Sentences with phrase «at corruption from»

«We look at corruption from all possible facets.

Not exact matches

By parallel, if you forbid a company from competing for government contracts for 10 years, those are 10 years during which they will engage in precisely zero instances of attempted bribery or other acts of corruption, at least with regard to bribery or corruption of Canadian officials.

In Spain, crushing austerity measures, a 22 percent unemployment rate and prominent corruption cases involving politicians from Catalonia and across Spain «has been the perfect storm, and the crisis has really helped» CUP, said Antonio Barroso, a London - based analyst at the Teneo Intelligence political risk consultancy.

Looking at data from the World Justice Project, Transparency said it found that most countries that score low for civil liberties also tend to score high for corruption.

«Freight is the largest variable cost for many shippers, and technology has the power to smooth that volatility,» says Tillman, who wants to ensure that products can be delivered faster, cheaper and free from corruption leading to his long - term goal: «One - click technology to do an honest trade anywhere in the world, so you can open up new markets at moment's notice.»

The question now, according to Wolfango Piccoli, an analyst at Teneo Intelligence who follows Italian politics, is whether Salvini will emerge as the new leader of Italy's centre - right bloc, therefore replacing Berlusconi, the former premier who was forced to step down from high office following a slew of sex and corruption scandals.

Like stage magicians, such economists distract their audience's attention from the topic at hand in this case, the tendency for privatizations to turn control over to financial managers and foreign owners to somewhere that they can distract the audience's attention from the «invisible hand» of corruption and political manipulation.

Just last week, a court found that the allegations were a conspiracy plot from some of his fellow students and university faculty who were angered by how Khan outspoken had become over corruption at the university he attended.

For the 85 - year - old pontiff, the three - day trip outside the Vatican walls was a break from the Vatileaks scandal, which has seen his butler, Paolo Gabriele, arrested on suspicion of disclosing dozens of embarrassing letters alleging corruption and nepotism at the Holy See.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

I will have to go with what flashed in my mind from the first thoughts: Bitterness / * anger * (at God too), danger, «loneliness,» gained social anxieties, unwarranted guilt, and deep self examination / awareness minus the worlds, and others, demands, doctrines, political correctness, corruption, social engineering, and expectations.

I have met a few exinmates back in hospitals because they have heard such wonderful potions derided at church or from the pulpit as evidence of modern corruption, comparable to subway rapes or God - is - dead theology.

He is speaking primarily not of an attitude at all, but of an event — the corruption and death whose working he feels within his own body -LRB-» Who will deliver me from this body of death?»)

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

By coming at once to the primitive model and rejecting all human inventions, the Church was to be at once released from the controversies of eighteen centuries, and the primitive gospel of salvation was to be disentangled and disembarrassed from all those corruptions and perversions which had heretofore delayed or arrested its progress [Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, by Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), Vol.

The despised any influence from any religion, and at that time, the clergy was thinking the same — stay out of govt to prevent corruption of the church.

Such corruption at the administrative center could not but prove contagious in the structure which radiated from it.

There is now at the traditional site of Bethany a little village called El - Azzariyah, the name being derived by a curious corruption from the name Lazarus.

America had come to the merciful end of an off - season filled with grim headlines: from the epic corruption of ex — Fiesta Bowl chairman John Junker to the serial lies of ex — Ohio State coach Jim Tressel to the firing of coach Butch Davis at North Carolina (for presiding, albeit unknowingly, over academic fraud, among other sins) to Oregon's $ 25,000 payment to an alleged «street agent.»

Deliberate inaction is, AT LEAST MORALLY, CORRUPTION in my book, as Walcotts 12 year charade was too, for the same reason They are complicit in letting our club slide year after year, from the top strata.

«Also obvious to Nigerians now is the use of the fight against corruption as means of settling scores with perceived enemies as is the case with key PDP leaders including its Spokesman, an action that is ostensibly aimed at silencing the opposition from looking in and exposing the incompetence, and the double standard of the administration.

I do not think that some eggheads from Number 10 Downing Street simply went to sleep and didn't prepare their boss think - tanking for his outburst at the Buckingham Palace on Tuesdayas the world awaited the commencement of the global summit on corruption holding in London.

A political operative who wore a wire to help the feds bust Assemblyman Eric Stevenson on public corruption charges admitted he turned off the device at least once to receive oral sex from a prostitute.

«We have seen far too much greedy, wanton corruption in too many spheres in government, in politics, public administration, in business, in traditional leadership, in football and in the media and there are too many levels from top to bottom,» the outspoken emissary said at a public event Saturday.

The issue first came to light in a leaked memorandum from the independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, Risa Sugarman, a position formed in 2014 following an ethics agreement in the budget and the shuttering of the Moreland Commission, a panel formed to investigate corruption in the Legislature.

Earlier this year shocking revelations from the Hillsborough independent panel confirmed supporters» suspicions that incompetence, corruption and evasiveness on the part of police officers and safety arrangements at the ground were actually responsible.

