By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

The public atmosphere that has been generated which makes acceptance of this law a possibility stems from the disrepute into which the labor movement has fallen as a result of Mr. McClellan's hearings into corruption in labor-management relations and, later, into the jurisdictional squabbles that plagued industrial relations at the missile sites.

He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption ".

Additionally, the growing severity of countrywide guerrilla attacks by the FARC and ELN, and smaller movements, as well as the growth of drug production, corruption and the spread of even more violent paramilitary groups such as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia ( AUC ) has made it difficult to solve the country's problems.

" Mischief in the land " has been interpreted universally to refer to one who upsets the stability of the entire nation or community, in that his actions seriously damage the society, either through corruption, war or otherwise.

Additionally, Transparency International has identified corruption in the education sector as a major stumbling block to achieving Universal Primary Education in Africa.

" These younger leaders have repeatedly expressed frustration with the entrenched corruption in the party, which has been run by the " Old Guard " who returned from exile in Tunisia following the Oslo Accords.

Under the Saakasvili administration Georgia has achieved considerable progress in eradicating corruption.

The country has consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt nations according to the Corruption Perceptions Index, a measure of perceived political corruption.

In November 2007 two anti-government rallies occurred, precipitated by allegations of corruption and discrepancies in the election system that heavily favoured the ruling political party, National Front, which has been in power since Malaya achieved independence.

It was precipitated by allegations of corruption and discrepancies in the Malaysian election system that heavily favor the ruling political party, Barisan Nasional, which has been in power since Malaysia achieved its independence in 1957.

The UK government has consistently adopted a " non-interventionist policy ", and following the " high degree of consensus amongst academics, legal advisers, politicians and officials " would only intervene " in the event of a fundamental breakdown in public order or the rule of law, endemic corruption in the government or other extreme circumstances ".

It pitted today ’ s majimboists, represented by Odinga, who campaigned for regionalism, against Kibaki, who stood for the status quo of a highly centralized government that has delivered considerable economic growth but has repeatedly displayed the problems of too much power concentrated in too few hands — corruption, aloofness, favoritism and its flip side, marginalization.

Kenya ’ s military, like many government institutions in the country, has been tainted by corruption allegations.

Because the operations of the military have been traditionally cloaked by the ubiquitous blanket of “ state security ”, the corruption has been less in public view, and thus less subject to public scrutiny and notoriety.

Kyrgyzstan's economic performance has been hindered by widespread corruption, low foreign investment and general regional instability.

In April 2011 it was reported that construction of the railway has been postponed indefinitely, while the Chinese minister of Transport and Railways has been arrested on corruption charges.

Anwar's conviction on sodomy has since been overturned, and having completed his six-year sentence for corruption, he has since been released from prison.

The ICAC has the power to detect and investigate corruption and money-laundering offenses and can also confiscate the proceeds of corruption and money laundering.

Moreover, the privatization program has stalled, while corruption remains widespread and governance weak.

In Patchen's eyes, organized churches are as odious as organized governments, and Christian symbols, having been taken over by the moneyed classes, are now agents of corruption.

Relations between the two countries have not always been cordial due to the former French government's policy of supporting militant separatists in Angola's Cabinda province and the international Angolagate scandal embarrassed both governments by exposing corruption and illicit arms deals.

However, despite claims of government corruption, favoritism of Zaghawas, and abuses by the security forces, opposition party and labor union calls for general strikes and more active demonstrations against the government have been unsuccessful.

As a result, many of the state-owned business entities have been privatized and limited efforts have been made to standardize and simplify labor and investment codes and to address problems of corruption.

The Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar as " a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest ' national opposition ' —- fourteen years of rule by Jews, Marxists and ' cultural Bolsheviks ', who had at last been swept away by the National Socialist movement under Adolf Hitler and the victory of the ' national revolution ' of 1933.

" 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.

Between and of Iraq ’ s declared oil production over the past four years could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a US Study from May 12, 2007.

Of the administrative structures established under the 1898 Local Government Act, the only type to have been completely abolished was the Rural District, which was rendered void in the early years of the Irish Free State amidst widespread allegations of corruption.

With a weak central government, political corruption had spiraled out of control, and the status quo had been maintained by a corrupt aristocracy, which saw no need to change a system that had made its members rich.

