Scrutiny
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362 examples of Scrutiny in a sentence
Wooing China’s PrincelingsCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China’s “princelings” – the offspring of senior Chinese officials who benefit from lavish privileges in education, employment, and business – are coming under
scrutiny
as never before.
In the US, nepotism is difficult to hide, and public
scrutiny
helps to check its most blatant manifestations.
They are held accountable for their choices by voters, other elected officials (in the form of parliamentary scrutiny), and independent media.
Meanwhile, the fact that Russian athletes will “unfairly” face extra
scrutiny
at the Rio Games provides the perfect cover for a potentially poor showing.
But his spin on the extra
scrutiny
of Russia probably carries fewer risks than would his interpretation of an outright ban.
Yet, given their nature, these decisions deserve special
scrutiny.
If so, their barbarism demands
scrutiny
– in relation to both historical precedent and to our modernity – rather than merely being labeled “monstrous” (though it certainly is that).
But critics often fail to recognize that science involves more – and more stringent –
scrutiny
than, say, business or government.
With increased systemic importance often comes greater
scrutiny.
This shift has become increasingly apparent in recent years, as major tech firms have faced intensifying
scrutiny
of their competitive practices, tax behavior, data uses, and privacy policies.
For an EU country to be considered “normal,” it should be subject to the
scrutiny
facing countries that were never bailed out.
Like the $50 billion New Development Bank announced by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) last summer, the AIIB has faced considerable scrutiny, with some Western leaders questioning its governance, transparency, and motives.
The same is true for stadium construction, which has also been subject to intense public
scrutiny.
But, while such judicial
scrutiny
may be effective in eliminating some egregious cases, it cannot ensure that raters do the right thing when courts are not expected to be able to tell after the fact what the right thing was.
On closer scrutiny, such facile phrases are deeply disturbing.
Ideally – from their point of view – they will bulk up without attracting regulatory scrutiny, i.e., no ex ante limits on their risk-taking activities will be imposed.
Indeed, the US has acted as a buffer to insulate Israel—whose prime minister has boasted about its nuclear weapons—from any international scrutiny, while ignoring calls by Iran and other countries to create a Middle East nuclear-free zone.
The entire auto industry is now under scrutiny, as are regulators, whose testing procedures proved so easy to game and whose complex relationships with governments and auto manufacturers may not serve the public interest.
And by pre-selecting fixed categories of people for heightened scrutiny, the authorities overlook those who do not fit the profile.
Trump’s claim that the Paris climate agreement was unfair to the US does not withstand
scrutiny.
They also understand, in a more self-interested vein, that if foreign consumers believe that using American social media and search engines exposes them to the
scrutiny
of US intelligence agencies, those consumers will turn to other providers.
This assertion does not withstand
scrutiny.
Today's reformists are subjecting these traditional frameworks to
scrutiny
and attempting to separate the core ethical principles of Islam from the various historical adaptations that conservatives have enshrined as sacred.
Thanks largely to its early awareness of the need to address climate change, the insurance industry’s Faustian bargain has so far avoided
scrutiny
from pressure groups.
While Duterte’s campaign has drawn international condemnation, Hasina’s purge has been subject to less
scrutiny.
Current public spending is so skewed toward the ruling elites that the CCP would risk losing its legitimacy should the budget become subject to public
scrutiny.
Why expose something to public
scrutiny
and possible restraints when you can usher it in through the back door by pretending it will do some good?
In retrospect, the Committee probably should have refused the case, given that Lomborg’s book was subject to intense public scrutiny, often by experts writing (favorably) in The Economist and (unfavorably) in Scientific American.
I subscribe to a different view: wars should be a last resort and should be constrained by democratic
scrutiny.
These are issues that should be subject to legal
scrutiny
and democratic control.
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