Sentences with phrase «corrupt use of»

Let me be clear: citing evidence about access to Russell Group universities is a complete red herring and a corrupt use of the statistics that fails to compare like with like.

With the United States Senate passing its version of a tax redistribution bill in the wee hours of December 2nd, it's now almost certain that the death knell for the corrupt use of refunding bonds by the school bonds cartel has tolled.

He is now charged with corrupt use of position or authority, a felony; three counts of official misconduct, a misdemeanor; and conspiracy in the sixth degree, a misdemeanor.

«In truth and fact, Silver has obtained millions of dollars in outside income as a direct result of his corrupt use of his official position to obtain attorney referral fees for himself, including from clients with substantial business before the state,» not the result of legitimate outside income, it is charged.

«Corrupt use of position» applies to officials or candidates who corruptly promise or use their authority to give someone a job or raise or who make offers in return for contributions.

The criminal complaint says there is probable cause to believe that Silver obtained about $ 4 million in payments characterized as attorney referral fees through the corrupt use of his official position.

The new laws establish felonies of corrupting the government and corrupt use of position or authority.

«In truth and in fact, Silver has obtained millions of dollars in outside income as a direct result of his corrupt use of his official position to obtain attorney referral fees for himself, including from clients with substantial business before the State, and not as a result of legitimate outside income Silver earned as a private lawyer,» the complaint reads.

Jesus» teaching reprimand the corrupt uses of falsely justifying violence / killing and the evil in our nature that seeks violence for it's own sake, but He does not remove sound established theological truths and teach that God as we understand Him in the Old Testament (the one He calls Father) is false.

Not exact matches

Foreigners are coming in and buying up property with anonymous shell companies and some of that is perfectly legitimate but some of it is clearly money laundering and corrupt officials and other people using their cash to park it in property and making it impossible for the people who live there to afford it.

As vice president and comptroller, Fisk used corporate funds to corrupt public officials, produce Broadway shows, and support Broadway beauties, especially the well - known Josie Mansfield, to such an extent that he was also called «The Prince of the Erie.»

The keys are smuggled into Mexico and then on to the United States — by land, air, or sea — using methods as varied as they are ingenious: stashed under fresh produce, in cans of jalapeños, in the bellies of frozen shark carcasses, in trap compartments of cars, trucks, motor homes, container ships, small aircraft, even submarines; taped to the bodies of backpackers traveling by bus; catapulted over border fences; concealed in the trunks of corrupt local sheriffs; or trundled through underground tunnels (some so well constructed that they have air conditioning), a tactic purportedly devised by El Chapo himself.

In 2010, a Senate committee investigating corrupt money moving into the country drew attention to a shell company used by the sister of the president of Gabon to buy a $ 2 million residence in Manhattan, and to an L.L.C. used by the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea to purchase a $ 30 million home in Malibu, Calif..

Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

Shi described to me how personal banking and credit information «is being used as part of the anti-corruption campaign to identify the networks of corrupt officials», who in China often hide their graft — whether it's property or cash — by putting it in the names of friends or family.

It is the sort of thing we teach our children (or at least the sort of thing we used to be able to teach our children before this age of incivility corrupted our youth with its rock music / hippies / video games / rap music / violent movies / Internet / baggy pants).

More importantly, promiscuous use of these weasel words corrupts the English language.

But the purpose of the hierarchy is precisely to formalize the process of abstraction used by historians, so that they can avoid the logical inconsistencies that often corrupt their narrative explanations and meet the criticism that has been (I think justly) leveled at them.

And the political and perverted way in which his writings were immediately used to supercede Jesus» teachings became the backbone of the early church, thus rendering it perverted and corrupt from the very beginning.

Meaning, if you're going to use Julie's divorce stories to accuse EV leaders as being corrupt abusers, then wouldn't you want to get to the hard, naked truth of it?

The difficulty we have is that much of the language we would wish to use has been corrupted such that it is ambiguous, so tolerance and human rights can now be used to suppress Catholic beliefs and the freedom of Catholics to teach.

If you go to the book of revelations, read a couple documents and study a little in some documentary's you will find out that the translation is corrupt, infact they destroyed for other reasons, BUT in Tobias you will still learn that the old testomant does not approve of homosexuality, also in Leviticus, as well as Romans, and 2nd Corinthians, and a bit more passages, use google, it might help.

