They blasted the government's "one-dimensional view" of Hammond's actions, saying that his motivations for exposing powerful institutions like Stratfor were the same as those that had inspired his community service in his native Chicago, where he frequently volunteered at soup kitchens and taught disadvantaged kids how to use computers.
How China conducts its investigation into the explosions — the amount of transparency it permits into the process, the expediency with which findings are conveyed, and its willingness to expose powerful people, if necessary — will serve as a barometer of the leadership's control.
Discharge-shorted aerosol nanobatteries are exposed to powerful mutual attraction.
And in challenging the status quo, we have exposed those powerful institutions that are the most afraid of change.
The sesamoid fibrocartilage, within tendons and ligaments, is observed in the sections where the direction of the ligament or tendon is changed, when these structures wrap around the bony rim or in places particularly exposed to powerful forces [ 9, 26].
Bezos's aversion to scrutiny runs so deep that it is bound to create problems for newspaper people whose job is to expose what powerful institutions want to hide.
Politicians, warlords, wealthy influence brokers and security chiefs are all derided with the aid of Spitting Image-style rubber puppets, much to the enjoyment of citizens who revel in using satire as a means to expose the powerful, when they can't be held to account in other ways.
Did he expose too powerful forces to go on living?
Satire is often needed and necessary to expose the powerful, or to reveal society's hypocritical and often humorous foibles.
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Six members of Parliament have been implicated in the scandal, which threatens to expose a powerful political elite who may have raped and exploited juveniles for more than a decade and put their self-interests ahead of the protection of children.
