Sentences with phrase «as widespread corruption»

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

According to them, the economic breakdown caused by misuse of state funds and introduction of unscientific policies by the current administration as well as widespread corruption has left the region clamouring for the NDC and the former President.

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Though 76 percent of millennials emphasized that business was a positive force in the world, the majority believe that large corporations can — and should — do more to alleviate widespread concerns such as conflict, inequality and corruption.

Widespread support on the part of Americans must be based on morally sound as well as politically realistic principles, freed from the myths and corruption of the past.

Kane acted after Superior Court Judge Eugene Kelly, who has been sitting and will continue to sit in Hartford as a special one - man grand jury, heard testimony on widespread corruption in the sport.

It is fuelled by a great many legitimate grievances such as poor administration and the evidence of corruption made public by the Car Wash Operation, but it is also led by the prejudices of a privileged social class which discourages more widespread support for the movement.

Skelos becomes the second of New York's most powerful political leaders in nine days to be sentenced to prison for public corruption crimes, a double - whammy that has cemented the state government's reputation as an organization plagued by corruption and prompted widespread calls for ethics reforms in Albany.

He says the president's leadership style has been characterized by widespread corruption; inefficiency and mismanagement which is why many are not keen on seeing him as the torch bearer of the party in 2016.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, says considering the economic hardships, widespread corruption, rising cost of living, and the high levels of unemployment, it comes as no surprise to him that Ghanaian youth are angry, hungry and have given up any hope of the country offering them a bright future.

Widespread corruption and misaligned incentives are widely seen as sapping the vitality from China's R&D enterprise.

Ovidiu Andronesi, an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says he and many other members of one body, the National Research Council (NRC), learned they had been dismissed in an email received just before midnight on 31 January — almost at the same time as the government passed an emergency decree that decriminalized some corruption offences, sparking the widespread protests.

Three years ago, the last time the Russian filmmaker was here, he garnered widespread attention for Leviathan, his acclaimed, partially state - funded tale of corruption that was seen as challenging Vladimir Putin's government and which won the best screenplay award.

In what has been described as the greatest challenge to the communist state in China since its inception in 1949, tens of thousands soon joined in the peaceful protest, angered by widespread governmental corruption and calling for democratic reform.

Kajir found evidence of widespread government corruption that allowed logging companies to act as a law unto themselves, ignoring the terms of the government - issued timber permits, and terrorizing the local communities — at gunpoint in some cases — into signing over their land rights.

«Review of the «Assurance of Discontinuance» provides rich, indeed stunning, detail into how business was done at the expense of corporate policyholders in particular whose premiums were sufficiently large as to make bid - rigging, kickbacks, lying, and cheating lucrative for the participants — both the individuals whose bonuses and power reflected their success in business and the companies that employed them that generated large premiums from the widespread conspiracy and corruption endemic to the top - tier of the insurance brokerage industry and the insurers that paid them.»