But Steinschneider will not admit the possibility of this conjecture, while Renan scarcely strengthens it by regarding " Andreas " as a possible northern corruption of " En Duran ," which, he says, may have been the Provençal surname of Anatoli, since Anatoli, in reality, was but the name of his great-grandfather.

Harassment and intimidation have been common even in places where homosexuality is legal, and laws against child corruption, morality, or " the good ways " ( faltas a la moral o las buenas costumbres ), have been used to persecute homosexuals.

His message can be described as confrontational and controversial, which can be related to the political climate of most of the African countries in the 1960s, many of which were dealing with political injustice and military corruption while recovering from the transition from colonial governments to self-determination.

A number of political scandals in the 1980s and 1990s created the impression of what was described in the British press as " sleaze ": a perception that the then Conservative government was associated with political corruption and hypocrisy.

The San Francisco Vigilance Movements of 1851 and 1856 are often described by sympathetic historians as responses to rampant crime and government corruption.

It is described as " a sinister tale " that portrays " the corruption and social chaos so much in evidence in Berlin and more generally, according to Lang, in Weimar Germany ". Futurism is another favourite expressionist theme, shown corrupted into a force of oppression in the dystopia in Metropolis ( 1927 ).

The origin of the name is uncertain, but it could be a corruption of'm ' oganwo ', the name used by the Yoruba and Ibo people of West Africa to described trees of the genus Khaya, which is closely related to Swietenia.

He also described, in a phone call, the magistrates investigating him about the corruption charges as " penniless, envious turds whose wives are probably cuckolding them while they keep track of me.

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 ".

In the Book of Mormon, Lamanites are described as having a " skin of blackness " caused by God's curse on the descendants of Laman for their wickedness and corruption: " And he had caused the cursing to come upon Lamanites, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.

He was also the most influential member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party until the mid-1980s, when he fell from power after a long series of scandals, leading him to be described as " that paragon of post-war corruption.

Milton cites " Chaucer's Ploughman " in " Of Reformation " ( 1641 ) when he is discussing poems that have described Constantine as a major contributor to the corruption of the church.

" The Treason of the Senate: Aldrich, the Head of it All ", by David Graham Phillips, published as a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine in February, 1906, described corruption in the U. S. Senate.

The cash deliveries were described in a memo prepared for the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which concluded that " Many of the funds appear to have been lost to corruption and waste ....

A contemporary right-wing Spanish newspaper published a condemnation of the film and of Buñuel and Dalí, which described the content of the film as “... the most repulsive corruption of our age ... the new poison which Judaism, Masonry, and rabid, revolutionary sectarianism want to use in order to corrupt the people ”.

The book sent by Lord Henry to Dorian Gray in Wilde's novel, which contributes considerably to his descent into corruption, is also described as being

Drawing on his Pentecostal beliefs, Ríos Montt invoked a modern apocalyptic vision comparing the four riders of the Book of Revelation to the four modern evils of hunger, misery, ignorance and subversion, as well as fighting corruption and what he described as the depredations of the rich.

Both his poetry and his prose have been described as " stubborn " and critical of society's corruption, and in one of his few surviving poems Wu describes himself as having a " defiant spirit.

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

He quickly became noted for exposing corruption of ministers and other politicians on a case-by-case basis ( although several of his political adversaries at the time described him as bland and incompetent ).

The writings on the Golden Plates, according to Smith, contained an account of the various nations that inhabited ancient America, and described how they were led to the New World by Jesus, but eventually lost their Christian faith through a series of wars and corruption.

Historians, such as Philip Shaff, have the opinion that: " Irenaeus described a form of Basilideanism which was not the original, but a later corruption of the system.

Firuz's reign has been described as the greatest age of corruption in medieval India.

NameBase described the newspaper as " anti-elitist, opposed the Gulf War, wanted the JFK assassination reinvestigated, and felt that corruption and conspiracies can be found in high places "

( Dunning, 550 ) The idea of a woman lawyer as a protagonist was unusual for the time, and newspaper advertisements described Blake as " a courageous woman attorney who battles forces of crime, injustice, and civic corruption " in a typical American city.

In the series ' fictional universe, he is described as the guardian of balance, a being responsible for preserving the health and integrity of Nosgoth ( the games ' setting ), but left incapable of realizing this duty due to spiritual corruption he inherited at birth.