Sentences with phrase «as corrupt used»

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As vice president and comptroller, Fisk used corporate funds to corrupt public officials, produce Broadway shows, and support Broadway beauties, especially the well - known Josie Mansfield, to such an extent that he was also called «The Prince of the Erie.»

The keys are smuggled into Mexico and then on to the United States — by land, air, or sea — using methods as varied as they are ingenious: stashed under fresh produce, in cans of jalapeños, in the bellies of frozen shark carcasses, in trap compartments of cars, trucks, motor homes, container ships, small aircraft, even submarines; taped to the bodies of backpackers traveling by bus; catapulted over border fences; concealed in the trunks of corrupt local sheriffs; or trundled through underground tunnels (some so well constructed that they have air conditioning), a tactic purportedly devised by El Chapo himself.

Shi described to me how personal banking and credit information «is being used as part of the anti-corruption campaign to identify the networks of corrupt officials», who in China often hide their graft — whether it's property or cash — by putting it in the names of friends or family.

«The marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons,» the story's authors wrote, noting that last year, for the first time, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and intellectual property than on research and development, a striking fact that sharply illustrates how incentives have become skewed in the tech industry.

Meaning, if you're going to use Julie's divorce stories to accuse EV leaders as being corrupt abusers, then wouldn't you want to get to the hard, naked truth of it?

The corrupt use that word as a disparaging term.

If you go to the book of revelations, read a couple documents and study a little in some documentary's you will find out that the translation is corrupt, infact they destroyed for other reasons, BUT in Tobias you will still learn that the old testomant does not approve of homosexuality, also in Leviticus, as well as Romans, and 2nd Corinthians, and a bit more passages, use google, it might help.

Jesus» teaching reprimand the corrupt uses of falsely justifying violence / killing and the evil in our nature that seeks violence for it's own sake, but He does not remove sound established theological truths and teach that God as we understand Him in the Old Testament (the one He calls Father) is false.

«MHA knows that they can use the inefficiency and massive delays of the Indian bureaucracy as a weapon — forcing charities like Compassion to either accept their determinations, or spend years seeking redress in a painfully slow and often corrupt legal system,» he said.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

The Bush / Cheney administration was virulently anti-Christian as they used the «faith - based» initiative among other maneuvers to corrupt religion in America.

But corrupt, worldly, or weak Popes used their power to appoint as abbots men who had the emoluments of the office but seldom if ever were in residence.

The use of the word Jesus is not wrong, but the context of the word Jesus is corrupted by the error of the context and meaning that defines the Person and work of Jesus as revealed in the Bible.»

We have no sin God created Adam & Eve to rule Earth... Jesus was Assassinated by conspiracy among those from the Children of Israel who took him for a Corrupter corrupting their beliefs... and since Judaism did not invite converts they had to officially establish a new religion to convert non Jews to it and then use them as a sword in their hands to fulfill their prophecies of ruling the world...!

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Just last week, he warned the president to be careful because most of those he has surrounded himself with describing them as sycophants whose sole interest is to use his name to further their corrupt agenda.

They're corrupt, but I don't mind using them as a vehicle to further my own ambitions.

Mr Asenso - Boakye had accused musician A Plus of «sheepishly» using social media to attack him and Samuel Abu Jinapor by tagging them as «thieves and corrupt arrogant fools.»

``... As I said time without number during the 2016 elections, she was appointed by a corrupt Government precisely because of her incompetence that made her susceptible for use for an election rigging agenda.

«Perini will simply continue the office's corrupt practices,» said Myers, referring to criticism that Perini used improper wire taps as a former Suffolk prosecutor and as a defense attorney rented a partyboat from a DA bureau chief.

I don't want to mention names but I know that in the coming days if this issue of trying to make sure that governance is a continuum at the request of an incoming government is used to try and tag our government as corrupt, we will have no choice but to provide documentary proof to confirm the fact that this request was made during the transition process by the current government.

Flanagan is not as blatant as Skelos — and only wanted to use state funds to take care of certain Senators for clearly political reasons — but he is only slightly less corrupt than his mentor Dirty Deano.

But it's all corrupt: Just as the speaker uses the cash to buy members» votes, so do they, in turn, toss it around their districts to buy political support.

«In truth and in fact, Silver has obtained millions of dollars in outside income as a direct result of his corrupt use of his official position to obtain attorney referral fees for himself, including from clients with substantial business before the State, and not as a result of legitimate outside income Silver earned as a private lawyer,» the complaint reads.

Zhou also tried to turn Howe's bad behavior back on the defendants, arguing that Howe was inserted into the case by their decision to use him as a middleman for corrupt deals.

