Scandals Sentence Examples

Prosecuted in connexion with the Panama scandals, he was acquitted in 1893.

A long series of scandals resulted.

It is not necessary to relate the scandals of Marozias and Theodoras female reign, the infamies of John XII.

The recent scandals of the papacy induced Otto to deprive the Romans of their right to elect popes.

The condition of the church seemed desperate, unless it could be purged of crying scandals of the subjection of the papacy to the great Roman nobles, of its subordination to the German emperor and of its internal demoralization.

On the 11th of May 1893 he denounced the treaty of Uccialli, but the Giolitti cabillet, absorbed by the bank scandals, paid no heed to his action.

The scandals that resulted led to investigations and severe restrictions, and their employment now has become a matter of voluntary contract, usually for two years, in which fair dealing and good treatment are the rule.

Further, he not only created a style of his own, but, instead of taking the substance of his writings from Greek poetry, or from a remote past, he treated of the familiar matters of daily life, of the politics, the wars, the administration of justice, the eating and drinking, the money-making and money-spending, the scandals and vices, which made up the public and private life of Rome in the last quarter of the and century B.C. This he did in a singularly frank, independent and courageous spirit, with no private ambition to serve, or party cause to advance, but with an honest desire to expose the iniquity or incompetence of the governing body, the sordid aims of the middle class, and the corruption and venality of the city mob.

Failures there have been many, and scandals not a few in Benedictine history; but it may be said with truth that there does not appear to have been ever a period of widespread or universal corruption, however much at times and in places primitive love may have waxed cold.

While he was criticized by the friends of Civil Service Reform for not going far enough during his presidency to protect the encroachments of those who desire to have the offices distributed as political rewards or for partisan ends, such specific acts as his transference to the classified service of all fourth-class postmasters east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio rivers, his insistence upon a thorough investigation of the scandals in the Post Office department, and his order forbidding federal employes to use their offices for political purposes in the campaign of 1908 are typical of his vigorous support of the merit system.

His nature was timid, lethargic and melancholy, and his court was not marked by the scandals which had been seen under Henry IV.

At Austerlitz he had the satisfaction of witnessing the actual results of his artillery reforms. The commissariat scandals which came to light after the peace of Tilsit convinced the emperor that nothing short of the stern and incorruptible energy of Arakcheev could reach the sources of the evil, and in January 1808 he was appointed inspector-general and war minister.

For the next two years political interest was transferred from parliament to the law courts, in which financial scandals were exposed, and the reputations of some of the leading politicians were destroyed.'

The origin of most of the abuses which vitiate Sicilian political life, and of the frequent scandals in the representative local administrations, is to be found in the straitened condition of the Sicilian middle classes.

He served in Switzerland and at Clongoweswood, Ireland, where he was prefect of studies and subsequently master of rhetoric. Here he was involved in scandals that led to his resignation.

He failed to clear himself entirely of complicity in the Panama scandals, and in January 1893 resigned the ministry of war.

Two years later, however, the scandals of his private life led to his dismissal.

Lord Gambier was a man of earnest, almost morbid, religious principle, and of undoubted courage; but the administration of the admiralty has seldom given rise to such flagrant scandals as during the time when he was a member of it; and through the whole war the self-esteem of the navy suffered no such wound as during Lord Gambier's command in the Bay of Biscay.

Most of those who, having no taste for controversy, were repelled by scandals were easily reconciled.

His later years were clouded with many sorrows and disappointments; his relations with Governor Joseph Dudley were unfriendly; he lost much of his former prestige in the Church - his own congregation dwindled - and in the college; his uncle John Cotton was expelled from his 8 8 4 _ Mather, Increase charge in the Plymouth Church; his son Increase turned out a ne'er-do-well; four of his children and his second wife died in November 1713; his wife's brothers and the husbands of his sisters were ungodly and violent men; his favourite daughter Katherine, who "understood Latin and read Hebrew fluently," died in 1716; his third wife went mad in 1719; his personal enemies circulated incredible scandals about him; and in 1724-1725 he saw a Liberal once more preferred to him as a new president of Harvard.

In the second satire, the lines 29 seq., " Qualis erat nuper tragico pollutus adulter Concubitu," show that the memory of one of the foulest scandals of the reign of Domitian was still fresh in the minds of men.

When the cortes met, on the 29th of September, the opposition accused King Carlos of complicity in grave financial scandals.

But it must be remembered that in consequence of many scandals which had taken place in the previous war the Articles of War had been deliberately revised so as to leave no punishment save death for the officer of any rank who did not do his utmost against the enemy either in battle or pursuit.

When the Wilson scandals occasioned the downfall of Grevy in December 1887, Carnot's high character for integrity marked him out as a candidate for the presidency, and he obtained the support of Clemenceau and of all those who objected to the candidatures of men who have been more active in the political arena, so that he was elected by 616 votes out of 827.

C. scandals, in which the minister of war and other high officials were implicated, helped to augument his fast-growing unpopularity.

