Sentences with phrase «of abuse of power since»

Savage added: «The first was my inappropriate relationship with Jules, which was not only immoral, but meets the definition of abuse of power since I was her youth pastor; therefore, when our relationship became physical, there could be no claim of mutual consent.

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Since Mr. Xi came to power, China's leadership has recentralized power to focus on anti-corruption and abuse of power by officials, as well as developing big plans for market reform and opening the country to foreign investment.

Since they have absolute control over the supply of tickets and since they deal only with their own selected list of agencies, it would seem to be within their power to correct the abuses now prevaSince they have absolute control over the supply of tickets and since they deal only with their own selected list of agencies, it would seem to be within their power to correct the abuses now prevasince they deal only with their own selected list of agencies, it would seem to be within their power to correct the abuses now prevalent.

Since January of 2009, I have been writing a book for non-profits about dealing with leadership and organizational systems where abuse of power is involved.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

This is no ordinary scandal, Peggy Noonan writes on her Wall Street Journal weblog Declarations, calling the IRS's abuse of its power «the worst Washington scandal since Watergate.»

At a minimum, he called for a state ethics investigation since misusing the parking placard would be an abuse of power.

Not only is it a dingy psychological thriller revolving around themes of insanity and sexual abuse, even though Foy has seen her fame increase since her breakout turn in Netflix's «The Crown» it's safe to say this film still lacks the star power of Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane, Hilary Swank, Riley Keough and Katie Holmes that Logan Lucky brought to the table.

The brief montage / documentary was an explicit attempt to recognize what many analysts, in the media and in academia, have been saying of the Weinstein story since it broke in October: that sexual abuse is not just about sex; it's about power.

Ever since the film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes (and the breathless acclaim of most, if not all, who saw it there), harsh words have been flying among Kechiche, his crew (who released a statement accusing the director of exploitive labor practices and general abuse of power), and the film's leads, Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos.

Both films take the form of curdled dark comedies about raging misanthropes who abuse their positions of authority — or at least their power over small children, since drunken mall Santas and Chicago's public - school teachers both lack real power — to engage in criminal schemes.

«We will not accept the abuses of power that have been going on since the beginning of time.»

A presentation of the monumental installationThe Ozymandias Parade (1985), a scathing commentary on the abuse of political power, on view in New York for the first time since the Whitney Museum's retrospective in 1996.

Her work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance.

That entrenched psychological sickness is a VIRUS that has been spread via the media globally and especially since 2007 by Social Media Platforms and US GOVT THINK TANKS that setup other corrupt think tanks like the IPA in Australia and then they end up in Parliament making Laws about AGW / CC and Economics and placing SANCTIONS on anyone else in the worlds who's FREE SPEECH counters the garbage spewing forth from the USA and is then silenced by SANCTIONS — A NON-STOP Hypocritical Abuse of POWER.

William Perry Pendley, whose group, the Mountain States Legal Foundation, is named in Walker's subpoena, told me the effort by environmental groups is: «an abuse of power that we haven't seen in this country since Woodrow Wilson.»

Richard has sat as legal advisor to misconduct panels in numerous cases since 2009 involving allegations of corruption, abuse of power, assaults, thefts, sexual assaults, bullying of junior officers, sexual, homophobic and racial discrimination.

As a litigator, he has focused on judicial review work since 1993, challenging the unfair exercise and abuse of power by public authorities, human rights breaches and discrimination.