Sentences with phrase «against corrupt»

It was built as a reaction against corrupt governments and financial institutions.

Registry Recycler is a free registry cleaner that scans the registry against corrupt, damaged, and invalid registry entries.

Where, then, does this leave the climate models which were developed and tested against this corrupt set of information?

As was eluded to earlier; it seems to me RICO can be more justifiably implemented against corrupt organizations attempting to obfuscate and do end arounds of U.S. law and other Sovereign nations.

From about 1520, as the Northern Renaissance felt the impact of Luther's revolt against the corrupt practices of the Roman Church, a new set of aesthetics took hold, in the form of Protestant Reformation Art, which reflected the Christian agenda of the Protestant movement, which rejected the humanist art and ideology of the High Renaissance, and celebrated a more austere religious experience, with minimal decoration.

Interweaving history, poetry and politics, the series is set against the backdrop of the recent Arab Spring, and the Iranian Green Movement, which brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets across Iran in June of 2009 in protest against corrupt power.

The protagonist is compelled to rail against a corrupt system with heavy weaponry while on a quest to rescue his brother.

Rebellion against a corrupt system that has put me (in my protagonist shoes) in an unfair position.

It is a remake of the 1997 PlayStation game Final Fantasy VII, retelling the original story following mercenary Cloud Strife as he and eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE battle against the corrupt Shinra megacorporation, and the rogue former Shinra soldier Sephiroth.

Which aspects of her character allow her to be so effective in fighting back against the corrupt government and encouraging others to insist upon their rights?

So whether it's a fight against a corrupt system, or a demon in a three - piece suit, she's someone who holds hope close and fights to improve life for everyone around her.

It's hard to know what image the title of June Kronholz's piece on Michelle Rhee — «D.C.'s Braveheart» (features, Winter 2010)-- is meant to conjure up: a hopelessly romantic quest, a quixotic uprising against corrupt power, Rhee's eventually being drawn and quartered.

His Jamal Walker is an unmotivated worker at a Southern California family fun center who one day is somehow transported back to 14th century England, where he gets caught up in a movement against a corrupt king.

Academy Award ® Nominee Clive Owen (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Closer, 2004) delivers an electrifying performance as a fallen warrior who rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master, Academy Award ® Winner Morgan Freeman (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Million Dollar Baby, 2004) in this epic, sword - clashing adventure of loyalty, honor, and vengeance.

finds heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) confined to the presumed destroyed District 13, where the revolution against the corrupt President Snow (Donald Sutherland) builds momentum, looking to Katniss to be their symbol and inspiration.

Picking up not long after the end of Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1 finds heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) confined to the presumed destroyed District 13, where the revolution against the corrupt President Snow (Donald Sutherland) builds momentum, looking to Katniss to be their symbol and inspiration.

He forms a band of outlaws, and they take matters into their own hands, leading a revolt against the corrupt English crown.

Set after the war, with Ip Man relocated to Hong Kong, it replaces the foreign devils that were the occupying Japanese Army with the colonial British foreign devils ruling Hong Kong in 1950 and sets the honorable sensei against a corrupt cabal of martial arts teachers lead by Sammo Hung (who is also the film's fight choreographer) and a champion boxer called The Twister (Darren Shahlavi), a British brute with a powerful punch and a killer instinct.

Glenn Ford is a cop working against his corrupt department, but the parts you'll remember from the film all belong to Gloria Grahame in a supporting role as a beaten - up gangster's moll.

In the final installment in The Hunger Games franchise, Katniss Everdeen leads a rebellion against the corrupt and tyrannical city, Capitol.

Glenn Ford is a cop working against his corrupt department, but the parts youíll remember from the film all belong to Gloria Grahame in a supporting role as a beaten - up gangsterís moll.

A war - hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown in a thrilling [Read More] action - adventure packed with gritty battlefield exploits, mind - blowing fight choreography, and a timeless romance.

, pitting journalists simply trying to uncover the truth against a corrupt government hellbent on shutting them down.

I support most of the reviews: a ripping tale of the good guys against the corrupt bad guys.

