Some local officials have denied the phenomenon to avoid "generating scandals," Zapata said.
Your duties consist of looking ridiculous and generating scandal.
Corruption is rife, and chancers taking advantage of market reforms have generated scandal upon scandal: food safety, thefts of the national heritage, horrifying rail and road accidents.
As much as we would like to think we live in a postracial America, having elected a black president, the potency of race as a topic for generating scandal — however cynical or bogus — suggests otherwise.
There are the Internet-generated "scandals," winked at and forgiven by the "Idol" producers, featuring one contestant with a past as a male stripper, and another, a young woman, whose sexually suggestive photographs have appeared online.
If you just keep generating new scandals, none of your scandals will matter.
Painters' lives seldom generate glamour, scandal or romance on anything like the same scale as literary biography.
By exposing misconduct to the public eye, scandals generate moralising discourses and bring the question of organisational norm enforcement to the forefront of the political debate.
It's a sport that has often benefited from the publicity generated by scandal.
He eventually told two Japanese newspapers, generating a scandal that resulted in suspended prison terms for five executives.
