Sentence examples for murky record from inspiring English sources

IT WAS with an incredible sense of bad timing that the government of Sri Lanka arrested a couple of prominent human-rights workers this week just as the United Nations' human-rights council in Geneva goes to work sifting through its murky record for some sign of progress.Activists now fear a wider crackdown by the president, Mahinda Rajapaksa.

While Thursday's arrests have already been heralded as the "decapitation" of Quebec's once-powerful criminal organization, Quebec has had a murky record on these sorts of grandiose operations.

We witness from afar archaeology's murky record: a radical, megalomaniacal Pharaoh depicted with an elongated head, protuberant breasts and swollen stomach, who overthrew Egyptian religion and tradition, proposing monotheism as a monument to himself and building a new capital as another monument to himself.

This process is murky; recorded votes are rare.Mr Josten insists that all interested parties get a fair hearing, and that Chamber staff work assiduously to find a consensus when members are divided, as was the case with the Stop Online Piracy Act, which media groups supported and internet firms opposed.

Trimborn's aim was to correct the murky published record and the "attitudes" of his compatriots.

Topping 80% when he took office, they sank to 20-30% last year.For his political reforms, Mr Roh can claim some credit; although his investigation into collusion between big business and politicians revealed a murky presidential record.

Jokowi's rival, Prabowo Subianto, was a son-in-law of the country's late dictator, Suharto, and a former special-forces officer with a murky human-rights record.

The first half is slow, reflective, folky almost, then the bass drops and we're in a murky, glitchy dancehall record.

(His campaign often derided his opponent Prabowo Subianto's murky human rights record).

From the early, sun-dappled years as the band rose alongside California surf culture to the descent into the deep — presaged by a history of family dysfunction and exacerbated by fights over both creative and personal matters, betrayals, untimely deaths and the grind of endless touring — the Beach Boys story is as murky as its records are pristine.

His words on these issues are a little murky -- but his record's really clear.