Sentence examples for hidden finances from inspiring English sources

"I don't know if the press could have broken through" the maze of Enron's hidden finances, said Michael Useem, a professor of management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

If City Council members would give up member items, off-budget and hidden financing of "friendly" organizations and the practice of using taxpayer-financed improvements as perpetual campaign advertising, then we would be able to abandon term limits.

The crisis of the long-dominant Christian Democratic Party has created an end-of-era feeling as an elaborate system of hidden financing has come to light.

A leaked American diplomatic cable claimed that, after the ruling conservative-Islamic party lost the 2004 mayoral race in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, Prime Minister Erdoğan appointed his friend Faruk Nafiz Özak chairman of the board of the Trabzon soccer team and also transferred "several million dollars from one of the Prime Ministry's hidden reserves" to finance new player purchases.

Government support, through hidden subsidies and cheap financing, gives Chinese state-owned firms a major advantage over competitors.

The final report writes that "the witnesses also revealed the hidden face of political financing.

Warped as the numbers are, they don't begin to account for the hidden cost of higher education: financing it.

The fear voiced especially loudly by Thierry Breton, the French finance minister is that a hidden cross-subsidy between different parts of the business may distort competition.

Hidden expenses associated with how local governments finance themselves are compounding financial problems down at city hall.

"Undeniably, the problems of irregular and imprudent management and lack of supervising mechanisms that exist in local government financing vehicles have created some hidden risks," he said.

Campaign finance watchdogs said they were particularly troubled by the prospect of groups like American Crossroads, or Democratic counterparts like Priorities USA, using hidden, unlimited donations from private corporations to finance ads in conjunction with the candidates themselves.