Sentences with phrase «concerns about corruption»

My whole involvement has always been driven by concerns about the corruption of science.

But there are other topics that unsettle New Yorkers, including ongoing controversy over the implementation of the Common Core learning standards, uneasiness over the economy, and concerns about corruption, in a year where the two leaders of the legislature were arrested and face trail in November.

This is a state election year, but concerns about corruption do not seem to be influencing any major races.

A recent USA Today / Gallup poll suggests that the political fallout for Republicans from such criticism may be limited, given Americans» fairly low concern about the corruption issue and their low expectations for reform.

«Take a very simple issue; the government is very concerned about corruption, nothing can more interest me than corruption because it's done fundamental damage to Nigeria.

Consider this comparison: if you ran a giant food company which produced a particular product for over a hundred years with no basic complaint against it beyond it not being a staple of a standard daily meal diet, and you found yourself accused in just the last 20 years of both knowing it was cancer - causing and paying dietitian experts to tell the public otherwise — despite the lack of irrefutable evidence of its harm and the total lack of credible evidence that you paid «shill experts» to lie on your behalf — why would you suddenly capitulate to arguments against your product while not raising any concern about the corruption accusation hurled at you?

Not an outrageous sum in global terms, but large enough that we need to be concerned about corruption.

The House of Representatives Science Committee is deeply concerned about this corruption of science, its potential impacts on US regulatory decisions, and the use of IARC rulings by predatory lawyers who are suing glyphosate manufacturers.

Not exact matches

One in four Australian business leaders is concerned about bribery and corruption in their own workplaces, an EY report has found.

Czechs are naturally concerned about food prices and the deficit but also about corruption of government officials.

A lot of the concerns about Trump and corruption have been centered on flagrant violations, like using government resources to promote Trump resorts.

But behind the negativity are real concerns about competence, corruption, and accountability.

They are particularly concerned about uncertainty arising from conflict, as well as other issues that include crime, corruption, and unemployment.

I do not embrace the man - made hierarchy of the Catholic Church or the secrecy and corruption it engenders, but I understand why they are concerned about nuns and priests - those who bear their name - and what it is they teach.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

The Vatican's expressed «great concern» about corruption in Italy, after allegations the mafia, politicians... More

The Vatican's expressed «great concern» about corruption in Italy, after allegations the mafia, politicians and a former terrorist made millions of euros by exploiting migrants and gypsies.

He notes that Marxists share with conservative philosophers a disdain for concerns about the meaning of language, but he observes that it is exactly at the level of language that the moral inadequacies and corruptions of our age are evident.

But the committee also voiced a frequent concern about development aid — the amount lost to political corruption in recipient countries.

«I will like the president to talk about Smarttys because we are concerned about the methods, ways, and means of dealing with corruption nowadays.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

And in what can be viewed as perhaps good news for Cuomo, the poll finds most voters, while they are concerned about the high level of corruption in New York politics, are not paying close attention to the machinations of a panel appointed by the governor.

Cuomo insisted he had «no concerns at all» about Schneiderman's ability to investigate public corruption in the Legislature after being a member of it since 1998.

Among the question topics were what more Governor Cuomo should have done before disbanding the Moreland Commission on public corruption, how Astorino feels about NJ Governor, and chair of the Republican Governors Association, Chris Christie «writing you off», whether they believe Christie and Cuomo have an «arrangement» concerning Christie's lack of support for Astorino, what «assurances» of support Christie gave to Astorino when they met, how this joint press conference came to be, how many debates they hope to have and Astorino's take on Christie campaigning in New Hampshire but not New York.

«All the appropriate concern about public office, public integrity or the lack thereof in too many situations where you have corruption, you have waste, you have abuse of power and of the taxpayers» money — that's what we look at in our respective roles,» he said.

European Commission President Jean - Claude Juncker and First Vice-President Frans Timmermans issued a joint statement expressing their concerns about the latest developments in Romania regarding the independence of the country's judicial system and its capacity to fight corruption.

Caveating his concerns, the man of God said his comments should not be misinterpreted as an endorsement of corruption or wrongdoing, but rather a warning about the destruction of the private sector which has the potential of providing jobs for over 95 per cent of employable graduates and secondary school leavers, since, according to him, the public and civil service has room for just about five per cent of all employable Ghanaians.

While the arrangement, which officials have not detailed to The Alt despite repeated inquiries, may not be unusual or inexplicable, it could revive lingering concerns about the two entities» transparency, more than a year after SUNY Poly's president resigned amid corruption charges.

