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In the festival's Un Certain Regard sidebar, the Uma Thurman - led jury gave its top prize to Mohammad Rasoulof's «A Man of Integrity» («Lerd»), a somber, scorching look at corruption in the director's native Iran.

«If you look at corruption in the sector, I say probably 95 % plus of it is...

«We will keep looking hard at corruption in our legislative branch, as we have been,» Bharara said, according to the Daily News.

The governor's closure of a Moreland Act commission to look at corruption in the legislature drew scrutiny, but ultimately no action from the federal prosecutor.

The governor's closure of a Moreland Act commission to look at corruption in the Legislature drew scrutiny, but ultimately no action, from the federal prosecutor.

«We will keep looking hard at corruption in our legislative branch as we have been, but not just there, but in the executive branch, too — both in city and state government,» Bharara said on April 12 at a gala hosted by the good - government group Common Cause, where he suggested there should be more efforts at government reform.

Not exact matches

Saudi's Attorney General said in November that the government estimated that «at least $ 100 billion has been misused through systematic corruption and embezzlement over several decades» and said 208 individuals had been arrested as part of the crackdown, with seven released without charge.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

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.

But the truth is that these petty corruptions pale in comparison to Pruitt's actual policy record at the EPA.

The People's Liberation Army Daily on Wednesday published its list of attendees for the upcoming 19th party congress in Beijing on October 18, with two notable exclusions: Fang Fenghui, who was recently replaced as the chief at the Joint Staff Department in China's military and is currently under investigation for corruption, and General Zhang Yang, the director of the political work department, who also sits on the military commission.

With approval rating in the low teens just five months into her second term, Rousseff's also struggling to win back the public trust amid Brazil's biggest corruption investigation, an inquiry into a massive kickback scheme at state - run oil company Petrobras.

«We don't want to participate in the corruption of the black market, and I don't have four hours a day to line up for toilet paper» at a supermarket....

The U.S. investigation into bribery and corruption at the governing body of world soccer took another twist Tuesday, as FIFA denied claims that its number two official, Secretary - General Jérôme Valcke, was involved in a suspect payment linked to the award of the 2010 World Cup to South Africa.

Thousands of protesters rallied in front of the presidential headquarters and the congress in the capital Brasilia in anger at corruption scandals implicating Rousseff.

Peter Dent, a partner at Deloitte in Toronto, recalls investigating a European company doing business in Indonesia during his four - year stint as head of the World Bank's fraud and corruption team.

For example in Transparency International's corruptions perceptions index Poland stood 29th while Romania is at 57th place.

Russian website The Bell, known for a generally critical stance towards President Vladimir Putin and the corruption under his rule, reported Monday that Konstantin Kozlovsky had testified to carrying out attacks at the request of state intelligence organs, notably the FSB (the KGB - successor for which Putin himself had worked in Soviet times).

The calls come amid probes by the DOJ and the Swiss Attorney General's Office into corruption at FIFA after the indictment of 14 execs in May.

She attracted global attention early in her tenure for the corruption prosecution of high - level officials at FIFA, international soccer's governing body.

It was in part an olive branch he held out to Russians who'd stashed their money in the cesspools of corruption that were the Cypriot banks: they too would be eligible for citizenship if they'd lost at least $ 3 million.

«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.»

McAfee provides regular insight on global hacking scandals and internet surveillance, and has become a hugely controversial figure following his time in Belize, where he claims to have exposed corruption at the highest level before fleeing the country amid accusations of murder (the Belize government is currently not pursuing any accusations against him).

Before coming to Crain's New York Business in 2003, he wrote «Heard on the Street» columns at the Wall Street Journal, covered bank mergers for American Banker, and got his start reporting on downstate Illinois graft and corruption for Illinois Times in Springfield.

Prince Bader splurged on this controversial and decidedly un-Islamic portrait of Christ at a time when most members of the Saudi elite, including some in the royal family, are cowering under a sweeping crackdown against corruption and self - enrichment.

As a rising star in the Clinton Treasury Department in the mid-1990s, Summers was at the epicenter of a case of corruption in which the US government's reputation for probity was seriously damaged abroad — in Russia in particular.

