Sentences with phrase «corrupt system with»

The protagonist is compelled to rail against a corrupt system with heavy weaponry while on a quest to rescue his brother.

Sometimes it's a comedy about a conniver, scheming to undermine a corrupt system with the help of larger - than - life funnyman figures like John Goodman and Stephen Root as upbeat schlockmeisters Frank and Hymie King.

Instead of reform he will replace an inadequate and corrupt system with one governed from heaven with permanent solutions, not patching up what exists today.

Not exact matches

China's financial system is plagued by unlicensed financial activity and illegal fundraising, thanks to a system of corrupt regulators colluding with wrongdoers, said Xu Jia'ai, the newly appointed head of discipline at China's central bank, this week.

In essence, Denton County homeowners are dealing with a a double whammy of two of the most operationally corrupt systems in the U.S... the Texas property tax system and the Federal Reserve.

It's no wonder so many people are Fed up with their myopic pursuit of self - preservation in service to a corrupt banking system.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

«As to Jesus of Nazareth, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with the most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts to his divinity.»

@JohnQuest — with the prevelance of cellphone cameras and quick posting to sites like youtube these days and all the police brutality and other unlawful activity videos going up on a daily basis involving police, I would be surprised if the percentage of police force that are corrupt, underqualified, discriminatory and just plain stupid is not only a lot higher than 5.0 % but also extends into the higher - ups of the system that are harder to pin - point.

But then we thought about the 14 - year - old farmer's daughter who thought she was taking a job in a restaurant, was deceived by a corrupt system, and who was now held under the thumb of a pimp, forced to sleep with five or more older men a night in some seedy brothel.

For Wallis's ultimate rejection of a Realpolitik (working within the corrupt «political» system to effectively garner power for human ends) is based on his understanding of Jesus» servanthood (identifying with the poor and oppressed, but rejecting all solutions based on political power).

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and His Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubt as to his Divinity; tho» it is a question I need not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.

He also said of Jesus «As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity».

I don't find that I agree completely with your points, because I think that they are ways in which the original idea of the group system has been corrupted, be that through dishonesty, works theology etc., rather than a fundamental issue with the system in general.

Personally however, I make a distinction between how we are to deal with individuals and how we are to deal with systems that are often corrupt and harmful to individuals.

From the multitude of student - athletes with criminal records, to the dishonest coaches and agents, to the scandals with the bowl system, one can only wonder what will be left of college football when all of the corrupt layers have been peeled away.

John Turenne, the president and founder of Sustainable Food Systems LLC, which works with schools to create healthier, sustainable food programs, nicely summed up this past week's collective anger: «Agribusiness is corrupting society with processed garbage,» said Turenne.

The former governor and two - term attorney general blamed the scandal in part on the state of the Republican Party in New York City because it «has been left with nothing but a series of wealthy benefactors and has left the system corrupt in every way.»

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.

«If the president is corrupt, the entire financial system is compromised and that is what we have seen with the figures we have just seen.

Furthermore, Fedele conflates state lawmakers from New York City with city lawmakers from New York City: «18 of the 19 corrupt Senators and Assembly members cited by the commission represented districts from within that very same New York City matching system,» he claims.

Johnson said he was open to backing a more proportional voting system, closer to what Clegg wants, but another Labour electoral reformer, Peter Hain, told the Guardian that proportional systems break the link with constituencies and so make it more difficult to sack corrupt MPs.

But he still oversees the state's $ 184.5 billion public pension system (the third - largest in the nation) and has teamed up with Mr. Schneiderman to take down corrupt elected officials and powerful nonprofit heads.

«With my experience as someone who knows how to get things done in the Assembly, I can lead the way as we pass legislation that will reform a corrupt campaign finance system that only benefits wealthy special interests.»

Despite the harsh laws, Indonesia's corrupt prison system is awash with drugs, and inmates and jail officials are regularly arrested for narcotics offences.

