I have a sort of axe to grind with representation.
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Robert Whittaker had an axe to grind in this bout though.
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That's when you know ... Someone has an axe to grind. Right.
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His tone is refreshingly playful and inquisitive — without an axe to grind.
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He has no axe to grind, a rarity in this day and age.
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He is not dogmatic, nor does he seem to have an axe to grind.
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After all, crowdsourcing can sometimes be dominated by individuals who have an axe to grind.
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He has a clear axe to grind with the United States and the intelligence community.
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Many groups of people have it rough, and they deservedly have an axe to grind.
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If they say that they have an axe to grind, they might not seem interesting.
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Does Larry Nassar have any axe to grind that is legitimate with regard to this judge?
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" Oppenheim says Farrow "is clearly motivated not by a pursuit of truth, but an axe to grind.
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" Oppenheim said Farrow "is clearly motivated not by a pursuit of truth, but an axe to grind.
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And it looks like the lawyers he hired really have a political axe to grind against Donald Trump.
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They were professionals, in the objective independent sense, that they had no axe to grind to either side.
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According to these sources, the person who stole the code didn't have an axe to grind with Apple.
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Do a diligent cuttings job and interview anyone who has some dirt to dish or an axe to grind.
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It's awfully hard to find applicable statistics here, let alone any whose compilers didn't have some implicit axe to grind.
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The only time their plight gets highlighted is when somebody has an axe to grind against a particular public official.
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" The only people who might be harmed by moving the deadline, he said, are those with a "political axe to grind.
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Unlike most journalists writing about Islam today, there is no partisan axe to grind here, no hidden agenda to subtly advance.
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An independent counsel with no axe to grind came to those conclusions over a period of a two-plus-year investigation.
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" Judd told Axios he finds this quote "laughable" and that it appears Axios' source "has an axe to grind and nothing more.
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"Farrow's effort to defame NBC News is clearly motivated not by a pursuit of truth, but an axe to grind," continued Oppenheim.
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And that's not even to mention the public mistrust of journalists so assiduously cultivated by people with a political axe to grind.
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In other words, if anyone has an axe to grind when it comes to the regulation of microplastics, it's the cosmetics industry.
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He has no political axe to grind, rejecting both the "almost masochistic attitude" of left-wing Americans and "jingoistic works by conservative revisionists".
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Dubljević also admitted that he has an axe to grind—he has his own opinion of morality as a balance of different intuitions.
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Archie is convinced the murder is a Southsider with an axe to grind, so he plans to draw out the The Black Hood.
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Michael Glover takes nothing for granted in his art criticism; he is not dogmatic, nor does he seem to have axe to grind.
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The latest Marvel/Netflix team-up focuses not on the traditional hero, but on an anti-hero with a serious axe to grind.
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Don't be surprised if the former chief strategist comes back with an axe to grind, as it seems like he might be already.
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Produced by the Hyphaene thebaica palm tree, it looks like a rhino turd but hits the tongue like butterscotch with an axe to grind.
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"I don't have an axe to grind or an agenda to push," tweeted Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A diligent cuttings job and interviews with anyone with dirt to dish or an axe to grind provide the material to shred a chap's reputation.
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Democrats also have an axe to grind when it comes to the House's now-closed Russia probe, as well as Trump's still-secret tax returns.
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"A large amount of the time, it would be to impress other boys, unless they really had an axe to grind with someone," David said.
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" In a court filing earlier Thursday, Pruitt's office said CMD has "an apparent political axe to grind" and called its quest for the records "politically-motivated.
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"The allegations were based on information from a source who required payment and anonymity and whom the editor considered had an axe to grind," Dixon said.
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Not by explaining that the #MeToo movement isn't the result of "radical feminists with an axe to grind," but of centuries of systemic misogyny and rape culture.
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He doesn't go on solo dates because of the current climate of drug use and promiscuity among radical teenagers... but he does have an axe to grind.
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They don't have an axe to grind against Twitter, they just want journalists to think critically about what Twitter does to news coverage and the civic conversation.
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It doesn't take a lawyer to see that the parties engaged in the legal witch hunt against Trump have an axe to grind the size of Manhattan.
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That makes the site just another partisan showroom for original reporting, controlled by someone with an axe to grind, and endorsed by a major figure in American politics.
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No details about the new character played by Bilson have been revealed just yet, though we're pulling for a big-haired country crooner with an axe to grind.
