Sentences with phrase «characterized by fraud»

«Voters in Africa don't vote on issues but on small favours and nepotism... Elections on the continent have been abused and characterized by fraud but with the social media, which provides freedom of speech,» he said, the citizens can express themselves and share information.

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Byron Fitzgerald, Manager of the Litigation Section of the CBSA would later characterize the argument made by Finance and the Conservative Party that iPods could come into the country tariff free under 9948 using end use certificates is «perpetuating a fraud»:

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

Fraudulent is defined as:» (1) Engaging in fraud; deceitfu l; (2) characterized by, constituting, or gained by fraud: fraudulent business practices.»

According to ILR's study Think Globally, Sue Locally, transnational cases are characterized by a number of features, including aggressive media tactics, organized protests and boycotts of corporate defendants, political pressure and, in some cases, outright fraud and abuse by plaintiffs» lawyers.

1.29 Historically, the equitable concern manifested through the use of estoppel was characterized as being about «fraud», but today estoppel is usually not thought to be based on such an extreme misleading of one person by another.

This condition, which can be described as the experience of feeling like a fraud despite having achieved success, is typically characterized by self - doubt, extreme criticism of one's own performance, and anxiety resulting from the fear that others may realize one is not actually as successful as one appears to be.

Mortgage fraud, an umbrella term, is «a crime characterized by some type of material misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission on a loan which is then relied upon by a lender,» according to the FBI.