Sentences with phrase «political power abuse»

We believe this whole disgraceful episode wreaks of typical Rockland County political power abuse!

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«As history has shown, there are certainly many episodes where individuals or groups are able to abuse concentrated power and quell political dissent,» he says.

So while there are few checks and balances on the abuse of power, the leadership's priorities remain the same: keep the country relatively stable, head off political risks, and avoid a financially ruinous military conflict.

It may not be so much the form of socio - political structure that is of concern but whether that structure has matured into a form that balances its potential for abuse of power at both the top and the bottom.

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.

Any given political or economic system that goes unregulated is ripe for abuses of power.

Last December, South Korea's parliament decided to impeach President Park over a controversy that centres on her relationship with her friend Choi and accusations of abuse of political power.

Within this context, it will be very much unbecoming for any politician seeking political power to abuse the system and introduce what will not work well for the country.

While that independence may be a good in itself — because it allows for self - realisation, the living of a more rewarding life than one of dependence etc. — its primary objective must be to contest the abuse of political and economic power in concert.

A coalition of human rights groups, including Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International wrote to the home secretary saying: «We are very concerned that new measures, made in good faith but in a heated political environment, will overextend powers in ways that would be susceptible to abuse, restrict legitimate, free communication and expression and undermine people's privacy.»

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

Surely he's aware that other presidents, most notably Richard Nixon, have abused the power of the Internal Revenue Service to harass their political opponents.»

The state, and its namesake city, seem to produce more than their share of men who abuse their political power, whether for financial gain, career advancement, or the mistreatment of women.

PRESS RELEASE: Citing the growing number of cases of political corruption and abuse of power in the State Capitol, Republican State Senate candidate Juan Reyes of Queens today called for decisive action by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Such an action raises fears about growing abuse of power, political suppression and human rights violation.

Let's see, a Governor who solicits prostitutes and uses the state police to do his political bidding... corruption isn't just about bribes — it's about the abuse of power.

«For an elected official to utilize a police agency to threaten peaceful protesters merely because they represent a political inconvenience is an egregious abuse of power,» Valle wrote.

Silver, 71, was indicted in January on corruption charges alleging that he abused his political power in order to line his pockets with more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks dating back to 2000.

«This case is the age - old tale of abuse of political power,» Martins said in her opening remarks, adding that the senator would extract payments from companies with business before the state or they would «fear his wrath.»

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

We must put Ghana First by equalizing the disadvantages of the political parties in opposition to ensure that they have a fair and even chance against any abuse of incumbency by this Government which is definitely very desperate to remain in power after eight years.

Skelos is accused of abusing his broad powers by soliciting work and payments for his son and political contributions from real estate interests with extensive business before the state.

The Governor said that military high command should address the abuse of soldiers by insulating them from carrying out unlawful commands so that the military itself will not be subject to abuse by any government in power who might be drunk with the idea that the military is the armed wing of its political party.

«I have been an elected official in various capacities for over 30 - years, it disgusts me to continue to see people in power abuse their influence for personal and political gain.

After Bridgegate rendered the New Jersey governor a non-entity at the Port Authority, whose power his allies had abused, he allowed Cuomo to assert dominance there, and use the Port to serve his own political ends.

«This case is the age - old tale of the abuse of political power to satisfy personal greed,» prosecutor Tatiana Martins told jurors in Manhattan federal court.

He said he would «not tolerate abuse of power from any level of government» but warned critics not to try to take political advantage to «tarnish» the entire department.

After his 1969 political thriller Z was an international sensation, leftist director Costa - Gavras continued to make movies in the same vein throughout the»70s, using genre excitement to expose covert abuses of power worldwide.

Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Natacha Regnier Program: Special Presentations Headline: It Fails Us Now Scott's Take: Once upon a time, Costa - Gavras was rightly considered one of the great political filmmakers, turning his rage over real - life abuses of power into docudramas like Z, State Of Siege, and Missing.

And so it's difficult not to read it on a political level too, a statement on the corruption and power abuses endemic in those closed systems, even as protests against the Ukrainian government's anti-EU isolationism continue to cost lives.

As political scientist Thomas Dye puts it, «intergovernmental competition» was seen by the Founders as an «auxiliary precaution» against the «monopoly abuse of power by a single centralized government.»

Teachers unions have used state power to entrench themselves in our political system, extracting compulsory fees to buy influence with lawmakers, who then allow unions to abuse their power at the expense of teachers and other public employees.

There will also be a time when the Vita games - buying public vent and begin attacking the gaming press for such belligerence and abuse of power; the political landscape in gaming is skewed in review terms by the relationships between publishing houses and reviewers.

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.

This body of satirical work continues his acerbic attacks on abuses of power, corruption and political dumbness seen in his 2010 Cape Town show Hail to the Thief.

From Shepard Fairey's «How I'm Taking on Abuse of Power and Political Corruption» in The Daily Beast to a behind - the - scenes look at Daniel Heidkamp's studio process in ARTNews Habitat, it's been a big year in news for Pace Prints artists.

These combine a fierce playfulness with tough political content to focus on contemporary issues such as feminism and militarisation and the abuse of power - well as the role of digital technologies in the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and information.

The Ozymandias Parade, a scathing installation commenting on the abuse of political power.

The paintings reflect on contemporary issues facing our global community: political corruption, environmental apathy and abuse of power.

On one, «Abuse of Power Comes As No Surprise» is written in red, which made me think about the political situation right now and the meaning of messages.

With this series, Attukwei Clottey addresses the issues of abuse of power amongst the political elite, more specifically how sex is traded as a form of currency and means of control.

Referencing the Italian folk - tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, Spite Your Face offers a powerful critique of contemporary «post truth» political rhetoric, in which the dubious language of truth is used and abused to enhance personal, corporate and political power.

For decades, Nancy Spero has drawn from the political to create compelling works of art that make a statement against war, the abuse of power and our male - dominated society.

Democrats in Congress might not have much interest in getting to the bottom of the IRS abuse - of - power scandal, but they're all over threats to the lucrative cash cow and political power source represented by the global warming movement.

The check on FEMA's power or abuses — or those of its partners in the WYO program — is political.

With the private data of billions up for sale to not only advertisers but political organizations, where is the line drawn between Facebook engaging in capitalist enterprise and the company abusing its power of influence?

If the government actually wants to protect the public against Facebook abusing its power, it would need to go harder than the Honest Ads Act that would put political advertising on Internet platforms under the same scrutiny regarding disclosure of buyers as the rules for TV and radio advertising.

The Cambridge Analytica caseit raised the discussion about the power of social networks and the possibility of their abuse for the conditioning of political activities.

The Cambridge Analytica case it raised the discussion about the power of social networks and the possibility of their abuse for the conditioning of political activities.