Sentences with phrase «of corrupt government»

In the midst of economic struggles and claims of a corrupt government, the Olympics, slated to begin in Rio de Janeiro on August 5, were expected to give a much - needed lift to the country.

Mainly, the horrors of a corrupt government and the great divide between the snobby elite and the downtrodden poor.

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.

Why was the press — particularly American and European papers — so important in keeping the hopes for progress alive in the face of a corrupt government during this period?

This group has essentially taken control of Michoacán with the help of corrupt government officials, and they are as dangerous as can be.

«I will not obey the laws of a corrupt government,» howled to heaven one angry man.

«I think what's happened in the last couple of years in exposing the underbelly of this corrupt government that we have has led people to suddenly think that it's about time we get some different blood in our government.

On his part, the state chairman of the party, Chief Kanayochukwu Obidigbo said Anambra people had suffered greatly in the hands of corrupt government officials, and that the state needed a leader and not a ruler.

Who's had enough of his corrupt government?

It is John who showed the people how to live under the rule of a corrupt government and religious system.

WASHINGTON, April 19 - The United States and Colombia on Thursday cited new evidence of fraud in Venezuela's food import program for the needy, saying part of the funds often ended up in the hands of corrupt government officials after being funneled through businesses in nearby countries.

Sadly, a recent court case showed the problem of corrupting government to the benefit of hot - wired interests exists in Albany too.

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

The crime of corrupting government applies to public officials, or someone «acting in concert» with an official, fraudulently getting money, property or services from the state or a municipality.

Create new crime of corrupting the government and increase penalties for corruption, bribery and official misconduct.

With The Hunger Games» dystopian view of the future of North America, we recap Hollywood's best to worst visions of corrupt governments, sinister medical programs, and hellish landscapes.

Here are a few examples of corrupt governments that Ex-Im has recently been communicating with:

Not exact matches

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and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The country's prime minister has said that cryptocurrencies might corrupt the nation's youth, while the government warned in December that it would be conducting on - site investigations of exchanges.

Since the 1950s, a series of dictators had devastated the Argentine private sector, concentrating wealth into the hands of politically connected oligarchs, corrupt government contractors, and, most recently, foreign investors.

The causes of the crisis that nearly killed Bilinkis's company were many: a patronage system, started by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1950s, that grew into a bloated government bureaucracy; a corrupt privatization of government services that sold off some of the country's most valuable assets at fire - sale prices; and a reactionary monetary policy that exacerbated both of these problems.

The controlling and corrupting power of companies and governments come and go, but that fact is a constant force of history.

Caught between drug gangs and often - corrupt police, with little or no support from the government, residents of Guerrero are left with few options.

Similarily, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a release, «Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government's destabilizing activities.»

Home to the beach resort Acapulco, Guerrero was the scene of the September 2014 disappearance of 43 trainee teachers, who the government says it believes were massacred by a drug gang working with corrupt local officials and police.

Among them there were reports accusing the leader of a Teacher's Union of not being a teacher; of the Buenos Aires Province Governor raising her own salary by 100 % and even a claim that the US Government recorded Macri's Administration as being the most corrupt in the world.

The amendments now in force, including the soon - to - be eliminated facilitation payments exception, reinforce a strong message from the Canadian government that it is «redoubling» its efforts to curb any existing foreign corrupt practices of Canadian businesses.

There can be no doubt left that the Canadian government has taken seriously the criticisms levied against it by the OECD for not actively enforcing the CFPOA, and now intends to improve its international reputation by actively combating foreign bribery and corrupt activities of Canadian nationals and corporations.

Inasmuch as the essence of rulers and government is rule - setting, deregulation represents an undoing of public power in society's broad interests, on the ground that public power is inherently corrupt and run in the bureaucracy's narrowly self - serving interest.

Regulation, royalties, environmentalists, corrupt government officials, politics, disillusioned locals, etc. are some of the huge headwinds, and increase the cost and the time of developing a mine incredibly.

DVD of the week: McMafia Crime drama McMafia is a rollicing adventure that makes some good points about the extent to which dirty money has corrupted governments around the world.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

When I ran a global trade and financial company out of Southeast Asia, I was continually dogged by government rules... especially the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Honestly, look at pretty much all of the countries in your 50 % and over group and they are nearly all puppet regimes supported by the US political machine, or overthrown puppet regimes whose governments now hate the US because of the corrupt regimes that the US supported there.

That would be like leveling Virginia because of the corrupt US government.

Just for your information the Nazis didn't like Catholics either, thousands of priests and religious were executed because they refused to bow down to a corrupt tyrannical government.

I guess that in a world where war criminals continue to commit genocide in Sudan, where dictators suppress religion freedom in China, where people suffer from extreme poverty under the corrupt government of Zimbabwe, where sovereign nations are getting invaded by power - hungry Russian leaders, and where our own government exaggerated intelligence in order to occupy Iraq — Barack Obama is God's biggest concern, worthy of a little extra attention.

As a result, scores of millions of people have been born as U.S. citizens, with all the blessings consequent to that happenstance, who otherwise would have been living in deep poverty, under an exploitative government, subject every day to corrupt (and sometimes brutal) police, with no hope of social or economic betterment.

The reason the middle east is a breeding ground for terrorism is because of poverty, corrupt government, lack of education.

Bblove, all religions and religious leaders are already corrupt without the Government... examples Jim Bakker T.D. Jakes Joel Osteen, Osama bin ladin, Jim Jones, The popes, Jimmy Swaggert, David Koresh, Oral Roberts, Benny Hinn... the list of corruption and deciet goes on and on...

Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter — NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.

We believe in the goodness of the American people rather than corrupt, wasteful government programs.

The fact is those dependent upon leveraging a corrupt and massive Federal socialist government are scared as hell of seeing it dwindle.

The Bible is written to individuals, and tells each of us to care for the poor ourselves, not through our inefficient / corrupt government.

If our politics become so corrupt that their very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it.»

Active social reform (or involvement in the structures of society) will follow such proclamation, but it will be left by and large to concerned individuals.23 According to the editors, individual Christian involvement will include responsible public criticism of the errors of government (e. g., detente, price freezing, opposition to capital punishment, corrupt leadership, lack of low - rent housing) while remaining always orderly and loyal in the process.

«Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely» Whether it's in the name of religion, government, or comercial enterprise... Corrupt Islamic leaders manipulate people's beliefs the same way Hitler and Stalin did with propaganda... Ridding the world of religion wouldn't stop it.

In the case of religious expression, having a government authority like a school district abuse their authority by forcing the graduating class to listen to only one religious viewpoint and prayer is reprehensible from a legal standpoint regardless of what corrupt judge you find to rule differently.

It could have become a model for other Latin American countries, without the authoritarian and oppressive government that has corrupted almost all previous revolutions of the poor.

We are part of a culture that stands by and watches as famine, disease and corrupt governments kill off millions of children who had the misfortune to be born into developing countries.