Sentence examples for funds conflict from inspiring English sources

The district attorney has recommended that Spaccia, who was convicted of misappropriation of public funds, conflict of interest and secretion of public documents, be sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison and ordered to pay $8.2 million restitution.

Though she wept several times during her testimony, Spaccia showed no emotion when the verdicts were read, pronouncing her guilty of multiple counts of misappropriation of public funds, conflict of interest and secretion of public documents.

It had ethical problems, misspent funds, conflicts of interest, angry United States senators and stolen e-mail messages.

"Traders understood what due diligence is and why the international market wants proof that mining is not funding conflict," she said.

In an effort to ensure that blood diamonds were not being used to fund conflict, Global Witness helped set up a certification scheme known as the Kimberley Process.

It requires companies to check whether they are funding conflict or human rights abuses through their purchases of minerals, including tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold.

These findings support qualitative accounts of food aid either being stolen during transport or being taken from target populations by small armed groups that use the resources to fund conflict.

But, like other highly desirable natural resources, it can also be used to fund conflict – which is why a range of measures to prevent this happening has been established in recent years.

Rather than stage a boycott, people who don't want their purchases to fund conflict minerals are now protesting with the very technology they hope to improve.

"Most of America's biggest corporations have blind spots in their supply chains - leaving them oblivious to whether the products they sell contain minerals that have funded conflict," wrote Dr Denis Mukwege in an introduction to the report.

The letter raised concerns that some of the minerals/metals used in the electronics industry (Tin, Tantalum, Tungsten and Gold) might be funding conflict and human rights atrocities in the DRC.