However, many have argued that the usefulness of these laws is vastly inadequate in terms of controlling government actions, largely because of institutional and systemic obstacles like a weak judiciary, poorly trained judges and lawyers, and corruption.

# Reliability of the sources used, in terms of authorship, credibility of the author, and the authenticity or corruption of the text.

Growth came at a high cost in terms of weak and corrupt institutions, severe public indebtedness through mismanagement of the financial sector, the rapid depletion of Indonesia ’ s natural resources, and a culture of favors and corruption in the business elite.

Laíno's charges of government corruption, involvement in narcotics trafficking, human rights violations, and inadequate financial compensation from Brazil under the terms of the Treaty of Itaipú earned him Stroessner's wrath.

President Grant faced financial corruption charges or scandals in all federal departments during his two terms in office.

The presidency of Levy Mwanawasa until his death in office in mid 2008, was different than the flamboyant expenditure and increasingly apparent corruption of the later years of Frederick Chiluba's terms in office.

Despite winning four terms as President, Blatter has often been dogged by controversy and allegations of corruption.

He tries to read and answer all his mail by himself and finds that the volume is too much and he needs to rely on secretaries ; he is exasperated with his ministers and has them arrested, but soon realises that he does not know enough to govern by himself, and is forced to release the ministers and institute constitutional monarchy ; when a war breaks out he does not accept being shut up in his palace, but slips away and joins up, pretending to be a peasant boy-and narrowly avoids becoming a POW ; he takes the offer of a friendly journalist to publish for him a " royal paper "-and finds much later that he gets carefully edited news and that the journalist is covering up the gross corruption of the young king's best friend ; he tries to organise the children of all the world to hold processions and demand their rights – and ends up antagonising other kings ; he falls in love with a black African princess and outrages racist opinion ( by modern standards, however, Korczak's depiction of blacks is itself not completely free of stereotypes which were current at the time of writing ); finally, he is overthrown by the invasion of three foreign armies and exiled to a desert island, where he must come to terms with reality – and finally does.

The proper approach to measurement, which is largely adopted by broadcasters and other audio professionals, is to first devise measurements that can quantify the various forms of corruption in terms of subjective annoyance to a human listener, ideally the most critical listener based on tests using many suitably rested subjects.

The Okalik terms were remarkable for a general lack of corruption.

Rahmon's presidency has been described in harsh terms, mostly because of human rights abuses and corruption.

The term Hauländer is a German corruption of the original Hollender who negotiated special terms of democratic rule for their settlements which came to be known as Hollendry.

For once more the talented De Sica, who gave us the shattering Shoeshine, that desperately tragic demonstration of juvenile corruption in post-war Rome, has laid hold upon and sharply imaged in simple and realistic terms a major — indeed, a fundamental and universal — dramatic theme.

The film was a major leap from anything he had produced before in terms of budget and social commentary, a coruscating attack on press corruption which could equally be taken as a wider attack on the McCarthyite ideology of the times.

The Earl of Clarendon, with whom he was often on ill terms, speaks generally in his praise, and repels the charge of corruption levelled against him.

Telkom has recently been rocked by speculation of corruption in terms of poor procurement practice, nepotism and mismanagement and the uncertainty around fired COO, Motlasti Nzeku, whose future at the operator remains uncertain.

Previously, during his terms as prime minister, he worked to uncover and eliminate several corruption scandals including his handling of the Erdenet Mining Corporation ’ s tax scandal.

At both terms I tried to combat corruption.

Derogatory nuances were expressed by adding extra adjectives ( e. g. 暴虐なる支那兵 ( cruel Chinese soldier )) or using derogatory terms like " chankoro " ( チャンコロ, originating from a corruption of the Taiwanese Hokkien pronunciation of 清國奴 Chheng-kok-lô ͘, used to refer to any " chinaman ", with a meaning of " Qing dynasty's slave ".

