(1) The four panel members selected by the chair of the independent inquiry, Justice Lowell Goddard, are Drusila Sharpling, an inspector with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary; Prof Alexis Jay, author of the report into the Rotherham child sex scandal; Ivor Frank, an expert in family and human rights law; and Malcolm Evans, chair of the United Nations subcommittee for the prevention of torture.
(2) In a series of television interviews, senior panel member Dru Sharpling said the inquiry would continue.
(3) Neither he nor the then home secretary May had been made aware of Sharpling’s meeting with the director general, he said.
(4) It was even more confusing that a member of the panel with which Dame Lowell was supposed to be working, Drusilla Sharpling, had actually raised her concerns with the Home Office in April this year, several months before Dame Lowell’s abrupt resignation in August .
(5) We are going to be continuing with the inquiry,” said Sharpling.
(6) Dru Sharpling, a panel member, told the committee that she raised concerns about Goddard’s leadership with the director general of the Home Office in April this year – nine months after the panel began their work with Goddard.
(7) Sharpling, responding to questions about the departure of Goddard, revealed that she had informed Mary Calam, the Home Office director general for the crime and policing group, on 26 April about the concerns with Goddard’s leadership.
(8) But Sharpling insisted the investigations would go on without the group.
(9) But one of her officials – Mark Sedwill, permanent secretary to the Home Office – repeatedly denied that he or May were made aware of the Sharpling meeting with the Home Office official.
(10) Giving evidence alongside Sharpling and inquiry panel member Ivor Frank, the trio refused to comment on the departure of three senior lawyers since Jay took up her position.
(11) In Rotherham, no organ of government, no institution, had uncovered the scale and the depravity of child sexual abuse that had occurred over many years,” Sharpling said.
(12) Instead of Ena Sharples and Martha Longhurst eking out port and lemons in the Rover's snug, it had Sue Ellen knocking back whiskey in the face of her husband JR's endless evil.
(13) They jostled old Albert Tatlock, insulted Ena Sharples and jeered at Harry Hewitt.
(14) I think she is one of the few people who is ideally qualified for the job.” Sharpling’s public statements came after weeks in which the inquiry has been rocked by a series of departures of leading lawyers, allegations of bullying and racism by its former chair Lowell Goddard , the announcement that a public hearing into the late Greville Janner would be postponed and on Friday the departure of the Shirley Oaks survivors from the process.
(15) Last year the diary chronicled the machinations of the bishop of Shrewsbury , Mark Davis, in getting rid of the justice and peace worker Joan Sharples.
(16) Responding to allegations reported in the media that Goddard was racist and abusive to staff on the inquiry, Sharpling said: “I am not going to engage in the sort of character issues that have been published across the papers.
(17) Dru Sharpling, of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, said: "Whilst the service for victims is getting better, there is absolutely no room for complacency, and good intelligence, the right investigative approach and targeting resources effectively are key to preventing rape and catching perpetrators."
(18) Child abuse inquiry facing 'credibility crisis', Labour says Read more Sharpling suggested the inquiry maintained the confidence of other victims.
(19) He said: “For any inquiry to be truly independent and engender faith in its integrity, the Home Office either needs to come clean about its own role in covering up historical child abuse and staff the inquiry with independent employees instead of its secondees or hand over the task of overseeing the inquiry to a less tainted government department.” Despite Sharpling’s confidence that other victims supported the process, Phil Frampton, who is a core participant in the inquiry as part of the Whiteflowers group of victims, said the departure of Shirley Oaks came amid “seething discontent” among survivors over the lack of material support for them and the “contemptuous” way they were being dealt with.
(20) Alan Sharples Liverpool • It is specific issues that put political rhetoric to the test.
Stickleback
Definition:
(v. t.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.
Example Sentences:
(1) Territorial sticklebacks were habituated to a male conspecific confined to a clear glass tube in a two stage experiment.
(2) The activity of the three enzymes was determined in the liver of ten-spined stickleback, a host of S. pungitii plerocercoids.
(3) Blood cells from Baltic salmon, Salmo salar, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, eel pout, Zoarces viviparus, crucian carp, Carassius carassius, African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and reedfish, Calamoichthys calabaricus, were incubated with tritiated 11 beta-hydroxyandrostenedione (OHA) or 11-ketoandrostenedione (OA).
(4) The distribution of olfactory fibers in the brain of the three-spined stickleback was visualized by means of immunohistochemistry.
(5) At one extreme they are well developed (macrosmatic) such as in sharks and eels, and at the other they are poorly developed (microsmatic) such as in pike and stickleback.
(6) Stickleback Vg can be purified by con A-Sepharose chromatography.
(7) The costs of parental behaviour (fanning) were examined in male 1+ and 2+ three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) by comparing the loss of wet mass incurred by starved parental males during the egg care period to those incurred by starved non-parental males during this same period.
(8) Kidney cells of the marine stickleback Spinachia have been studied with histochemical methods for the demonstration of glycoconjugates.
(9) The effect of administration of homologous prolactin on fanning behavior, an important aspect of parental care in sticklebacks and many other teleost fish, was studied.
(10) In the corpuscles of Stannius of sticklebacks and eels two cell types are described of presumably endocrine nature.
(11) These branches are only occasionally observed in the sensory epithelium of the nine-spined stickleback.
(12) Tritiated androstenedione was in vitro aromatized to estrone and estradiol by the stickleback brain.
(13) These findings suggest the existence of a physiological positive feedback within the gonadal-pituitary axis of the male stickleback when stimulated into its breeding condition by long photoperiod.
(14) The findings strongly suggest that the male sex hormone may exert a double control on the renal cells in the stickleback, at both the cytoplasmic and nucleolar levels.
(15) The results obtained demonstrate that administration of cyproterone acetate to male sticklebacks has an inhibitory effect on renal target cells, apparently indistinguishable from the changes induced by lack of male sex hormone, and that this drug may be a valid substitute for castration in fish.
(16) Thus, the three-spined stickleback and the nine-spined stickleback show considerable differences in the organization of the sensory regions of the olfactory epithelium.
(17) Gasterosteus aculeatus was the most heavily infected fish with 4 larval cestode species; for two of them (D. ditremum and S. solidus) the three-spined stickleback was found to be the required fish intermediate host.
(18) Field observations at one site on brown trout (Salmo trutta) and three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) concurrently infected with mature Neoechinorhynchus rutili, together with the knowledge that large trout can be piscivorous in habit led to the proposition that the post-cyclic transmission of N. rutili may occur between these fish species.
(19) No significant mortality of caged stickleback fish occurred in these pools.
(20) The electrophoretic pattern of a sixth locus, mitochondrial NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH), was found to be sexually dimorphic but otherwise invariant in sticklebacks.