Sentences with phrase «widespread corruption at»

Bulgarian scientists had been protesting for months against what they said was widespread corruption at the ministry, especially regarding grantmaking at the Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF).

The lead paragraph of the AP's 23 January story created the impression that AP had uncovered widespread corruption at the fund.

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While it didn't take this one long to come true, in 2014 the show poked fun at widespread corruption inside FIFA that would bring down the organization's leadership.

Corruption in China's healthcare industry is widespread, fuelled in part by low base salaries for doctors at the country's 13,500 public hospitals.

«In the»70s, Governor Rockefeller appointed a special prosecutor to investigate widespread police corruption and in the»30s, the governor then [at the time] appointed the Seabury commission that investigated municipal corruption in the city, which led to the involuntary retirement of Mayor [Jimmy] Walker.»

The top investigator at the New York Correction Department resigned on Friday under pressure from city leaders who are facing a federal mandate to regain control of the Rikers Island jail complex, where widespread brutality and corruption by guards routinely go unpunished.

A mismanaged government and widespread corruption have been the major stumbling blocks in saving Kenya's famed wildlife, says Agi Kiss, principal ecologist at the World Bank's Africa Environment Group.

Ovidiu Andronesi, an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says he and many other members of one body, the National Research Council (NRC), learned they had been dismissed in an email received just before midnight on 31 January — almost at the same time as the government passed an emergency decree that decriminalized some corruption offences, sparking the widespread protests.

Corruption and incompetence were widespread, and those who did attempt to place the academic needs of children at the top of the bureaucratic food chain faced tall odds in a system that was already stacked against them.

Secondly, if you look at the quality of life in China, the rampant industrial pollution, the widespread labor unrest, the corruption that allows poisoned milk products to enter the market, etc., then you must admit that China's «rise out poverty» is not such a wunderkind story — they may have some monetary wealth, but they are also suffering a great deal of pollution and associated diseases... and their dirty emissions cross the Pacific, and are noticeable in Washington and Oregon.

Kajir found evidence of widespread government corruption that allowed logging companies to act as a law unto themselves, ignoring the terms of the government - issued timber permits, and terrorizing the local communities — at gunpoint in some cases — into signing over their land rights.

«Review of the «Assurance of Discontinuance» provides rich, indeed stunning, detail into how business was done at the expense of corporate policyholders in particular whose premiums were sufficiently large as to make bid - rigging, kickbacks, lying, and cheating lucrative for the participants — both the individuals whose bonuses and power reflected their success in business and the companies that employed them that generated large premiums from the widespread conspiracy and corruption endemic to the top - tier of the insurance brokerage industry and the insurers that paid them.»

Cloutier, who worked for an engineering firm, made the allegations in 2013 during testimony at the provincial inquiry into widespread municipal corruption in Quebec.

Innocent Man Released After 27 Years DNA Reveals Widespread Corruption in Brevard County Today, at approximately 5 p.m., William Dillon will walk out of Brevard County Jail after being freed pending trial.