Sentences with phrase «on corruption of»

It stems from the old jurisprudence on the corruption of voters.

page 9 on Desmogblog: That organization does not actually shed light on the corruption of skeptic climate scientists, it was a vehicle from its inception to the present for the baseless accusations of Ross Gelbspan.

Professor Rutledge is also quoted in my book, on the corruption of peer review and related matters.

James Delingpole has a good article on the corruption of The National Trust and the Royal Society for the Protection Prevention of Birds.

All these people are there to prey and devour any semblance of innocence for their own gain, focusing on the corruption of spirit and not body.

Meanwhile, it is worthy of note that there has been more noise on corruption of the past than setting concrete agenda to avoid the pitfalls of the past.

This unfortunate dilemma could have been avoided if President Buhari had, immediately after assuming office, compensated political investors for their contributions to his victory without preachment on corruption of the past.

The book contains a fine chapter on the corruption of German medical ethics during the Weimar Republic.

The petition states: «Ricardians (those who believe Richard was wrongly accused of usurping the crown by murdering his way to it, but that he was actually one of our most just and enlightened kings) are clearly aware that Shakespeare's play was fiction and probably written as a satire on the corruption of power, but members of the general public often believe that Shakespeare was accurate, so each time the play is produced it only adds to the unfair reputation that Richard has been given.

Pedro, could you expand on the corruption of the Obama administration?

@TimLymington I assume this is all tied into protections against (wildly) unreasonable instructions, so that the jury acts as a control and stopgap on corruptions of the judiciary.

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According to Turkish dissidents, social media and external sources such as VICE are even more important than they would be elsewhere because local media outlets are unwilling to report on corruption or the behavior of Turkish police and armed forces.

The finance minister of Saudi Arabia has sought to reassure investors that the kingdom is a secure place to invest following a crackdown on corruption in the country that saw individuals imprisoned and assets handed over to the government.

Speaking to Reuters just ahead of his release Saturday, Alwaleed said that there were no charges against him following his arrest as part of a nationwide crackdown on corruption last November.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Ausdrill has backed former Leighton Holdings chief executive Wal King to continue serving on its board despite allegations of bribery and corruption against Mr King and several other executives.

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.

Mary Pilon — New York Times: Pilon is a different type of sports reporter, one whose stories often touch on the intersection of sports with business, politics and corruption.

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.

Shares of the Portuguese energy firm EDP also fell more than 2 percent on Monday after its CEO was named a suspect in a corruption investigation.

It ranked 144th out of 174 on Transparency International's corruption index for 2012.

Mainland Chinese high rollers are staying away amid a persistent economic slowdown and President Xi Jinping's continuing crackdown on corruption, both of which are crimping lavish spending.

That's in addition to a 500,000 - square - foot warehouse that opened in the fall in Louisville, Ky.; the launch of a mobile site; and the simultaneous debut of the biennial Super Nasty print magazine and the brand's first in - house collection, Weird Science, featuring color palettes inspired by computer cables and prints based on data - corruption visuals.

Yes, but its status quo is too wedded to corruption, easy credit, coal and delusions of global grandeur to make the kind of commitment needed to develop clean energy on the scale China needs to continue industrializing.

One of the most popular behavioral economists tweets about far - ranging issues like why we lie, and what psychological factors led to corruption on Wall Street.

During the course of the campaign, Jokowi has drawn closer to some of the entrenched interests that he is, in theory, running against — showing that for now, perhaps, there are limits to just how high Indonesia's self - made, corruption - busting leader from the slums can climb on his own.

Reconstruction here has been held up by bureaucracy and corruption, while billions of euros were spent on unpopular housing projects, or «new towns», with rows of identical dwellings built on special quake - proof platforms.

And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.

The Magnitsky Act leveled sanctions on high - level Russian officials accused of human rights abuses and corruption.

Kwame Kilpatrick, who was mayor from 2002 until 2008, was convicted this week of two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery for a scheme to collect kickbacks on city contracts for himself and associates.

The People's Liberation Army Daily on Wednesday published its list of attendees for the upcoming 19th party congress in Beijing on October 18, with two notable exclusions: Fang Fenghui, who was recently replaced as the chief at the Joint Staff Department in China's military and is currently under investigation for corruption, and General Zhang Yang, the director of the political work department, who also sits on the military commission.

The recent corruption purge took on a hint of irony, when it was revealed recently that MBS himself has some extravagant tastes that include a palace in Versailles, France, and the purchase of the most expensive art work in history, Da Vinci's depiction of Jesus, for $ 450 million, among other goodies.

Among the dozens of protest causes were transportation costs; Native Indian rights; government spending on the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics; corruption in state and local governments; and a bill in the Brazilian congress that would authorize psychologists to try and «cure» homosexuals.

Trump latched onto the revelations, accusing McCabe of corruption and anti-Trump bias based on his wife's political campaign.

The arrests follow a purge that has seen more than 80 executives at PDVSA and its suppliers jailed for alleged corruption as the state firm's new chief, Major General Manuel Quevedo, has sought to stamp his authority on the sector - the financial lifeblood of Venezuela's unraveling socialist government.

In March 2015, on a trip to Naples — a blackspot for organised crime — the pope set down a marker of his hatred of the mafia, condemning it for its «stinking» corruption, especially of the young and poor.

South Africa's parliament, controlled by the party of President Jacob Zuma, on Tuesday defeated a motion to impeach him despite growing evidence of corruption.

On Tuesday, Louisville was one of several schools named in an FBI investigation of fraud and corruption in college basketball recruiting.

His research interests include the areas of corporate governance and corruption as a constraint on business activity, international legal reform and business ethics in the developing world with a focus on the Middle East, and covenants not to compete as an obstacle to employee mobility and knowledge transfer.

Despite failure on the pitch and mass protests off it against perceived government corruption and vast overspend, Brazil is undergoing a period of transformation.

The home and offices of Ilmars Rimsevics, who also sits on the ECB's rate - setting committee, were raided by officers from Latvia's Corruption Prevention Bureau on Saturday.

One of China's elite prisons has become overcrowded with political prisoners due to President Xi Jinping's increased crackdown on corruption.

Sales dived by 9 % in first quarter of its financial year, largely due to one big problem: A crackdown on corruption in China, which has led to plummeting sales in China for luxury brands and premium spirit makers.

Some UK shell companies under offshore control may be skirting new rules which were designed to clamp down on corruption and tax evasion by forcing businesses to reveal their true owners, a Reuters analysis of corporate filings shows.

Transparency International, an NGO, each year produces the Corruption Perceptions Index based on surveys of business people, including locals.

Since November, Xi, the son of a reformist vice premier, has embarked on a campaign to end corruption in response to public anger that Communist Party members are above the law.

I used the only tools in the toolbox to essentially be a private prosecutor against civil rights violations and corruption and brutality on the part of police.

Over the last six years, more than nine of 10 journalists were killed in countries that scored lower than 45 on the index, and one in five journalists who died was covering a story about corruption.

Perhaps ironic given its subject matter, but The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese's based - on - a-true-story tale of Wall Street excesses and corruption, is the most pirated film of 2014, with over more than 30 million illegal downloads, according to Variety and analytics company Excipio.

Public criticism of corruption and incompetence of government officials, once prevalent, is much less frequent on weibo these days.