Sentences with phrase «corrupt cultures of»

«Kathleen Rice has been resolute in her fight to take on a corrupt culture of pay - to - play politics in the state and give average New Yorkers a voice,» said Bill Lipton, state director for the Working Families Party.

As female members of the Assembly, we hope that our colleagues in the Democratic Majority will call for a vote and elect a new speaker; someone untarnished by the corrupt culture of Albany and who will not tolerate abuses toward women.

Not exact matches

The assistant editor of The Irish Times, O'Toole off ers a set of nine spitting - mad polemics exploring the different aspects of the Celtic Tiger's regression into «bedraggled alley cat,» from a primitive land hunger that created a «new feudalism» through a corrupt political and anarchic business culture.

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

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.

The enemy, Satan, began his attempt to destroy God's people in the Garden of Eden, by also trying to corrupt the world (which led to Noah's Flood), by trying to destroy Israel with attacking armies, and by encouraging Israel to fall into idolatry by exposure to other cultures as well as intermarrying women from those cultures.

Interestingly, the crucial mezzo level of culture and mediating institutions has often been corrupted by both markets and politicization.

All of this is really an elaborate attempt on my part to explore the specifically political dimensions of H. Richard Niebuhr's questions in Christ and Culture: Is the present political order a «corrupted order» or is it an «order for corruption»?

But Weigel goes further: He makes the empirical assertion that this corrupted culture played a major role in creating the savage, unstoppable human toll of World War I.

We are part of a culture that stands by and watches as famine, disease and corrupt governments kill off millions of children who had the misfortune to be born into developing countries.

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

Instead, opponents of the death penalty must concentrate on how it has corrupted «our politics, law and culture.»

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

They used one of the most powerful institutions in our culture, and, inevitably, that power began to corrupt them.

But until this week, I have never really grasped the degree to which people in the abortion industry are enslaved, corrupted, and abused by the culture of death.

Given the distinct Mahri culture, identity and language, developed over many centuries of autonomy, not to mention widespread disenchantment with Yemeni rule (ever more corrupt since the union of Yemen's south and north in 1990), Mahra's territorial integrity remains important.

Where there is an endemic culture of corruption and the Chairperson is attempting to eradicate same, clearly she will not be expected to be popular with the beneficiaries of the corrupt system.

It offers scathing criticism of what the commission says is a corrupt culture in Albany, and recommends numerous reforms.

We need change, and the right person to make that change is Julie Killian... She doesn't come from Albany, she's not part of the corrupt culture that has been there for far too long.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has cast the allegations as symptomatic of a «show - me - the - money culture» that had transformed New York's statehouse into «one of the most corrupt governments in the nation.»

John spent sixteen years traveling across Upstate New York in his role as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, prosecuting corrupt politicians, business frauds, drug traffickers, and gang members and making our community safer for every Central New York family regardless of race, creed, culture, or address.

Will Silver's replacement be a reformer, or part of the corrupt culture that has gripped the state capital for decades?

Jury selection is set to begin Monday in a case that has already proven to be a source of personal pain and political embarrassment for Cuomo, a Democrat and possible presidential candidate in 2020 who came into office vowing to do something about Albany's corrupt culture.

«The legislators will be used as examples of a corrupt culture that has consumed Albany, where money talks and the people's voice is squelched.»

Having sworn to rid Albany of its toxic and comical culture of gross corruption, he promptly and comically corrupted his own reform effort.

Our corrupt legislators are completely incapable of changing the money driven culture of Albany.

The US attorney repeatedly hammered the complacency and implicit collaboration of other lawmakers, whom he called «enablers» in Albany's corrupt culture.

«Regardless of if, or when, Alan Hevesi pleads guilty to corruption, everyone knows the culture of Albany is thoroughly corrupt.

«There is, I believe, a deeply corrupt political culture in New York, an acceptance of the idea that you go into politics to get favors and do favors and a deep, deep, deep cynicism in Albany and culture,» said Teachout, who is teaching a course this semester on political corruption in the state.

It opposes public financing of political campaigns despite the corrupt culture the present system has fostered.

The report includes scathing criticism of what the commission says is a corrupt culture in Albany, and recommends numerous reforms.

«This system required an international web of exchange of information and has created a corrupted body of information which was shared systematically with partners in the war on terror through intelligence cooperation, thereby corrupting the institutional culture of the legal and institutional systems of recipient states,» he wrote in an earlier report.

He understands Albany's sick culture, having helped to convict many of the state's most corrupt legislators before entering politics.

«The real fix starts at the top and can only happen with a governor who is independent of the corrupt Albany culture,» Giambra said.

In a statement, he cited last week's federal charges against Silver as «yet another reminder of the corrupting pay to play culture of Albany.

New York Republicans have pointed to Percoco's trial as evidence of a corrupt culture in Albany that Cuomo tolerated or even encouraged.

Like Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Husam Ahmad saw his opportunities and took»em, an indictment this week suggests — opportunities spawned by New York's laws and corrupt political culture.

Typical corrupt Republicans with their usual «culture of corruption»... oh wait, these crooks are Democrats.

«It's been systemic, and if nothing else, the trials revealed that there's a deep culture problem, and a matter - of - factness about how at least these two defendants, who've now been found guilty, went about their daily corrupt business with barely a thought about it.»

Of the two Republican candidates, he's the one capable of the essential task of engaging Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic front - runner, in a serious debate about how to best revive the state's economy, reduce its excessively heavy tax burden and clean up its horribly corrupt political culturOf the two Republican candidates, he's the one capable of the essential task of engaging Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic front - runner, in a serious debate about how to best revive the state's economy, reduce its excessively heavy tax burden and clean up its horribly corrupt political culturof the essential task of engaging Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic front - runner, in a serious debate about how to best revive the state's economy, reduce its excessively heavy tax burden and clean up its horribly corrupt political culturof engaging Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic front - runner, in a serious debate about how to best revive the state's economy, reduce its excessively heavy tax burden and clean up its horribly corrupt political culture.

It is one of the most highly subsidized foods being farmed and thus our healthy corn, that was once a staple of many native North, Central and South American indigenous cultures, is one of the most corrupted farmed food.

All the same, Bulworth is a film that swerves to the left of conventional liberalism, viewing, as it does, corporate America and Congress pretty much as corrupt institutions which, Beatty seems to suggest, ought to be paying more attention to hip - hop culture.

The White Ribbon (Sony)-- Winner of the Palm D'or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography, Michael Haneke's portrait of rural life in Germany before World War II is a beautifully shot film that evokes nostalgia in the austere black - and - white imagery while revealing a corrupt culture under the surface.

The way it portrays the clash of cultures between the white settlers and the Native Americans whose lands were taken, corrupting the souls of those on both... Read More»

Even as it profiles criminal behavior from citizens, lawmen, and elected officials, American Hustle sympathizes with its miscreants and paints them as victims of a corrupt culture.

The volatile culture of the setting enriches the procedural but it's the partnership of American homicide detective Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger), an obsessive, brilliant, by - the - book cop with borderline Asperger's symptoms, and Chihauhau State Police detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), a moral cop in an amoral system who latches on to this cross-jurisdictional case because it may allow him to do real police work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines the show.

It is corrupting your culture and making a game out of behaviour.

Whereas Charlotte Simmons is a brilliant young woman who wastes her mind and is corrupted by the culture of her classmates, Lee Fiora is a mediocre student who is lazy and cheats on her exams.

Thirdly, because the solidarity mindset exacerbates the cultism — be it blue walls of silence or thin chalk lines — that can be a problematic feature of any culture or profession, it enables and protects those who are incompetent, corrupt, even abusive and criminally venal.