Sentence examples for scandalous statements from inspiring English sources

The documents suggest that archdiocesan officials saw the assignment as a way to keep Father Shanley out of the limelight and discourage him from making such scandalous statements.

Or consider a deeply revealing remark by Trump that went virtually unnoticed, thanks to the frequency with which the New York billionaire has made scandalous statements.

Sergei M. Mironov, the party's leader, said political opponents distributed newspapers attributing scandalous statements to A Just Russia's candidates, like one that claimed "the residents of Kursk region greeted the Nazis with bread and salt," a traditional Russian welcome.

In his chronicle of the city that only occasionally sleeps (usually after a heavy brunch), Quinn speckles his show with scandalous statements that many in the audience will find themselves agreeing with, proudly or shamefully.

This was a scandalous statement more fitting for The National Enquirer, and it was spotted as such by the readers.

As a columnist or editor in the young American republic 200 years ago, I would have been facing jail and a fine of up to $2,000 (equal to $20,000 today) for spreading "false, scandalous and malicious" statements against our government.

They "defy political gravity" by brushing off scandalous actions or statements that would have destroyed any career politician (Ronald Reagan was called the "Teflon President," for those who don't remember the 1980s, because "nothing stuck to him").. Celebriticians usually arrive with their own built-in audience -- supporters for whom normal political considerations don't even apply.

What makes a scandal scandalous?

Unless they are scandalously scandalous.

TALKING TV: Oh, that scandalous, Scandal .

Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, swiftly denounced the announcement as "scandalous" in a statement that described the move as an effort to "try and harm Israel's right to defend itself against terrorism".