Sentences with phrase «beset by corruption»

Beset by corruption, backroom deals and voter scorn, New York received a score of 61, a D -, placing it in 31st place nationwide in the State Integrity Investigation, a data - driven assessment of state government accountability and transparency conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity.

It began publishing provisional financial and operational reports last month as part of a drive by new chief Emmanuel Kachikwu to improve transparency in the oil sector, which has been beset by corruption and mismanagement for decades.

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«Beset by an advancing Islam in the East, having lost the larger proportion of its wide - flung communities in Asia, and suffering from corruption and indifference in the church which represented it in the west, in AD 1500 Christianity did not seem to face a promising future.

Government forces are beset by extremist infiltration, corruption and abuse.

Curran is believed to be the only Nassau executive to have taken such measures — in a county beset in recent years by allegations of corruption, nepotism, patronage and mismanagement.

Wills and Huntley represented South Ozone Park and Jamaica, Queens, an area beset by poverty, crime and political corruption.

The Capitol is beset by federal investigations into corruption and bribery involving at least five lawmakers, one of whom wore an FBI wire to try to ensnare fellow legislators.

New York's state government is «beset» by corruption and earns a «D -» when it comes to its public integrity index, according to a report from the Center For Public Integrity.

But the idea that rang truest to the more than 2,000 people in the audience was his demand to clean - up corruption and rid Albany of the scandals that have beset it in recent years — characterized by the poster boy of corruption, former Sen. Pedro Espada, who was recently indicted.