Sentences with phrase «corrupted by privilege»

Franklin Littell points out that totalitarian creeds and systems have always arisen and come to power at times and places where religion was tired, ineffective, corrupted by privilege, and lacking in appeal to youth.

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This, in turn, further corrupts politics in the affected states not only by privileging those individuals and corporations with access to extra-territorially held resources but also by skewing the structure of economic relations.

A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei has said he is unfazed by threats by members of parliament to haul him before the Privileges Committee of the House for calling them corrupt.

Indeed, the jurisdictional reach of statutes such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 and the UK Bribery Act 2010 means that conduct in Asia is often at the heart of enforcement actions by UK and US authorities, making the rules of privilege in the UK and US particularly important to multinational corporates.