Recent developments, including ongoing investigations into bribery and corruption at the Company's subsidiaries in Mexico, China, Brazil, and India; new revelations of accounting fraud at the Company's China operations; a recent ruling by a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge against the Company for its illegal discipline of employees; and, the NLRB decision to authorize a nationwide complaint against the Company for violations of the National Labor Relations Act, highlight the need for enhanced oversight of Wal - Mart's corporate culture and behavior.

The kingdom's attorney general, Sheikh Saud al - Mojeb, said in a statement that Saudi authorities believed that at least $ 100 billion «had been misused though systematic corruption and embezzlement over several decades.»

BEIRUT, Lebanon — More than 200 people have been summoned for questioning, and most are still detained, in a wide - ranging crackdown that Saudi Arabia says is aimed at rooting out corruption and reclaiming embezzled funds, the government said Thursday.

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.

The bipartisan PAC is the first Malaysian entity to level allegations against 1MDB, which is at the center of corruption and money - laundering investigations in the United States, Switzerland, Singapore and Luxembourg.

The new leaders in China seem determined to implement reforms to root out corruption, to keep the economy growing at 7 % or better and to begin to develop improved health care and retirement programs.

In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.

The jailing of the country's most popular politician, Lula, and voter disgust at corruption among the powerful will give outsiders with clean reputations a chance to shine in October elections.

«The United States and China are in a symbiotic relationship, we are wed to each other and do best when we grow together,» said Susan Aaronson, a professor at George Washington University who teaches corruption and good governance.

To glimpse the depth of love that is at work in this blessed exchange (our mortality becoming his, his immortality becoming ours) we need to discern the depth of humiliation behind it; and for that, we need to understand that mortality and corruption really are alien to his divine nature.Our Lord was not forced to lower himself so far as to share our materiality, flesh, and death.

The point at which this corruption is most likely to appear, and where it is most dangerous when it does appear, is in education.

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.

Accepting the biblical understanding of love as central to any human concept of the divine is at the heart of Williams» enterprise, directly challenging the Augustinian formulation as a corruption of this.23 Love is «spirit taking form in history.»

Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal himself, and to declare that his will unto his church; and afterwards, for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing: which maketh the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former ways of God's revealing his will unto his people being now ceased.

By observing of the world stage on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and science, yet such corruption of human character, it only points to the fact that the time for the «man of sin» is at hand and his army is being prepared, for time of his arrival.

The aberrations, abominations, corruptions and perversions of the world and in the world don't worry me at all.

If we concede that Jesus was a real person, more likely than what is illustrated in the telephone version of the story (a.k.a. the bible) was that he was a man of conscience that saw the corruption and cruelty towards people in his day and spoke out about it, which led to his death at the hands of those he was speaking out about.

Such a metaphysics, though not successful in introducing development into being, at least correctly locates becoming as an important locus of ontology, namely as involved in those peculiar movements Aristotle called generation and corruption.

At what point in the corruption of Christianity do you think we're at ChristianAt what point in the corruption of Christianity do you think we're at Christianat Christians?

Political society he saw largely in negative terms, at best a punishment and correction of sin, at worst a nightmare of corruption in which the strong eat up the weak and the stronger eat up the strong.

In the same year, the 12th Anti-Corruption International Conference, which was held at Prague, for the first time included a panel — in which I was invited to participate — about the contribution of faith based organizations to the struggle against corruptioIn the same year, the 12th Anti-Corruption International Conference, which was held at Prague, for the first time included a panel — in which I was invited to participate — about the contribution of faith based organizations to the struggle against corruptioin which I was invited to participate — about the contribution of faith based organizations to the struggle against corruption.

I lived in Utah for 3 years and was taken aback at the corruption and all the misinformation that mormons were putting out.

In the words of the Ukrainian Council of Churches, «We note, in particular, the urgent need for a decisive, consistent and systematic fight against corruption, which eats away at our society and violates the tenets of our religion.&raquIn the words of the Ukrainian Council of Churches, «We note, in particular, the urgent need for a decisive, consistent and systematic fight against corruption, which eats away at our society and violates the tenets of our religion.&raquin particular, the urgent need for a decisive, consistent and systematic fight against corruption, which eats away at our society and violates the tenets of our religion.»