"What's really at the core of our problem isn't one politician, but this notion of a culture of corruption," said Patrick Collins, a former federal prosecutor appointed by Mr. Blagojevich's successor, Gov. Pat Quinn, to lead a commission to find ways to end the pattern of corruption.
Inevitably, Grant's low standards in cabinet appointments, and his readiness to cover for associates or friends involved in condemnable behavior, defied the popular notion of a government free of corruption and favoritism.
It's difficult to come to any major conclusions about what Andrews is trying to say with all this — whether she's apologizing for her book, advocating for its macabre power, parodying the notion of books as youthful corruption, or just getting off on the idea of the Dollanganger siblings as the world's most suggestible reading club.
It's difficult to come to any major conclusions about what Andrews is trying to say with all this whether she's apologizing for her book, advocating for its macabre power, parodying the notion of books as youthful corruption, or just getting off on the idea of the Dollanganger siblings as the world's most suggestible reading club.
Tougher too is the notion that the EGE may not actually be fixing the problem of corruption, only redirecting it.
Football belongs on the back pages, not the front.That view, common among sports non-enthusiasts, rests on the mistaken notion that corruption in sport is also a sort of game, in which rubicund rogues harmlessly siphon off gate receipts.
These two decisions were predicated on the notion that the spending of these groups could not lead to the corruption or appearance of corruption for the supported candidates due to their "independence".
At a higher level, extensive corruption threatens the basic notion of a fair return to investment, risk and work.
