Allegations of corruption concerning individual EU-commissioners led to an investigation into administrative failings ( incompetence and malpractice ) by an independent group of experts.

Allegations have been put to the U. S. Department of State-industry advisory group, the Defense Trade Advisory Group, that charging back fees discourages some manufacturers from registration.

Allegations of predatory pricing by large companies can be the basis for a monopolization claim, but it is difficult to establish the required elements of proof.

Allegations made by Balkan media sources of corruption and improper conduct by Ahtisaari were described by US State Department spokesman Tom Casey as " spurious ", adding that Ahtisaari's plan is the " best solution possible " and has the " full endorsement of the United States ".

Allegations have been made that WebMD biases readers towards using drugs sold by their pharmaceutical sponsors in cases in which the drug is unnecessary.

The analysis shows that an astonishing 95 percent of the detainees were subjected to severe torture, others feeling the detrimental effects on their health for varying periods .” The Shabeh, which involves detainees being handcuffed and bound in stress positions for longs stretches of time, is the most widely-used form of torture .< ref >" Allegations of West Bank Torture Increase.

On May 24, 2010 the University of Michigan responded to the NCAA Notice of Allegations, stating in part, " the University is satisfied that the initial media reports were greatly exaggerated if not flatly incorrect.

Allegations of " immoralities which it is stated take place in connection with the dancing stages at Hollingworth " in November of that year were strenuously denied by the company in January 1866.

The Mollen Commission is formally known as The City of New York Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the Anti-Corruption Procedures of the Police Department.

Allegations of horrific acts by outsider groups — including cannibalism, child murder, torture and incestuous orgies — may have served as a form of " Othering " for minority groups, as well scapegoating to provide simple explanations to complex problems in times of social disruption.

Allegations in Finnish media that bribery was used by Patria to secure the Slovenian contract led to a scandal and a criminal investigation in Finland and may have contributed to the defeat of Prime Minister Janez Janša in the 2008 Slovenian parliamentary elections.

Allegations were made that senior White House figures, including First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, may have requested and read the files for political purposes, and that the First Lady had authorized the hiring of the underqualified Livingstone.

Allegations of shoddy construction surfaced again in 2006 when the underground parking garage had to be closed because it had become structurally unsound.

Allegations were subsequently made in Parliament, however, that she had suffered a fatal heart attack after hearing the distressing news that her son-in-law, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, was to be dismissed as Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs, which was " the last straw " after her husband's death three months earlier.

Allegations about the part he was playing ' undergoing or doing what ' there vary, and it would be most unseemly for me to talk about it.

Allegations that visiting yachts were turned away from the harbour have now been shown to be completely unfounded.

Allegations were made that he agreed to help on the condition that he be appointed as the province's nominee to the Senate, but in his maiden speech, he attacked the company concerned, saying that the people of Kadavu had fallen victim to a Chinese company with " a very unsavory reputation.

Michael Schultz and Manny Camacho were recorded by a variety of on lookers in an argument that would later be posted on a variety of online sites ( none of which are located at this time ) to disprove Michael Shultz Allegations.

Allegations remain assertions without proof, until they can be proved.

Allegations against her grew, and the Princess Anne County government, along with her accusers decided that she would be tested by ducking, with Sherwood's consent.

Allegations of impropriety within the athletic department surfaced and Baylor University President Robert B. Sloan appointed an investigative panel to determine if there were any potential NCAA violations at the school.

Allegations of witchcraft and the Occult found in the text, and legal disputes, one doctor coined the term " Hogwarts headache " in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine shortly after the release of Order of the Phoenix, the longest book in the series, at 766 pages in the UK edition, 870 pages in the US edition, and over 250, 000 words.

Allegations have been made that Wexner's The Limited Inc. has used slave labor both in the United States and abroad.

Allegations were levelled at Morosi that she used her position as Cairns ' private secretary to cut Cairns off from his political associates and from alternative sources of advice.

Shootings, hangings and beatings were common, and the sjambok was used by guards who treated the forced laborers harshly ; a September 28, 1905, article in the South African newspaper Cape Argus detailed some of the abuse, with the heading: " In German S. W. Africa: Further Startling Allegations: Horrible Cruelty ".

Allegations of surreptitious international relationships, mainly with Argentina ( Gelli repeatedly suggested that he was a close friend of Juan Perón ) and with some people suspected of affiliation with the American Central Intelligence Agency were also partly confirmed ; but soon a political debate overtook the legal level of the analysis.

Allegations of political patronage followed Brown from the State Legislature through his tenure as San Francisco mayor.

Allegations arose again in January 2007 when videos circulated on the Internet of Abdul appearing to sway in her chair and slur her speech during a set of interviews.

Allegations of historical revisionism have been made regarding Pakistani textbooks in that they are laced with Indophobic and Islamist bias.

Allegations included arbitrary imprisonment without trial, " disappearances " of such prisoners, forced relocation, and destruction of property.

Allegations of vaccine injuries in recent decades have appeared in litigation in the U. S. Some families have won substantial awards from sympathetic juries, even though most public health officials have said that the claims of injuries were unfounded.

Allegations that he was racist or had totalitarian beliefs have been rejected by biographers such as Robert Skidelsky.

Allegations of wild parties and drug taking were made in a documentary broadcast after the Princess's death.

Allegations were also made that Bill Clinton had engaged in a long-term extramarital affair with Gennifer Flowers.

In December 1990 Amnesty International issued a report " Allegations of Police Torture in Chicago, Illinois " calling for a full inquiry into allegations that Area 2 Chicago Police tortured criminal suspects between 1972 and 1984.

Allegations of corruption remain common, and several nations have seen crises which have forced the resignation of their presidents, although normal civilian succession has continued.

Allegations of a secret deal made with Ford, promising a pardon in return for Nixon's resignation, led Ford to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on October 17, 1974.

Allegations of Bahá ' í involvement with other powers have long been repeated in many venues including denunciations from the president.

Allegations under this ground include allegations of domestic violence and repeated, extreme mental cruelty.

In a section entitled " Allegations concerning Genocide and Crimes against Humanity " he states that " the available information provided no reasonable indicator of the required elements for a crime against humanity ," i. e. ' a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population '".

Allegations of financial inconsistencies in the tendering process ( which eventually saw longtime Kennett supporters Ron Walker and Lloyd Williams successful ) were to dog the Kennett government for many years, despite the verdict of an enquiry which found no wrongdoing on its behalf.

Allegations of anti-competitive vaporware, as well as concerns within the software industry prompted David Dranove of Northwestern University and Neil Gandal of Tel Aviv University and University of California, Berkeley to conduct an empirical study designed to measure the effect of the DIVX announcement on the DVD market.

Allegations have been made that throughout the agency's history that its personnel have discriminated against African-American farmers, denying them loans and access to other programs well into the 1990s.

Allegations of human sacrifice have been made against the Jews generally in the form of accusations of child cannibalism or desecrating the eucharist.

Allegations of SRA involved reports of physical and sexual abuse of individuals in the context of occult or Satanic rituals.

Allegations initially brought together widely dissimilar groups, including religious fundamentalists, police investigators, child advocates, therapists and clients in psychotherapy.