«From the allegations against the Minister for Energy - designate at his parliamentary confirmation hearings to that against the CEO of BOST, to those against the two deputy Chiefs of Staff; to the claims of extortion against the Trade Minister and to those against the Minister for Special Development Initiatives, they have all been investigated and no evidence has been adduced to suggest mildly the perpetration of any act of corruption,» he noted with pride.

From the allegations against the Minister for Energy - designate at his parliamentary confirmation hearings; to that against the CEO of BOST; to those against the two deputy Chiefs of Staff; to the claims of extortion against the Trade Minister; and to those against the Minister for Special Development Initiatives; they have all been investigated and no evidence has been adduced to suggest mildly the perpetration of any act of corruption.

At least as of July, virtually all the money New Yorkers Against Corruption raised came from labor unions.

During remarks delivered at a forum hosted by the nonpartisan good government group Citizens Union, the Attorney General outlined what he believes is required to help «cure the disease» of public corruption, including a total ban on outside employment income for legislators, an end to per diems, rules reform to empower individual legislators, and a constitutional amendment to extend legislators» terms from two to four years.

De Blasio said Friday that he would return donations from one of the businessmen at the center of the FBI's widening investigation into NYPD corruption.

A top Atlantic Yards executive who requested state funds for Prospect Park's skating rink from embattled state Sen. Carl Kruger was never asked to do so by the park's fund - raising group — and now park advocates are furious at being linked to the corruption scandal, sources told The Post.

But if he can't, the governor didn't sound like he's in a forgiving mood, even if some of the legislative skepticism stems from the corruption charges that have been filed over an alleged pay - to - play scheme at key Buffalo Billion projects.

The ad splices footage from Cuomo's gubernatorial announcement speech during which he said things like «we're tired of seeing New Yorkers victimized by government corruption in Albany» with a clip of him leaning over to kiss Silver on the cheek at an undated state Democratic Party event.

«It therefore came as a shock to our teeming supporters, NEC and the National Council of Elders to read in the dailies... a statement from one Mr. Nana Yaw Osei who described himself as the spokesperson of the National Chairman of the NPP, Mr. Paul Afoko, about fighting corruption at all levels in the party.

Economic reform in China, in the form of competition and the rule of law, means attacking important vested interests: the state - owned enterprises responsible for about 40 per cent of output, 82 million Party members and an army of bureaucrats at every level, many of whom benefit from corruption.

Politicians on two New York state ethics committees raked in nearly a quarter of a million dollars from companies controlled by Glenwood Management — the developer at the center of corruption trials that ended in convictions for two of Albany's top power brokers.

The State Assembly has passed legislation that would strip taxpayer - funded pensions from public officers convicted of corruption, as well as a resolution aimed at preventing conflicts of interest with regard to legislators» outside income.

Zephyr Teachout, is Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University, a former NY gubernatorial candidate and is the author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United (Harvard University Press, September 2014).

Maybe New York can learn from the anti-poverty group One.org's new report «The One Trillion Dollar Scandal» which calculates the cost of corruption to the developing world at a trillion dollars a year, and 3.6 million deaths due to disease and poverty.

Gillibrand threw a dart at Cuomo, another possible 2020 contender, when she told reporters she found revelations emerging from the corruption trial of Cuomo confidante Joe Percoco to be «disturbing.»

At the very least, lawmakers and Cuomo seem to be taking their cues from voters on corruption concerns: A combined 90 percent of upstate voters believe corruption is either a «very serious» or «somewhat serious» problem.

«New Yorkers from all parts of our state are tired of the status quo in Albany; frustrated with the dysfunction; and angry at the waste and corruption that's become commonplace in our Capitol.

Dadey said, though, that today's announcement «should not distract from the more immediate task at hand of addressing the crime wave of corruption in Albany» and called for passage of previously proposed measures.

It had been reported that the charges stem from the aborted Moreland Commission, tasked with looking at public corruption in the state.

The investigations appear to stem from a 2014 FBI probe into alleged corruption at the NYPD.

Testifying at Silver's corruption trial Tuesday, Witkoff said he was kept in the dark about the fact that the politico was allegedly collecting a cut of legal fees from his development firm.

NEW YORK CITY — A luxury real estate firm that owns more than 25 rental buildings from TriBeCa to Riverdale valued at over $ 1 billion is the powerbroker developer listed in the federal corruption complaint against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, sources confirmed to DNAinfo New York.

Earnings at Manhattan - based Weitz & Luxenberg fell after Silver was arrested and convicted of corruption, including for pocketing referral fees for cases he steered to the firm from an oncologist who received $ 500,000 in state research grants

The complaint says Skelos and his son attempted to cover up their actions as it became clear that the federal authorities were onto corruption at the Capitol, doctoring documents to hide the true nature of the $ 20,000 payment from the developer to Adam Skelos.