Sentence examples for In malfeasance from inspiring English sources

Edward Tenner, a visiting researcher at Princeton and one of the most energetic minds you'll ever meet (his book "Why Things Bite Back" is all about the unintended consequences of technology), has been studying the history of Princeton's honor code, and his findings contain lessons for anyone who would construct a code to rein in malfeasance in the state as a whole.

They are placated, settled, reduced in malfeasance".

Anything short of direct evidence showing that Ms. Rousseff was involved in malfeasance is unlikely to upend her chances in the first round now, analysts said.

He then argues that this says that the real constraint on policy is political, not technical, and hence that the Fed is engaging in malfeasance.

A bit of history: While my companions in malfeasance and I were all in high school, somebody decided to adorn the majestic front steps of Lincoln's Nebraska State Capitol building with a statue.

The official said that an investigation was continuing but that there was no reason yet to believe at this point that the employees had been involved in malfeasance at the bank.

Most important, though, we need an attitudinal shift on the part of regulators, who need to recognize that their gentleman's-club ethos is ill-suited to today's financial world, and who need to be aggressive not just in punishing malfeasance but in preventing it from happening.

Case in point: The Securities and Exchange Commission is at the center of the recent reorganization talks, largely because of its poor track record in stopping malfeasance on Wall Street in the run-up to the economic meltdown.

"We are at a crossroads in America where malfeasance in corporate America has reached an all-time high," Judge Sam R. Cummings of United States District Court said in comments to Mr. Nelson.

Milberg, Weiss's practice grew in tandem with securities laws that evolved to rein in corporate malfeasance, but the firm also became the singular expression of the personalities of Mr. Weiss and Mr. Lerach -- at once creative, belligerent, grasping, innovative, wily and unrelenting.

Short sellers can also play a vital role in uncovering malfeasance.