Sentences with phrase «not venality»
Their problem is not venality but, well, a certain form of stupidity.
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They want freedom to act in their interests without hindrance, to take advantage of fellow citizens, their venality hidden and victims believing that if you're not doing well it's your own fault - the marketplace has tested you and found you wanting.
Citizens should demand serious proposals in exchange for their votes, not just proofs of the other candidate's venality.
The Book of the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles in the New Testament make abundantly clear that contemporary church politics has no corner on venality, corruption, and partisan spirit; yet the power of Scripture is that it portrays a community for which the resurrection is not just a promise but a reality — in which, that is to say, the Spirit dwells.
The typical Nigerian personality, at least observantly, suffers from impoverished moral sense or conscience, broadly enjoys not conforming to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, love conning others for personal return or pleasure, recklessly disregard the suffering of others, nonfamily members especially, consistently and repeatedly have no remorse for hurting anyone and buys into mistreating everyone through acts of venality and deceitfulness.
«They act like stenographers of Preet Bharara's news conferences, instead heeding his request that they start investigations because prosecutors alone can't end political venality,» blogged Tilzer, who is based in Brooklyn.
Mr Campbell branded McBride, who was Gordon Brown's spin doctor, a «shyster» and said he «has admitted not just to venality but criminality».
It's not too much to infer a generation's frustration at death, corruption, assassination, and every other venality fed antiseptically through the glass teat — the dawning of the age of impotence.
Wouldn't it be more effective to answer the challengers, some of whom are highly credentialed climate scientists in their own right, with scientific data and arguments, instead of snide insinuations of venality and deceit?