Sentence examples for abuses of public from inspiring English sources

We rely on the act and the convention to protect everyone, popular and reviled, against abuses of public power.

In this symbiotic world, conflicts of interest are easily hidden, appearances of conflicts taken for granted and abuses of public trust for personal gain readily dismissed.

By then, Dixon was known by outsiders not only as the proud boyhood home of President Ronald Reagan, but also as home to what one federal official called "one of most significant abuses of public trust ever seen in Illinois".

It also creates a new public integrity officer in my cabinet, a person who will report directly to me and who will work with enforcement agencies on matters involving corruption, unethical practices or alleged abuses of public authority.

"All that neon and bright lights, it just doesn't fit here". Advertising companies generally acknowledge that abuses of public space have occurred and that a majority of the city's estimated 13,000 outdoor billboards have been installed illegally.

Impeachment for anything else would, according to James Madison, leave the President to serve "during pleasure of the Senate," thereby mangling the system of checks and balances that is our chief safeguard against abuses of public power.

He was later convicted of criminal abuse of public funds.

We will continue to condemn this abuse of public power.

Voters have tolerated abuse of public office, so long as their leaders defended national interests.

It defines corruption as the abuse of public office for private gain.

In the government sector, procurement is sometimes the source of corruption, scandal and abuse of public resources.