Sentences with phrase «more corrupt governments»

Not so surprising: poorer, more corrupt governments will foster environments more likely to contain rampant illegal logging.

Not exact matches

Every day it appears more likely that if she isn't corrupt, she's the only current or former government official associated with Petrobras who isn't.

Brutal perhaps, but no more corrupt than any other government in history I'm willing to bet.

And we all stand back and watch as corrupt «social justice» «non profits» lobby the bureaucrats for more money and the government squanders our hard earned dollars.

JP, the Sons of YHWH (God), had more than one wife, there was no celibacy here, you are trapped in this change of the vision of book Daniel of our future going into idols, and false religions, and corrupted governments.

Let's hear it for the Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog agency that has still managed to remain independent of the more corrupt aspects of Washington food politics.

The Reagan critique of government as inept, scandals Clintonian and more, and the widespread sense that politicians and systems are corrupt -LSB-...]

Pakistan's government is more corrupt and less effective generally than Israel's government.

Let's see... We're No. 1 in property taxes nationwide; No. 1 in overall taxes; we're ranked as the state with the worst economic outlook in America by the American Legislative Exchange Council; we have the most corrupt state government in America, according to the University of Illinois; we're losing more citizens to other states than any other state; we're 48th in business climate, according to the Tax Foundation; we have the second - highest electric rates in the country; we rank as the worst state in America in which to retire, and the list goes on.

Nothing makes this more obvious than the APC ward congresses and Local government elections held last week in which there were accusations of vote buying, harassment, violence, parallel congresses, anti-party activities, and corrupt practices.

More than 80 percent of those polled said government corruption in the city was a «very» or «somewhat serious» problem, though most said others cities are just as corrupt as New York.

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has also been invited over the same issue after he on public radio said there are more corrupt officials in the Akufo - Addo government.

The court ruled that bribery requires a more substantial exercise of government power as part of a corrupt deal.

This is the same legislator who resigned his position last month as majority leader to more fully devote himself to the troubled East Ramapo school district where he will travel to the corrupt government in Albany and oppose the appointment of a veto - proof monitor.

To establish which states are most corrupt, the researchers examined more than 25,000 convictions for violations of federal anti-corruption laws between 1976 and 2008 and created a «corruption index» by comparing convictions with the number of government employees.

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In addition to spending more than expected, corrupt states spent more on government activities and services that are susceptible to manipulation for private gain and less on other activities.

I'm glad that there are so many protests going on and I'm glad people are becoming less complacent, you know it's really nice to have if you work for a business you have employees that you trust that you can let go and let do the job you want them to do, it's wonderful if we had a government that we could trust but governments have always been corrupt and whether they're more or less corrupt depends on the time.

It's very aggravating, just one more story that we hear about how our government has made the wrong choices for us, probably based on some corrupt information to promote other businesses that aren't as good for our health and for our planet — like you were mentioning, petrochemical and others.

In the case of Burma, some suggest — like the above article — that travelers are discouraged from visiting the country in order to prevent more money falling into the hands of a corrupt government / dictatorship.

I don't know if y ’ all are keeping up with the economic news, but folks aren't real excited about having to pay more for things or have the government just hand over huge amounts of cash to some of the most corrupt nations on the planet under the guise of «saving the planet.»

Unfortunately government - funded climatology is little, if any, more corrupt now than astronomy.

As for destruction of the economy, tell me, what should a fiscal conservative believe more harmful to the economy: obsolete technology propped up by corrupt governments, subsidies and tax gifts while a scarce private resource goes to whatever wastrel wants it for free; or, applying the Law of Supply and Demand to the scarce, capitalizable, rivalrous, excludable, marketable carbon cycle to let the democracy of Free Enterprise decide the right level of its exploitation?

Indeed, they may be more toxic and more indifferent to suffering than any business and any corrupt government.

Without taking sides, then, we can see that the world is far more complicated than the story offered by environmentalists — of indigenous people at the mercy of powerful companies, who rule over corrupt governments, with only NGOs holding the wrong - doers to account.

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I can limit flood damage and improve health very simply: But I need lower cost energy (you don't want that), lower cost steel and transportation (you are working very hard to make both more expensive), more proper and safe rules and less excessive regulation (you want more regulation and more fees and more interferences from very propagandized zealots against work), lower costs for electricity, water and fuel (you seek more taxes and rules on all) no government corruption (The carbon taxes you want go ONLY to the corrupt third world dictators and NGO profit - seekers who are selling their ENRON - inspired carbon credits, none do anything for the people of each country forced into squalor and death.)

The ruling elites in Pakistan are much more interested in developing a nuclear arsenal and maintaining the corrupt government that favors its elites than they are in improving the infrastructure that would benefit the country overall.

Compliance efforts, like the U.S. based Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), are more relevant than ever, and new laws in Brazil, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and many other countries have dramatically increased due diligence and formal government investigations on a global scale.

The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 (FCPA) was enacted in wake of investigations by the US Security Exchange Commission (SEC) which revealed that hundreds of US companies had paid bribes totalling more than $ 300m to foreign government officials, politicians and political parties.

A prosecution document unsealed last Friday purports to show that convicted former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had two extramarital affairs that further corrupted state government, one with a lobbyist who frequently represented clients interested in pending legislation and another with a woman who was hired at a succession of state jobs for which critics say she was under qualified... → Read More: Federal Prosecutors Allege Silver's Corruption of Albany Included Government Favors for government, one with a lobbyist who frequently represented clients interested in pending legislation and another with a woman who was hired at a succession of state jobs for which critics say she was under qualified... → Read More: Federal Prosecutors Allege Silver's Corruption of Albany Included Government Favors for Government Favors for Mistresses