Sentence examples for scandal used from inspiring English sources

His predecessor, Martin Winterkorn, who quit as a result of the emissions scandal, used to get his chief financial officer to answers questions on results day.

The record price for a bat, $577,610, came this year for one that Shoeless Joe Jackson, a figure in the infamous Black Sox scandal, used for most of his career, even after it warped into a banana shape.

In fact the company, far from fleeing the scandal, used it as a promotional tool: ads for the return engagement referred to it as "the most notorious and controversial play of the decade".

I think explaining that McCain was involved in that scandal, used his office in that scandal again to press regulators to get out of that scandal, to not essentially regulate the financial industry.

I thought it would be some sort of blackmail, an invented scandal using the media or the Internet.

At its height he appeared to make light of the scandal using florid rhetoric, as he described the emerging revelations about sexual abuse as a "tsunami of filth".

Like much genre fiction, "Scandal" uses its freedom to indulge in crazy what-ifs: What if everyone but the President knew that the election was fixed?

Also on Friday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo threatened to impanel a special commission to investigate the scandal, using powers conferred on governors by the state's century-old Moreland Act.

Mr Sarkozy complained that the affair had been used to discredit him and a judicial inquiry is now trying to establish who wrote the poison-pen letter and whether senior members of the government prolonged the bogus corruption scandal, using intelligence officials in a deliberate plot to smear Mr Sarkozy's name.

"Scandals used to lend charm, or at least interest, to a man — now they crush him," she says, back perfectly erect.

And Republicans, largely looking for something to discuss instead of Comey or Trump or any number of the other associated scandals, used the legislation as their preferred talking point of the week.