Sentence examples for interest abuse from inspiring English sources
"This is just another form of special interest abuse".
On Oct. 15, Mr. Spitzer issued an executive order instructing the state's inspector general, Kristine Hamann, to look at "allegations of misfeasance and nonfeasance by personnel of the Waterfront Commission, including allegations of misconduct, conflicts of interest, abuse and waste".
Gov. Eliot Spitzer touched off the investigation when he issued an executive order on Oct. 15 ordering Kristine Hamann, the state inspector general, to look at "allegations of misfeasance and nonfeasance by personnel of the Waterfront Commission, including allegations of misconduct, conflicts of interest, abuse, and waste".
My concern is that unless we achieve true reform of campaign financing and attempt to level the playing field between the public interest and the special interests, abuses will continue.
He faces a number of corruption charges, and was recently sentenced in absentia to two years in prison for conflicts of interest and abuse of power.
And it is encumbered with bias, command conflict of interest and abuse of authority, which precludes justice.
In the region's superpowers — Brazil and Mexico — President Dilma Rousseff and President Enrique Peña Nieto both faced allegations of corruption, conflict of interest and abuse of power.
Allowing a charity you launch to send money to a business you own is textbook conflict of interest and abuse of the rules governing non-profit organizations.
A new report from Young Liberty for Law Reform carries testimony from former detention centre workers who say their careers and personal lives were harmed because they spoke out – they say in the public interest – about abuses they witnessed in offshore detention.
In a different corner of the commission, top officials from the stock exchanges met with Harvey J. Goldschmid, a commissioner, to begin considering new rules for the industry on analyst conflicts of interest and abuses in initial public offerings, an official of one of the exchanges said today.
Contrast Montesquieu's position with James Mill's opposite view (open ballots for representatives, secret ballots for citizens): "The member of parliament, who has an interest in abusing, for his own advantage, the powers of government intrusted to him, needs to be restrained.
