• Most of it involves exposing and dismantling Mr Montesinos's enormous web of power and corruption.

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  • Before Saakashvili came to power, there were winters when Georgians stayed in the cold and dark due to lack of power and corruption among public servants but it rarely gets mentioned today.

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  • And now courts have begun to cancel agreements with private power companies accused of corruption by the government.

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  • Benicio Del Toro gives an Oscar-worthy performance as Javier Rodriguez, an honest Mexican border cop who works in the trenches of corruption, power and greed where the drugs enter the country.

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  • He was ousted in a military coup in 2006 accused of corruption and abuse of power.

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  • Milosevic has been under arrest since April, facing possible charges of corruption and abuse of power during his 13 years in power.

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  • Milosevic was arrested in April and has been detained in Belgrade pending an investigation into allegations of corruption and abuse of power during his 13-year rule.

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  • Larry Bell is a professor at the University of Houston and the author of Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax, which will be released Jan. 1, 2011.

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  • Weekly columnist Larry Bell is a professor at the University of Houston and author of Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax, which will be released on Jan. 1, 2011.

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  • Many Bulgarians remain deeply unhappy over high energy costs, power monopolies, low living standards and corruption.

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  • The order is linked to allegations of corruption in bidding on private power stations.

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  • In the month since Mr Fujimori's fall, Peru's reviving democracy has been shaken by claims about the seemingly huge scale of corruption during his decade in power (see article).

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  • Assad has been making noises about reform and fighting corruption ever since he came to power in 2000.

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  • Hazare, a prominent social activist and leader in the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, believes in the power of nonviolent methods toward social change as taught by Gandhi.

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  • The Progressives who designed the city's quirky charter, back in 1925, thought the best way to prevent corruption was to hand as much power as possible to councillors, civil servants and local bigwigs: anybody but the mayor.

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  • In the tradition of the televangelist, that bond has survived its creator's metamorphosis from austere crusader against corruption to a man who clearly enjoys power and its perquisites.

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  • Mr. Andreotti's power was already on the wane when a major corruption scandal wiped out Italy's political class in the early 1990s, leading to the dissolution of all major parties, including the Christian Democrats.

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  • Europeans should have learned by now how endemic and corrosive corruption and influence-peddling are when extensive power is concentrated at the center.

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  • Council Member Larry Seabrook, currently standing trial on corruption charges for abusing discretionary funds, lost the power to allocate the money in his district.

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  • However, the BJP's reputation in Karnataka has been tarnished by infighting, corruption accusations and identity politics during its five years in power in the state.

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  • The BJP's reputation in Karnataka has also been tarnished by corruption accusations, as well as infighting during its five years in power in the state.

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  • The centrist conservative party was in power twice in the 90s, with both terms ending amid damaging allegations of corruption, despite campaigning on an anti-graft platform.

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  • That probe has dropped out of the headlines in Pakistan in recent weeks as the Supreme Court turned its focus to allegations of corruption against President Zardari, whose position is largely ceremonial but who retains power through his role as co-chairman of the governing Pakistan People's Party, or PPP.

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  • Indian activist Arvind Kejriwal, who announced a new political party to fight corruption this week, promises to "change the system within a fortnight" if voted into power.

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  • "If abuse of power, lying in court, withholding evidence, bribing trial witnesses and generally rigging a trial are evidence of corruption, then the East India Company -- together with the Admiralty -- were as corrupt as they come, " concluded Konstam.

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  • Pervez Musharraf, who earlier this month agreed to drop outstanding corruption charges against her and a number of other politicians as part of his own bid to stay in power.

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