Sentences with phrase «scale corruption in»

The tweet reads «Now that the Governors have blown the whistle on the industrial scale corruption in the Nation's apex oil industry, the FG has two choices; Heads must roll or let the music play on.»

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In 2009 the sheer scale of the corruption of our banking industry became clear.

It has also exposed the political class and powerful economic actors as being involved in large - scale and complex corruption schemes.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Our institutions for checking corruption do not seem to be working and it has had to take the spearheading by a single individual to unearth such a massive scale of malfeasance in society.

Lerner says New York state government has had «corruption scandal after corruption scandal» and elected officials should not try to interfere in the process, and «try to put their thumb on the scale.»

Lerner said New York state government has had «corruption scandal after corruption scandal,» and elected officials should not try to interfere in the process and «try to put their thumb on the scale.»

Since New York City adopted public financing in 1988 it has not faced a corruption scandal on the same scale as the 1980s.

Looking at the gargantuan scale of public corruption recorded thus far in the contemporary political inventories of both the NPP and the NDC Ghanaians will be best advised to look elsewhere for salvation.

Following Ulrich, Larry Norden and Ian Vandewalker at the Brennan Center for Justice informed the Commission that comprehensive campaign finance reform was necessary to address the scale of corruption in Albany.

In Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Liberia and Ghanaian citizens are the most negative about the scale of corruption in their countrIn Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Liberia and Ghanaian citizens are the most negative about the scale of corruption in their countrin their country.

By this petition, we humbly request your noble Commission to launch a full - scale investigation into this matter in line with your mandate under article 218 (a) of the 1992 Constitution and section 7 (1)(i) of the Act 456, 1993 as amended and to establish whether or not the conduct of ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah in question, amounts to abuse of office, corruption and perversion of justice.

The system of legal bribery in which Albany operates is largely responsible for the wide scale corruption we've seen in recent months.

This initiative includes a new «Taxpayer Protection Unit» specifically designed to go after corruption in state contracts, pension fund rip - offs, and large - scale tax cheats.

The timing of the announcement, which followed through on a 2013 proposal, is worth noting: The large - scale destruction of state documents will be happening in the middle of a sprawling federal investigation of public corruption in Albany.

It surprises me, because in Europe, most left - wing parties are quite critical of the European Union, arguing that democracy works better on a smaller scale level, that a strong concentration of power is bad (e.g. increases susceptibility to corporate corruption), that the European Union is mostly a neoliberal project, among other arguments.

He also said since the administration had assured Nigerians that there would be no sacred cow in the fight against corruption, Buratai should step down and allow a full scale scale investigation by the Arms Procurement Panel and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Chicago Tribune: Blagojevich plans to take witness stand at his corruption retrial, sources say Rod Blagojevich's retrial on corruption charges has been mostly a scaled - back repeat of last summer's first installment, but that could soon change dramatically if the former governor testifies in his own defense and calls Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel among his first witnesses.

«She also wishes to commend the whistle - blower policy introduced by the Federal Government in the fight against corruption which policy has resulted in large scale uncovering and recovery of monies and assets.

MacShane had previously written an article for The Guardian in which he played down the expenses scandal, writing, «There will come a moment when moats and manure, bath plugs and tampons will be seen as a wonderful moment of British fiddling, but more on a Dad's Army scale than the real corruption of politics.»

Here an unconventional would - be pugilist goes up again systemic corruption in India's national boxing circuit, and on an even large scale, the entire countries caste system.

The Criminal Investigations Division of the French Police — their Scotland Yard — is located at the eponymous address, and played host to a story of inhouse politics and corruption of significant scale in the late 80s.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

But, in a predictable paradox, by attaching their incentives agenda to standardized testing, the reform movement has induced cheating on a never - before - seen scale, proving the maxim known as Campbell's Law: «The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision - making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.»

In fact, war in the Congo has directly resulted in crisis level food insecurity (= increased demand for meat from killing forest animals including bonobos), countless numbers of displaced people who pose added burdens on demand for food, rife levels of corruption and mismanagement, immeasurable but vast numbers of weapons and munitions distributed across the country, large - scale break down of traditional taboos that may have locally protected some populations of bonobos, and much, much morIn fact, war in the Congo has directly resulted in crisis level food insecurity (= increased demand for meat from killing forest animals including bonobos), countless numbers of displaced people who pose added burdens on demand for food, rife levels of corruption and mismanagement, immeasurable but vast numbers of weapons and munitions distributed across the country, large - scale break down of traditional taboos that may have locally protected some populations of bonobos, and much, much morin the Congo has directly resulted in crisis level food insecurity (= increased demand for meat from killing forest animals including bonobos), countless numbers of displaced people who pose added burdens on demand for food, rife levels of corruption and mismanagement, immeasurable but vast numbers of weapons and munitions distributed across the country, large - scale break down of traditional taboos that may have locally protected some populations of bonobos, and much, much morin crisis level food insecurity (= increased demand for meat from killing forest animals including bonobos), countless numbers of displaced people who pose added burdens on demand for food, rife levels of corruption and mismanagement, immeasurable but vast numbers of weapons and munitions distributed across the country, large - scale break down of traditional taboos that may have locally protected some populations of bonobos, and much, much more.

The difficulty with the IPCC is in miniature the problem with PNS: the corruption of those self - appointed to adjudicate the suitability of the science and its practitioners rapidly moves to the «absolute» end of the scale.

A measure of he scale of corruption can seem in endless studies, which «had» to be related to «global warming», so a thick phone book of how everything imaginable is caused by global warming.

The Telegraph article added: «Ms Osofsky said the SFO has been on a «knife - edge for years», with a chequered history of success in its prosecutions: «I'm not suggesting corruption is a «lesser» crime, and a healthy prosecuting arm needs to be kept, but a classic SFO prosecution is about individual scalps and even big brand names such as Rolls and Tesco, but the scale of money laundering is much bigger but largely unknown.»