(1) From the early pamphleteers – Tom Paine for one – to the muckrakers who fought injustice such as Nellie Bly; from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed ; from Mother Jones to the Pentagon papers, the words that shook America mostly came from passionate reporters with a cause to champion.
(2) A series of muckraking TV documentaries accused Luzhkov of fleeing Moscow during August's devastating forest fires and caring more about his bees than the city's smog-choked residents.
(3) It suggests a shoulder to lean on when the going got tough a few months back following the muckraking.
(4) If the prime minister was unaware of this muckraking, the Tories say, he should have known; and it reflects badly on the culture of his administration that his aides thought such practices acceptable - particularly as they involved MPs' families.
(5) And of those who have heard of him, more than half trust his muckraking exposés of the corruption endemic among Russia's elite.
(6) That's tough competition, but in hindsight, it is clear that "A Bunny's Tale" complements Friedan and Plath and deserves to be honored, rather than forgotten as it has been, for the serious muckraking journalism it is.
(7) Because of his role as a muckraking reporter, Brown has attracted defenders like Glenn Greenwald and Rolling Stones' Michael Hastings, who died last week in a car accident.
(8) It would be a worrying sign if the architect of our new system of press regulation were to dismiss evidence of a possible breach of professional standards in a public inquiry merely as muckraking by certain elements of the press and unworthy of proper consideration.
(9) Pravda.ru also sponsors politonline.ru , a website known for its muckraking smears against Russia's opposition.
(10) Long before the internet had been invented, the legendary muckraking reporter Claud Cockburn explained why.
(11) It does not even knock politely, but kicks it off its hinges, trampling taboos, totems, rules and privacy in its muckraking wake.
(12) In 1957 the well-known Washington journalist Drew Pearson, known as a muckraker, pronounced of Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, published the previous year: "Jack Kennedy is … the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer prize on a book which was ghostwritten for him."
(13) In 1951 when muckraking Liberian school-teacher and journalist Albert Porte wrote an open letter to the Liberian president questioning his purchase of a luxury yacht on the nation's dime, William Tubman wrote back, accusing Porte of having an anarchical spirit and inviting him for a cruise: Your spirit appears to me to be anarchical.
Value
Definition:
(n.) The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.
(n.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything.
(n.) Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
(n.) Esteem; regard.
(n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/].
(n.) In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained.
(n.) Valor.
(v. t.) To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc.
(v. t.) To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues.
(v. t.) To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value.
(v. t.) To be worth; to be equal to in value.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(5) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(6) Since MIRD Committee has not published "S" values for Tl-200 and Tl-202, these have been calculated by a computer code and are reported.
(7) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(8) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(9) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(10) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(11) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(12) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
(13) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
(14) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(15) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(16) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(17) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
(18) The norepinephrine values remained constant on the three days.
(19) The mean and median values in the nondiabetic group are higher than in previously published reports.
(20) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.