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And those questions become even more problematic when they are funneled through the mouth of Vladimir Putin, who has an axe to grind and Western democracy to undermine.
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He went on to say that Congress should then appoint a special prosecutor "who has no axe to grind" to oversee an independent investigation into Trump's Russia connections.
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Or he could be a disgruntled employee with only second-hand information and an axe to grind, which would certainly not persuade Republican senators to vote against Trump.
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The consensus seems to be that it's because of anti-immigrant misinformation spread by the right-wing British press and cynical politicians with an EU-shaped axe to grind.
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"Well, let's see what kind of axe to grind this guy has," LaMalfa said about Taylor, a widely respected diplomat who has served presidents of both parties for decades.
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We have made an effort to get voices from across the political spectrum but, of course, we will be accused of bias by those with an axe to grind.
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Democrats have an axe to grind after 2016 and have every reason to believe 2018 will be as close as a midterm can ever come to an existential race.
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They want to embrace books, movies, television that take the higher ground, that don't have an axe to grind, and that aren't polemical, or don't take a political side.
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Their debut single, 228's "What Do I," comes firing out with an axe to grind—all meaty power chords, furious solos, and a frustrated Mac evaluating a bad relationship.
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And as the response built, it became clear that the hoaxsters had a particular axe to grind with gender studies, who have previously called for entire departments to be defunded.
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TC: You hear that refrain a lot in startups I think — the founder who was wronged or underestimated and has an axe to grind so starts his or her own company.
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Despite being sober, he won't bring any solo dates due to the current climate of false sexual accusations by bat-weilding feminists…however, he's the one with an axe to grind.
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Startups once had awful PR and the only way Michael Arrington was able to get news was to talk to folks who passed on a deal and had an axe to grind.
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To be sure, there are reasons to treat the results cautiously, not least the possibility that it is disproportionately people with an axe to grind who go online and rate their companies.
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She been harboring—she had an axe to grind about him and she lays the foundation as a Democrat donor, saying I don't want—I'm just going with the most dramatic theory.
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She's in it for the money, she wants to get famous, she has an axe to grind—you do not need to be accused of something to think this of an accuser.
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But the lawsuit raises a lot of red flags that suggest it is at the very least being promoted by people who are seeking attention or have a political axe to grind.
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The National Security Agency certainly has an axe to grind with Kaspersky Labs after it revealed the activities of The Equation Group, an elite hacking unit that has been tied to the NSA.
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Wilson, who blamed the negative publicity on an old classmate with an axe to grind, claimed that she lost roles in Kung Fu Panda 3 and Trolls as a result of the stories.
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De Lima vehemently denies all the allegations against her, saying the witnesses were prisoners and former prison officials with an axe to grind or people who were being pressured by her political opponents.
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Per the report, the individual also downloaded additional Apple internal tools which have not yet been leaked:According to these sources, the person who stole the code didn't have an axe to grind with Apple.
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So, unless someone at the NFL is somehow interfering with that process, or the independent administrator has an axe to grind with Reid, it seems like a stretch to say he's being singled out.
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Listeners who have an axe to grind could pull a clip that presents a podcaster in a bad light — perhaps, taking out of context something they said in hopes of manufacturing social media outrage.
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The folks at Bleeping Computer conclude that these people (or this person) run the largest known Mirai botnet, and is offering this digital weapon to anyone with some cash and an axe to grind.
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It's not just that Agony is an awful, frustrating way to spend a few hours, but how the game, over and over, reminds you it has an axe to grind with 50% of the population.
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"The fact that the contents of Flynn's phone conversation — highly sensitive intelligence — were leaked to the media suggests that someone with access to that information also has a political axe to grind," the article said.
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"Once again they are playing the shirking responsibility game of laying the blame on others, creating tragedy and inciting confrontation, slandering the Dominican Republic's choice of China with an axe to grind," it wrote in a front page commentary.
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It was surprising to see The Economist repeat, uncritically, claims made by green activists and a trade union with an industrial axe to grind, that a "gas-extraction tax is bringing in less revenue than expected" ("Poor credit", November 26th).
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It certainly sounds as though Kadar might have been paid off by an anti-Semite (or multiple anti-Semites) with an axe to grind, though it's not entirely clear whether phoning in threats to Jewish centers was also his screwed up personal hobby.
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Among those are the defenders of religious liberty who have become all too accustomed to being flogged at the steps of the highest court in the land in recent years by Obama-era appointees who appeared to have a political axe to grind.