«Coupled with experience and someone who knows how to get the job done, I can lead the way as we pass legislation [and] reform corrupt campaign finance systems that only benefit the wealthy and special interests,» said Digi, a Democrat.

All these because a public system was deliberately corrupted and undermined to clear grounds for the «private sector,» - another word for cronyism — starting with the so - called «IMF conditionalities.»

«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.

Public employee unions tried to upend Rauner in the Republican primary over his criticism of «government union bosses» controlling a «corrupt» system with lawmakers and came close in a late push backing then - state Sen. Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale.

Several Bronx residents mentioned the system was corrupt and they don't want the Bronx machine empowered with their votes.

If memory operations occur during a system failure, such as a computer system crash, there is a chance that the memory could become corrupt with wrong data.

Very briefly, it goes something like this 13, 19: infants or very young children of a certain genetic background, 2 o, 21 who are weaned from the breast too early22 onto cow's milk and who, perhaps, become infected with a virus that may corrupt the gut immune system, l9 are likely to have a high risk for Type 1 diabetes.

They must constantly improve and advance their technology as cyber criminals come up with new ways to infect, undermine, and corrupt computer systems.

«True Detective» McAdams plays a detective with strong morals struggling in a corrupt system in Season 2 of HBO's «True Detective.»

Movie: National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995) IMDb rating: 4.9 The plot: A group of delinquent kids takes a bus trip to Washington D.C. to tell the President first - hand what is wrong with the education system, something a couple of corrupt politicians intend to exploit.

This fictional account follows assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward (Hodge) forming an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran (Bacon) to take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to involve the entire criminal justice system of Boston.

With an unexpected election outcome, director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and first time screenwriter Jonathan Perera may just luck out since their film can alternatively be interpreted as a scathing commentary on a corrupt existing system... the single biggest reason for that surprise election result.

As he works to try and get back that which he has lost, he finds employment with a real estate shark (played by the Oscar - snubbed Michael Shannon) who has figured out how to game the corrupt system to his greatest advantage.

Where Brest's film unfolded with pigeon - feeding scenes and wisecracks amid sighs, Braff gives us a loud machine gun robbery in the first five minutes, the bandit speechifying «You're a casualty of a corrupt system that no longer serves the people!»

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.

Yet, even with the best of intentions, points, stamps and tokens corrupt even the finest system.

In this issue's cover story, Veronique de Rugy and Kathryn Newmark say it's too early to know whether a catastrophe has swept away one of the country's most corrupt and ineffectual school systems, replacing it with a network of competing, privately managed charter schools.

As a taxpayer and parent with a child in the school system, I'm skeptical that the right mechanisms, meaning those that can not be corrupted, could be put in place to monitor private entities operating public school systems.

Are the other men on the school board letting superintendents male or female sit idley by why the system grows more corrupt with governement officials or their relatives (e.g. Neil Bush (Ignite Ed)-RRB- profit off of new and corrupt legislation?

MYTH: The main problem with education is the lazy or incompetent teacher, who is protected by corrupt unions and supervised by out - of - control local school councils, so the key to reform is a system of rewards and punishments and the dismantling of rights to organize (as with state legislation currently under debate).

And finally, while some characters actively turn a corrupt system to their advantage, most simply go along with the status quo, and none make any attempt to challenge it.

Her debut novel, the first book in the Seeds trilogy, co-written with her mother Kristy and sister Elena, is a science - fiction dystopia that explores what happens when corrupt politicians control the food system.

It's formulaic in the best way possible — a good cop, a corrupt system, powerful forces at play — with excellent characterizations, first - class world building, fast - paced plotting, a main character you want to root for, and a genuinely sinister villain.

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The game starts with your character being introduced to the VR environments, while in this world the story soon changes when the system your linked into becomes corrupt, this then sends you on a 5 to 6 hour campaign to find out who's responsible for this and who's responsible for the release of the Zed's.