Khomeini worked to unite this opposition behind him ( with the exception of the unwanted ` atheistic Marxists `), focusing on the socio-economic problems of the Shah's regime ( corruption and unequal income and development ),

The allegations of corruption against Askin were revived in 2008 when Alan Saffron, the son of the late Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron, published a biography of his father in which he alleged that Saffron had paid bribes to major public officials including Askin, former police commissioner Norman Allan, and other leading figures whom he claimed he could not name because they were still alive.

In 1445, Foscari's only surviving son, Jacopo, was tried by the Council of Ten on charges of bribery and corruption and exiled from the city.

It is often supposed that the name given for a king of Edom, Bela, son of Beor, is a corruption of Balaam, and that, therefore, this reference actually points to Balaam as having once been an Edomite king.

In recent years an etymological back formation has been popularized that suggests it means " son of corruption " or " son of defilement " from another Gaelic word also pronounced " corb " which meant " something is not right in the council " and referring specifically to political treachery or dishonesty, but this " corb " postdates the usage of the names Cormac by several centuries, and thus could not be related to the name.

Playing dual roles of a freedom fighter fighting corruption and his untrustful son, the film also won Kamal Haasan regional awards and plaudits for his portrayal, apart from being a massive box office success.

By this time Biff now owns half the state of California with his influence having gained his son, Biff Jr., the seat of governor and they uphold their power and corruption with an army of large, powerful cyborg police officers.

The princes who headed the party-Ranariddh, Sihanouk's half-brother Norodom Sirivudh, and Sisowath Sirirath ( the son of Sirik Matak, who deposed Sihanouk in the 1970 coup )-disagreed violently over corruption, Vietnam, the Khmer Rouge, land reform, and other issues.

He felt that the " law of primogeniture is the eldest son of class legislation upon corruption by idleness ".

Both Indira and her son Sanjay were charged with allegations of corruption and briefly arrested.

In 1892 / 1893, a large number of ministers ( including Clemenceau ) were accused by French nationalists of taking bribes from Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1888, for the permit of the lottery issue, leading to a corruption process against Lesseps and his son Charles.

It is speculated that he stepped down under pressure as the Caretaker Government started a series of prosecution and arrest for corruption and criminal charges against political leaders of Awami League and BNP including Sheikh Hasina Khaleda Zia and her infamous son Tareq Rahman among others.

The book is dedicated to Giya Gongadze, but the theme, of a persecuted journalist and the impact of his revelations about government corruption on his football-playing daughter, Natasha, and his son Lonya, has strong similarities to Gongadze's own fate.

Queiroz was often seen conducting interviews with BBC programmes, such as Match of the Day, as at the time Alex Ferguson refused to speak with the BBC after allegations by the BBC's Panorama programme that Ferguson's younger son Jason, and then Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp, had been involved in corruption regarding cuts in transfer fees.

NPR and CBS News both noted that throughout her re-election campaign, she was dogged by questions about her son, Kwame Kilpatrick, who is in prison on numerous corruption charges.

In 1999, his son, Ji Shengde, a senior member of the People's Liberation Army intelligence, was arrested and tried for corruption, selling classified information and diverting public funds, and was sentenced to death penalty.

Sinclair was convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to six months in jail, Day to four months ' imprisonment, William J. Burns to 15 days ' imprisonment, and Burns ' son, William Sherman Burns, was ordered to pay a $ 1, 000 fine.

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Despenser became Edward's loyal servant and chief administrator after Gaveston was executed in 1312, but the jealousy of other barons-and, more importantly, his own corruption and unjust behaviour-led to his being exiled along with his son Hugh Despenser the younger in 1321, when Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent replaced him as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.

During a visit to Europe, Simon Templar ( alias " The Saint ") befriends a rich American whose son was recently murdered in New York City ; the culprit went free due to police and courtroom corruption.

On 9 March, Karl-Heinz Wildmoser, Sr., president of the TSV 1860 München, his son Karl-Heinz Wildmoser, Jr., chief executive officer of Allianz Arena München Stadion GmbH, and two others were charged with corruption in connection with the award of arena construction contracts and taken into custody.