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"There are those who have an axe to grind of some type or another that have complete and utter distrust of anything the government says ... There are those who just want to stir the pot and think they know something nobody else knows," Launius added.
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At a time when journalism's business model is threatened, he has demonstrated that they can be sued out of existence using funds from billionaires with an axe to grind, even if, as in his case, they are not bringing a case of their own.
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With an understandable axe to grind, Comey goes there – he describes the president's complexion, compares hand size, and even leaves open the possibility that the so-called Steele Dossier's most scandalous (yet, unproven) details related to Russian prostitutes relieving themselves for a fetishist future president might possibly have occurred.
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Teams with the best cars in these competitions often also take aim at this world record since the cars are so good at accelerating, but AMZ had a bit of an axe to grind, too: the club broke the record in 2014 but lost it last year to a team from the University of Stuttgart.
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Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.), who accused McCain of having an axe to grind with Trump because of their differing views on foreign policy.
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Whether it is former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, who having worked closely with Dr. Carson while in office and afterwards and should know better; or the principal of the Archbishop Borders School in Baltimore who removed the portrait of Carson that hung in the school's hallway — these people all have a political axe to grind.
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" In a statement, Fager said, "It is wrong that our culture can be falsely defined by a few people with an axe to grind who are using an important movement as a weapon to get even, and not by the hundreds of women and men that have thrived, both personally and professionally, at '60 Minutes.
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"It is wrong that our culture can be falsely defined by a few people with an axe to grind who are using an important movement as a weapon to get even, and not by the hundreds of women and men that have thrived, both personally and professionally, at '60 Minutes,'"he said in a statement to The New Yorker.
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It makes it seem all too possible that the true goal was to invent a story about Scruggs so she could serve as a scapegoat for the audience's anger and as a focal point for distrust of an entire industry — something powerful people with an axe to grind are more than happy to do, whether they're in DC or they're Hollywood's elite figures, like Eastwood.
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The government is certainly going to argue, look, we're not saying that CNN has to be divested because the president has an axe to grind, we are saying that the distribution channels combined with the content channels create competitive harm, and so one or the other has to be divested in order to create the structural change we think is necessary to make this merger not harm consumers.
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Priya has an axe to grind against Vikram, because of whom her father had to commit suicide while they were in college. Finally, all ends well.
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I was sent to Kentucky as a reporter. I had no > other instructions than to write the facts as I found them. I had no axe to > grind. I lay no claims to infallibility.
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Rogan, an obsessive, has form with this kind of thing. This makes for a lot to wade through but Rogan’s strength is in his dispassionate approach. He’s not in awe of Davies, nor does he have an axe to grind.
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The decision to lift fuel subsidies gave the Houthi movement, with its own axe to grind, the populist issue they needed to enter Sana'a and seize power. They managed to capitalize on palpable frustration among diverse segments of the population and fears of an al-Islah dominated government.
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Howell, Anthony. "Tango with an axe to grind," The Times Literary Supplement. April 19, 2006. The meaning of this expression has been extended to include any situation in which the two partners are by definition understood to be essential—as in, a marriage with only one partner ceases to be a marriage.
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Matthew Hews from TheNextWeb wrote, "From the get-go, it's apparent that Verrit isn't about building bridges or creating understanding, but rather pushing a particular narrative. Daou himself has said as much." The Verge said it is "just another partisan showroom for original reporting, controlled by someone with an axe to grind".
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Al-Ghazali also stated that he did not have any problem with other branches of philosophy such as physics, logic, astronomy or mathematics. His only axe to grind was with metaphysics, in which he claimed that the philosophers did not use the same tools, namely logic, which they used for other sciences.
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The latter was trying to receive from Merezhkovsky some religious and philosophical justification for his own terrorist ideology, but also had another, more down to Earth axe to grind, that of getting his first novel published.Zobnin, p.249 This he did, with Merezhkovsky's assistance – to strike the most unusual debut of the 1910 Russian literary season. In 1911 Merezhkovsky was officially accused of having links with terrorists.
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With this line-up Welch released three albums on Rounder Records, Tone-Cool subsidiary. His early albums secured his place as an international touring act, and included These Blues Are Mine (1996), and Axe to Grind (1997). He was quoted in People magazine as "being an adolescent is more than enough blues for anyone to handle". In 1997, Welch played at the Notodden Blues Festival.
