Sentence examples for single scandal from inspiring English sources

The administration's refusal to comply with open-government laws is ultimately more important than any single scandal.

Until two months ago, this had been the image of America's mutual-fund industry, which had not been sullied by a single scandal for decades.

It's not so much a single scandal as a series of claims relating to the alleged activities of child abusers from the 1960s through to the 1980s.

Liao Ran, an Asia specialist at Transparency International, told the International Herald Tribune that China's high-speed railway was shaping up to be "the biggest single financial scandal not just in China, but perhaps in the world".

He bridged a gap between single splashy scandals and the perma-crises of today's celebrities, with the likes of Justin Bieber currently taking Jacko-style visibility to an alarmingly permanent level.

The authors examined what they call "a single cycle of scandal and reform," picking up in the wake of the Knapp Commission on police corruption and ending shortly after the Mollen Commission report.

Spitzer is relying on a strategy he has used so successfully in the recent past: Find a long-established but shady-sounding practice in an industry, expose it as a scandal, single out a villain and threaten criminal prosecution, flushing out the scapegoat and extracting a sizable settlement.

"This is arguably the single greatest medical-ethics scandal in American history.

"Since the scandal every single elected official has turned his back on Vito Lopez," he said.

Lloyds has incurred the largest single bill for the scandal as it also owns HBOS, which it took over during the 2008 banking crisis.

According to The New York Times, when "women were sexually abused and gang raped in a single public square," the scandal "had become too big to ignore".