Sentence examples for political wrongdoing from inspiring English sources

Lehmberg oversees the office's public integrity unit, which investigates statewide allegations of corruption and political wrongdoing.

Starting with "One for the Road" in 1983, Mr. Pinter has produced several terse, tough plays that deal openly with torture, political wrongdoing and the abuse of human rights.

Here Grillo not only denounces political wrongdoing but runs something of a parallel government, complete with a cabinet of volunteer policy advisers, including the architect Renzo Piano, the actor and playwright Dario Fo, and the economist Joseph Stiglitz, who wrote the preface to a book Grillo recently published online about Italian labor law.

Because the amendment dealt with raising contribution limits, in theory it involved a prospect of more money from donors and more, not less, risk of political wrongdoing, like bribery; the amendment displeased the court in part because it didn't combat corruption.

The UfJ's aim was to intimidate East German political leaders and discourage further political offences by openly and meticulously documenting political wrongdoing behind the 'Iron Curtain'.

Some critics find the images of damaged and repaired relationships rather strained, given that many of the cases of criminal or political wrongdoing that are spoken of in these terms involve people who are strangers to one another (Sher 2013).

While some of the tweets were anti-Semitic and conspiratorial, others simple statements of faith in Corbyn, many belittled the issue, comparing it to various political wrongdoings: "Arm child killers and terrorist supporting countries and nobody bats an eye lid.

According to Lovato, Sotomayor and we should view the confirmation hearings as "nothing less than a trial to determine whether the GOP is ready to make restitution for its role in a number of judicial and political wrongdoings perpetrated in the Bush era".

Moreover, in political contexts wrongdoing is frequently officially denied, both in the refusal to acknowledge that violations of rights occurred and/or that a particular agent such as the state was responsible for the violations that are known.

Michael Dibdin, the British crime novelist and professional Italophile, died four years ago, having left behind 11 novels centered on Aurelio Zen, the stylish Venetian detective whom he dispatched throughout Italy to solve murders typically executed against the backdrop of political corruption, Mafia wrongdoing and aristocratic entitlement.

However, as high-level hierarchies impose sanctions, the government in a unitary authority structure may suffer from the political costs of wrongdoing although it can provide the benefits of administrative efficiency.