Sentences with phrase «of opportunities for corruption»

«This budget creates a head - spinning number of opportunities for corruption.

A lot of opportunity for corruption!

Not exact matches

«While this lawsuit is frivolous and will be dismissed, if the case goes forward, the DNC has created an opportunity for us to take aggressive discovery into their claims of «damages» and uncover their acts of corruption for the American people,» said Brad Parscale, Trump's campaign manager, in the Friday statement.

The bulk of bribery and other forms of corruption (though by no means all of it) goes on in developing countries where rule of law is lax and the opportunities for profit are rich.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

The rigidity of social institutions in a «vertical culture» creates numerous opportunities for corruption and injustice, because it creates strongholds of power that the oppressor can colonize and exploit.

Daniel Schuman, policy director of Demand Progress, told HuffPost: «With today's action — taken behind closed doors and with no opportunity for public debate — the House now rolls back the clock to an era of corruption and decay.

It should be more patriotic, not to just defend the indefensible, but to own up to the fact of Nigeria's killing scourge and use the opportunity of the London summit to seek the cooperation of the world and the participating countries in particular to make their vaults inaccessible and unavailable for the proceeds of corruption from Nigeria's kleptomaniac club.

He cited reforms involving fiscal responsibility and discipline, addressing corruption and unresponsive bureaucracies, focusing on the productive sectors of the economy, and improving the business environment, Ghana with these reforms, according to President Akufo - Addo, «is a land of opportunity for private capital.»

«This extensive package would help fix many of the issues that lead to corruption and the misuse of taxpayer funds and will create a system where sound investments will be better able to grow our economy and create more opportunities for all New Yorkers.

Since this is directly caused by increase in the numerator with near - constant denominator, the greater the size of the polity, the more benefits and opportunities for corruption.

Today's sweeping indictments by federal and state prosecutors resoundingly confirm that the state's use of non-profits and SUNY to award billions in state economic development contracts has created huge and systemic opportunities for corruption.

Close to $ 2 Billion in public funds in play Today's sweeping indictments by federal and state prosecutors resoundingly confirm that the state's use of non-profits and SUNY to award billions in state economic development contracts has created huge and systemic opportunities for corruption.

The dominance of big money in state politics will generate greater opportunities for legislative malfeasance, exacerbating New York's culture of corruption.

:: Urgently pay Edo State pensioners over 42 months outstanding pension benefits and entitlements from the over N29bn Paris Club refunds received by your government and meant for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities;:: Adopt a human rights policy of guaranteeing regular payment of pension benefits and entitlements so that pensioners and their families can live decently;:: Recognize the human rights of Edo State pensioners and ensure their full and effective enjoyment of those rights, as well as provide them with information to enable them to claim their rights;:: Treat all pensioners in Edo State as individuals with humanity and dignity and respect and promote their higher standard of living and improve economic and social conditions for all pensioners;:: Provide Edo State pensioners with proper support and assistance to alleviate their plight, including by ensuring informal, community - based and recreation - oriented programs for pensioners to help develop their sense of self - reliance and independence;:: Reduce opportunities for corruption in the spending of the Paris Club refunds

Dean Skelos, who served for seven years as the majority leader of the state Senate before his arrest on federal corruption charges earlier this year, was convicted on eight counts of using his office to secure lucrative employment opportunities for his son, Adam.

When there's precious little disclosure, precious few consequences for violations, you're going to find huge opportunities for corruption, and at a minimum for conflicts of interest.»

By making the public aware of the funding source, opportunities for corruption are fewer, and the public awareness of why certain people say certain things is more obvious.

If he fails to take advantage of this opportunity to enact such legislation he will be seen as a stalwart champion for continued corruption in NY State.

Our state has a history of corruption, stretching back to Tammany Hall, our campaign laws are too lax, contribution limits are too high, lawmakers» pay is too low, opportunities for graft are more abundant, state politics is personality - driven, and on and on and on.

Corruption charges brought against a member of the state Senate Republican majority Wednesday have provided an opportunity for Democrats to jumpstart the seemingly dormant conversation on government ethics as state budget negotiations enter their final week.

Cuomo said at a cabinet meeting earlier in the day that there are more opportunities for public corruption in the Legislature than in his branch of government.

«This either is an opportunity for the governor to redeem himself for the mistake of shutting down the first (corruption) commission or a move to control an investigation into his own administration,» Dadey said, noting the possibility that Schwartz could find himself sending a subpoena to the same executive who granted him subpoena power.

Thus, due to 7.38 million non-votes, New York is poised to endure further restrictions of rights, stagnated economic growth, and continued corruption until either Gov. Cuomo's term ends or the opportunity to run for president appears.

Bloomberg said he believes the opportunity for the kind of corruption alleged against the political leaders arose because political parties are part and parcel of New York City's elections.

«Addressing alleged corruption in the budget process by pursuing prosecution of indicted principal officers of the National Assembly will provide an important opportunity for the Federal Government to reignite the fight against corruption and fulfil a cardinal campaign promise, to show that the Federal Government works on behalf of the many, and not the few, as well as jumpstart economic activities and break the back of the recession.»

«If we are to conserve remaining wild populations of elephants, we must close all markets because, under current levels of corruption, they can not be controlled in a way that does not provide opportunities for illegal ivory being laundered into legal markets,» said the paper's author, Elizabeth Bennett, WCS Vice President for Species Conservation.

But, imagine if this were to happen anyway — what an opportunity for academic investigation of the journalistic process, its foibles and weaknesses, and especially its dishonesty and corruption — which we are all very well aware of of course, but have rarely witnessed at first hand!

Auctioning 100 % of carbon allowances would eliminate some of the biggest opportunities for gaming the system, corruption, and misusing political influence to gain special favors.

However, there are some big cons, including the opportunity for serious corruption and the inability of consumers to do much about it.

Often, the poor have not been afforded access to modern energy services due to governance reasons as much as technological or economic reasons... The smaller project size associated with distributed clean energy removes the ability of governing elites to centralize and control resources and limits opportunities for corruption.

or allow to Run Compensation Suit Simultaneously with suits file by Bank Officials under ARTHA RIN ACT with equal opportunity and equal right so as to restore total accountability, which will be similar to DRT (Debt Recovery Tribunal of INDIA)(B)- Considering the Heavy loss and Damages of Government Registered and Identified SICK INDUSTRIES of 1992 & 1996 of Private Sector due to Negligence, Violation of Contract & Non-Banking Activities etc. of Bank Officials and Policy Maker & need 100 % Weaver of all type of Bank loan liabilities to minimize their heavy loss and damages to certain extent under LIMITATION ACT (C)- The system of keeping mortgage of Land & Properties from the Owner of Industries by Bank or any Loan Giving Agencies as Securities are mostly responsible for Malpractices and ever growing Corruption, & Fraudulent Activities in Banking Sector, which are now proven matter and may kindly be completely abolished as a part of reform programs at earliest possible time to ESTABLISH ACCOUNTABILITY and Check Malpractices, Fraudulent Activities which are now growing by large in Banking Sector or in other Loan Giving Agencies upto root Levels (D)-- All suits of Artha Rin Court may kindly be transferred to Civil Commercial Court abolishing SECTIONS 12, 12 (khan) 18 (2) & (3) 19, 20, 21, 34,40, 41, 42, 44, 47 and 50 of ARTHA RIN ACT -2003 for the end of Justice.