The criminal complaint says there is probable cause to believe that Silver obtained about $ 4 million in payments characterized as attorney referral fees through the corrupt use of his official position.

«The legislators will be used as examples of a corrupt culture that has consumed Albany, where money talks and the people's voice is squelched.»

Does anyone else see a corrupt element to the fact that he is using the Attorney Generals office as his political election tool?

Trump sparked a social media explosion Saturday when he tweeted an anti-Clinton graphic that used a red six - pointed star to tag his likely Democratic opponent as the «Most Corrupt Candidate Ever.»

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders» money for such purposes; and, moreover, a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it went, an effective method of stopping the evils aimed at in corrupt practices acts.

«In truth and fact, Silver has obtained millions of dollars in outside income as a direct result of his corrupt use of his official position to obtain attorney referral fees for himself, including from clients with substantial business before the state,» not the result of legitimate outside income, it is charged.

Mumuni urged the Attorney General of the Federation and those of the states to seek stiffer penalties for convicted corrupt officials and to minimise the use of plea bargaining to serve as deterrent.

With the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the use of «Albany» as shorthand for «dysfunctional and corrupt state government» has exploded.

SILVER also entered into a corrupt arrangement with Dr. Robert Taub, who was a leading physician specializing in the treatment of asbestos - related diseases, through which SILVER issued state grants and otherwise used his official position to provide favors to Dr. Taub so that Dr. Taub would refer and continue to refer his patients to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg, a firm with which SILVER was affiliated as counsel.

Although the NDC was defeated by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the last election, Mr. Amidu in his latest article insisted that ``... as I said time without number during the 2016 elections, she was appointed by a corrupt Government precisely because of her incompetence that made her susceptible for use for an election rigging agenda.»

But as I said time without number during the 2016 elections, she was appointed by a corrupt Government precisely because of her incompetence that made her susceptible for use for an election rigging agenda.

asked Baruch College Professor Doug Muzzio, pointing to similarities with the former mayor, who held the same post in the 1980s and used it to hunt down corrupt politicians and as a springboard to public office.

As a federal prosecutor representing Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens, and as Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felonAs a federal prosecutor representing Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens, and as Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felonas Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felonas well as drug kingpins and other major felonas drug kingpins and other major felons.

«It is always a dangerous cocktail when some corrupt elements in power decide to side with private interests outside government, using the rule of law as a ruse, to muscle sincere efforts to tackle corruption,» Ribadu said.

«That you, Yusuf Gyang Pam, whilst being a cashier at the Office of the Secretary to the Plateau State Government on 11th July, 2014 in Jos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, used your office as cashier at the Office of Secretary to the Plateau State Government to confer corrupt advantage upon yourself by making a cash lodgment of the sum of N10, 000,000 (Ten Million Naira) into your personal account with Zenith Bank and which sum was derived from the account of Plateau State Government, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000&corrupt advantage upon yourself by making a cash lodgment of the sum of N10, 000,000 (Ten Million Naira) into your personal account with Zenith Bank and which sum was derived from the account of Plateau State Government, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000&Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000».

Perhaps, more than in the aforementioned eras, the outright use of money to corrupt the electoral process has never been as profound as it was in the re-election bid of Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

«That you, Senator Jonah David Jang, whilst being the Governor of Plateau State between January and May, 2015 in Jos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, used your office as Executive Governor of Plateau State to confer unfair advantage upon yourself by collecting the sum of N4, 357,195,000 (Four billion, Three Hundred and Fifty - Seven Million, One Hundred and Ninety - Five Thousand Naira) from the cashier of the Office of the Secretary to the Plateau State Government, and which sum was derived from the account of Plateau State Government, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000»..

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..

As AI matures it is not a stretch to suppose it will be used to corrupt online review systems that so many people turn to before opening their wallets.

It's a revolutionary mass gainer supplement which allows you to use dedicated calories as fuel and nutrients to build tons of muscle without corrupting each other.

I used to be a Wiccan, but found that religion to be as corrupt as the rest.

Nor was Lincoln so idealistic that he'd be opposed to using corrupt means to buy the votes, such as by promising outgoing, «lame duck» members in House of patronage jobs as soon as their terms would expire.

His usual pessimism oozes throughout this Faustian tale, especially in the corrupting power of a society where evil is everywhere, and yet, its bleakness isn't just used as a device, it becomes the main thrust.

Using a Saville Road tailor shop as a front, these Kingsmen are emancipated from government bureaucracy, its putative corrupting influences and inefficiencies.