The term came into prominence in 1884-1885 in connexion with the scandals arising over the kidnapping of South Sea islanders for enforced labour on the sugar plantations of north Queensland.

After Boulanger's suicide his political influence declined, and was further compromised by accusations (of which he was legally cleared) in connexion with the Panama scandals.

But even in the wealthier abbeys we find traces of thriftless administration, idleness, self-indulgence and occasionally grave moral scandals.

Truculent pamphieteers like Simon Fish, who wrote Beggars Supplication, were already demanding that these sturdy boobies should be set abroad into the world, to get wives of their own, and earn their living by the sweat of their brows, according to the commandment of God; so might the king be better obeyed, matrimony be better kept, the gospel better preached, and none should rob the poor of his alms. It must be added that monastic scandals were not rare; though the majority of the houses were decently ordered, yet the unexceptionable testimony of archiepiscopal and episcopal visitations shows that in the years just before the Reformation there was a certain number of them where chastity of life and honesty of administration were equally unknown.

Neither were they prepared; and the scandals and political disturbances that ensued revealed him as a party leader who could act on such occasions with a dignity, moderation and sagacity that served his country well, maintained the honour of party government and cost his friends nothing.

In 1907 Prince Billow was made the subject of a disgraceful libel, which received more attention than it deserved because it coincided with the Harden-Moltke scandals; his character was, however,completely vindicated,and the libeller, a journalist named Brand, received a term of imprisonment.

Under a series of degenerate Medici the history of Tuscany is certainly not a splendid record, and few events of importance occurred save court scandals.

But incidentally the scandals of the palace had a large and unsavoury part in the political troubles of Spain.

He was indefatigable, in war as in peace, in parading and inspecting; the weary and starving soldiers were forced to turn out amid the marshes of the Dobrudscha as spick and span as on the parade grounds of St Petersburg; but he could do nothing to set order in the confusion of the commissariat, which caused the troops to die like flies of dysentery and scurvy; or to remedy the scandals of the hospitals, which inflicted on the wounded unspeakable sufferings.

There have been too many audit based scandals to remain complacent.

For still others, it may be a reminder of the recent scandals among television evangelists.

The nail in the coffin so to speak has come rather recently, through the past year's scandals of broad corporate malfeasance.

Clearly, the high profile nature of mortgage endowments and other mis-selling scandals has concentrated the mind of everyone in the financial services industry.

In the light of recent high-profile corporate scandals, there is a new spotlight being put on corporate governance.

He joined Drexel Burnham Lambert just months before the notorious junk bond scandals broke.

In spite of an unusually large crop of scandals about him we cannot but believe that he bore an honourable character, and his integrity is vouched for by Thucydides in such strong terms as to exclude all further doubt on the question.

The levy of ship money and customs by Charles sinks into insignificance beside Cromwell's wholesale taxation by ordinances; the inquisitional methods of the major-generals and the unjust and exceptional taxation of royalists outdid the scandals of the extra-legal courts of the Stuarts; the shipment of British subjects by Cromwell as slaves to Barbados has no parallel in the Stuart administration; while the prying into morals, the encouragement of informers, the attempt to make the people religious by force, were the counterpart of the Laudian system, and Cromwell's drastic treatment of the Irish exceeded anything dreamed of by Strafford.

The perfect success of both was regarded, not unreasonably, as a popular ratification of the republic, and though continually harassed by the formation and dissolution of ephemeral ministries, by socialist outbreaks, and the beginnings of anti-Semitism, Carnot had but one serious crisis to surmount, the Panama scandals of 1892, which, if they greatly damaged the prestige of the state, increased the respect felt for its head, against whose integrity none could breathe a word.

That is partly the result of changes made here following the UK 's own corporate scandals of the late 1980s.

At a time when football has been more about sex scandals than the sport, Cardiff City did n't want to miss out.

Her victims included sports personalities, soap actors and the participants in alleged sexual sleaze scandals.

Certain aspects of the homosexual subculture were brought to light by the scandals of 1772.

Her investigations involve secrets, scandals and supernatural happenings; forgotten tragedies and buried crimes.

This has the whiff of previous scandals about ' burying bad news '.

Recent scandals over data have complicated the issue, making it hard to know what is fact and what is not.

From the entertaining personal scandals to the amusing publicity stunts, Paris has delighted the tabloid world.

Merv Griffin and his wife were going over game show ideas and she said that there had never been a trivia show since the famous quiz show scandals of the previous years.

Though she does seem to exist in her own little universe, the scandals and run-ins with the law have made a dent in her image as an untouchable heiress.

Whether you're interested in celebrity babies or celebrity scandals, you'll definitely want to add this blog to your list of required reading!

Griffin's quiz show format came on the heels of the game show scandals of the 1950s, when producers would rig the shows to give contestants the answers.

Anna Nicole Smith, no stranger to scandals and tabloid headlines, is now involved in a legal dispute over the diet supplement TrimSpa.

