However, while broad-based progress has been slow, these efforts have begun to become evident in international surveys of corruption.

In the investigation it appeared evident to the council that the proprietors were a set of unprincipled men, lawless, debouchees, counterfeiters, Bogus Makers, gamblers, peace disturbers, and that the grand object of said proprietors was to destroy our constitutional rights and chartered privileges ; to overthrow all good and wholesome regulations in society ; to strengthen themselves against the municipality ; to fortify themselves against the church of which I am a member, and destroy all our religious rights and privileges, by libels, slanders, falsehoods, perjury & sticking at no corruption to accomplish their hellish purposes.

The corruption of the local and national officials is evident and this is a topic which García Márquez explores throughout the novel, by using references to censorship and the impact of government on society.

For the purpose of analyzing received signal quality, some types of corruption are very evident in the constellation diagram.

Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.

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.

" Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Plans are being made by the Afghan government to begin extracting these but with the Taliban insurgency and the corruption there is no telling what will happen.

Throughout these first three decades of independence, Kenya's parastatals, partly from a lack of expertise and endemic corruption, largely inhibited economic development.

The early modern era was one of letters patent and government-imposed monopolies ; some mercantilists supported these, but others acknowledged the corruption and inefficiency of such systems.

A prerequisite for achieving many of these worthwhile objectives is curtailing endemic corruption, which stymies development and taints Nigeria's business environment.

While corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and trafficking, it is not restricted to these activities.

:" To extirpate inveterate abuses ; to reform a court which thrived on corruption, and detested the very name of reform ; to hold in leash young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's throats ; to stem the rising torrent of revolt in Germany ; to save Christendom from the Turks, who from Belgrade now threatened Hungary, and if Rhodes fell would be masters of the Mediterranean -- these were herculean labours for one who was in his sixty-third year, had never seen Italy, and was sure to be despised by the Romans as a ' barbarian '.

" However, over time various perceived issues with these provisions, such as the risk of corruption and the potential for electoral deadlocks or a lack of representation should a seat become vacant, led to a campaign for reform.

The obstacles are a lack of law enforcement in these areas, inconsistent government economic and environmental planning, corruption, and the overwhelming concentration of power in the hands of a president who shows little tolerance of grassroots activity.

But while indulging in these stunts, the Examiner also increased its space for international news, and sent reporters out to uncover municipal corruption and inefficiency.

The name Almandine is a corruption of Alabanda, a region in Asia Minor where these stones were cut in ancient times.

Blocks of data entering these systems get a short check value attached, based on the remainder of a polynomial division of their contents ; on retrieval the calculation is repeated, and corrective action can be taken against presumed data corruption if the check values do not match.

Li, whose family has often been at the center of corruption allegations within the Chinese power industry, was vulnerable to these charges.

Parliament also passed several laws aimed at combatting corruption, including the Corrupt Practices Act 1854, though these measures proved largely ineffectual.

In 1712, they alleged that he had been guilty of corruption as Secretary at War ; these charges, however, stemmed from political hatred rather than fact.

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

So classified because they share historical " costumed " settings, Anouilh also specifies that these plays must also prominently feature an enlightened protagonist seeking " a moral path in a world of corruption and manipulation.

The purpose of these instruments was to address the various forms of corruption ( involving the public sector, the private sector, the financing of political activities, etc.

Even legal measures such as these have been argued to be legalized corruption, in that they often favor the political status quo.

Elected with a popular mandate to reinvigorate the economy and crack down on the corruption of the Menem administration, de la Rúa was unable or unwilling to perform these tasks.

Also, " iven the corruption in Chinese media and the volume of counterfeit products in the country, Bussell sa it's often hard to find someone in these disputes who's totally clean ".

First, Lucas proposed forcing Aristide to accept early elections and be voted out ; second, he could be charged with corruption and arrested ; and finally, Lucas raised dealing with Aristide the way the Congolese people had dealt with President Laurent Kabila the month before.