In 1998, further questions were asked about CRH ’ s influence and political corruption when Dail Eireann ( Ireland ’ s Parliament ) voted against an investigation into why an asset which could have been worth a minimum of £ 48 million in terms of sand and gravel reserves was sold to CRH without public tender for £ 1. 25 million in 1992.

The military were considered politically " clean " in terms of political corruption, and assumed responsibility for ' restoring ' the security of the nation, too.

A state in which favorites are rewarded and governmental corruption is prevalent causes the state to suffer in terms of modernization.

The terms of reference were to determine the existence and extent of corruption within the New South Wales Police ; specifically, it sought to determine whether corruption and misconduct were " systemic and entrenched " within the service, and to advise on the process to address such a problem.

Present pool quarters at two locations in Providence are crowded, antiquated and, in general, make for inefficient operation in terms of dispersement of personnel and duplication of such operational needs as stock and repair equipment.

Here again laboratory approaches are being evolved, for it is recognized how `` elastic '' these readings can be, how they can apply to many people, and are often stated in general terms all too easily applied to any individual's own case.

The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns ( for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team ).

Artillery may also refer to a system of applied scientific research relating to the design, manufacture and employment of artillery weapon systems although, in general, the terms ballistics and ordnance are more commonly employed in this sense.

In general terms, AMPS was very similar to the older " 0G " Improved Mobile Telephone Service, but used considerably more computing power in order to select frequencies, hand off conversations to PSTN lines, and handle billing and call setup.

The stories are similar to each other in terms of the general descriptions of Ts ' emekwes, but details about the creature's diet and activities differed between the stories of different families.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

The code quality and general utility along with the licensing terms have led to its use in a multitude of free and open source software.

The most basic definition he used to describe a constitution in general terms was " the arrangement of the offices in a state ".

Several terms are commonly used to characterize the general physical and chemical properties of the chemical elements.

For many decades, consciousness as a research topic was avoided by the majority of mainstream scientists, because of a general feeling that a phenomenon defined in subjective terms could not properly be studied using objective experimental methods.

It is convenient to do the analysis of deformation or motion of a continuum body in terms of the displacement field, In general, the displacement field is expressed in terms of the material coordinates as

In general, the potential energy surfaces are coupled via the vibronic coupling terms.

Before facing Magnentius, Constantius first came to terms with Vetranio, a loyal general in Illyricum who had recently been acclaimed emperor by his soldiers.

In general terms, there are three levels of chromatin organization:

In general, outside of editorial pages as described above, traditional newspapers do not use the term censorware in their reporting, preferring instead to use terms such as content filter, content control, or web filtering ; the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both appear to follow this practice.

Critics of Boswell have pointed out that many earlier doctrinal sources condemn homosexuality in ethical terms without prescribing a punishment, and that Boswell's citations reflected a general trend towards harsher penalties from the 12th century onwards.

Critical theory in literature and the humanities in general does not necessarily involve a normative dimension, whereas critical social theory does, either through criticizing society from some general theory of values, norms, or " oughts ," or through criticizing it in terms of its own espoused values.

These polar unit vectors can be expressed in terms of Cartesian unit vectors in the x and y directions, denoted i and j respectively :< ref > Note: unlike the Cartesian unit vectors i and j, which are constant, in polar coordinates the direction of the unit vectors u < sub > r </ sub > and u < sub > θ </ sub > depend on θ, and so in general have non-zero time derivatives .</ ref >

In terms of its value as a collector's item, a coin is generally made more or less valuable by its condition, specific historical significance, rarity, quality / beauty of the design and general popularity with collectors.

In theory, general dictionaries are supposed to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them.

Dialectical materialism is essentially characterized by the thesis that history is the product of class struggles and follows the general Hegelian principle of philosophy of history, that is the development of the thesis into its antithesis which is sublated by the Aufhebung (" synthesis "), although this three-part process was not explicitly characterized in terms of a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in Hegel's writings.

In other words, the general problem of Diophantine analysis is blessed or cursed with universality, and in any case is not something that will be solved except by re-expressing it in other terms.