It seems, especially lately, that female celebrities are finding themselves involved in scandals much more than their male counterparts.

In 2009, celebrity scandals didn't get much bigger than this one.

The list of celebrity scandals is enormous and there is no way they can all be included in this article.

Not to mention, the "scandals" bring more than a little publicity to not only the reality stars themselves, but their shows as well.

Miley Cyrus, with her reported $18 mllion in earnings last year at the age of 15, is a bona-fide star, but her pictures are far from the Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan ongoing scandals.

If you're not watching celebrity scandals on TV, you may as well be cheering them on as they dance into tomorrow.

While some sex scandals can ruin a celebrity's status, Kim Kardashian's did just the opposite.

Gibson has had his share of celebrity scandals, including a run-in with police when he was arrested for driving under the influence in 2006.

Even with the scandals, divorce, and rumors, Mel Gibson is still an extremely popular actor, producer, and director, and very much in-demand in Hollywood.

Tabloids, both in print and on the web, rely on these celebrity scandals to keep themselves in business.

Judging by the number of readers they have, there's no fear of the scandals drying up any time soon.

A suspicious celebrity death, high profile divorce, or when someone commits a serious crime - these are the big celeb scandals that have a long back story, and the mysteries unfold as the days pass by.

Michael is no stranger to scandals these days, with accusations of drug abuse thrown into the mix.

There are so many celeb scandals that revolve around their divorces that it's impossible to keep track of them all!

Of course, not all celebrity scandals involve death, crime, or divorce.

Along with other stars who choose to avoid the negative publicity so often connected to celebrity scandals, MacGraw instead uses her voice and star power to bring some positivity to the world.

While some of these kids fall into a variety of scandals, others grow up to lead surprisingly normal lives.

While beset by minor scandals such as reported eating disorders and rumored involvement with the late Heath Ledger, the Olsens typically remain above the gossip mill fray.

Along with adult responsibilities for the Olsen twins, grown up controversies and scandals have followed them into maturity.

Many people wonder "what is Edward Furlong doing?" especially since the actor has had his share of scandals and legal troubles.

Sade is a very private person and has avoided the celebrity scandals that have plagued other popular singers.

Many of the 2009 celebrity scandals included the usual assortment of hookups, breakups, oops moments, arrests, and other incidents that tend to plague the celeb set.

With every media outlet racing to get details out to readers, there will always be a steady stream of celeb scandals and rumors available for fans to consume.

Online published a detailed list of Charlie Sheen's rap sheet and news scandals, including the fact that he was named as one of the clients of the infamous escort agency run by Heidi Fleiss in 1995.

We haven't forgotten her bottle blonde curls, her sex kitten vibe, or the scandals of her lifetime.

Frauds, mergers, scandals and business politics passed them around until French publisher Havas finally picked them up.

She's more celebrated for her wholesome image than for any scandals, so it's unlikely that you'll see her splashed across the front of any magazines accompanied by lurid headlines.

His desire to cast the perfect actress leads to multiple affairs and scandals.

The series creators reportedly asked the question of what were the wives thinking behind all the sex scandals from Bill Clinton to Eliot Spitzer to John Edwards.

As a state's attorney, Peter Florrick abused his position and was involved in multiple sex scandals.

The post Federline Spears never seemed to be the same, and many photo scandals, public blow ups, one much maligned album from Federline and two kids later, Spears gave Federline his walking papers.

There were a couple of minor scandals involving Matt moving out of Shayne's apartment, and Shayne keeping the wedding ring.

The people behind the scenes are just as vulnerable, and when they mess up it often makes for even bigger scandals.

His relations with Cornelius Herz and the baron de Reinach compelled his retirement, however, from the Ribot cabinet at the time of the Panama scandals in December 1892.

Apart from the lack of scruple manifested by Giolitti in the bank scandals, he exhibited incompetence in the conduct of foreign and home affairs.

Certain scandals had come to light in a small convent school at Greco near Milan.

Ribot at the end of that year, when the Panama scandals were making the office one of peculiar difficulty.

The scandals, indeed, were rife in Washington, and affected persons in close relations with the president.

The position of queen consort to a Scottish king was a difficult and perilous one, and Anne was attacked in connexion with various scandals and deeds of violence, her share in which, however, is supported by no evidence.

There have also been several corporate governance scandals of fashion companies around the world.

If the whole activity of the leaders serves as the expression of the people's will, as some historians suppose, then all the details of the court scandals contained in the biographies of a Napoleon or a Catherine serve to express the life of the nation, which is evident nonsense; but if it is only some particular side of the activity of an historical leader which serves to express the people's life, as other so-called "philosophical" historians believe, then to determine which side of the activity of a leader expresses the nation's life, we have first of all to know in what the nation's life consists.

He had long had the ear of the Chamber in matters of social legislation, and after the Panama scandals had discredited so many politicians his influence grew.