Sentence examples for called scandalous from inspiring English sources

The first title, called "Scandalous Innocent," is set at Surrey's Ham House and centers around Phoebe, a young woman with "unruly dark curls".

The disclosure led to calls by pressure groups and MPs for an inquiry into the company's tax affairs, which one MP called scandalous.

An umbrella organization of French groups opposed to nuclear power, Get Out Of Nuclear, assailed what it called "scandalous dispensations" to the energy industry "with the sole objective of protecting nuclear energy".

They had a hit there with a single called Scandalous, but while they were promoting it, their record label in England went bankrupt - largely, it was reported, because it had pumped vast sums into Victoria Beckham's solo career, although the million-pound deal for a Pop Idol runner-up called Rosie Ribbons probably didn't help much.

The play was later called "scandalous and immoral" by the Bishop of London, Arthur Winnington-Ingram, and as a result sold out for many months.

And in 2012, Gifford wrote a uniformly-panned musical about a real-life female celebrity evangelical preacher, called Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson.

Hamilton railed against a "dysfunctional" Congress and warned urgently of "the potential for catastrophic destruction". The normally mild Kean lobbed words such as "shocking" and called it "scandalous that we still allocate scarce Homeland Security dollars on the basis of pork-barrel spending". The other commissioners served as a Greek chorus for Kean and Hamilton's Cassandra.

They caused a stir in South Africa, whose ambassador to Japan called them "scandalous".

Mr. Sarkozy said Friday that France would close its embassy in Damascus to protest what he called the "scandalous" repression by President Bashar al-Assad's government.

Andrew Tyrie, chair of the Commons Treasury select committee, hit out at Lord Rose, chair of Britain Stronger in Europe, over what he called a "scandalous abuse of data".

His comments that a September 11-style strike was less likely under Labour have been called "disgusting", "scandalous" and "extraordinary" by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.