Sentences with phrase «of widespread corruption»

It is our duty to work tirelessly next year to lay bare the facts of widespread corruption, manifest incompetence and increased poverty before the Ghanaian people, so that they can have no doubt about the compelling necessity of saying goodbye to John Mahama and his government, no matter the juicy inducements that are going to be offered to them.

And despite the law, the NYPD — reeling from an era of widespread corruption in the 1970s — continued providing disciplinary records on officers to assure the public they were not returning to a time of covering up protection rackets and other types of untoward conduct.

A change to eradicate the perception of widespread corruption in public life and enhance the quality of governance in our nation.

BREAKING NEWS: Washington, D.C. insider says NYS Senator John Sampson covered - up evidence of widespread corruption in New York Surrogate's Courts.

That would make these the most expensive Olympics in history, inflated not only because of the need to fill that blank canvas but also because of widespread corruption.

Not exact matches

Nigeria, for instance, ranks 30th in terms of overall business environment, because of widespread violence and corruption among other things, yet it ranked first for its entrepreneur pipeline.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

Though 76 percent of millennials emphasized that business was a positive force in the world, the majority believe that large corporations can — and should — do more to alleviate widespread concerns such as conflict, inequality and corruption.

From 1929 to 2000, the Institutional Revolutionary Party has been hurt by rumors of vote - rigging and widespread corruption.

Russia's grim Soviet - era housing, high rates of abortion and of alcoholism and substance abuse, crime syndicates controlled by the Mafia and widespread corruption — all these help to make Christianity deeply attractive.

Slavery was still an issue, there was widespread unemployment and labor agitation, corruption ruled the big cities, Darwinism was attacking the laws of creation, Freud was laying bare the human psyche, and liberal Christians were attacking the uniqueness of the Christian religion.

Yet simultaneous with widespread evidence of corruption has been continuous pressure for higher standards of moral behavior.

Widespread support on the part of Americans must be based on morally sound as well as politically realistic principles, freed from the myths and corruption of the past.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

Amid the FBI's sweeping investigation into widespread corruption in college basketball, NCAA president Mark Emmert announced the formation of a group to examine «a system that clearly is not working.»

But I'll go ahead and backup here: if college sports, writ large, were suspended on account of widespread rape culture (not the mention the insane corruption of the NCAA and the disenfranchisement of the athletes themselves), I'd be 100 % fine with that.

There was widespread concern that fraud would worsen dramatically after EU enlargement in 2004, particularly with the accession of eight former Soviet bloc states and their experiences of closed government and corruption under Communism and rising gangsterism since the collapse of the USSR.

The February protests were the largest that Bulgaria has seen since the fall of communism, with more than 100,000 Bulgarian citizens mobilizing themselves against poverty, high energy bills and widespread political and social corruption.

It is fuelled by a great many legitimate grievances such as poor administration and the evidence of corruption made public by the Car Wash Operation, but it is also led by the prejudices of a privileged social class which discourages more widespread support for the movement.

Africa's bid to stem widespread corruption took a decisive turn on Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when the African Union, AU placed on President Muhammadu Buhari, the task of championing the war throughout continent.

The allegations and convictions of corruption in state government are so widespread that additional reforms are needed.

Skelos becomes the second of New York's most powerful political leaders in nine days to be sentenced to prison for public corruption crimes, a double - whammy that has cemented the state government's reputation as an organization plagued by corruption and prompted widespread calls for ethics reforms in Albany.

Prosecutors have alleged a widespread corruption scandal involving one of Cuomo's signature upstate New York economic development projects.

The ITU jointly struggles with other Iraqi progressive and patriotic forces for peace, democracy and social justice and for an end to the onslaught of sectarianism and terrorism that has brought widespread corruption, mass death, destruction and mayhem.

«The long - cherished and time - honoured, time - tested virtues of honesty, integrity, hard work, punctuality, good neighbourliness, abhorrence of corruption and patriotism have given way in the main to dishonesty, indolence, unbridled corruption and widespread impunity.

According to them, the economic breakdown caused by misuse of state funds and introduction of unscientific policies by the current administration as well as widespread corruption has left the region clamouring for the NDC and the former President.

He admitted «it is sad to note that thirty - eight years on, the vices of corruption, nepotism, cronyism, etc., which led to the eruption of June 4th in 1979 have slowly crept back into our everyday life and arguably surpassed the obnoxious period preceding the June 4 event,» adding «our nation is once again grappling with the canker of widespread, extreme corruption that has permeated the whole of our society, including officialdom.»

