Sentences with phrase «by corruption as»

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.

Not exact matches

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP)-- Malaysia's image as a striving, modern nation that upholds the rule of law has been undermined by an epic corruption scandal at state investment fund 1MDB.

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.

The region in recent years has seen investor sentiment rattled by developments such as the drop in oil prices, the war in Syria and a sudden corruption purge from Riyadh.

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.

But Rousseff's recent actions, shielding her former boss from corruption charges, was viewed by many in the government, even in her own party, as simply unacceptable.

Such decrees have been cited by Venezuela prosecutors as a means of extracting bribes in some recent PDVSA corruption cases.

Owned by Sina Corp., a Yahoo - like web portal that came to prominence in the early day, it's become prominent in Chinese politics, especially around environmental issues, corruption over food safety, disaster response and in Chinese celebrity culture, where a number of actors and singers have gained millions of followers (or «fans» as their called in Weibo lingo).

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Civil Liberties — Our rights as human beings and citizens of the world are threatened by political corruption, police militarization, government intrusion and mainstream media disinformation.

Backers say it could cut out the middleman and help fight corruption, as the process by which the data is secured makes it virtually impossible to tamper with.

Finance ministers from several Latin American nations as well as the U.S. and Europe have agreed to work jointly to locate and seize the proceeds arising from corruption by Venezuelan government insiders, two U.S. Treasury officials said Thursday.

Ukraine can take the lead on fighting corruption by picking up the Irish initiative in 2013 and appointing top international experts to supply guidance as well as by inviting these experts to take on corruption in Ukraine itself as a first - order challenge.

Once dismissed by many European authorities, he and other whistle - blowers are now being courted as the region's governments struggle to fill their coffers and to stem a populist uprising against tax evasion and corruption.

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.

The roundup was described as a sweeping corruption investigation but widely seen as an effort to consolidate power by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a son and the top adviser of King Salman, who succeeded his half brother and became king of Saudi Arabia in January 2015.

These include statutory rights of appeal, judicial review and scrutiny by independent panels and tribunals, such as the Process Review Panel, the Ombudsman and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Since then, there has been a wave of self - immolations in Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Punjab and elsewhere, by people who feel that they have no voice to counter what they have alternatively described as «injustice, oppression and lack of equality,» or «poverty, corruption and unemployment.»

In the corruption, illiteracy, poverty, and oppressive governments that plague many Muslim societies, those seeds find fertile ground in which they take root, sprout, and flourish — as well as in historical memories, foreign - policy missteps by Western governments, and alienation felt by Muslim youth in Western societies.

Now the Church is viewed, particularly by people who are of age to remember, as the supporters of corruption.

Best known is his depiction of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on self»: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.

Further, drug - related corruption continues to undercut international reconstruction efforts and good governance, as government officials abuse their positions by benefiting financially from the drug trade.

In the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense dispute.

Certainly that perception, combined with various corruptions of monasticism so caustically criticized by Erasmus and others, led Reformers such as Luther and Calvin to sharply contrast the monastic call «from the world» with the authentically Christian call «into the world.»

JUDAISM, Self center ism, pig ism, or Atheism, invented by hindu's pagan's of Egypt by corruption of truth absolute in Torah to Justify hindu pagan Pharaoh's and their hindu pagan Santans, goons as god's to rule over humanity with impunity.

corruption of truth absolute by hindu Pharisees, pagan self centered, follower of hindu filthy pig ism by corrupted Torah, known as Greek Torah, translated and commented by Ben Asheer in 250 AD in Yiddish, secularist, self centered language, also known as Old Testament, part of book of Mithra ism labeled as Bible.

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

She was denounced for meeting with unsavory politicians and businessmen, in order to assist the poor, but ironically, it is Hitchens who used the film to promote Jean - Bertrand Aristide, a notorious ex-priest whose record as Haiti's President was symbolized by corruption and abuse.

The Lutheran heritage in music is far from barren — Luther himself was a musician of note and to be Lutheran is to know that J. S. Bach is to music as Shakespeare is to literature — but the musical culture of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) had by the 1940s been considerably corrupted by American evangelical Protestantism, and I wallowed in the corruption.

In his confession, as in Dunham's, there is no judgment and no redemption — only an exploration of his inner self, and exposure of his outer self, in an attempt to see and justify what he «truly» was prior to the corruptions visited on him by society.

