Sentence examples for considerable fraud from inspiring English sources

He was declared the winner of that election, which was initially certified by some international observers as free and fair but later marred as reports of considerable fraud emerged.

"The number of votes invalidated and identified by the I.E.C. point to considerable fraud and electoral irregularities on election day," said Staffan de Mistura, the special representative for Afghanistan to the United Nations secretary general.

If James Randi had serious concerns about fraud and deception in medicine and science, one would think that he would not be silent on the rampant chicanery considerable fraud regularly committed by conventional medical and "scientific" researchers and by Big Pharma companies.

There is considerable fraud and graft in government programs of various kinds including benefits to persons who "work" the system to their benefit (including cheaters).

The trade was tainted as well by "considerable customs fraud", which reduced government revenues across the continent.

The PRI, as the Party is called, was formed in 1929 and has held on ever since by combining smar organizational politics and a selective granting of favors with strong-arm tactics and considerable election fraud.

Since handmade habanos fetch up to £40 ($65) each in shops in the St James's district of London, the loss was considerable.The fraud also hurt Imperial Tobacco, a British company which inherited a 50% stake in Habanos when it bought Altadis, a Franco-Spanish firm, in 2008.

Widely viewed as a "reformer" by the West, Zenawi has been at the helm for the last 20 years, his rule marked by electoral fraud, considerable repression in parts of the country, and military intervention in Somalia.

In America the federal government dedicated considerable resources to investigating fraud during the S&L crisis.

Charges of inequity and fraud, and considerable violence, were followed by the declaration of a state of emergency.

Rudge (2005) considers Hooper's accusation of scientific fraud in considerable detail.