Sentences with phrase «about corrupt government»

Basically, the founders were extremely paranoid about corrupt government officials and didn't believe it was enough to just separate the powers and checks and balances in the senate are the reason they're able to do things like impeaching the president for acting illegally.

Not exact matches

DVD of the week: McMafia Crime drama McMafia is a rollicing adventure that makes some good points about the extent to which dirty money has corrupted governments around the world.
It is a dangerous fallacy to establish the assumption that many churches don't care about others while implying that the disfunctional and corrupt government does.
When asked his broader view of Trump's first ten days in office Massey demurred, saying only that «I disagree with him on a bunch of policies» before pivoting to talk about the importance of a mayor «getting along with the federal government» as well as the governor of New York, and attacking Mayor de Blasio as «corrupt... divisive... incompetent.»
It is about corrupt campaign financing and the bona fides of the current Nigerian government in that respect and it is something the incumbent President should begin to worry about.
His position, is seen as a sharp departure from his usual ways of blaming governments, including the Kufuor administration, the John Mills administration and the John Mahama administration, for doing nothing about corruption, because they were also corrupt.
«I think what's happened in the last couple of years in exposing the underbelly of this corrupt government that we have has led people to suddenly think that it's about time we get some different blood in our government.
Avoiding legitimate taxation is what I'm talking about - NOT a corrupt Labour Governments use of revenue as a cash cow for ludicrious pro Labour projects like ID Cards etc..
It's very aggravating, just one more story that we hear about how our government has made the wrong choices for us, probably based on some corrupt information to promote other businesses that aren't as good for our health and for our planet — like you were mentioning, petrochemical and others.
Depicting the government as corrupt and nefarious is no longer a compelling enough provocation, and Ramsay has nothing particularly challenging to say about violence, its causes or consequences.
But this weekend, as it finally rolls out wide, Steven Spielberg's grownup history about a watershed moment in the press's holding a corrupt government accountable is opening at a healthy $ 21 million.
There's enough creepiness involved to call this a horror film, but truth be told, by about the midway point it turns to corrupt government action flick, with slightly lesser results.
In a not so festive season when we've all been thinking hard about a lot of terrible thinkings like corrupt governments and oligarchies, sexual misconduct and systemic isms that make life such an oppressive mess for so many people (and damage everyone — even the opporessors — since we all are truly in this life together) as well as the terror of both climate change and this particular cold snap (I'm super sick right now, yay!)
It's about time the rest of us recognized that the real «scourge» in education is not privatization, but rather the corrupting influence of Big Government and its international partner in crime, the teachers unions.
The truth is, the Brazilians who complain the most are all middle - to - upper - class, exactly the ones who aren't above making a quick buck and / or getting ahead in life, even if it means cheating or treading on others, disregarding everything from ethics to social responsibility to environmental issues, and when they complain about the corrupt and expensive government, it's mainly out of jealousy.
I don't know if y ’ all are keeping up with the economic news, but folks aren't real excited about having to pay more for things or have the government just hand over huge amounts of cash to some of the most corrupt nations on the planet under the guise of «saving the planet.»
Something about the government officials having been corrupted.
Hi Dan — Although this is in the Telegraph and the Daily Mail it is getting very little coverage here in the UK â $ «shows how far censorship goes here and how that we do not have a «free press» and how much the media, the BBC especially is a slave of the UK state â $ «if the Americans are truly shocked at the way Obama is about to sign away their sovereignty to the â $ œClimate Talibanâ $ in Copenhagen they should try living in the disgusting United States of Europe, our corrupt government led by an unelected prime minister has consigned Great Britain to the dustbin of history
«If the Liberian government is serious about turning the page on the past and using natural resources to improve the lives of its citizens rather than enrich the corrupt, enforcing laws and prosecuting government officials and companies who violate them should be its number one priority; this could make or break the country's future.»
Reports suggest this is about going to courts of law when administrations are so spineless, corrupt and ineffectual it takes the action of citizens to demand the government obeys the law.
So a reading of Bill C - 13 has brought this peculiar provision into view, as it would have done for those planning and drafting the proposed amendments; and it might sensibly be asked why the government didn't take the opportunity while it was mucking about in the «corrupting morals» area of the Code to get rid of this archaism.
Washington, DC, Government Investigations & White Collar Defense associate Emily Harlan and Boston partner and deputy leader of the Government Investigations & White Collar Defense practice Danielle Pelot coauthored this article focusing on what companies doing business in foreign countries need to know about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's facilitating payments exception.
The federal Liberal government's stated intention to bring about electoral «reform» without a referendum brings to mind Lord Acton's famous dictum: «Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
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