Sentences with phrase «becomes corrupt in»

Organized religion inevitably becomes corrupt in some way as they jump into politics and power struggles.

Not exact matches

The most recent of those was in 2006, when Thaksin Shinawatra, the divisive media tycoon who became Prime Minister in 2001 — populist to some, corrupt politician to others — was overthrown.

A third option would involve creating an A.I. that is not super-intelligent, making sure it would want to act benevolently, and then augmenting it so that it becomes super-intelligent while ensuring it does not get corrupted in the process.

Known for: Having waged a war against corrupt officials and won official recognition as the party's «core,» Xi became China's most dominant leader in decades in his first term.

But even they have been sold out by the corrupted two - party system that will not allow an uncompromised voice to become President or rise to a position of power in Congress.

Mr. Navalny became a prominent opposition figure after exposing corrupt deals in government companies, including contracting fraud at the state pipeline operator Transneft that he said cost the company $ 4 billion.

«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.

The Qur «an never asks a Christian or Jew to accept it because their own scripture has become corrupt, rather they are asked to accept the Qur «an because the Qur «an claims, 1 / to confirm the teaching of the Bible, 2 / that Muhammad is foretold in the Torah and Gospel, 3 / the Qur «anic teaching makes clear what the Jews and Christians could not understand properly from their own scriptures.

And the political and perverted way in which his writings were immediately used to supercede Jesus» teachings became the backbone of the early church, thus rendering it perverted and corrupt from the very beginning.

Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air...»

Institutionalization is essential for any movement to live in history, but all institutions become corrupt.

In the baking goods aisle Islam is for sale since all the other foods started with this stuff but became corrupted when it was baked.

How he ever was able to become a Senator in the US government shows how corrupt and broken the American political system is.

No third party could be effective, he felt, unless it displaced one of the major parties — in which case it would become a competitor for power, with its idealism and sincerity certain to be «diluted with opportunism and corrupted with the lust of office and the greed for the spoils of office» (October 19, 1932).

What the Essay on Radical Evil teaches about freedom, indeed, is that this same power that duty imputes to us is in reality a non-power; the «propensity for evil» has become «corrupt nature,» although evil is still only a manner of being of the freedom which comes to it from freedom.

We must understand that our spirit is born again (not our soul) and become a new creation with the nature of God, which is in war with our soul and body (the flesh, our mind) with his corrupt nature.

Nobody is stopping you from donating your money and time from any organization you would like to support quit asking the government to do the job citizens should be doing on there own when government gets involved in charities, charities become corrupted.

Anything touched by human hands can become corrupted, cases in point — communism, capitalism, government and (of course) atheism.

Sometime after 100 AD we see the Catholics got a hold of the Bible and rewrote themselves back in as priests becoming corrupted with power.

The Essenes lived in the Judean desert wilderness, and they too believed that Judaism had become corrupt.

When the Umayyad dynasty became corrupt and was oppressing the people, it was a Turk from Khurasan, Abu Muslim, who had a hand in its overthrow.

«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».

From the early days of human history we have seen one ideological movement after another rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear in a corrupt mess.

Also being dissatisfied with so called truth that feels meaningless and empty or has become corrupted and which continues to be experienced personally in this way.

(One of the reasons the founding fathers were adamant all Americans would have freedom of whorship) It's too simplistic to say the English reformation happened because Henry 8th wanted a divorce, it happened because of the influence of Martin Luther and the rise of Protestants in Europe and because the Catholic Church had become too powerfull, wealthy and corrupt and did not hesitate to burn people it considered Heritics, In England Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated as the foiling of a terrible plot to kill the king, James the 1st and most of the parliamenin Europe and because the Catholic Church had become too powerfull, wealthy and corrupt and did not hesitate to burn people it considered Heritics, In England Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated as the foiling of a terrible plot to kill the king, James the 1st and most of the parliamenIn England Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated as the foiling of a terrible plot to kill the king, James the 1st and most of the parliament.

That is to say, they are not isolated in time but become part of a homogeneous series, bearing witness to the same certitude about the efficacy of spiritual means in improving corrupted social and political situations with their sense of compassion for the universal.

