" Gernsback's venality and corruption, his sleaziness and his utter disregard for the financial rights of authors, have been so well documented and discussed in critical and fan literature.

This hampered the prosecution in post-Zhivkov fraud and corruption trials, since no venality could be proved against those charged: they had merely received goods in kind and services which moreover had been their " legal due ".

Gordon disliked Russian service, complaining of the corruption and venality of Russian officials, which left Gordon in his own words " almost at wits end with vexation ".

Under parliamentary conditions that were exceedingly unfavourable, and in an atmosphere charged with corruption, venality and subserviency, he had created a party before which ministers had begun to quail, and had inoculated the Protestant constituencies with a genuine spirit of liberty and self-reliance.

As a politician, he excited bitter opposition, and was charged, apparently with justice, with corruption and venality in conniving at, and sharing, the profits of illicit trade with the Confederates carried on by his brother at New Orleans and by his brother-in-law in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, while General Butler was in command.

This he did in a singularly frank, independent and courageous spirit, with no private ambition to serve, or party cause to advance, but with an honest desire to expose the iniquity or incompetence of the governing body, the sordid aims of the middle class, and the corruption and venality of the city mob.

As Chief Whip he managed the 1852 general election, widely noted for its venality ( even by the standards of the day ), and was censured by the house for " reckless indifference to systematic bribery.

Without specifically naming Meyerbeer, he interpreted the popular success of the latter as the undermining of German music by alleged Jewish venality and willingness to cater to the lowest tastes, and attributed the supposed poor quality of such ' Jewish music ' to Jewish speech and song patterns, which ' though the cultured son of Jewry takes untold pains to strip them off, nevertheless they shew an impertinent obstinacy in cleaving to him '.

In its most recognizable form, dishonesty, venality causes people to lie and steal for their personal advantage, and is related to bribery and nepotism, among other vices.

The premise that the contestants would compete to marry an unseen stranger for no other reason than his wealth would be an example of venality.

Local officers such as Sir John Forster, who was Warden of the Middle March for almost 35 years, became quite as well known for venality as his most notorious Scottish counterparts.

Without lapsing into moral or artistic simplism, shoddy craftsmanship, Madison Avenue venality, or either false or real naiveté, he nevertheless aspires to a fiction more democratic in its appeal than such late-Modernist marvels as Beckett's Texts for Nothing ...

Criticizing and exposing the venality, vices, and ignorance of the priests, the Strigolniki demanded the right to a religious sermon for laymen.

To emphasize his opponents ' venality and thus question the motives for their doctrinal position, he used sarcasm, irony, significatio, and praemunitio.

Pope Leo XIII ( Motu Proprio, 4 July 1898 ) most solemnly decreed the abolition of all venality in the transfer or Collation of the said offices.

Much contemporary use of the words venal or venality is applied to modern professional athletes, particularly baseball, basketball and American football players in the United States and soccer players all around the world.

Preachers at the time regularly harangued delegates to these conferences regarding simony, venality, lack of chastity and celibacy, and the holding of multiple benefices.

The Estates General accomplished little, spending its time discussing the relationship of France to the Papacy and the venality of offices, but not reaching any resolutions.

The Cuban scholar Carlos Manuel Trelles later wrote that Magoon " profoundly corrupted the Cuban nation, and on account of his venality was looked upon with contempt.

Formerly these offices as well as those of the other chancery officers from the Regent down were occasions of venality, until popes, especially Benedict XIV and Pius VII, gradually abolish that.

Soon the " good old days " of nepotism and venality were restored.

The hard-won victories of Charles V had been lost through the venality of his successors.

Thus, there could be a synergy: compounding the inherent fallible nature of the process with the malleability of memory, the potential mendacity of witnesses, the showmanship and ' magic tricks ' involved in trials and advocacy, and the self interest, venality, morality, poor perception and recollection, and ethical standards of the participants.

While bribery could be related, nepotism clearly has no literal similarity or correlation with venality.

Though venality is generally used as a pejorative term, an individual or entity could be venal ( or mercenary ) and not be corrupt or unethical.

The Pope's venality and nepotism made him very unpopular with the citizens of Rome, but to his credit, he was a patron and protector of the reforming monks of Cluny.

" In a series of letters to " dear Pal Ted " from " Pal Joey ," he reveals himself to be an amoral, calculating heel whose venality is cloaked by an amiable persona.

They include the great and the good, the rich and the poor, the famous and the infamous, piety and venality.

Due to the venality and cutthroat tactics of the party chartering his one-man trading vessel, Tuf inadvertently becomes master of Ark, an ancient, 30-kilometer-long " seedship ," a very powerful warship with advanced ecological engineering capabilities.

A third major drawback is that the electrolyte solution contains volatile organic compounds ( or VOC's ), solvents which must be carefully sealed as they are hazardous to human health and the environment.

This reflects the basic change in the VOC's circumstances that had occurred: it now operated in new markets for goods with an elastic demand, in which it had to compete on an equal footing with other suppliers.

Caron stayed in Japan for over twenty years, from 1619 to 1641, eventually becoming the VOC's opperhoofd ( chief factor or merchant ) in Japan.

In 1679, he was appointed " Commander " of the VOC's colony at the Cape of Good Hope, through the growing influence of his relative, Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen.

The Governor General effectively became the main administrator of the VOC's activities in Asia, although the Heeren XVII, a body of 17 shareholders representing different chambers, continued to officially have overall control.

This lack of information might have been counteracted ( as in earlier times in the VOC's history ) by the business acumen of the directors.

The VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over the course of the 19th century to include the whole of the Indonesian archipelago, and in the 20th century would form Indonesia.

This structural change in the commodity composition of the VOC's trade started in the early 1680s, after the temporary collapse of the EIC around 1683 offered an excellent opportunity to enter these markets.

Concretely: " he long-term average annual profit in the VOC's 1630-70 ' Golden Age ' was 2. 1 million guilders, of which just under half was distributed as dividends and the remainder reinvested.

* A self-inflicted wound was the VOC's dividend policy.

Despite the VOC's attempts to prevent settler expansion beyond the western Cape the frontier of the Colony remained open as the authorities in Cape Town lacked the means to police the colonies borders.

The originals showed the regions explored by VOC's ships in the first half of the 17th century.

This implies careful selection of interior finishes and furnishings, to minimize indoor air pollution from VOC's ( e. g., formaldehyde ).

The environmental services range from reduction of air emissions, such as NOx, SOx, CO and VOC's, to oily waste water treatment and other water solutions.

Saartje Specx ( 1617 – 1636 ) was the daughter of Jacques Specx, governor of the North Quarter of the Dutch East India Company's ( VOC's ) Asian trading empire, and a Japanese concubine.

Deviating from the standard route to the VOC's East Asian Batavia headquarters, the ship continued east and mapped around 1, 500 km of the southern coast of Australia from Albany, Western Australia to Ceduna, South Australia.