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Stirling, Stephen (January 18, 2014). "Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer now becomes Chris Christie's foe". NJ.com. a spokesman saying "It is very clear partisan politics are at play here as Democratic mayors with a political axe to grind come out of the woodwork and try to get their faces on television."Chris Christie's Office Goes Off On MSNBC: 'A Partisan Network That Has Been Openly Hostile'. Huffingtonpost.com.
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In 1987 Jingo de Lunch released their debut album Perpetuum Mobile, three months after their first rehearsal. Their second LP, Axe To Grind, was recorded in 1989. With their third album Underdog, they took a new artistic direction and moved away from their underground roots by signing with the major record label, Phonogram Records. Two other albums released were B.Y.E and Deja Voodoo, before they broke up in 1996.
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St. John also did some session work performing lead guitar on "Livin' for My Lord" on Ken Tamplin's 1990 album, Axe to Grind. Tamplin is an inspirational Christian rocker more famed for his involvement in the band Shout. Tamplin has also co-written material with Gene Simmons of Kiss. St. John also worked with former Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff, even appearing in his video, "Is Everyone Happy".
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They get financing from a mysterious venture capitalist Aliyah Torres who wants to purchase MonteCorp. Unknown to the Corpuzes, Aliyah has another agenda, an axe to grind against Mauro and she intends to destroy MonteCorp with him and the entire Corpuz family. While Mauro is incapacitated, they institute board resolutions that overrules Mauro's directives despite his majority stock control. Mauro is about to lose MonteCorp to the Corpuzes.
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Arikki spends time in bars with friends, teases girls, asks them to profess their love for him, and gets into brawls after conning others. He meets Maheshwari (Oviya) and wants her to declare her love for him, which she finally confesses. He abducts her, and they eventually marry. Her brother Ilango (Thirumurugan) is a tough guy who has an axe to grind against Arikki and his gang, which leads to the twist in the climax.
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"Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer now becomes Chris Christie's foe". NJ.com. a spokesman saying "It is very clear partisan politics are at play here as Democratic mayors with a political axe to grind come out of the woodwork and try to get their faces on television." Chris Christie's Office Goes Off On MSNBC: 'A Partisan Network That Has Been Openly Hostile'. Huffingtonpost.com.Hoboken, N.J., mayor claims Chris Christie camp held Sandy money hostage . U.S.News.
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The FSA denied the claims – "This is not whistleblowing, it is green ink" a spokesman said. "The allegations are a farrago of lies, distortions and half truths made by an obviously disgruntled former employee who clearly has an axe to grind. It does not paint a realistic picture of our supervision of building societies." On 18 August 2012, the Treasury Select Committee criticised the FSA for its poor enforcement of the LIBOR rate setting rules.
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A prototype of the Levitartor was exhibited at the National Association of Music Merchants trade show in Anaheim, Calif. Orders for guitars increased, with a peak of 150 inquiries a week. By 1997, Lindert had 65 distributors around the country. The guitar necks and hardware were made in Korea and other components in the old Blue Chelan warehouse.A New Axe To Grind Chuck Lindert’s Dreams Have Finally Found A Sweet, Sweet Voice By Michael Murphey on Spokesman.
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See advertisement, Isle of Ely and Wisbech Advertiser, 8 November 1922, p. 1. During the campaign Coates told a public meeting at the Guyhim Schoolroom on 7 November that he was "out for no axe to grind, except the axe of agriculture"."Col. Coates and 'Hard Facts'", Isle of Ely and Wisbech Advertiser, 8 November 1922, p. 5. In his campaign Coates pledged to bring about "real reductions in tea, beer and tobacco" by lowering duties on them.
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After having Gilani arrested for assault, his wife called a government hotline and disclosed his terrorist activities. She was subsequently interviewed three times by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. The FBI, citing Gilani's work for the DEA, did not consider him a threat despite the accusations leveled against him in 2001 and 2002. The FBI agent investigating the matter speculated that Gilani's wife made her accusations because she had "an axe to grind" regarding his other marriage.
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All of this is presented in the context of the supposedly imminent end of the world—even though this is not in fact mentionedNostradamus, M., Les Propheties, 1568 omnibus edition—a conviction that sparked numerous collections of end-time prophecies at the time, including an unpublished collection by Christopher Columbus. Views on Nostradamus have varied widely throughout history. Academic views such as those of Jacques Halbronn regard Nostradamus's Prophecies as antedated forgeries written by later hands with a political axe to grind.