«This is such a huge missed opportunity and such a deflection,» said Lerner, who said polls show New Yorkers are very concerned about state government curbing corruption.

Still, Mr. Brafman added, «in today's climate, defendants facing political corruption charges must be concerned about potential juror bias that may be based more on perception than fact.»

Despite Libous's conviction and the broader concerns about ethics in Albany following a string of high - profile arrests of state lawmakers, Akshar does not believe there needs to be a special session to consider new laws combating corruption.

Notes: Due to safely concerns please bring a buddy or 2 and cameras as the watervliet police are known for there corruption and violence toward anyone they consider inferior or powerless to do any thing about it.

It expressed concern about the heavy losses that Africa was suffering as a result of illegal transfers of proceeds of corruption and crime.

«New Yorkers are concerned about the Republican tax assault on New York, but if Republican consultants want to talk about (GOP corruption), then by all means.»

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, a Democrat who last year called the county's contracting system a «recipe for corruption,» expressed concern about the parks department's use of no - bid contracts and the repeated use of the same general work descriptions.

The Bishop said the federal government has not fought corruption to the level it promised Nigerians, while ealso expressing concerns about the way it was handling the herdamen menace that has led to the killing of several innocent citizens in Nigeria.

SERAP in a statement today by its deputy director Timothy Adewale said, «While we welcome the reported disclosure of fraud and corruption in the SIP and the request to the EFCC to probe the allegations, we are concerned that sufficient details about the allegations have not been disclosed.

Former Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was convicted of federal corruption charges in November, had expressed similar concerns about putting VLTs at Belmont.

A day after a federal judge set a trial date for the Buffalo Billion corruption case, Republicans took to the floor of the Assembly to raise concerns about the failure to approve transparency and oversight procedures over billions of dollars spent each year on economic development.

Sensitive intelligent non judgemental easy going socially but with deep concerns about the environment, corruption in high places and our fucked up health service.

What is so special about The Miniaturist is that despite its delicious and unfamiliar period setting, its concerns are absolutely modern: privacy, sexuality, corruption, commerce, hypocrisy, race, public shaming... all woven into a tightly plotted story full of surprising twists.»

But what used to be a narrative underpinning — the totalitarian corruption from which bread and circuses are meant to divert attention — has become superscript this time, with President Snow (Donald Sutherland) so deeply concerned about Katniss» capacity to incite an uprising amongst the wretched, increasingly angry masses that his usual handling tactic of blackmail swiftly escalates to murder plans.

More generally, I've never been too concerned about risk / corruption in emerging markets — I always felt that lower valuations and higher growth prospects were adequate compensation.

«I'm concerned about minorities, immigrants, corruption and security.»

The Centre for Investigative Reporting of Serbia (CINS), a Belgrade - based group which has won international awards for its exposés of corruption within Serbia, has raised a number of concerns about the Kostolac project and how EPS — with what's considered its opaque financial structure and its strong links to the country's political elite — negotiated with the Chinese.

So now the question is no longer about what would have prompted questions about skeptic scientists» funding to come up at «an obscure utility hearing in Minnesota», it's about why an assistant A.G. would insert material into a public hearing against some of its expert science witnesses concerning an industry corruption insinuation based on a suggestion coming from a private citizen who had nothing to do with the topic at all just eight or so weeks earlier.

It appears that TI not only seek to address what is commonly regarded as corruption (a huge task in itself), they want to impose a particular moral viewpoint with which many concerned about «real» corruption would argue.

No need to trust me on this, look among any of the sites you rely on for narratives about the skeptic scientists» corruption: RealClimate, David Suzuki, The New Yorker's big article about the Kochs last year, the Union of Concerned Scientists, George Monbiot, SourceWatch, DeSmogBlog, Hoggan & Littlemore, Naomi Oreskes, Chris Mooney, Mark Hertsgaard, on and on and on — they all point to Ross Gelbspan as the source of that memo I refer to.......

While Ex-Im Bank's mission might not be to alleviate poverty, Friends of the Earth hopes that it would not use taxpayer dollars in countries where there have been serious concerns about freedom of the press, safety of their citizens and corruption.

[DC: The «peer review corruption» I am most concerned about is that which allows publication of deeply flawed papers from the likes of lobby group allies like researchers Soon and Baliunas (Climate Research, back in 2003) or McLean et al (GRL, last year).]