Sentence examples for mani from inspiring English sources

The mani pulite (clean hands) campaign against corruption after 1992 was enthusiastically taken up by the people and, all in all, venality is less pervasive than it was.

Besides, they add, what were the magistrates themselves up to, before the mani pulite campaign, when they were notably inactive in pursuing bigwigs?Others disagree.

Quoting approvingly from the writings of an admirer who is a Roman Catholic priest, Mr Berlusconi said fascism had been "less odious" than the prosecutors who led the mani pulite anti-corruption drive of the early 1990s.

The magistrates who launched the mani pulite (clean hands) investigations into corruption in 1992 have used the current legislation to prosecute a string of businessmen, including Mr Berlusconi.

Mr Berlusconi, who strongly denies all the allegations, maintains that left-wing magistrates dominate the judiciary, and that the mani pulite investigations were politically motivated.

Their investigations into corruption, known as mani pulite (clean hands), which began in 1992, have claimed fewer notable scalps than expected.

The second, starting in Milan in early 1992, was a series of bribery cases known as tangentopoli (bribesville), led by a group of magistrates who became known as mani pulite (clean hands).

Immaculate hair, cover-girl makeup and mani-pedis just isn't punk.

The mani-rimdu dance drama of the Sherpas, a variant of 'cham, is a good case in point.

Their new relationship may not start well; Mr Berlusconi broke off from discussions during the October 26th summit to tell an Italian television show that the euro was "a currency without a central bank behind it".Mr Berlusconi rose from the collapse of Italy's old political order following the fall of the Berlin Wall and a succession of corruption investigations known as Mani Pulite (Clean Hands).

According to tradition, the original version of the Dasam Granth was collected by the Guru's faithful follower Mani Singh.