Sentence examples for engaged in serious wrongdoing from inspiring English sources
The Conservative platform calls for the introduction of measures to recall members of Parliament found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing, an effort to appease voters outraged by the scandal last year over inflated expense accounts.
The new power of recall – promised in the coalition agreement in 2010 – will be triggered only if MPs are given jail sentences or if the House of Commons resolves that they have engaged in "serious wrongdoing".
The coalition is planning to introduce laws to regulate lobbyists, and to give constituents the power to force a byelection if an MP is found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing.
The parties will bring forward early legislation to introduce a power of recall, allowing voters to force a byelection where an MP was found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing and having had a petition calling for a byelection signed by 10% of his or her constituents.
This would involve using "right to recall" legislation promised by the coalition, under which a by-election is triggered if 10% of constituents sign a petition expressing no confidence in an MP who has been found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing.
Hence the wording of the Coalition's proposal: "Where an MP is found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing".
What we see here, yet again, is this authoritarian strain in US political life that the most powerful political officials cannot commit crimes or engage in serious wrongdoing.
A Texas judge who refused to keep a courthouse open to receive a last-minute death penalty appeal did not engage in serious wrongdoing and should keep her job, according to a judge reviewing ethics complaints against her.
The government will also introduce laws to create a statutory register of lobbyists and give constituents the power of recall to force a byelection if an MP engages in serious wrongdoing, Clegg wrote.
"This is not what the impeachment power is for – the impeachment power exists to remove officials who have engaged in serious criminal or ethical wrongdoing," Keith wrote in an email.
