Sentences with phrase «by corruption»

The state budget didn't include any reforms aimed at addressing problems raised by the corruption scandal.

Every evil you find in society is caused by corruption directly or indirectly.

Good - government groups praised the action and said it sends a message to state government rocked by corruption and ethical scandals over the last four years.

It goes without saying that the infrastructure and political systems of whole countries have been destroyed by corruption from top to bottom.

The Raise the Age proposal is one of many agenda items still lingering unresolved as a legislative session overwhelmed by corruption arrests draws to a close.

The reality is that both sides are funded by corruption and agenda wielding companies or governments.

The 2015 legislative session has been dominated by corruption scandals.

Though that narrative is likely to be complicated by the corruption scandal, with more to be determined by the trials set to begin in 2018.

Pakistan is another country that is plagued by corruption exposed by the Panama Papers, which potentially reveal that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family was laundering money.

However, his transfer from Brazilian club Santos has been tainted by corruption allegations.

The speaker also defended his colleagues, saying they shouldn't be tarnished by the corruption convictions in recent years as well as the generally poor image of Albany among voters.

Nevertheless, he is the latest in a line of once powerful state lawmakers to be felled by corruption charges.

Silver's downfall last year was followed by an unprecedented moment in state politics in which his counter part, Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, was also later felled by a corruption scandal involving securing business for his son through official actions.

Any possible campaign that Skelos might have planned to run for governor has now been put on hold by the corruption trial.

Corrupted Machines are more powerful and aggressive than in their original forms, and are not affected by Corruption damage whatsoever.

Mayor de Blasio is up for re-election Tuesday after a controversial term marked by corruption probes, a bloated city payroll and a shift in police policy.

Tunisia doctors have on Wednesday commenced nationwide strike to push for reforms in the healthcare sector, rocked in recent months by corruption allegations and medical blunders.

Trump's political team is also counting out Cuomo and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, because they say they've been tainted by corruption probes.

Portraying themselves as untainted by corruption is laughable, however.

The new 36 - member FIFA Executive Council replaces the previous 24 - member Executive Committee which was tarnished by corruption scandals, they will meet for the first time in Zurich, Switzerland on October 13 - 14.

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.

This process was slightly marred by corruption, which allowed some wealthy and connected people to inflate their claims of land ownership.

In Antihero players can test their thievery skills in a gas - lit Victorian underworld overrun by corruption and greed, your task is to manage your thieves» guild, recruit street urchins, hire gangs, steal everything... and bribe, blackmail and assassinate your way to victory!

This rigid fatalism is clearly shared by Schrader, who over the next two decades amassed a filmography rooted in a material world surrounded by corruption and ruin and inhabited by lonely characters who wrestle with their own conflicted souls.

The sector has been in recovery mode after a tough few years marked by a corruption crackdown in China which suppressed demand for expensive watches and Chinese consumers» shunning many...

boston: I know that this is not the first time the government has been damaged by corruption.

Public protests around the world in 2011, often fuelled by corruption and economic instability, clearly show citizens feel their leaders and public institutions are neither transparent nor accountable, and all too often are systemically corrupt.

An effort by Governor Andrew Cuomo to cap the outside pay of state legislators this year failed to gain any traction, despite the scrutiny raised by the corruption cases of Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

But the push was hobbled by the corruption prosecution of former SUNY Poly President Alain Kaloyeros, who was Cuomo's top aide on the Upstate economy.

Blake hopes to breathe new life into a Bronx assembly district ravaged by corruption, gun violence and chronic unemployment.

Those shortcomings likely were exacerbated by the corruption probe, which caused state officials to put the brakes on several SUNY Poly projects.

Mr. Cuomo, who dubbed the package of laws the «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011,» hailed it as a groundbreaking step for a statehouse brought low by corruption scandals in recent years.

Small said she entered the race for the 60th state Senate district in January, in large part because she was disgusted by the corruption she saw at the capital.

Many of the measures, however, were inspired by the corruption trial and conviction of former gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco.

Any possible campaign that Dean Skelos might have planned to run for governor has now been put on hold by the corruption trial.

If he succeeds, he will take custody of a drastically diminished state — its circumstances constrained by decades of profligacy; its politics crippled by corruption and complacency and its expectations arguably at their lowest ebb ever.

But he argued Menendez was weakened by the corruption trial and that the race would be competitive.

The operation of Garuda Indonesia will not be affected by the naming of its former president director, Emirsyah Satar, as a graft suspect by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Transportation Minister Budi Karya has said.

Vast sums are flowing unchecked around the world as never before — whether motivated by corruption, tax avoidance or investment strategy, and enabled by an ever - more - borderless economy and a proliferation of ways to move and hide assets.

Opponents now make the reasonable argument that if the deal was underpinned by corruption as evidenced by the Percoco conviction, the state must stop the construction and review regulatory decisions in an open manner the steps that allowed the construction to move ahead.

Adam Skelos» personal life has been destroyed by the corruption scandal, which prompted his wife, Anne Marie, to file for divorce, his lawyer said at Adam's sentencing Thursday.

CDC was affected also by Corruption scandals.

Indeed, Silver's ability to manage the various interests and conflicts while also proving to be an effective advocate in the budget talks within the conference helped him stay speaker for 21 years, felled only by a corruption scandal.

Murdoch University has appointed Eeva Leinonen as its first female vice-chancellor, replacing Richard Higgott who resigned last year after being investigated by the Corruption and Crime Commission.

What was once a truly beautiful place, full of vibrant people, has been horribly disfigured by the corruption, greed, nepotism and outright psychopathy of the Zanu - PF.

Stung by its corruption scandal, the company completely renovated its compliance infrastructure.

Sawiris said his view of Saudi Arabia was negatively impacted by a corruption crackdown that led to the arrest of high - profile princes and billionaires in November.