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an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it
the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on
the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals
How To Use whistle-blower In A Sentence
- Tayside Police admit the whistle-blower's inside knowledge shows he has to be a high-ranking officer - at least an inspector and probably a superintendent.
- A whistle-blower's e-mail from someone at the authors' institution indicated that data in the study were fabricated.
- The Government Accountability Project, a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to whistle-blower protection, had filed complaints of retaliation on behalf of the two staff members with the Ethics Office. U.N. investigations chief under investigation
- The tendency of bureaucrats to take a dim view of whistle-blowers is particularly marked in the military.
- Concern that doctors and other health workers were too afraid to blow the whistle on colleagues led to the setting-up of a new early warning system designed to enshrine the rights of whistle-blowers.
- Nurses also may not report other nurses for fear of being perceived as snitches or labeled as whistle-blowers.
- At least 18 people were wrongly committed by Highland doctors, according to a whistle-blower who claims she has since been forced out of her job as a medical records officer.
- Koch spokeswoman Cohlmia says the company reported its compliance issues to the state before a whistle-blower did so.
- He indicated his information came from FDA whistle-blowers.
- The one wild card for this is federal protections for whistle-blowers. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » And People Trust Government?
