Bribery, the act of promising, giving, receiving, or agreeing to receive money or some other item of value with the corrupt aim of influencing a public official in the discharge of his official duties.
The group, which pledges to "take feminism back from those who have corrupted it," aims to use online humor and graphics to spread its message -- much as opposing groups like the Center for Reproductive Rights do.
Asset forfeiture schemes, engineered as a way to strip organized crime syndicates of their ill-gotten wealth, have, in the hands of law enforcement agencies, become corrupt systems aimed at fleecing the citizenry while padding the pockets of the police.
Yet, rather than form a principled alliance, which could give them a reasonably stable parliamentary majority, they have chosen to ally to small, right-wing, populist and corrupt parties whose aims are mainly venal and who constitute a serious obstacle to Brazil's modernisation.
In designing such institutions, it is important not to assume the worst of people, for otherwise we might inadvertently encourage (through an evident lack of trust) the very corrupt behavior one aims to guard against.
It also has a reputation for being very corrupt, and the aim of EITI is to increase transparency in these lucrative sectors - so this is a man with an interesting job.
Their photograph-rich volumes, a mix of text, boxed features and cartoons, are scrupulously researched and do not shrink from the corrupt political dealings, imperialist aims and ugly racism that frequently operated behind the highfalutin verbiage.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) aims to prevent enterprises and the officers who work for them from using personal payments or rewards to influence foreign officials.
The measure, which will expropriate those with savings in won, was aimed at corrupt officials and well-off traders.
The present wave of Islamic discontent is chiefly aimed at corrupt politicians who have run out of new ideas, but it also has a religious target.
