Certainly Lord Ashdown and his predecessors have increasingly often sacked inept or corrupt officials, indeed elected politicians.
They have a lot stacked against them: indifferent or corrupt authorities, powerful criminal gangs, long-held traditions about how to make a living.
Some of this has been packaged as a way to fight terrorism or drugs and arms trafficking or corrupt politicians--not tax evasion.
We expect those who are ineffective or corrupt to be held accountable.
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The Swiss know that, however lazy or corrupt or incompetent or arrogant politicians may be elsewhere, they can cut their own ones down to size.
Half a dozen town halls were recently occupied by people protesting that their mayors were idle or corrupt, or possibly just because they belonged to a different political party.
After Garibaldi's death in 1882, an official national cult did its best to sanitise the hero worship, airbrushing away the old hero's biting criticism of poor or corrupt government.
The fear is that the relative calm in Iraq, compared with the violence of the past years, could be shattered if the elections are perceived to be unfair or corrupt.
If Robin Hood takes something for himself (administrative fees) or is inefficient or corrupt, the middle class and poor get a smaller percentage of their taxes back in the form of positive rights.
It has never disturbed me that we have two party systems in the Anglo-American West, and I've often felt willing to back a reformed party of the left if the governing party of the right had become exhausted or corrupt.
Currently Transparency International ranks Kazakhstan 133 out of 176 countries in terms of corruption perception with a score of 28 (scores range from 0 or highly corrupt to 100 or very clean).
And Bush will call for new powers to revoke or "disgorge" bonuses and other incentives paid to CEOs if it is later determined they were involved in or responsible for corrupt or unethical practices.
Thus Turkey may be able to attract investment from equally or more corrupt nations, such as Russia or Ukraine, but not from western Europe or north America.
If Mr Salazar tried to do anything serious, such as overhauling the state justice system or pursuing corrupt officials, he could be blocked.
Criminals involved with the Mafia, or with money-laundering or other corrupt activities, would have a better chance of slipping through the net of justice if defence lawyers find the merest technical defect in the way evidence has been got from, or transmitted by, any country that has signed the convention of 1959.
Now in order for this belief system to operate effectively, it has to continually position the journalist and his or her observations not as right where others are wrong, or virtuous where others are corrupt, or visionary where others are short-sghted, but as practical, hardheaded, unsentimental, and shrewd where others are didactic, ideological, and dreamy.
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On the other hand, a corrupt or inept consultant can cost a pension billions.
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Even if some reviewers are horribly corrupt or compromised, these lines of critic-criticism and ad hominem can be applied to anyone.
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Courts generally overturn an arbitration result only in the rare case when someone can prove an arbitrator was corrupt or deliberately ignored the law.
The hope, says Mr Dvorkovich, is that once the new laws are in place, Russians themselves will be more prepared to take on corrupt or obstructive bureaucrats.
In the U.S., courts are governed by state law over whether to honor foreign judgments, and evidence of fraud or a hopelessly corrupt court system is one key factor they consider.
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Churchill was found to have committed a corrupt or fraudulent practice, received information that was not in the public domain and misled an official and hindered an investigation, as well as causing jockeys to breach the rules.
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It may also unfairly represent the wishes of the Salafists' largely rural and poor constituents, who in many cases backed them simply because their candidates appeared less corrupt or because secular parties failed to build a local base.
"We're not saying you should distrust the rich, or the rich are corrupt, " says Piff.
All were either investigating corrupt lending or scheduled to testify at investigations into financial corruption.
He wants measures put in place to prevent corrupt people or criminals from standing for elected office.
The aim was to avoid the twin plagues of welfare: handouts that encourage dependency, and the hijacking of funds by corrupt functionaries or vote-grubbing politicians.
It will also examine the way in which any relevant police force investigated allegations relating to News International, and whether the police received corrupt payments or were otherwise complicit in misconduct.
It involves scam artists - often masquerading as corrupt officials or sons and daughters of dead dictators - offering people via e-mail or faxes shares in hidden fortunes in exchange for simple administrative assistance.
Alas, most whistleblowers are not like Dr. King, and for as long as they have been moral canaries in our societal coalmines they have been denigrated for being as corrupt, or more so, than the miscreants they attack.
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