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 Translation for 'whistle-blower' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a whistle-blower | whistle-blowers
SYNO whistle-blower | whistle blower | whistleblower
uppljóstrari {k}whistle-blower
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Translation for 'whistle-blower' from English to Icelandic

whistle-blower
uppljóstrari {k}
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Usage Examples English
  • An anonymous whistle-blower claims, through a firm of attorneys, that SAP used Twenty Third Century Systems (TTCS) to bribe officials at the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) to win a US$6.6 million enterprise resource planning software tender that involved the provision of software licenses and services.
  • In May 2016, it emerged that a whistle blower on the airport project, who had alerted the public to major corruption within the project, had been poisoned with a "deadly substance" but survived after a three-month period of illness.
  • The SEC case was sparked in 2004 after David Bazzetta, a former auditor at then DaimlerChrysler Corp, filed a whistle-blower complaint after he was fired for raising questions about bank accounts controlled by Mercedes-Benz units in South America.
  • Ellison was critical of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, saying that "Snowden had yet to identify a single person who had been 'wrongly injured' by the NSA's data collection".
  • A Pakistani salesman named Syed Aamir Raza Hussain became a whistle-blower against his former employer Nestlé.

  • Specifically, the whistle-blower claims that FIFA executive committee members Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma were paid $1.5 million to vote for Qatar.
  • The Wentzville Serco facility attracted national attention in 2014 after whistle-blower allegations revealed that workers spent large amounts of time sleeping or playing games due to lack of work.
  • The Sheraton Hotel on Bath Road, Hayes features in four films: Otto Preminger's final film, "The Human Factor" (1979) starring Richard Attenborough, Michael Caine spy thriller "The Whistle Blower" (1986), director Ridley Scott's thriller "The Counsellor" (2013), and crime drama "The Infiltrator" (2016) starring Bryan Cranston.
  • Risking incarceration, nuclear veteran Avon Hudson became a whistle-blower and spoke out to the media in the 1970s.
  • In May 2020, in a House subcommittee meeting, whistle-blower Dr.

  • The phrase "whistle blower" attached itself to law enforcement officials in the 19th century because they used a whistle to alert the public or fellow police.
  • Some corporations have tried to burnish their ethical image by creating whistle-blower protections, such as anonymity.
  • They are opposed by an unstable partnership between a whistle-blower (Giuliano Gemma) and a political aide.
  • Later, she made use of parliamentary privilege to be a whistle-blower on the South African Arms Deal.
  • After a whistle-blower alleged that the MSDF's preference had been improperly changed an investigation was launched.

  • The Wayne County Election Committee approved a recall petition to remove Kilpatrick as mayor based on the multimillion-dollar settlement ($9,000,000+) in a whistle-blower lawsuit against the city, and the accusation that Kilpatrick misled the City Council into approving the settlement.
  • The screenplay was based on the "Vanity Fair" article "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by Marie Brenner, which was about Wallace caving in to corporate pressure to kill a story about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistle-blower trying to expose Brown & Williamson's dangerous business practices in the manufacture of cigarettes.
  • However, in mid-April Bush was named as a defendant in a whistle-blowing lawsuit in which he was accused of impeding an investigation of a company that had given him campaign contributions.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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