Sentences with phrase «abusing their power for»

«He abused his power for personal gain.»

The conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is the latest and largest verdict in a seemingly endless parade of New York public officials caught abusing power for personal gain.

Prosecutors allege Silver acted out of greed and abused his power for personal gain.

A Manhattan federal jury found Silver guilty in November of abusing his power for more than a decade in exchange for bribes and kickbacks.

Prosecutors said Silver abused his power for personal gain, while defense attorneys argued that Silver was acting within the law, even if people were uncomfortable with a system that allows for legislators to earn an outside salary.

The prosecution said, «He abused his power for personal gain» — and the facts absolutely bear that out.

Serious manipulation of people for personal gain or abusing power for personal benefit, if you are in a position to do so, can be common traits of those with blockages of this Chakra.

Not exact matches

SEOUL, South Korea (AP)-- A Korean Air heiress apologized Tuesday for causing trouble in her first public appearance as a suspect in an abuse of power case after she allegedly threw a drink at someone during a business meeting.

SEOUL, South Korea — A Korean Air heiress apologized for causing trouble in her first public appearance as a suspect in an abuse of power case Tuesday as public calls urging her family to resign grow.

Melinda Gates told The New Yorker men who «demean, degrade, or disrespect women» have been able to operate in industries like tech and venture capital, and that «the asymmetry of power is ripe for abuse.»

SEOUL, South Korea — A Korean Air heiress apologized Tuesday for causing trouble in her first public appearance as a suspect in an abuse of power case after she allegedly threw a drink at someone during a business meeting.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP)-- A Korean Air heiress apologized for causing trouble in her first public appearance as a suspect in an abuse of power case Tuesday as public calls urging her family to resign grow.

«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

In December, South Korean regulators fined Qualcomm a record $ 854 million for abusing its power in the smartphone chip market and overcharging device makers.

Time's Up is a brand new alliance of over 300 women who work in the entertainment industry, who have joined forces to address sexual abuse and correct the widespread imbalance of power for women in entertainment and beyond.

The topics were thrust onto the national stage in October when news broke that Hollywood boss Harvey Weinstein had allegedly sexually harassed and abused dozens of women for decades, using his power in the industry to threaten their careers...

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

It was conceived of by programmers advocating the use of a decentralized and distributed network as a tool for ensuring that no company or state organization could abuse its power over others.

For anyone trying to grapple with the complicated issue of sexual harassment and abuses of male power and privilege, the 44 - year - old Lewinsky's recent essay in Vanity Fair magazine comes at the perfect time...

It might help to consider whether you'd like a province to have these powers if they were abused rather than used for what you consider a noble cause.

Two young women are using the power of social media to warn teenagers about sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of a Montreal tattoo artist who used his boutique as a hangout for troubled girls when he sexually abused them.

So abuse of power in the committees, then, is just par for the course.

The clamor for Rosenstein's dismissal among Trump allies was all but expected with Friday's release of the Nunes memo, whose advocates say reveals anti-Trump bias and abuse of power at the highest levels of the FBI and the Justice Department.

Since Mr. Xi came to power, China's leadership has recentralized power to focus on anti-corruption and abuse of power by officials, as well as developing big plans for market reform and opening the country to foreign investment.

For centuries, he argues, courts in the United Kingdom, United States, and elsewhere recognized that wealthy people could use third - party lawsuits as a weapon against those they disliked — and had rules in place to prevent this power from being abused.

To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: KJV August 21, 2011 at 10:50 am Report abuse Reply

China's urban churches will be a major force in its democratization, for a free society requires a civil society capable of standing up to tyranny and the abuse of power.

For years and years the Church abused the power they had.They screwed over my Ancestors who were not Christians, forced people to convert, burned people at the stake, tortured people, stole lands, and who knows what else.

Yes I hear that TGM — however I'm not sure if the age of enlightenment changed the agenda for the abuse of power within so called christian societes — some of the issues I raised occured after that time and are still happening..

Perhaps it is hard to feel some personal animus toward typical bureau mumblings that defend the indefensible, like Clarence Kelley's apology for the FBI («Power abused perhaps can be explained and possibly even be excused, but only when the explanation is truthful, contrite, and is accompanied by a well - defined plan to prevent a recurrence»).

Where there is a position of power, there seems to be potential for abuse... Is it possible to put an end to this type of abuse?

So this is really promotional material for President Carter's new book: «A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power» and the letter he sent seeking Papal «blessing» or endorsement for his campaign on human rights abuses against women.

It is just so wrong for those who hold the power and the ear of the audience to abuse it.

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

Since January of 2009, I have been writing a book for non-profits about dealing with leadership and organizational systems where abuse of power is involved.

It may not be so much the form of socio - political structure that is of concern but whether that structure has matured into a form that balances its potential for abuse of power at both the top and the bottom.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Islam holds that if a man trespasses on a woman's rights by divorcing her without cause he is abusing his power and is therefore liable to be held responsible for committing a breach of duty.

They lead to the abuse of power which is clearly seen, for example, in the abuse of the free market principle as discussed in Chapter 4.

While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

Here the pastoral care of the black pastor (or the pastor of black persons) becomes the instrument for releasing the power to endure suffering, alienation, rejection and abuse within a context of understanding that goes beyond resignation but stops short of irrational rage.

Why, then, do voters consistently vote for scoundrels who misuse their power to abuse the voter?

While helping to establish a moral foundation for society, it was just as often abused by the powers that be to keep the populace under control.

Any given political or economic system that goes unregulated is ripe for abuses of power.

It leaves open for endless consideration and reconsideration the question of how much abuse of power or mutual destruction can be tolerated in one area before a wider community intervenes.

People involved in this destructive activity are dominated and abused by teachers and preachers who care only for money and personal power.

«The drastic shift of power from the citizen to the government,» he observes, «has rendered obsolete the ultimate remedy for the government's abuses — popular revolution.»

I watched a doc on Enron and how everyone ducked and dodged taking fault for the mass abuses of the company — which occured mainly due to greed and power.

Anything with any essence of power also has at it's core the problem with abusing it for gain... we are humans that's for sure.