Sentences with phrase «blatant corruption»

«Holding elected office is a sacred responsibility, and the voters deserve the power to hold their leaders accountable following cases of blatant corruption and financial ruin,» Gaughran said.

«There wasn't blatant corruption, it was seedy, there were panhandlers, there were people on the streets soliciting people to go inside for peep shows.»

MINORITY IN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR FULL SCALE INVESTIGATION INTO BLATANT CORRUPTION AT BOST LTD..

«Whenever some fresh instance of blatant corruption or rank depravity comes to light in Italy... Commissario Guido Brunetti, the principled protagonist of Donna Leon's uplifting Venetian mysteries, looks to his family and to the wise philosophers of ancient Rome to restore his faith in humanity.

For instance, if a highly unpopular bill made it through Parliament thanks to blatant corruption and there were armed rioters in the streets, the monarch would probably be able to provide a constitutional safety valve by refusing assent to the bill on the advice of a senior minister with some security responsibilities.

Ladies and gentlemen, the blatant corruption by the Akufo - Addo / Bawumia government can not be allowed to continue.

Sen. Vincent Fort called the legislation a «blatant corruption of power» that «trotted out» school children as «pawns to pad the pockets of for - profit management companies and real estate deals» supported by a «Herculean» lobbying effort that, Fort told the Senate, was «drenched in money mongering.»

Without a transparent, pluralist democracy with an independent legal system, you can't stop the blatant corruption which drains money needed for big engineering projects.

Indeed, this Whistleblower issue is subtitled, «From global warming to evolution, from psychology to sociology, blatant corruption of science is running rampant.»