling following a rash of corporate scandals. |
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Private schools have a way of being a magnet for scandals for the creepy, inappropriate adults who run them. |
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Echo has documented all the crises of the post-Perestroika era, wars, conflicts, scandals, and protests. |
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Rather than offering a balanced analysis, the author's main focus is on scandals, which are enhanced with sidebars and pejorative human-interest stories. |
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Earlier in the year, there were signs that maybe there was a recovery, but further losses of confidence around US accounting scandals have blighted the green shoots. |
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Half the stories are human interest and the other half scandals. |
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With the US economy shaky and major corporate scandals marring his first year in office, a winnable war against an old enemy is just what the doctor ordered. |
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In capitalism's 700-year history, financial scandals are two a penny. |
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Bureaucratic inertia is, by long tradition, the most efficient dispatcher of scandals. |
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Apart from scandals that have rocked the sacred houses, there is an increase in the ungodly activities of the men of the pulpit and some of their flock. |
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There is no need for them to try to find out fresh bribery scandals. |
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To further mould and mythologise their stars' personae, the studios regularly fed gossip to fan mags, engineered spicy, fitting off-screen scandals. |
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Female video game developers like Zoe Quinn have been torn apart and harassed for fabricated scandals. |
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Known as a political lightweight, Mori's popularity has slumped after a string of verbal blunders and the resignation of two of his cabinet ministers over scandals. |
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Hearings for Supreme Court justices, decisions of war, flammable federal scandals. |
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Mr Greenspan added that a recent wave of accounting scandals that has swept through corporate America, triggering a slump in global share prices, is nearly over. |
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Corporate scandals have recently rocked the business world, shocked shareholders and the public at large, and led to the downfall of several large-scale firms. |
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The ethical rot of highly paid professionals proved even deeper than imagined, with a mutual-fund scandal following scandals in Corporate America and on Wall Street. |
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In recent years the defense and aerospace giant has weathered operational snafus, ethical scandals, criminal convictions, and abrupt executive departures. |
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He does concede that these scandals added impetus to the process. |
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Of several sexual scandals under investigation in Britain, this is the one potentially to go nuclear. |
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Jung says the company hasn't suffered any taint from scandals elsewhere. |
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All the doping scandals at the Games involved weightlifting. |
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Perhaps my favorite writer, Will Leitch, seems merely bored by ped scandals. |
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This drama-documentary explores the life behind the hidden identities, the scandals and the rumours which surrounded George Eliot's private and professional life. |
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Many of the major political and financial scandals that dominated newspaper and television investigations in the 1970s and 1980s began with a simple phone call. |
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Could that be the reason for the various scandals involving public funds? |
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These latest scandals will provide further fuel for his political opponents. |
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Maybe it is his own reputation for rectitude, a reputation buttressed by the lack of scandals in his administration. |
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The counsel therefore by President Mwanawasa on the need for envoys to be above board and avoid being caught up in a web of scandals is valid and should be paid heed to. |
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Turkey, Italy, the Czech Republic, Finland, Austria and Greece have all either suffered soccer match-fixing scandals or come under suspicion this year. |
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As we discussed in previous weeks, scandals become geopolitically significant when they affect the ability of the president to conduct foreign policy. |
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You see on this show so many fictional politicians come in with scandals that Olivia helps brush under the rug, including Josie. |
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As public discontent over foreign policy and consecutive scandals racked public life, discrediting the moderate Ferry ministry, radical oppositional movements flared. |
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It is undergoing a tedious reinvention of sorts, trying to clean up its act after decades of scandals. |
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Following on the heels of the Harding scandals, he offered clean government based on thrift. |
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Johnson has had his scandals, but he is not the kind of man to go out with a Russian mail-order bride. |
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The response to the scandals was a campaign aimed more at suppressing illegal abuses than at boosting the functional effectiveness of intelligence. |
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After four years, two trials, an adoption, and multiple jury scandals, polo mogul John Goodman was found guilty of manslaughter. |