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The claim was first made a week or so before the controversy exploded — as a routine comment during the Rai Tre afternoon coverage of the Tour. It took the form of a compliment to the athletic dedication of Rasmussen who has apparently been returning from eight hours of mountain training, so Cassani appears to have had no axe to grind against Rasmussen. Cassani has also collaborated with Ivan Zazzaroni and Pier Bergonzi to write a biography of Marco Pantani, Pantani. Un eroe tragico (Pantani, a tragic hero).
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Hakim Khan Suri was a member of the Sur dynasty and was a descendant of Sher Shah Suri, the founder of the Sur Empire. Hakim Khan was a seasoned Sur, who had his own axe to grind against the imperial motives of the Mughals. He found in Pratap an energetic, chivalrous and bold veteran hero, for whom the Mughal imperialism was a nuisance too. The Battle of Haldighati is widely but wrongly perceived as a Hindu-Muslim conflict, but this is not the case.
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Elsewhere in Now and Then, Buechner describes his trepidation regarding the publication of this, his first novel since entering into the ministry, and of those who would enter into the novel expecting 'a sermon with illustrations in the form of character and dialogue'. Concerning his own writing process, the author writes that novels begin as 'a lump in the throat': > I don't start with some theological axe to grind, but with a deep, wordless > feeling for some aspect of my own experience that has moved me.
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The report was commissioned by ex Fiji Human Rights Commission director Shaista Shameem, who had publicly backed the military takeover. According to Arms, Dr Neilsen and his colleagues reached the verdict that the 2006 result had been 'rigged' mainly on the basis of evidence gleaned at public hearings, without any independent effort to verify the accuracy of the allegations. Arms' report states that most of those who showed up at the hearings had an axe to grind. They were defeated candidates or supporters of political parties that had performed poorly at the polls.
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Given the proof they needed, Kane and Bridge had Weapon P.R.I.M.E.'s mission approved, with SHIELD opting to let Project K solely run it. Of the members, Yeti and Tygerstryke were original to the program, Rictor joined to take vengeance on Cable for killing his father (actually done by Stryfe), and Grizzly joined as another former member of the Six Pack who had an axe to grind with Cable. This was the original team. Their first mission was to ambush Cable and X-Force at their base in the Adirondacks.
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2 (Spring 2011): 49-55. The specific debate on the high school exit examination can be found in: Eric Grodsky, John Robert Warren, and Demetra Kalogrides, "State High School Exit Examinations and NAEP Long-Term Trends in Reading and Mathematics, 1971-2004," Educational Policy 23, no. 4 (July 2009): 589-614; John Robert Warren and Eric Grodsky, "No Axe to Grind: A Response to Hanushek," Educational Policy 26, no. 3 (May): 352-359; and Eric Hanushek, "A flawed analysis of unrepresentative state achievement data," Educational Policy 26, no.
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It featured the tagline, "Lizzie Borden Has an Axe to Grind". The Hollywood Reporter wrote in October 2014 that the series would consist of six one-hour episodes, but by January 2015 the order was increased to eight. The Lizzie Borden Chronicles premiered on April 5, 2015. Most - if not all - of the series was shot in Nova Scotia, Canada, using period buildings and interiors in Halifax and other nearby communities. Lifetime executive vice president and general manager Rob Sharenow said in 2014, “This series will take viewers further down Lizzie Borden’s dark path, revealing what many people suspected about her mysterious life.
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Bruce was criticised for showing "blatant bias" when interviewing Matt O'Connor, founder of Fathers 4 Justice, for a BBC programme in 2004. Bruce, who had featured in advertising campaigns for the charity Women's Aid, was accused of having an axe to grind on the issue of domestic violence. Many, including O'Connor, felt she let her own personal view on domestic violence as an issue of gender take over the programme. There were also concerns that O'Connor had originally been invited to speak about CAFCASS and the Family Courts, yet the programme was changed to focus on domestic violence.
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Red Star first appears in the G.I. Joe: Renegades episode "Union of the Snake." He is depicted as having a scar running from his right cheek to his mouth and a red star on his right hand, also noted for following the studies of Carl von Clausewitz. Red Star is a member of the Oktober Guard who has an axe to grind with Baroness' family due to what the Cisarovna Family did to his people. He infiltrated the summit at the Cisarovna Chateau disguised as a chef only for the Joes to interfere with an explosion knocking them out enough to be captured.
