Transparency laws and aggressive news media are applying scrutiny to the powers that be.
I was struck during the reporting by the fact that people kept repeating the same things over and over again, so much so that by midweek I started calling them "The Three S's": going Slow, starting Small and applying Scrutiny.
And they should use their scrutiny of Paul's newsletters as a guidestar in terms of applying scrutiny consistently, because while it's true that Paul largely managed to put the controversy behind him, he nevertheless was made to admit that he had "moral responsibility" for the newsletters.
When the station applied similar scrutiny to a hurricane, ratings soared to a 12 share.
The decision marked the first time that the Supreme Court has applied "strict scrutiny" -- the highest level of First Amendment protection -- to cable programming.
For many decades, starting in the nineteen-thirties, the Court applied "strict scrutiny" to laws that discriminate against racial minorities, and struck down most of them.
The report said the BBC's executive board "applied insufficient scrutiny" to the project during 2011 and the first half of 2012, with no formal checks beyond the reports prepared by the project management office.
What's really important is that Judge Walker described "a fundamental right to vote" and applied "strict scrutiny" to Scott's arguments.
The case was filed in California, where transgender employment protections are ensconced into state law, and the Ninth Circuit long ago applied heightened scrutiny to sex discrimination claims filed by transgender plaintiffs.
In 2013, for example, the inspector general of the IRS alleged that lower-level staff had applied special scrutiny to conservative political groups seeking tax-exempt status an allegation Republicans seized on to once again slash the IRS budget.
Cost-containment measures need to be applied with scrutiny to ensure that all players of the drug supply chain can undertake their activities in a sustainable way.