He says the president's leadership style has been characterized by widespread corruption; inefficiency and mismanagement which is why many are not keen on seeing him as the torch bearer of the party in 2016.

Robert Mugabe may stand accused of crimes against humanity, widespread corruption, anti-white racial discrimination, human rights abuses, suppression of political critics and economic mismanagement.

On his part, Mr Babatunde Ogala, a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, noted that undue pressure placed on politicians by their constituents had also contributed to widespread corruption in the country.

«Anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria generally have not met widespread expectations mainly because of lack of political will of those in government to fight grand corruption; absence of an over-all national anti-graft strategy; inadequate legal framework and resources and / or lack of full and effective implementation of new initiatives; limited independence and public trust; lack of an enabling climate and necessary know - how, and lack of basic ethical values.

«In the»70s, Governor Rockefeller appointed a special prosecutor to investigate widespread police corruption and in the»30s, the governor then [at the time] appointed the Seabury commission that investigated municipal corruption in the city, which led to the involuntary retirement of Mayor [Jimmy] Walker.»

The top investigator at the New York Correction Department resigned on Friday under pressure from city leaders who are facing a federal mandate to regain control of the Rikers Island jail complex, where widespread brutality and corruption by guards routinely go unpunished.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, says considering the economic hardships, widespread corruption, rising cost of living, and the high levels of unemployment, it comes as no surprise to him that Ghanaian youth are angry, hungry and have given up any hope of the country offering them a bright future.

Oil - rich Nigeria produces the most oil of any African country, yet struggles with widespread poverty and corruption.

The lead paragraph of the AP's 23 January story created the impression that AP had uncovered widespread corruption at the fund.

Ovidiu Andronesi, an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says he and many other members of one body, the National Research Council (NRC), learned they had been dismissed in an email received just before midnight on 31 January — almost at the same time as the government passed an emergency decree that decriminalized some corruption offences, sparking the widespread protests.

Helmed by Oren Moverman, it explores the state of the LAPD circa the late»90s but, despite what its title suggests, the film isn't about the infamous Rampart scandal — an umbrella term for the widespread corruption that occurred inside the Division's anti-gang unit (offenses ranged from unprovoked shootings, planting of evidence, narcotics possession, bank robbery, and perjury)-- but instead it's set whilst the events were still current.

This go - round, the stakes are even higher, for he uncovers a widespread pattern of corruption indicating that the entire precinct might be in cahoots with the mobsters wreaking havoc on the local neighborhood.

(In Czech and German with subtitles) The Whistleblower (Unrated) Fact - based drama chronicling the heroic exploits of Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz), an American peacekeeper in postwar Bosnia who uncovered widespread corruption, including a United Nations cover - up of the sex - trafficking of young women.

Three years ago, the last time the Russian filmmaker was here, he garnered widespread attention for Leviathan, his acclaimed, partially state - funded tale of corruption that was seen as challenging Vladimir Putin's government and which won the best screenplay award.

Corruption and incompetence were widespread, and those who did attempt to place the academic needs of children at the top of the bureaucratic food chain faced tall odds in a system that was already stacked against them.

There is a significant risk that without proper regulation and auditing there will emerge widespread corruption and failure of due diligence in connection with such expenditure.

Complaints about the widespread corruption were not surprising, but some of the specifics did not sound too pleasant to a naked cop, or to a naked editor either.

Since then the democratic government has made progress in dealing with high unemployment, widespread corruption, a dilapidated physical infrastructure and powerful organized crime networks, but still has a long way to go - thousands of unemployed Albanians emigrate annually to nearby countries.

In what has been described as the greatest challenge to the communist state in China since its inception in 1949, tens of thousands soon joined in the peaceful protest, angered by widespread governmental corruption and calling for democratic reform.

Citizens were mobilised to challenge widespread abuses of power, corruption and environmental mismanagement.

They balance this dark, cynical tale of widespread secrecy, violence and corruption.»

Police corruption is widespread, however the chances are you will not have any dealings with them unless you are «guilty» of a traffic offence.

Secondly, if you look at the quality of life in China, the rampant industrial pollution, the widespread labor unrest, the corruption that allows poisoned milk products to enter the market, etc., then you must admit that China's «rise out poverty» is not such a wunderkind story — they may have some monetary wealth, but they are also suffering a great deal of pollution and associated diseases... and their dirty emissions cross the Pacific, and are noticeable in Washington and Oregon.