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They drank a toast to Angie and Sharon revealed how she nursed her mum during the painful final days of her fatal illness. Den reflected that he had some good times in the pub, but Sharon could not remember many good times – she just recalled her parents' furious rows. She mentioned how she once ran it with Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp), whom Den had never even heard of. Sharon then remembered that she had an axe to grind with her father, for getting her best friend Michelle Fowler (Susan Tully) pregnant when she was only 16.
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Uribe described the accuser as a "disgruntled convict with an axe to grind", denied the charges and said there was proof of his innocence. The Colombian newsweekly Revista Semana reported that the paramilitary in question, Francisco Enrique Villalba Hernández, had not mentioned Uribe during previous declarations made more than five years ago, when he was sentenced for his own role in the massacre. The magazine also listed a number of possible inconsistencies in his most recent testimony, including the alleged presence of General Manosalva, who had died months before the date of the meeting where the massacre was planned.
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Their preliminary report did note that there was a lack of credibility among the witnesses present at the meeting, some of whom had retired and were claiming either a loss of memory or had been in receipt of retirement benefits that might impact upon their neutrality. In addition, the SIT considered Bhatt to be an unreliable witness who had attempted to coach other witnesses, had not provided adequate explanation for his nine-year silence regarding the events surrounding the meeting and had been imprecise in his description of the events. They also though that he had "an axe to grind" against the state. The Ramachandran reviews painted a different picture.
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Steven McGeady is a former Intel executive best known as a witness in the Microsoft antitrust trial. His notes and testimony contained colorful quotes by Microsoft executives threatening to "cut off Netscape's air supply" and Bill Gates' guess that "this antitrust thing will blow over". Attorney David Boies said that McGeady's testimony showed him to be "an extremely conscientious, capable and honest witness", while Microsoft portrayed him as someone with an "axe to grind".Computer Business Review Online, 13 November 1998 McGeady left Intel in 2000, but later again gained notoriety for defending his former employee Mike Hawash after his arrest on federal terrorism charges.
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Hanushek responded in the pages of Education Next (published by the Hoover Institution), accusing the panel of "bias" and calling its evidence of poor or non-existent educational improvement "weak".Eric A. Hanushek, "Grinding the anti-testing ax: More bias than evidence behind NRC panel's conclusions", Education Next 12:2 (Spring 2012): 49–55. Since then arguments about test-based incentives and school exit exams has intensified.John Robert Warren and Eric Grodsky, "No Axe to Grind: A Response to Hanushek," Educational Policy 26: 3 (May 2012: 352–59) and Eric A. Hanushek, "A flawed analysis of unrepresentative state achievement data," Educational Policy 26: 3 (May 2012): 360–68.
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In 2011, she co-authored with activist Assaf Kintzer the blog "Hatzatetet" (the "Quotery") an archival site of racist and sexist quotes by Israeli leaders of the founding generation and famous Zionist thinkers. In the years 2012–2013, she also ran the personal political blog "An Axe to Grind", in which she wrote extensively on some of the explosive issues that took place on Facebook, including the storm surrounding the claim that the work of post- Soviet artist Zoya Cherkassky's portrayal of Mizrahim is racist, as well as criticism of leading left wing Ashkenazi journalists and activists, such as Yossi Gurevitch, Amir Shibi, and Dror Feuer.
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He arrived with the rest of the Dingle family and along with the family was to "run riot through the rural tranquillity and put the muck back into the mix". The family where originally supposed to be "nothing more than a bit of spot of bother over a couple of episodes" but later were kept. In 2003 it was announced Halliwell was to take a break. This led him to comment that he had "no axe to grind" and it wasn't "about salary or storylines" and added "I love Zak, I love Emmerdale, but I've asked for a spell out to spend some quality time with my family and friends".
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Well-known American scholars such as Fred Donner has criticized the selection of essays, and described it as a "monument to duplicity". Donner writes that Warraq unduly favors revisionist theories in order to advance "anti-Islam polemic", forwarding that "this lopsided character makes The Quest for the Historical Muhammad a book that is likely to mislead many an unwary general reader." Alfons Teipen, a professor of religion at Furman University, criticized the editing: "The two introductory articles ... are one-sided, rather polemical overview[s] of ... scholarship on the life of Muhammad." Asma Afsaruddin described the book as a "partisan work" and added that Warraq "clearly has an ideological axe to grind".