The only guard against a «parade of horrors» — that is, the corruption, morally speaking, of famine efforts by hidden, alternative and immoral objectives — is for famine relief to be undertaken as a multilateral, globally communal effort involving the U.S., the U.S.S.R., the Peoples» Republic of China, the petroleum - rich countries in the Middle East, and many of the richer western European countries.

Pagans who worshipped Odin, believed in Isis and Mithra, believing that natural guilt and corruption of their new - born children could be washed away by sprinkling them with water, or by plunging them, as soon as born, into lakes or rivers.

When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly nor only will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.

The petition states: «Ricardians (those who believe Richard was wrongly accused of usurping the crown by murdering his way to it, but that he was actually one of our most just and enlightened kings) are clearly aware that Shakespeare's play was fiction and probably written as a satire on the corruption of power, but members of the general public often believe that Shakespeare was accurate, so each time the play is produced it only adds to the unfair reputation that Richard has been given.

As the reform movements sweeping through Eastern Europe are learning, denunciation of evil and corruption is a necessary first step toward social change, but constructing new institutional arrangements is by far the more arduous task.

I do not see giving in to greed and corruption, or any form of facism (by the RR) as a possibility, and I do not see giving our country away to illegal immigrants as a requirement.

Oliver's take down of issues often ignored by news outlets — like prescription drug addiction and pay day lending — exposed corruption and injustice with 30 - minutes investigations that were as informative as they were funny.

For many such readers, the Bible is congenial because the world it describes is marked by such familiar pressing problems as famine and plague, poverty and exile, clientelism and corruption.

It is clear that this pope sees the corruption that has infiltrated his administration as inspired by the evil one: and now, in consecrating the Vatican to the Holy Archangel's protection and in asking him «to defend us from the evil one and banish him», he has invoked, on the entire process of Curial reform, the archangel's active and by no means necessarily peaceable help.

Christian thought has traditionally, of necessity, defined evil as a privation of the good, possessing no essence or nature of its own, a purely parasitic corruption of reality; hence it can have no positive role to play in God's determination of Himself or purpose for His creatures (even if by economy God can bring good from evil); it can in no way supply any imagined deficiency in God's or creation's goodness.

I would like to get into this Commandment by starting not with its origins and coming forward, as we have done with the others, but rather by starting with its present traditions and corruptions and working backward to its origins, peeling off the layers in the process.

And it was only the early, nonwriting prophets, such as Elijah, Elisha and Micaiah ben Imia, who preserved the nature of the Mosaic covenant faith before the threat of total corruption by pagan religion and culture.

To prevent corruption by lay proprietors, as had been the fate of many earlier foundations, it was placed directly under the Pope.

Our wicked society is so determined not to be discovered for what it is that it stands unflinching as its very life and vitality is ripped apart by the sins and corruption it holds so dear.

The lengthy NCAA travails of the Southwest Conference in the 1980s were caused not so much by the league's corruption as by the scoop - counterscoop crossfire of a newspaper war in Dallas.

As for FIFA, they invented the word corruption and are still swimming in it, aided by every football nation affiliated to them.

I can only think of this as corruption, albeit legal, but certainly moral corruption by those above who pay him, indulge him and are thus complicit.

Following the race Salo's Wikipedia page was cheekily edited with all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories, such as: «As a steward of the FIA he helped Ferrari by giving Max Verstappen unreasonable penalties,» and «Mika Salo is rumoured to be involved in the largest FIA corruption scandal of 2016/2017.&raquas: «As a steward of the FIA he helped Ferrari by giving Max Verstappen unreasonable penalties,» and «Mika Salo is rumoured to be involved in the largest FIA corruption scandal of 2016/2017.&raquAs a steward of the FIA he helped Ferrari by giving Max Verstappen unreasonable penalties,» and «Mika Salo is rumoured to be involved in the largest FIA corruption scandal of 2016/2017.»

As new examples of Olympic bribery and corruption ooze out day by day, politicians and pundits continue to wag fingers and scold the miscreants.

If, seeing all these statistics, some people want to deny the corruption that is happening right now in the Premier League, and the fact that for years, Arsenal has been robbed by referees, well there's none so blind as those who will not see.