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The issue of corruption is important for two reasons: first, it appears to be the heart of the charge against him, that he corrupted the young by teaching some version of atheism, and second, Socrates says that if he is convicted, it will be because Aristophanes corrupted the minds of his audience when they were young ( with his slapstick mockery of Socrates in his play, " The Clouds ", produced some twenty-four years earlier ).
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LaGuardia made corruption his main issue.
Corruption in politics was the central issue in 1884, and Cleveland's reputation as an opponent of corruption proved the Democrats ' strongest asset.
Both of them promised to fight corruption and made that the most important issue in 2002 elections.
The government's establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ) in 2004 has helped with the issue to some degree, although there are still issues with corruption.
The activists from Moscow found it difficult to gain traction over the issue with local residents who, like most Russians, accept political corruption as a given that is useless to protest.
Political corruption was a central issue, which reformers hoped to solve through civil service reforms at the national, state and local level, replacing political hacks with professionals.
Ahern has since taken a stance on the issue of political corruption in Ireland publicly calling for an outright ban of corporate and trade union donations to political parties.
Despite broad popular support for joining the EU, which was considered an overriding issue, the government rapidly lost popularity due to incompetence on various issues ( e. g. building of motorways, and a botched reform of the health system ), a general economic slump, and numerous corruption scandals.
It deals with topics such as neutrality, human rights and international humanitarian law, the legal aspects of cross-border cooperation, and the issue of dealing with the proceeds of corruption.
" Escott concludes that some Democrats were involved, but Republicans " bore the main responsibility for the issue of $ 28 million in state bonds for railroads and the accompanying corruption.
By the time the ASV's copyright expired, interest in this translation had largely waned in the light of newer and more recent ones, and textual corruption hence never became the issue with the ASV that it had with the RV.
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 was under Edward III that the issue of corruption and abuses that accompanied the collection of goods for military use particularly came to a head.
And the opposition knew best, they rode on that issue, "" corruption "".
Japanese newspapers, notably the Asahi Shimbun immediately reported the details of the corruption scandal, and the issue was raised in the Diet by members of the Rikken Doshikai political party.
The corruption of Thaelmann's Hamburg organization and its protection by the Stalin faction in Moscow was used as a pretext for Brandler and Thalheimer to issue a call for a meeting of their followers on November 11, 1928.
While Prime Minister Martin had committed in April 2005 to dissolve Parliament within a month of the tabling of the second Gomery Report ( which was released on schedule on February 1, 2006 ), all three opposition parties — the Conservatives, Bloc Québécois, and New Democratic Party ( NDP ) — and three of the four independents decided that the issue at hand was how to correct the Liberal corruption, and the motion of non-confidence passed 171-133.
The agreement was judged to cause serious damage to the nation and the opposition, headed by Giacomo Matteotti and Don Sturzo, started a controversy which aligned the suspicion of corruption ; Matteotti indeed had prepared a speech on this issue for June 12, but was killed two days earlier.
An issue with signed and unsigned numbers is also when attempting to cast one number into another with different signedness as this can potentially cause data corruption due to the range of numbers for a signed integer differing to that of an unsigned integer.
He campaigned with the promise to “ clean out City Hall with a shovel not a broom .” The issue of endemic corruption in the city's Police Department was addressed after Morial hired Richard Pennington as Police Superintendent.
That same year he played a leading role in solving the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee Secondary School ( 寶血會金禧中學 ) issue involving the " Golden Jubilee school corruption incident " ( 金禧事件 ).
The DND ’ s decision was later reversed when Scott Taylor threatened to issue a press release detailing corruption involving the DND official magazine Canadian Defence Quarterly.
His essay on corruption appears in the fall 2009 special Chicago issue of Granta, the British literary quarterly.
The primary issue of the campaign was corruption.
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To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.
No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.
Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.
If the indenture is accepted, the authority will proceed to validate a bond issue repayable from revenue.
This is the root issue for which the United States should stand.
An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic.
It makes no difference what part of the world is involved, what form of regime, what particular issue.
I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned.
Turn off at any one of the marked picnic areas ( gasoline companies have touring service bureaus that issue booklets on national parks to tell you where you have barbecue facilities ) and -- with soft drinks cooled from morning loading up, hamburger, buns, an array of relishes, and fresh fruit -- your lunch is 75% cheaper than at a restaurant, and 100% more fun.
First and foremost: No one -- no, not anyone -- in the family is allowed to issue blanket invitations to his or her own circle.
Your invitation to write about Serge Prokofieff to honor his 70th Anniversary for the April issue of Sovietskaya Muzyka is accepted with pleasure, because I admire the music of Prokofieff ; ;
Land reform is likely to be a pressing issue in many of these countries.
One issue that must be faced is the relative difficulty of analysis of different phonologic subsystems.
Whereas the earlier cases turned rather narrowly upon the availability of adequate state remedies, the new emphasis is upon the nature of the state policy at issue.
No person shall be referred to a position the filling of which will aid directly or indirectly in filling a job which ( 1 ) is vacant because the former occupant is on strike or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or ( 2 ) the filling of which is an issue in a labor dispute.
It is the first part of the Regulation that is currently at issue.
The public interest is so dominant in such an issue that I cannot be so presumptuous as to attempt to settle it by an administrative order based upon conclusions reached in a summary action in one or two Superior Courts in the State.
It is an issue which may well reach the Supreme Court of the United States before judicial finality is achieved.
Thus far, the cases which have come before the courts have involved only the issue of referral where the job is vacant due to a strike -- condition ( 1 ) in the Regulation of the Secretary.
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