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Cernat, Avangarda, pp. 55–57 Still, traditionalist critic Ilarie Chendi notes, Viața Socială as a whole failed, because the Symbolist and post-Symbolist contributors were not ardent socialists, and because no "notable poets or prose writers" could be found among the socialists. Ilarie Chendi, "Vieața literară în 1911 (o privire generală)", in Luceafărul, Nr. 3/1912, p. 63 (digitized by the Babeș-Bolyai University Transsylvanica Online Library) The same was observed in 1913 by critic Gheorghe Savul, who suggested that Viața Socială took on Symbolists such as Davidescu for opportunistic reasons, since they also had an anti-bourgeois axe to grind, but that there was little else to unite its contributors.
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Before each meeting about six or seven poems by one poet would be typed, duplicated and distributed to the dozen or so participants. There was no manifesto as such. Lucie-Smith wrote, in a letter to Hobsbaum dated November 1961: 'This is a group of poets who find it possible to meet and discuss each other's work helpfully and without backbiting or backscratching…we have no axe to grind -- this isn't a gang and there's no monolithic body of doctrine to which everyone must subscribe'. The poets who met included George Macbeth, Edward Lucie-Smith, Philip Hobsbaum, Peter Redgrove, Alan Brownjohn, Peter Porter and Martin Bell.
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In January 2016, the building, alongside the former Heaven and Hell nightclub in Anne Street, were put up for sale. At the same time company director Philip Akrill wrote on his Twitter account, referencing the Hull City Council Twitter account in the process, that the company was now 'selling up'. Akrill further added 'you win', possibly in response to the Hull City Council's enforcement action. Following this, the leader of the Hull City Council Councillor Stephen Brady stated that the council 'have no axe to grind with Manor Property Group... We want developers to put in planning applications and get the work done, not let buildings remain empty for ten or 20 years'.
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The translation of "bucke uerteþ" is uncertain. Some (such as , in the version given above) translate the former word as "buck- goat" and the latter as "passes wind" (with reconstructed OE spelling feortan ). Platzer, on the other hand, views the latter, more vulgar, gloss as informed by "prejudices against mediæval culture" and suspects that those preferring it "may have had an axe to grind" . Without citing any supporting evidence, E. Erickson derides "linguistic Galahads" and asserts: > Editorial prudishness has kept that fine little Middle English poem, the > Cuckoo Song, out of many a school-book, all because the old poet was > familiar with English barn-yards and meadows and in his poem recalled those > sights and sounds.
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The charges arose when Susan Fortunato, a Secret Service co-worker, complained that she had in fact done the analysis and that it had never been examined by Stewart. Although the jury at the perjury trial felt that Larry Stewart had taken unfair credit for the work done, it did not amount to perjury and he was found not guilty on October 5, 2004. The jury had trouble believing Fortunato, feeling that she had an axe to grind with Stewart. In October 2005, Stewart was informed that due to her status as a convicted felon in the United States, she was inadmissible for entry into Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
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Different Class received widespread acclaim from music critics in the UK. In the NME John Mulvey summarised the record as "funny, phenomenonally nasty, genuinely subversive, and, of course, hugely, flamingly POP!... Different Class is a deft, atmospheric, occasionally stealthy and frequently booming, confident record." Melody Maker awarded the album its star rating of "bloody essential", and its critic Simon Reynolds observed that "the album's title alone announces that Cocker's broadened his scope, has another axe to grind: social antagonism", and stated that Pulp was "not so much the jewel in Britpop's crown, more like the single solitary band who validate the whole sorry enterprise". In Q Robert Yates felt that "the range of Different Class is impressive: tracks such as ["Live Bed Show" and "F.
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Uribe described the accuser as a "disgruntled convict with an axe to grind", denied the charges and said there was proof of his innocence. The Colombian newsweekly Revista Semana reported that the paramilitary in question, Francisco Enrique Villalba Hernández, had not mentioned Uribe during previous declarations made more than five years ago, when he was sentenced for his own role in the massacre. The magazine also listed a number of possible inconsistencies in his most recent testimony, including the alleged presence of General Hernando Manosalva, who had died months before the date of the meeting where the massacre was planned. His cousin and former Colombian senator, Mario Uribe, was arrested under suspicion of ties to the right-wing paramilitary groups.
