These problems were once far easier to sweep under the rug.
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It is not something we can ignore or sweep under the rug.
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Deal with whatever emotional trauma your Trump obsession has allowed you to sweep under the rug.
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That's a fact that Ralph Northam, Tom Perriello, and Terry McAuliffe can't sweep under the rug.
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"That's not something you should be willing to sweep under the rug for very long, even if your boss is," Taylor said.
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Moscow's alliance with Iran will also remain a problem for Riyadh, and one that the Saudis will not soon sweep under the rug.
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Second, it requires the solicitation of public input that can highlight harmful effects that the project's proponents might prefer to sweep under the rug.
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But our leap into an impeachment inquiry is surrounded by important context that the heat of the moment threatens to sweep under the rug.
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"It's not something we can just sweep under the rug as just another disturbing footnote in a sad election cycle," the First Lady said in that address.
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Police also interviewed close to 60 witnesses in order to piece their case together, so it doesn't look like it's going to be easy to sweep under the rug.
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She argued that it's "something so easy for them to sweep under the rug," and wondered if his punishment would have changed if he faced legal issues from the incident.
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"This is not something that we can ignore, it is not something we can sweep under the rug as just another disturbing footnote in a sad election season," she said.
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But one issue that US trade negotiators shouldn't sweep under the rug is Ottawa's disregard for American intellectual property -- our computer software, drugs, movies and other patented or copyrighted products.
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They were still really, really angry at me for shining a light on a story that we had worked so hard as a community to sort of sweep under the rug.
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But the consistency in the accusers' stories, and the vestigial fury in the voices of those women I spoke with, is too noticeable to ignore or sweep under the rug as he said/she said.
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All over the country, corrupt bureaucrats were brought down for crimes from illegal urban demolitions to embezzling state funds that they could no longer sweep under the rug owing to the new army of whistle-blowers.
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"We cannot sweep under the rug the callous disregard for human life and flagrant violations of international norms the Saudis are showing," said Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the senior Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee.
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The Times story, published on Monday, chronicles the actions taken by Zuckerberg, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and others at and connected to the company to deflect from negative attention on them and sweep under the rug their issues.
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Where the show's focus on lonely and angry young men longing for a less corrupted world felt prescient when the show debuted, it now plays as a reminder of a recent history we're perhaps too tempted to sweep under the rug.
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According to at least 8003 doctors who spoke to Refinery29 under the condition of anonymity out of fear of professional retribution, Mount Sinai St. Luke's — an institution Dr. Joomun dedicated her life to — was treating her death like a dirty secret, one that many feel they actively worked to sweep under the rug.
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But perhaps more important, the top-down approach is wrong because it assumes that the problem of bigotry and abuse is something we can simply sweep under the rug through better censorship, rather than by building a better online community that actively sidelines bigots and abusers through self-policing and collective norms.
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That temptation is always there, and as Briles and his staff won more games and garnered more admiration within the university and the community, I imagine it was that much easier for them to continue to consolidate their power, and to either overlook or sweep under the rug or simply forgive the alleged transgressions of their own players.
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The social media giant has been trying to quash the story by insisting developers were only allowed to use the data to provide "the Facebook experience" before the market dominance of Android and Apple made it less necessary for manufacturers to build in custom functionality, but a new development may have just made it a lot harder to sweep under the rug.
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"While many in the media and the American public have been trying to bring down the President without evidence that President Trump colluded with Russia to win the election, there is a ton of actual evidence of real misconduct that those same people have been attempting to completely sweep under the rug," Zeldin said at a news conference on the resolution.
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" She continued, "But after hearing all the stories these past few days and hearing these brave women speak up tonight about things that we're kind of told to sweep under the rug and not to talk about, it's made me want to speak up and speak up loudly because I actually felt less alone this week than I have ever felt in my entire career.
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According to these and other published accounts, it was not until recent communication between these former and current Mattress Factory employees revealed a pattern of sexual misconduct and abuse, that they felt empowered to escalate their complaints against the organization — which, until that point, Olijnyk and the board seemed happy to sweep under the rug, despite officially being aware of them since at least February of this year.
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In the same way, during this stage of the Convent's history, women of Ruby – as well as one man, Menus – come to the Convent in times of need. The problems and compulsions that the elder statesmen of Ruby would prefer to sweep under the rug seem inevitably to end up at the Convent. Soane, Deek's wife, comes to confront Connie about her affair and ends up becoming her friend, from whom she later receives "tonics" that help ease her mind in the aftermath of her sons’ deaths at war. Arnette becomes pregnant by K.D. and stays at the Convent to carry the pregnancy to term, though she tries and succeeds in inducing an abortion by self-harm (Ruby residents speculate that the Convent women beat her and caused her to lose the baby, a lie that Arnette encourages).
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