Sentences with phrase «seen corruption at»
I have seen corruption at the highest degree and very little support from the state, district, or unions to try and correct or improve it.
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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.
For the 85 - year - old pontiff, the three - day trip outside the Vatican walls was a break from the Vatileaks scandal, which has seen his butler, Paolo Gabriele, arrested on suspicion of disclosing dozens of embarrassing letters alleging corruption and nepotism at the Holy See.
If we concede that Jesus was a real person, more likely than what is illustrated in the telephone version of the story (a.k.a. the bible) was that he was a man of conscience that saw the corruption and cruelty towards people in his day and spoke out about it, which led to his death at the hands of those he was speaking out about.
Political society he saw largely in negative terms, at best a punishment and correction of sin, at worst a nightmare of corruption in which the strong eat up the weak and the stronger eat up the strong.
Martin Luther, on seeing corruption he could not ignore at the heart of the church, moved to challenge that which he felt distorted the gospel.
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.
Again, we must see that sin is a corruption at the root of our being, if we are to have any right understanding of it.
And given the resultant wide ranging power, it is not difficult to see how devastatingly corruption was able to seep into the communities at every level, and in every way.
However when I look at Football and see what are considered the most successful teams in world football in recent years (not Santos, or Boca Juniors): Barcelona, Madrid, ManU... can we honestly say that these beloved clubs world over create / encourage / influence a pattern of behavior that discourages the corruption at the level of the governing body?
«We have seen far too much greedy, wanton corruption in too many spheres in government, in politics, public administration, in business, in traditional leadership, in football and in the media and there are too many levels from top to bottom,» the outspoken emissary said at a public event Saturday.
«I never at any time in my tenure saw, heard or felt anything inappropriate, illegal, anything having to do with corruption — and you know what?
The ad splices footage from Cuomo's gubernatorial announcement speech during which he said things like «we're tired of seeing New Yorkers victimized by government corruption in Albany» with a clip of him leaning over to kiss Silver on the cheek at an undated state Democratic Party event.
Cuomo appointed the Moreland Act Commission at the close of a legislative session that saw numerous lawmakers arrested, indicted and jailed for corruption, and with no agreement on any reform measures.
We want to see that those that fingers are pointed at within the NPP must also be put before this special prosecutor so that we would have a fair balance because corruption is not only in previous governments.
The trial also raised questions about the structure of Albany and what some good - government advocates see as a culture of corruption at the Capitol.
In a dizzying year that saw the public corruption convictions of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos at the hands of Bharara's office, what better candidate to run in Skelos» old district than a former prosecutor with a record of fighting corruption like Kaminsky?
Jurors at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Gov. Cuomo saw photos on Tuesday of the governor palling around with a co-defendant charged in a «pay - to - play» bribery...
Jurors at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Gov. Cuomo saw photos on Tuesday of the governor palling around with a co-defendant charged in a «pay - to - play» bribery scheme involving a state - funded revitalization project upstate.
Small said she entered the race for the 60th state Senate district in January, in large part because she was disgusted by the corruption she saw at the capital.
Observers will be watching to see how well he raises campaign cash, and also how he manages candidate recruitment — especially at a time when he has a number of aging members and two — including his predecessor, Dean Skelos; and his deputy majority leader, Tom Libous; facing federal corruption trials that could result in their abrupt ouster from office.
Even Jessica Asato's glancing reference to producer capture is at least useful both as metaphor for New Labour's corruption of earlier party structures (see above) and as a partial description of how economic reality has altered, assisted by New Labour, over the past 12 years, though she goes on to muddle the point.
On 10 counts, that could mean a jury, as seen before in at least one Albany - related corruption trial, convicts on some counts, acquits on others and issues no verdicts on some charges.
We've seen what happens when the governor says «Follow the money wherever it may lead» - as soon as the money brought [the] Moreland [Commission to Investigate Public Corruption] back to the governor and his real estate contributors at REBNY, Cuomo pulled the plug... No one is good at investigating themselves,» said Kaehny.
The ex - jail guards» union chief left $ 60,000 in a black Ferragamo man - purse sitting in his department issued - car after receiving the cash as a bribe — beca use he was too embarrassed to be seen with a «murse,» prosecutors suggested at Seabrook's corruption trial Monday.