Paphlagonian is a monstrous giant ( 74-9 ), a snoring sorcerer ( 103 ), a mountain torrent ( 137 ), a hook-footed eagle ( 197 ), garlic pickle ( 199 ), a mud-stirrer ( 306 ), a fisherman watching for shoals of fish ( 313 ), a butchered pig ( 375-81 ), a bee browsing blooms of corruption ( 403 ), a dog-headed ape ( 416 ), a storm by sea and land ( 430-40 ), a giant hurling crags ( 626-29 ), a storm surge at sea ( 691-93 ), a thieving nurse ( 716-18 ), a fishermen hunting eels ( 864-67 ), a boiling pot ( 919-22 ), a lion fighting gnats ( 1037-8 ), a dogfox ( 1067 ), a beggar ( 182-3 ) and finally a sausage seller in the city gates ( 1397 ).

Reporting on corruption and human rights abuses by British reporter Mary Anne Fitzgerald from 1987 – 1988 resulted only in her being vilified by the government and finally deported.

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.

" Orwell's first novel, it describes " corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, " after all, natives were natives-interesting, no doubt, but finally ... an inferior people.

It was not until the fourteenth century that Muslim rule was finally established in the Valley and when this happened it did not occur primarily as a consequence of invasion so much as because of internal problems resulting from the weak rule and corruption endemic in the Hindu Lohara dynasty.

As a result of the extensive corruption in city politics, and as part of the Federal and State government's efforts to curb the mob, several investigations were finally conducted against Curley's machine.

It wasn't until the reign of King Sunjo that the Kim clan of Andong in cooperation with few other blood related clans finally obtained full control over the court after purging not only their rival factions but other rival clans within their own political faction that the Joseon bureaucracy degenerated into corruption.

He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and uses his wealth to support Ribiera's government, which he believes will finally bring stability to the country after years of misrule and tyranny by self-serving dictators.

He was finally assigned to work plainclothes, where he uncovered widespread corruption.

Nishi is able to abduct Moriyama and eventually force him into revealing the location of the hard evidence that will finally fully expose the corruption and all involved, once it is presented to the press.

Major causes of friction inside the coalition were, the 2006 pardon Act ( criticised by the right and by the IDV party ), a draft bill to establish civil unions ( vetoed by Christian Democrats ), Italy's continued involvement in Afghanistan ( strongly opposed by left-wing parties ), and finally the much publicized house-arrest of Clemente Mastella's wife ( then a prominent politician at the regional level ) over a corruption scandal.

He was finally forced to retire in 1973 due to neighbourhood protests over the poor quality of the housing in the new areas and lack of social provision, and the speculation and corruption associated with the mayor.

The praise was mostly directed by those who believed that the government had finally taken a stronger stance against political corruption, while others criticized the fact that most suspects were, in fact, members of Kosor's own Croatian Democratic Union.

Seeing the corruption of his colleagues and the inability of his king, Qu Yuan then exiled himself and finally committed suicide in the Miluo River when Qin defeated Chu in 278 BC.

In 1974, the house was closed to complete renovations required by updated safety regulations, but cost over-runs, corruption, and political in-fighting all added to the delay and it remained closed for twenty-three years, finally re-opening on 12 May 1997, four days before its centenary.

Small's reputation for corruption finally caught up with him at the ballot box and he was defeated in the 1928 Republican primary by a margin of 63 % to 37 % against Louis Emmerson, the incumbent Illinois Secretary of State.

The rebellions were finally crushed by Roman legionary forces, chiefly by the Roman general Lusius Quietus, whose nomen later gave the conflict its title, as " Kitos " is a later corruption of Quietus.

With regard to new questions, which modern culture and progress have brought to the foreground, let them engage in most careful research, but with the necessary prudence and caution ; finally, let them not think, indulging in a false " irenism ," that the dissident and the erring can happily be brought back to the bosom of the Church, if the whole truth found in the Church is not sincerely taught to all without corruption or diminution.