Occupation of Muslim lands with rich resources therein and using their corrupt leaders by the West to moneylaunder their wealth into the like of Swiss Banks are the main cause of unrest in these places.

Having inside knowledge of political decisions that will affect population movements and land use gives opportunities for windfall profits for corrupt individuals.

You charge me also with saying, again pleading the support of the scriptures, that though we humans have many kindly affections, love of children, love between men and women, love of country, all these too are corrupted and defiled; and that though we have very agile minds, able to penetrate into the mysteries of nature, we put this gift and attainment to ignoble uses.»

It's the people in positions of power that use, corrupt and abuse religious doctrine to control the people.

«MHA knows that they can use the inefficiency and massive delays of the Indian bureaucracy as a weapon — forcing charities like Compassion to either accept their determinations, or spend years seeking redress in a painfully slow and often corrupt legal system,» he said.

Cobb even gives us one concrete example, claiming that «in Nicaragua the Christian conscience sided with the use of relatively limited violence to bring an end to massive structural violence by a corrupt dictatorship» and that «this is surely a gain worth the price paid» (PTT 107).

faith + ignorance = religion faith is a great thing, corrupt it with man interpreting it and using it to control the ignorant and add fear to it and you have most of the worlds religions today.

Joseph Prince did a fantastic job in using Scripture (Bible must interpret Bible) to show or define who «sons of God» are; why all flesh was corrupted and had to die in order to save the human race; and who were the giants in the land of Canaan, why they were there and why God raised up the nation of Israel.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

If we are questioning the potential canon of scripture being used I will again refer to God's use of Sinful, corrupt man throughout the entirety of the Bible in accomplishing his ultimate purposes.

Higher abilities can not fail to be despots and have always corrupted rather than been of use; they are to be banished or executed.

He strings together a long series of vaguely related observations that insinuate that Raymond Cardinal Burke corrupts the Catholic faith by using the Church to promote political ends.

In Nicaragua the Christian conscience sided with the use of relatively limited violence to bring an end to massive structural violence by a corrupt dictatorship.

But corrupt, worldly, or weak Popes used their power to appoint as abbots men who had the emoluments of the office but seldom if ever were in residence.

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

The use of the word Jesus is not wrong, but the context of the word Jesus is corrupted by the error of the context and meaning that defines the Person and work of Jesus as revealed in the Bible.»

We have no sin God created Adam & Eve to rule Earth... Jesus was Assassinated by conspiracy among those from the Children of Israel who took him for a Corrupter corrupting their beliefs... and since Judaism did not invite converts they had to officially establish a new religion to convert non Jews to it and then use them as a sword in their hands to fulfill their prophecies of ruling the world...!

Managers can measure political risk using quantitative and qualitative factors describing the political system in a country; e.g., repetitive government / parliament elections before the end of their term, potential internal and external conflicts, ethnic structure diversity, history of the country, non-democratic political system, weak legislative power of the parliament, corrupted authorities, etc..

Could I make this frosting ahead of time and leave in the fridge for one or two days before using it on corrupt cake?

I hope the Boss will take it and use it to open the Game Data Base of all Arsenal opponents in all competitions and corrupts their various App Game Data Plans.

We should design the biggest protesting plan that the world of football has ever seen, we should show the world that even in the era that money and billionaires are trying to corrupt football, fans still can take control, when we don't buy tickets or any merchandises the board wont profit, Emirates Stadium should be filled with very few people all holding banners with «Kroenke out» written on it, we should use ArsenalFanTV to destroy Kroenke, we have the tools, we should just use them in the right way and then we will defeat Kroenke, from last season i stopped buying anything Arsenal related and just watched Arsenal getting trashed by teams and it just made me extremely sad!!!

I am SERIOUSLY considering using a hypnotist to rid me of my totally bonkers love for a totally corrupt club.

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This «network of corrupt officials» was serviced through «tradecraft» techniques which transferred payments secretly by using cash, or through the bank accounts of relatives or friends of the source.

Claim: The use of single - sourcing and non-transparent procurement processes for even, large, capital - intensive, complex, projects has led to billions of dollars being wasted, sometimes in shady deals that suggest corrupt motives on the part of some parties.

Just last week, he warned the president to be careful because most of those he has surrounded himself with describing them as sycophants whose sole interest is to use his name to further their corrupt agenda.