He rose on that last day to call for unanimous consent in hopes that that too might help the document be accepted, and he said, «In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any othein hopes that that too might help the document be accepted, and he said, «In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any otheIn these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any othein Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

Once the mind has â $ œconsented to be orthodoxâ $, then it becomes â $ œnarrow, rigid, mercenary, morally corrupt, and vengeful against dissenters.â $ But if «truth» is in the Christian bible, and it has been studied and accepted as truth, what else is there to pursue?

As soon as the hand of man was involved in the «religion» of the early church, it became corrupt.

Irenaeus pointed out long ago that humanity had become so corrupted by sin that no one knew how a person created in the image of God was expected to live.

Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

part of that is an owner and board who put their profits way above the performance of the team but it is also a manager who conforms to the wishes of the board (and for all I know may have an ownership stake as well) by putting their short term interests above the long term performance of the team as a result the team itself has become corrupted by the regime through insufficient investment in upgrading the team (all the more damaging as the environment in which the team operates has become increasingly competitive) with ocassional panic acquisitions to meet minimal (but ever diminishing) performance targets to keep fans on board the result is a massively unbalanced team of overpaid compliant players who have been around for too long, inexperienced (and also overpaid) young players who have not cost the club much (or anything) and small islands of quality players..

The masses must ensure that the critical mass we have been advocating all this while prevents the corrupt politician from having fun killing the people, because he / she wants to become a leader of the people in «the rising sun» of his / her corruptible environment.

The youth have become highly disillusioned and disenchanted seeing their youth leaders becoming corrupt, amassing wealth and acquiring properties in opposition though have nothing to show where they made those monies.

When, before his election into the upper chamber, he joined some so - called anti-corruption campaigns in Abuja and made moves to become thorns in the flesh of some corrupt Nigerians, it was nothing but the height of hypocrisy given the reality that Dino was himself a bundle of contradictions himself.

Transparency International's 2013 Global Corruption Barometer found 65 % of people believed the UK had become more corrupt in the last two years.

Oko Quaicoo, a motor mechanic according to our investigations, became frustrated after the death of their father some years ago when IC Quaye who better known in political circles as «Agbenaa» (and also known for his «Stealers» coinage to refer to corrupt public officials) became the head of the family and started maltreating the family members.

The majority conferences in NY legislature have too much power and become very corrupt... I hope the information provided in the Siena Poll is accurate and that NY will move forward with a Constitutional Convention.

Just eight percent said it had become less corrupt in recent years.

I am certain there are many judges on the bench (and I may even be able to speak for some who were my classmates and associates) who I trust have not soiled their hands and robes with improper lucre, but corrupt lawyers and judges have become more visible in recent years.

«Whether it's holding a large company accountable, for abuses of workforce or a whole host of other things, holding large banks accountable, whether it be making sure that corrupt officials are held accountable, whether it be a whole host of those types of things, in many ways the Attorney General has simply become the conscience of the State of New York.»

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Malcolm Smith to seven years in prison, saying the former state Senate majority leader corrupted the political process by trying to buy his way onto the ballot in a crooked bid to become mayor of New York City.

Bernard Jenkin, the committee chairman, said: «I think what we have heard is basically how there is a system of incentives in the police that has become inherently corrupting and I think that is a very shocking thing to hear.

The only way to ease out these corrupt politicians is to become active participants in the electoral process.

The Department of Investigation has found Team de Blasio was clueless but not corrupt in its bungling of a dubious property flip that allowed the site of a nursing home to become luxury condos.

But the academy, founded in 2003, has also become notorious for graduating inept — and sometimes corrupt — principals with little teaching experience.

It is hoped that now that the police have taken their attacks to the members of the National Assembly may be the legislators will use their powers to bring about change in the police force that has become notorious for professional incompetence, indiscipline and grossly corrupt.

With money corrupting the democratic process becoming a major issue in the United States, Suffolk Legislator Rob Trotta (R - Fort Salonga) has introduced a bill to limit campaign contributions from county contractors and public employee unions.

Also, the National Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, Mr. Ekpo Nta, has said corruption has become a big and lucrative in Nigeria despite the war being waged against the scourge.