A trio of femme fatales, played by Jessica Alba, Eva Green and Rosario Dawson, each seek revenge against corrupt politicians (Powers Boothe) and killers, while the protagonists played by Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin and Joseph Gordon - Levitt, each also seek their pound of flesh.

In giving us a proto - feminist heroine in the form of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, striking a 1st Amendment blow against a corrupt presidential administration, «The Post» might have gambled a bit too boldly, reverse - engineering its own relevance rather than allowing it to arise organically from the material.

Mel plays a thirteen - century freedom fighting Scott who motivates his countrymen to fight against the corrupt government.

Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci - fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action - thriller scenario leading a rebellion against a corrupt and manipulative government force, while also engaging in a bit of romance on the side.

The idealistic and politically inexperienced pair set out against a corrupt government, civil unrest, and a fixed election system to change the course of Haitian history.

This Robin Hood stars Taron Egerton as Robin of Loxley, a «war - hardened Crusader» who fights against the corrupt English crown with his friend, Little John, played by Jamie Foxx.

Landesman, in what is only his second film after the milquetoast JFK assassination ensemble piece Parkland, has a journalistic approach to his writing that charges adrenaline into potent scenes of Omalu fighting against this corrupt system, but he lets his rightful anger get in the way of presenting the story in an objective fashion.

Sasha Stone (Awardsdaily): It's a film about oppression of voice, the eternal and ultimately futile quest to destroy the brave act of bearing witness against corrupt regimes.

A troubled clergyman takes on a dangerous mission against a corrupt group of big business interests.

A fallen warrior (Clive Owen) rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master (Morgan Freeman) in Last Knights, coming to theaters and VOD April 3rd.

A wired sociopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.

The majority of Les Miserables plays out against the June Revolution, as a group of university students try to lead a revolt against the corrupt government and the settings are both grand and depressing.

A flawed, if watchable drama concerning a former general (Robert Redford) who is sent to prison under the watch of a sadistic warden (James Gandolfini), and how he rouses the inmates to rise up against the corrupt warden.

But most of all, it is Rowling's cracking good story about idealistic youths up against corrupt elders.

Senator Daniel Squadron, who sponsors the Senate bill to close the LLC Loophole, criticized the Senate Majority's removal of a measure from the budget resolution in a statement referencing the recent firing of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who has famously crusaded against corrupt Albany lawmakers, including the former leaders of both legislative houses.

The group further argued that the Commission would also meet the longstanding and legitimate demands of the Nigerian people for vigorous and meaningful action against corrupt leaders, past or present.

Also, a civil society organisation, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, has said Patience must explain how she came about the funds with which she reportedly built a N10bn hotel in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

After subpoenaing records of the Moreland probe, Bharara used the information to help build cases against corrupt state pols, most notably ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A civil society group, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, has stated that it is hypocritical for former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to label any government, institutions, agencies, individuals as corrupt in view of the unresolved and lingering suspected acts of corruption perpetrated by the former leader.

In a similar vein, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders said the only legacy the PDP could talk about was the promotion of criminality and impunity.

«Mickey Mouse on the other hand is a universal 20th century icon representing the triumph of the little guy against the bully, the innocent against the corrupt, the weak against the strong.

It is a dirty business but when DeBlasio went to war with those corrupt (bribed) senators he was standing up for city residents against the corrupt buying of support by NYC real estate interests!

Executive Chairman, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo Adeniran, described the attack as a «direct reaction of Northern militants to the unthoughtful provocative, unstatemanly and insensitive action as well as the pronouncement of President Jonathan to the detriment of an average Northern youth».

«I endorse Streng for judge because his decision to run against the Corrupt Democrat regime is an indication to me that he will be fair and wouldn't be a proxy to corruption in the judiciary,» Mrs Edwards tells Black Westchester exclusively Monday morning.

Persons who stand up against the corrupt and corrupt practices in society are very often either bought off, blackmailed into silence through death threats or forced to face financial ruin and at worst physically eliminated.

«Okonjo - Iweala, therefore, puts Oshiomhole and his ilk on notice that she has briefed her lawyers and that she is ready to explore all legal means, local and international, to defend her name against corrupt and compromised persons.