The FBI relies on sources with axes to grind all the time.
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And Hughes doesn't even appear to have any particularly interesting axes to grind.
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These numbers are not just cherry-picked factoids by pundits with axes to grind.
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It's not a subject anyone wants to write about unless they personally have some axes to grind.
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Nor do they carry broad social vistas or axes to grind or hidden symbols: no Golden Bowls or Hawthornean birthmarks.
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As freshman members of Congress, we have no axes to grind – there is work to be done and commitments to keep.
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Too often in America, mainstream ideas are sidelined by those on the far left and far right who have their own axes to grind.
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There are big-name pop stars with axes to grind and a rock star who flirted with running for the Senate to promote his music.
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Be they opposition dumps from rival campaigns, axes to grind from former friends or foolish missteps, below are some of the October surprises of 2018.
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The FBI relies on sources with axes to grind all the time; people typically don't go to the authorities with damaging information about people they like.
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But Koskinen said there's been no indication that transition officials have "any axes to grind" or any focus other than learning about how the IRS operates.
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Moreover, the FBI relies on sources with axes to grind all the time — people typically don't go to the authorities with damaging information about people they like.
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That leaves him open to criticism from other Trump insiders — some of whom also have axes to grind with Kushner — that his inexperience is a serious flaw.
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But the main protagonists in the trade wars – the United States and China - have their own axes to grind, and Berlin is reluctant to ditch its cherished balanced budget goal.
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Labour's press office said the party was "implacably opposed to anti-Semitism," and that some of the former officials quoted by the BBC had "personal and political axes to grind" against Corbyn.
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Here's how Blum described his work to Mother Jones in 22019: Blum insists he is fighting for civil rights, and he is adamant that he's not just seeking white plaintiffs with racial axes to grind.
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Here's how Blum described his work to Mother Jones in 2016: Blum insists he is fighting for civil rights, and he is adamant that he's not just seeking white plaintiffs with racial axes to grind.
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The Sopranos and the shows it inspired pushed away from the ensemble toward the individual — often a white male with axes to grind and the kind of job that let him indulge his darker appetites.
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At the same time, there is fake news, there is legit leaks, but there is fake news because you have these sources that are unnamed, unverified, unsubstantiated coming from third-rate players who have axes to grind.
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They note there are a number of people around Trump who have axes to grind with Kelly, in some instances because he fired them or their friends, and in other instances because he curtailed their access to Trump.
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There were the persisting questions about the Clinton Foundation, which has taken lots of money from people with axes to grind, spent it on a diffuse set of projects and paid hefty salaries and fees to Clinton associates.
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Now, congressional investigators have unearthed text messages and emails showing the FBI feared there were some in the intelligence community with "partisan axes to grind" and suggesting there could be no singular conclusion that Moscow wanted to help elect Donald Trump.
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And yet it's novels we turn to for a deeper understanding of life than we get from politicians and others with ideological axes to grind, which is why some other novelist (probably thinking, How can I not?) is no doubt at work on a book that centers on a school shooting.
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Over the last two weeks, in sworn testimony from experienced public servants with no political axes to grind, the American people have learned that President Trump orchestrated a scheme to extract what he called a "favor" from a foreign leader by withholding a White House meeting and hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid, against his own administration's policy and the bipartisan wishes of Congress.
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Mr. Baker wrote: "As they presumed their high stations to entitle them to accept gratuities or hospitalities from patrons who had special axes to grind, so did I. As they used their powerful positions to gain loans or credit that otherwise might not have been granted, so did I." He named names in the book, and he named more in his oral-history interviews with the Senate Historical Office.
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Leng, p. 174. The majority of critics – or those "without axes to grind", author Robert Rodriguez writesRodriguez, p. 59. – reviewed the concerts favourably.Leng, pp.
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We can't worry about Jim Carey and Reuther. They have their axes to grind."Quoted in Dolnick, Norman. "Packinghouse Workers Face the Cold War: A Memoir.
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Some informants have no direct knowledge of the events. Some > have their own axes to grind, or are being paid for their stories. # The > steps taken to verify the information. # The status of the information.
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It often presents itself in populist terms as a group of amateurs speaking for the plain people of Ireland as against academic historians, whom it presents as elitist snobs with sinister political agendas.Coolacrease Book has Numerous Axes to Grind , Sunday Business Post. Spring 2009. Dublin Review of Books published a response by two of the book's authors in Autumn 2009.
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The programme provoked much debate throughout its four-week run, drawing fire from many individuals, some with "already sharpened axes to grind anew". The series was accused of being "too soft" on its subject. Desmond O'Malley thought his screened interview unlike that which actually happened. Some of the interviewees were criticised as viewing their part "through the distorting mirror of bitterness or loyalty", whilst "others bore grudges, others were staking their positions for posterity".
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Labour denied that there was interference and said the former staff included those who had "personal and political axes to grind". The Party added "The Panorama programme was not a fair or balanced investigation. It was a seriously inaccurate, politically one-sided polemic, which breached basic journalistic standards, invented quotes and edited emails to change their meaning." The BBC responded that "the investigation was not pre-determined, it was driven by the evidence".
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Fonvizin's reputation rests almost entirely on his two comedies, which are beyond doubt the most popular Russian plays before Aleksander Griboyedov's Woe from Wit. They are both in prose and adhere to the canons of classical comedy. Fonvizin's principal model, however, was not Molière, but the great Dano-Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg, whom he read in German, and some of whose plays he had translated. Both comedies are plays of social satire with definite axes to grind.
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Leng contends that "the 'given' view of the tour" – namely, that it was "the most calamitous road show in the history of the genre" – has come from a series of unfavourable articles in Rolling Stone, culminating in the magazine's review of Dark Horse.Leng, p. 174. Author Robert Rodriguez summarises the critical reception as follows: "Smaller press outlets without axes to grind tended to review the shows the best, whereas rock establishment coverage, such as Rolling Stones, tended to spin the tour as something close to an unmitigated disaster (something that George never forgave them for)."Rodriguez, p. 59.
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170, 174. author Robert Rodriguez describes the result as a musical form "[that] one day would be called 'world music'".Rodriguez, p. 60. Of the critical reception given to the Harrison–Shankar venture, tour-wide, Rodriguez writes of the "genuine highlights that went mostly unreported", since: "Smaller press outlets without axes to grind tended to review the shows the best, whereas rock establishment coverage, such as Rolling Stones, tended to spin the tour as something close to an unmitigated disaster ..."Rodriguez, p. 59. Along with Harrison and band leader Tom Scott, tour musicians Jim Horn, Jim Keltner and Andy Newmark have each challenged the reliability of these negative reports,Lavezzoli, p. 205.
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