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The Voice of the North was first published in 1910 by David Cohen & Co. The Voice of the North was published monthly, with the tagline An advocate of the interests of the Northern and North-Western districts of N.S.W. Describing their policy, The Voice of the North claimed to have "consistently advocated for everything which could make for the advancement of the Commonwealth and the welfare and happiness of its citizens". The newspaper's own claim was that it was "printed with the sole object of presenting the views of the people with no axe to grind, and without any thought of profit" and that it "fought consistently for the interests of the people of the northern part of the State, and also for the rights of the citizens of the State as a whole".
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Harold "Harry" Tiberius Tang (C.S. Lee) is a Buy More sales supervisor appearing at the beginning of the first season who applied for and received the Assistant Manager position."Chuck Versus the Sandworm" Harry is a tyrant, controlling everything from the timing of employee lunches, socializing in the break room, and the channel to which the TVs were tuned. While he appears to have an axe to grind with Morgan, the only rival he viewed as such was Chuck: Harry received the assistant manager position primarily because Chuck was unable to attend the interview (though, later in the season, Mike discloses that he made Harry A.M. because he and Harry's wife were having an affair), and, where Harry's tyranny was the focus of the Buy More's sub-plot, Chuck gives Morgan the code to reprogram Harry's master remote.
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Meanwhile, the evil Dean Hunta (Shirley Stoler) informs the heads of three sororities that they'll have to compete in a trio of events to determine who's going to lose their house to make way for a new sewage treatment plant. The dean favors Sigma Phi's Lois Scagliani (Forbes Riley) and Delta Phi's Fern Hymenstein (Tara King) and informs them that the Phi Betas have to lose. When asked if she has an axe to grind with the Phi Beta sorority, the Dean replies that it's “just another act of random, senseless violence perpetrated against the underdogs.” At the first competition, a soccer game, Gina is disgusted to see the way that Phi Beta's Midge (Amelia David) and her peers are being trampled by their competitors, so she gets into the game herself and the other Splitz quickly follow suit.
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The 2007-08 Non-Prosecution Agreement was retained on appeal in 2020, effectively for the moment preserving the block and preventing future investigation into circumstances, people and organisations surrounding Epstein in those earlier charges. Subsequently, in August 2020 an appeal court en banc review hearing of that decision has been ordered. Whilst Hoffenberg states that he was "double-crossed" by Epstein over the Ponzi scheme, he emphasised he has no "axe to grind" against Epstein but instead a "story to tell ... something to explain" over Epstein, about "his mindset, the profile, how Epstein saw things, and how he played the chess board". In 2020, a year after his alleged suicide while on detention in a Manhattan prison on new charges of sex trafficking involving minors, Epstein was described as having had a "major role" in the Towers Financial Ponzi scheme.
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He even had one regular longtime client... who had no arms and no legs... The Scotty I knew was a guy who always seemed to be enjoying his life working morning, noon and night, with never a gripe; always with a smile to greet you, and never with an axe to grind. After a lifetime in Hollywood, that's a remarkable feat and its own kind of Zen." It has been suggested that Bowers' claims were dismissed by some not simply because "virtually everyone he talks about has died", but because "many in the industry still cling to a prudish, homophobic and manufactured version of the past." According to Matt Tyrnauer, director of a documentary on Bowers, it is merely proof of "the enduring power of the (Hollywood) myth machine... created there—by outsiders, Jewish immigrants themselves who were furriers and glove manufacturers projecting a lie of a made-up image of white Americanism... I think there are a lot of people who want to cling to that.
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Colonel Mace is the commanding officer of a large contingent of UNIT, appearing in "The Sontaran Stratagem" / "The Poison Sky" (2008). He originally seems to view the Doctor as a superior officer, saluting him and taking his orders; however, the two clash and Mace begins to be irritated by the Doctor's manner and repeated casual dismissals of him and UNIT, while simultaneously irritating the Doctor through his overtly militaristic manner and insistence on a combat solution to the situation brought on by the Sontarans (Although both agree that the presence of 'Sir Alistair' would be of great assistance at this time). Despite repeatedly being told UNIT could not face the Sontarans, he organises the troops for an assault on a Sontaran position, telling the Doctor he is not listening any more, and rallies the troops with a speech about how they would show "every passing alien with an axe to grind" to not mock them and see "what the human race is capable of". He even manages to impress the Doctor by having the Valiant clear away the poison gas surrounding the factory.
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