Sentences with phrase «by widespread corruption»

He says the president's leadership style has been characterized by widespread corruption; inefficiency and mismanagement which is why many are not keen on seeing him as the torch bearer of the party in 2016.

«I decided to run for state Senate because I care deeply about New York and was discouraged by the widespread corruption that has become the status quo in Albany,» he said.

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From 1929 to 2000, the Institutional Revolutionary Party has been hurt by rumors of vote - rigging and widespread corruption.

Russia's grim Soviet - era housing, high rates of abortion and of alcoholism and substance abuse, crime syndicates controlled by the Mafia and widespread corruption — all these help to make Christianity deeply attractive.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

Pitino was fired by Louisville after his program was implicated in the FBI's multi-year probe into widespread bribery, wire fraud and corruption in college basketball recruiting.

Corruption in China's healthcare industry is widespread, fuelled in part by low base salaries for doctors at the country's 13,500 public hospitals.

It is fuelled by a great many legitimate grievances such as poor administration and the evidence of corruption made public by the Car Wash Operation, but it is also led by the prejudices of a privileged social class which discourages more widespread support for the movement.

Skelos becomes the second of New York's most powerful political leaders in nine days to be sentenced to prison for public corruption crimes, a double - whammy that has cemented the state government's reputation as an organization plagued by corruption and prompted widespread calls for ethics reforms in Albany.

According to them, the economic breakdown caused by misuse of state funds and introduction of unscientific policies by the current administration as well as widespread corruption has left the region clamouring for the NDC and the former President.

On his part, Mr Babatunde Ogala, a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, noted that undue pressure placed on politicians by their constituents had also contributed to widespread corruption in the country.

The top investigator at the New York Correction Department resigned on Friday under pressure from city leaders who are facing a federal mandate to regain control of the Rikers Island jail complex, where widespread brutality and corruption by guards routinely go unpunished.

Helmed by Oren Moverman, it explores the state of the LAPD circa the late»90s but, despite what its title suggests, the film isn't about the infamous Rampart scandal — an umbrella term for the widespread corruption that occurred inside the Division's anti-gang unit (offenses ranged from unprovoked shootings, planting of evidence, narcotics possession, bank robbery, and perjury)-- but instead it's set whilst the events were still current.

In what has been described as the greatest challenge to the communist state in China since its inception in 1949, tens of thousands soon joined in the peaceful protest, angered by widespread governmental corruption and calling for democratic reform.

The decade was marked by widespread turmoil and corruption following the 1952 military coup led by Fulgencio Batista.

PUPs have now been ruled illegal by the Liberian government, whose 2012 investigation into their use reported widespread fraud and corruption by companies and Liberian officials.

PUPs were ruled illegal by the Liberian government in December 2012, whose investigation into their use reported widespread fraud and corruption by logging companies and Liberian officials.

Her fearlessness and tenacity in the face of widespread government corruption and industry interests have won critical concessions to protect local villagers and the environment from being steamrolled by the development of the world's biggest oil export pipeline.

In a report distributed through his own conscious.com.au website, Roberts made a series of claims alleging widespread corruption by key Australian and United Nations science agencies.