Sentences with phrase «systemic problems of corruption»

With more than 30 state lawmakers who have been embroiled in legal or ethical dilemmas since 2000, the state needs an independent watchdog with subpoena powers to not only examine individual instances of wrongdoing, but also to propose solutions to systemic problems of corruption that plague New York.

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Given the underlying problems facing Russia's leadership — predictions of future economic crises and growing discontent with systemic corruption — the regime was particularly sensitive to this opposition.

«Public corruption has a massive opportunity cost, and it is a cost that no one can afford anymore... the problem of corruption in New York is systemic, not merely episodic.»

«Corruption of our state's economic development programs is the symptom of a more systemic problem, a government that has become increasingly insulated from the will of the people,» she said, according to the transcription.

Corruption in our state's economic development programs is the symptom of a more systemic problem, a government that has become increasingly insulated from the will of the people.

Bharara, the Manhattan U.S. attorney, has often spoken of systemic ethical problems in Albany, calling it a «cauldron of corruption» and once saying that the very core of the state Capitol is an «overabundance of greed, cronyism and self - dealing.»

Preet Bharara, the United States attorney whose office recently won the corruption convictions of two of New York's most powerful legislators, says that Albany's problems are deep and systemic but that potential solutions are not hard to find: They lie in the nitty - gritty evidence presented at the unprecedented trials.

The main problem in Brazil is that all aspects of life are overshadowed by the systemic corruption that permeates even the most minute interaction with the government (federal, state, or municipal).

Personally, I do not see any timely solution to the problem of systemic corruption in these countries.