Here, the tax pain is the result of legislative sausage making at its most venal.
Crowded Haiti has long suffered from squabbling and venal politicians, extreme inequality and ecological stress.
The venal establishment must be swept aside, to make way for young idealists like him.
This does not suggest that colleges and universities are engaged in either collusive or venal behavior.
Yet for all its quirks, Mr Tuschi's film conveys the venal brutality that underpins Mr Putin's rule.
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The only alternatives are autopsies of companies gone bad, in which stupid and venal bosses ruin everything.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said the tapes point to the "malevolent, malicious (and) venal" nature of al Qaeda.
The question insinuates that anyone who has received money from an oil company is venal and untrustworthy.
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Another 20 years of misrule venal coalition politics, delayed airports and roads, slums and rural poverty would be ruinous.
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Peerzada swipes at them all - between digs at what he sees as Pakistan's main enemy: venal politicians.
Since independence in 1960, the country has been looted by venal generals or misruled by equally crooked civilians.
By Russian standards, this was a venial venal sin, if sin at all.
Culture used to play a poor court jester in a territory where commerce is king and venal is vogue.
As an optimist and inveterate people lover, I refuse to accept the cynical explanation that people are just venal hypocrites.
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And, given the country's appalling infrastructure and its venal government, many Indians still prefer to seek their fortune in California.
With their ex-governor stripped of the protection of office, voters will soon find out exactly how venal their government has been.
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They have scammed money from taxpayers in other nations to prop up a venal and corrupt system of patronage and spoils.
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Attempts continue to lure the other main party in the Cardoso coalition, the venal and faction-ridden Brazilian Democratic Movement, into Lula's government.
Syria remains a police state, where justice is venal, arbitrary and severe.
The war is now drained of all ideology: it is a struggle for power between an ambitious rebel leader and a venal government.
In some cases, the state is captured by venal interests either wealth captures power (Russia under Yeltsin), or power captures wealth (Russia under Putin).
By denying Japan's venal politicians the opportunity to debase the yen, the Bank of Japan may think it is acting in the right spirit.
Pre-revolutionary Egypt was feudal and venal, but it produced a renaissance in Arab arts and ideas that some now see as a golden age.
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Fishing expeditions on political-sounding names is just stupid, if not venal.
When Hamas won Palestine's most recent general election, in 2006, it promised to replace Fatah's venal patronage system and unexplained wealth with democracy and equality.
He is the man of unbending principle, not a venal office-seeker.
But in large and small ways, unimaginative, shortsighted politicians and venal activists have conspired to limit our options, constrain economic growth and make real solutions elusive.
Pheu Thai is more likely to win a plurality than a clear majority and then try to entice a few small, venal parties into a governing coalition.
Venal politicians have sucked the country hollow, leaving the void to be filled by Islamic extremists, or military coup-makers, with troubling signs of alliances between the two.
The working assumption is that power is theft and that when its venal rulers are not actively thieving they are passive connivers in the collapse of the state.
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