Past prime ministers know his power: it was good to see Gordon Brown weigh in yesterday with a letter to the culture secretary demanding the takeover be delayed until after the second part of the Leveson inquiry is carried out into corruption of the police and officials at Murdoch - owned newspapers.
BY KEN PASKAR Speaker Sheldon Silver is being pilloried in the press for accusations of corruption, and I felt it's time to take a hard look at the allegations being leveled against Silver and see them for what they are: character assassination, pure and simple.
This area has seen perhaps the two worst corruption scandals of Labour history - the Poulson scandal of the late 60s and early 70s, and the Donnygate affair of the 1990s, which saw at least 21 Doncaster councillors convicted of fraud and other crimes.
Buhari said at the event that before Nigerians demand to see the changes he promised them, they must first change their own attitude by shunning corruption and other social vices.
«I'm glad to see there are some Republicans in the county who can at least read a poll and see this is the way to go,» said County Legislative Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D - Freeport), referencing public anger at corruption arrests.
«To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, the Plaintiff [Dominic Ayine] brought this action in his name fronting for the immediate past Government to set at naught the popular wishes of the majority of the Ghanaian electorate who see the President's acceptance of the nomination of the 2nd Defendant [Martin Amidu] as Special Prosecutor, as being in the national interest to attack the canker of corruption in the body politic,» Martin Amidu indicated in his affidavit verification sighted by Citi News.
About Blog Gyro San Francisco executive creative director Steffan Postaer's Gods of Advertising is blunt, amusing and easy - to - understand — see his thoughts on corruption among the judges at Cannes.
After seeing the brutal Italian crime movie «Gomorrah,» my mental image of Naples was of a gray, dispiriting place where corruption has a stranglehold on society at every level.
Rees is also developing an untitled HBO half - hour series with Viola Davis, which would involve corruption at a private school, as seen through the headmaster's eyes.
At the end of the game, Sylux is seen hatching a Metroid egg, which ties in with the ending of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption where he is chasing down Samus.
Many of the current reformers at the policy and administrator levels are embracing neoliberal market - based, corporate - style reforms, which promote practices that I saw lead to such greed and corruption on Wall Street.
The opposition leader said that the proposals were a «poor attempt» by the conservative government to «duck their record» on education, which he said had «seen classes grow to the largest in Europe, teachers flocking to leave the profession as pay and conditions stagnate and a raft of corruption scandals at unaccountable Tory academies that have failed to deliver the promised improvements in standards».
When I look at corporate corruption, I see record profits being made while downsizing or outsourcing jobs while cheating on taxes.
As I was writing it I began to see in it a story of power, corruption and our atavistic natures — that deep tribal racism that is always at work.
My question is: did we see flawed ratings of CDOs, CMBS etc. because of moral corruption and complacency at the ratings agencies, or because risk is by its very nature hard to model?
About Blog Gyro San Francisco executive creative director Steffan Postaer's Gods of Advertising is blunt, amusing and easy - to - understand — see his thoughts on corruption among the judges at Cannes.
This interest in the corruption of modern existance was seen recently in much more fantastical terms at The Pace Gallery's Edward Kienholz exhibition.
The «feint» you imagined was an invitation to compare the flow of money via corruption, to see who is tempted and who is tempting, and half a joke at that.
Personally after seeing all the corruption going on in Scientific Research, not only in Climate but in other fields, I am not at all interested in having one thin dime of my tax money go to another university or researcher.
If you are not utterly * shocked * by the shoddy science involved and you attack rather than inform, with the same old alarmist talking points about peer review (as if Climategate never revealed corruption of peer review), then I laugh at you since you are quickening your own demise as a person on record forever as being a dupe who couldn't see through what is rapidly becoming a laughing stock.
You only have to look at the comments of the PRI piece to see how quickly any discussion of cooperation descends into accusations of collaboration on one side, and false victimhood and corruption on the other.
About Blog Gyro San Francisco executive creative director Steffan Postaer's Gods of Advertising is blunt, amusing and easy - to - understand — see his thoughts on corruption among the judges at Cannes.
About Blog Gyro San Francisco executive creative director Steffan Postaer's Gods of Advertising is blunt, amusing and easy - to - understand — see his thoughts on corruption among the judges at Cannes.