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Ichikowitz and his brother Eric have been marred before by corruption scandals. |
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Such scandals rarely acquire media prominence of their own accord. |
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However, because of the relative miserliness of the prizes involved in those days, the American quiz show scandals pale into insignificance next to this one. |
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Suzanne Snively, who chairs the watchdog group's New Zealand chapter, said the scandals could affect how New Zealand is perceived and ranked. |
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It always bugs me to see the Nats strutting around, parading their holy Willie indignation of other people's party funding scandals. |
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Is Labour sleaze now more dirty and despicable than the scandals that helped drive John Major from office? |
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Dal and Ismailov broke off from DPS back in January 2011 after scandals caused by a conflict between Dal and Dogan. |
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Our faith in the government has been badly shaken by the recent scandals. |
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The World Bank is in a unique position to help stop land grabs becoming one of the century's biggest scandals. |
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Problems for the opposition, particularly scandals involving opposition political figures, are particularly blogworthy. |
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We use him for eloping with heiresses, getting involved in drug scandals, and running illegal chemmy parties. |
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In 2004, the Academy attracted media attention for a series of financial scandals and reports of a feud between Rosenthal and other senior staff. |
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Postwar spy scandals in both countries increased American concerns over atomic secrecy. |
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However, several scandals have arisen in recent years which have tarnished Ireland's international participation. |
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Because he had been linked with various scandals in his home city of Brunswick, he resigned in 1999 and was replaced by Sigmar Gabriel. |
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Efforts to raise and collect tax revenues were plagued by corruption and political scandals. |
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Also in 2002, GE Wind Energy was formed when GE bought the wind turbine manufacturing assets of Enron Wind after the Enron scandals. |
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This paper investigates intra-industry spillover effects of corporate scandals in China. |
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And in a country rife with scandals, Poroshenko has dodged quite a few. |
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Our energetic lawmakers are still capable of wallowing in scandals even as they churn out three or four new laws every single day. |
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Bonus boosterism and self-dealing run through both rate fixing scandals. |
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Hollywoodland'' digs into both that creative side of the business and its seamiest scandals. |
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Rob Ford has a history of scandals too long to summarize in any one place. |
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Marisol, Rosie, Valentina and Carmen are discovering more secrets and scandals in Beverly Hills. |
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Recent corporate scandals have put a temporary bump in the road for PIPE issuers. |
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Shady political operatives and campaign finance scandals are commonplace. |
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Well, figure skating, it turns out, has more scandals than sequins. |
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The NCAA believes college athletes easily can be manipulated into following along with fixed games or point shaving scandals. |
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The entertainment industry is vibrant and feeds broadsheets and tabloids with an unending supply of details about celebrities and sensationalist daily scandals. |
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One of the funniest things about celebrity scandals are always the random people tenuously linked to the star in question who helpfully pop up to offer their insight. |
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In a bipartisan ode to the unrocked boat, the committee sat passively through corruption scandals in the last Congress that put two lawmakers behind bars. |
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Levine was the first in a line of investment bankers and traders brought down by insider trading charges in what was to become the scandal of all Wail Street scandals. |
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Furthermore, consistent with our hypothesis, we determine that good corporate governance alleviates spillovers of bad news from corporate scandals experienced by competitors. |
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Previous scandals have taught them nothing and the gravy train continues. |
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On Monday an anti-doping commission report alleged widespread corruption in Russia, triggering one of the biggest doping scandals in sporting history. |
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May was the month of scandals, like Newsweek's Quran in the toilet and the New York Post's display of prisoner Saddam Hussein in his jockey shorts. |
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Nevertheless, it was tied with graft and political scandals like the Hello Garci scandal pertaining to the alleged manipulation of votes in the 2004 presidential elections. |
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Let Priyanka explain all the Congress scandals and incompetencies eg inflation, unemployment, declining FDIs, etc, and her deafening silence all these years. |
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That the series archly referenced such modern-day scandals as Enron and, in its loonily bizarre finale, Halliburton, will likely be lost on most voters and viewers. |
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