Sentence examples for governmental abuses from inspiring English sources

(The BBC has had good day-to-day coverage; Human Rights Watch keeps tabs on governmental abuses).

Critics say the administration could conduct such surveillance while still getting prior court approval, as spelled out in a 1978 law intended to guard against governmental abuses.

Justice Antonin Scalia has led a crusade to gut environmental protections, condone police and governmental abuses, hasten barbaric executions and help the rich get richer at our expense.

One of the major governmental abuses denounced by the 1976 final report of the Church Committee was the FBI's domestic counter intelligence programs (COINTELPRO).

When it came time to proposing next steps for the government, it called for investigations by the same entities — the army and the attorney general — who have a track record of ignoring governmental abuses for decades.

Last week, Transparency International — an organization that aims to raise awareness of governmental abuses for private gain, including bribery, kickbacks, and embezzlement — released its 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, a measurement of public-sector corruption in a hundred and seventy-eight countries worldwide.

There has to be responsibility.' " Mr. Carney urged the jury to stand up against "governmental abuse".

He believes in the urgent necessity for individual & collective citizen action against corporate & governmental abuse of power & failure to exercise responsibility.

The judge characterized that expansive use of the so-called state-secrets privilege as amounting to "unfettered executive-branch discretion" that had "obvious potential for governmental abuse and overreaching".

Results of the tainted May 2000 legislative elections were rejected by the opposition, and since then a combination of political gridlock and governmental abuse has sent the Haitians further into misery.

But Democratic leaders, who squared off against the White House for more than five months over the issue and allowed a temporary surveillance measure to expire in February, called the plan a hard-fought bargain that included needed checks on governmental abuse.