Rep. John Conyers ( D-Michigan ) expressed concern that the only US government agency to publicly recognize the Haitian junta's role in drug trafficking was the DEA, and that despite a wealth of evidence provided by the DEA proving the junta's drug connections, the Clinton administration downplayed this factor rather than use it as a hedge against the junta ( as the US government had done against Manuel Noriega ).

Federal prosecutors turned up evidence that Spano had forged many of the documents used to vouch for his wealth and to promise payment to Pickett, and even appeared to have sent many of the documents from his own office in Dallas.

" He concludes from evidence including interviews with the surviving members of the family that Lansky's wealth and influence had been grossly exaggerated, and that it would be more accurate to think of him as an accountant for gangsters rather than a gangster himself.

The wealth of that prelate was a sufficient evidence of his guilt, since it was neither derived from the inheritance of his fathers, nor acquired by the arts of honest industry.

However, modern opinion considers the apparent similarities the result of convergent evolution, and based on a wealth of evidence splits the classically defined " Pelecaniformes " into several groups.

His contributions at once gave evidence of his remarkable wealth of historical knowledge.

The almost complete absence of any mention of Menes in the archaeological record, and the comparative wealth of evidence of Narmer, a protodynastic figure credited by posterity and in the archaeological record with a firm claim to the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, has given rise to a theory identifying Menes with Narmer.

At roughly this time, the provincial aristocracy began building elaborate tombs for themselves, which have been taken as evidence of the wealth and power which these rulers had acquired as Nomarchs.

Others contend ( with empirical evidence ) that local purchasing and contracting enhances local job creation and wealth while strengthening community cohesiveness.

The medieval town had waterworks and a sewage system, which is evidence of its importance and the wealth of its inhabitants.

Because of the relative wealth of evidence from Athens it is the best understood of all the Hellenic calendars.

Puey's career is also powerful evidence of how education-contrasted to wealth, political power and connections-could be used to climb the Thai status system.

Emu Park's beautiful public places and grand old buildings are evidence of a very rich history and the wealth bestowed upon it by its patrons.

Druett based his idea that the original site of the Priory can be found further down the slope at Priory House on the supposition that Duberley would have built higher on the ridge, ' to show off the evidence of his wealth and importance '.

The 1972 earthquake, which severely damaged the capital of Managua, brought further evidence of corruption, as members of the National Guard openly looted damaged businesses and misappropriated international aid, and Somoza Debayle's personal wealth soared during the reconstruction period.

After Lord Hutton published his report in early 2004, Barnett wrote that Lord Hutton's " conclusions are totally at variance with the wealth of documentary evidence and witness statements presented to his inquiry and published on the internet ", citing Lord Hutton's claim that " there was no dishonourable or underhand strategy " in leaking Dr. David Kelly's name when Downing Street and the Ministry of Defence " conspired " to do so.

There is ample evidence that Mahone had become aware of the potential wealth represented by untapped bituminous coal coal reserves in southern West Virginia, and had planned a fourth railroad and acquired land to capitalize upon them.

The wealth of fossils has allowed researchers to study its paleobiology in detail, including its brain, how it may have fed, and its injuries and pathologies, such as evidence for a tyrannosaur attack on one edmontosaur specimen.

Critics cite the increased wealth gap, higher internal security budgets, and unprecedented corruption in state-owned industries as evidence that Harmonious Society has failed in practice.

The Church of St Peter and St Paul dominates Lavenham and is evidence of the vast wealth that was concentrated in this area of East Anglia during the Tudor period.

The fine Palazzo Barberini, the Barberini library ( now a core section of the Vatican's Biblioteca Apostolica ), and the many buildings, altars, and other projects spread across Rome ( and marked with the heraldic three bees ) give evidence of the family's wealth, taste and magnificence in the seventeenth century.

The wealth of archeological evidence from earlier periods offers no indication of the existence of a tradition of theatre.

As such, Lamb often shows favoritism towards the wealthy citizens of Neptune and is often reluctant to arrest people of power and wealth without concrete evidence and even then will only do so with a general amount of arm-twisting.

The most productive mine in Saudi Arabia, Mahd adh Dhahab (" Cradle of Gold "), has been periodically exploited for its mineral wealth for hundreds or even thousands of years and is reputed to be the original source of King Solomon's gold, although this may be more of a legend as there is no historical evidence that it ever occurred.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

the share of wealth and happiness that has been offered to them and had been

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

One land, however, has eclipsed all others in the Aegean by the wealth of its remains of all the prehistoric ages — Crete ; and so much so that, for the present, we must regard it as the fountainhead of Aegean civilization, and probably for long its political and social centre.

The Bahamas has no income tax, corporate tax, capital gains tax, value-added tax ( VAT ), or wealth tax.

Although potential wealth in petroleum, nickel, copper, and other natural resources is being explored, the uncertain security situation has prevented meaningful investor interest.

She consoles Boethius by discussing the transitory nature of fame and wealth (" no man can ever truly be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune "), and the ultimate superiority of things of the mind, which she calls the " one true good ".

Garoupa & Klerman ( 2002 ) warn that a rent-seeking government has as its primary motivation to maximize revenue and so, if offenders have sufficient wealth, a rent-seeking government will act more aggressively than a social-welfare-maximizing government in enforcing laws against minor crimes ( usually with a fixed penalty such as parking and routine traffic violations ), but more laxly in enforcing laws against major crimes.

From the beginning of civilization to the 20th century, ownership of heavy cavalry horses has been a mark of wealth amongst settled peoples.

The rich are either unconvinced by the promise of eternal life, or unaware of the conflict between the possession of material and spiritual wealth, and the good Christian has a duty to guide them towards a better life through the Gospel.

What this treasure consisted of has been a matter of considerable speculation: claims range from sacred Gnostic texts to the Cathars ' accumulated wealth.

Sparsely populated in relation to its area, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) is home to a vast potential of natural resources and mineral wealth, its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US $ 24 trillion, yet the economy of the DRC has declined drastically since the mid-1980s.

According to Belloc, the distributive state ( the state which has implemented distributism ) contains " an agglomeration of families of varying wealth, but by far the greater number of owners of the means of production.

He wrote, " There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom ; that is: some minimum of food, shelter and clothing, sufficient to preserve health.

Lucas has pledged to give half of his fortune to charity as part of an effort called The Giving Pledge led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade America's richest individuals to donate their financial wealth to charities.

This echelon matrix contains a wealth of information about: the rank of is 5 since there are 5 non-zero rows in ; the vector space spanned by the columns of has a basis consisting of the first, third, fourth, seventh and ninth column of ( the columns of the ones in ), and the *' s tell you how the other columns of can be written as linear combinations of the basis columns.

Nevertheless, Wells has this very same Time Traveller speak in terms unusual for socialist thought, referring as " perfect " and with no social problem unsolved, to an imagined world of stark class division between the rich assured of their wealth and comfort, and the rest of humanity assigned to lifelong toil: Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.

Evidence of occupation and wealth has been discovered in the form of hoards.

Some property rights theorists also take a consequentialist view of distributive justice and argue that property rights based justice also has the effect of maximizing the overall wealth of an economic system.

His study of Tagalog has been described as “… the best treatment of any Austronesian language … The result is a description of Tagalog which has never been surpassed for completeness, accuracy, and wealth of exemplification .”

Luanda's reborn wealth has helped in the conservation of its historic sites, like the Fort of São Miguel of Loanda.

However, his role in the massacre has permanently ruined his public image and thanks to the machinations of Doctor Sivana, he has lost most of his wealth and all of his control over his newly reformed LexCorp, which is now being run by Lana Lang.