The newspaper was founded in 2002 by Şerban Roibu, the son of a Social Democratic Party senator and therefore is accused of bias in favour of the Social Democratic Party, although it did publish articles which are critical of Social Democrat members being investigated for corruption.

Although loyal to Ethelred, he had a personal enmity towards Ethelred's son Edmund Ironside, who favoured a confrontational policy towards the Danes, while Eadric Streona was a major proponent of the payment of Danegeld ( presumably influenced by the opportunities for corruption it offered ).

For many seasons Phelan was seen conducting interviews with BBC programmes such as Match of the Day due to United manager Alex Ferguson refusing to speak with the BBC following corruption allegations made in 2004 by the BBC's Panorama programme towards one of Ferguson's son, football agent Jason Ferguson.

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.

The word should therefore be " oxhead ", " hogshead " being a mere corruption.

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 ".

Gavrilovic was " a former member of Serbian State Security ", who shortly before his death had "... provided documentary evidence of corruption, even naming names.

" Maeshowe " could simply be a corruption of " Tormis ' Howe ", meaning it was the burial mound of someone called Tormis.

Another historian suggests that the name Philistine is a corruption of the Greek " phyle histia " (" tribe of the hearth ", with the Ionic spelling of " hestia ").

" Living with corruption ", his latest documentary shown on CNN, describes the shocking reality of how corruption is spread across society both in Sierra Leone and Kenya, affecting mostly the poor.

The name " Lizard " is most probably a corruption of the Cornish name " Lys Ardh ", meaning " high court "; it is purely coincidental that much of the peninsula is composed of a rock called serpentinite.

In terms of corruption, the general feeling was that senatorial elections were " bought and sold ", changing hands for favors and sums of money rather than because of the competence of the candidate.

There were two distinct classes of Viking ships: the ' longship ' ( sometimes erroneously called " drakkar ", a corruption of " dragon " in Norse ) and the ' knarr '.

A 2006 United Nations report stated that " there is enough water for everyone ", but that access to it is hampered by mismanagement and corruption.

Skilful tracking and acquisition of an elusive target has caused the word hunting to be used in the vernacular as a metaphor, as in treasure hunting, " bargain hunting ", and even " hunting down corruption and waste ".

When told that his party, including his own campaign manager, Stephen W. Dorsey, was involved, Garfield directed MacVeagh and James to root out the corruption in the Post Office Department " to the bone ", regardless of where it might lead.

Rockfleet CastleBy 1566 Ní Mháille had married a second time, this time to Risdeárd an Iarainn Bourke, called " Iron Richard ", an appropriate corruption of his Irish name as he is reputed to have always worn a coat of mail inherited from his Anglo-Norman ancestors.

Andropov, " a throwback to a tradition of Leninist asceticism ", was appalled by the corruption during Brezhnev's regime, and ordered investigations and arrests of the most flagrant abusers.

The title mullah ( a Persian corruption of the Arabic maula, " master "), commonly translated " cleric " in the West and thought to be analogous to " priest " or " rabbi ", is a title of address for any educated or respected figure, not even necessarily ( though frequently ) religious.

Another explanation has it that " vinny " is a corruption of " veiny ", referring to the blue veins running throughout the cheese.

The term originated in mid-19th century England and is believed to be a corruption of " continuation ", " continue " or " contingent ".

Englewood is a corruption of Dutch Engelse buurt, or " English neighborhood ", which originally referred to Englewood, New Jersey's status as one of the few English-speaking settlements in Dutch-speaking New Netherland.

Another hypothesis suggests the " guinea " in the name is a corruption of " Guiana ", an area in South America, though the animals are not native to that region.

", wherein he is fired from the Springfield force for corruption and moves to New Orleans to start working as a private investigator.

In 2003, Japanese researcher and mountaineer Dr. Makoto Nebuka published the results of his twelve year linguistic study, postulating that the word " Yeti " is a corruption of the word " meti ", a regional dialect term for a " bear ".

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, ( from-kleptēs, " thief " and κράτος-kratos, " power, rule ", hence " rule by thieves ") is a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often without pretense of honest service.