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  • Look up venality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Venality is a vice associated with being bribeable or willing to sell one's services or power, especially...
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  • overlapping jurisdictions under the charge of commanders holding a variety of venal titles.[page needed] These and other problems led to a series of reforms...
    39 KB (3,943 words) - 11:05, 19 February 2024
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    the course of a few hours, France abolished game-laws, manorial courts, venal offices (especially judgeships), the purchase and sale of pecuniary immunities...
    19 KB (2,627 words) - 14:55, 1 June 2024
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    Europe, they supported local reformers against the corruption, rapacity and venality which they viewed as originating in Rome. One school of thought attributes...
    63 KB (8,251 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2023
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    that the "people no longer had access to the Prince's justice, judges became corrupt and venal". Vsevolod followed his young councilors' advice instead...
    12 KB (1,201 words) - 13:32, 26 May 2024
  • crime. ...And Justice for All (1979), directed by Norman Jewison and nominated for 2 Academy Awards, examines the flawed and human, venal, and immoral...
    33 KB (3,645 words) - 19:49, 28 May 2024
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    Sarojini, a middle-class woman who fights against extreme odds, in Madhya Venal earned her a special mention by jury chairman Bahman Ghobadi, a famous Iranian...
    34 KB (1,852 words) - 18:57, 4 June 2024
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    religion the estates moved on to justice, a matter that proved too thorny for them to handle, as the repurchase of the venal judicial offices by the crown...
    26 KB (3,619 words) - 12:15, 16 April 2024
  • being conducted by a venal and bribed judge, must be considered a counterfeit one; and any resulting retrial (before a non-venal jurist) must be considered...
    13 KB (1,653 words) - 22:10, 11 July 2023
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    by the powerful authoritarian upper-caste landlords, money-lenders, and venal government officials. She wrote of the source of her inspiration: I have...
    27 KB (2,435 words) - 06:54, 3 May 2024
  • security teams that encourages stereotyping low-income and minority voters as venal and stupid." After Operation Eagle Eye, literacy tests were challenged by...
    12 KB (1,561 words) - 10:31, 13 August 2023
  • developers – A fair and open procedure and system must replace the present venal relationship between those parties in relation to the small house policy...
    6 KB (429 words) - 20:53, 12 December 2023
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    and virtue amidst the decay of venality." An evident example is when King declares that "now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children...
    54 KB (5,537 words) - 19:43, 6 June 2024
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    in Trebisonda, to castigate the nations," and describe him as "wholly venal, cruel and unfair." The English ambassador to Istanbul John Finch also describes...
    18 KB (1,760 words) - 14:46, 28 April 2024
  • explained why [Vincent] really comes onto her, unless this guy is the most venal, craven guy, but look who he's playing around with. He's playing around...
    53 KB (5,658 words) - 16:48, 28 April 2024
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    trial and subsequent guillotine execution on charges of conspiracy and venality. Danton's role in the onset of the Revolution has been disputed, especially...
    67 KB (7,713 words) - 00:38, 19 May 2024
  • Bheemakavi (1976) Ven mi corazón te llama (1942) Ven Shankhu Pol (2011) Venal (1981) Venal Kinavukal (1991) Venalil Oru Mazha (1979) Vendetta: (1919, 1950, 1986...
    284 KB (25,187 words) - 23:35, 3 June 2024
  • ponderous to use very often. The federal agencies of which I speak are not venal or corrupt. But they are notoriously under the control of powerful interests...
    21 KB (2,613 words) - 03:04, 13 September 2023
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    legality into question, were accused of being unpatriotic and supporting the “venal agitators” in Egypt. Guy Aldred, who in 1907 compared the execution of Madan...
    15 KB (1,989 words) - 13:27, 24 May 2024
  • House of Cards overplays its depiction of the edginess of "Washington being venal and corrupt". He describes the show as a "mixed bag". Tim Goodman of The...
    72 KB (5,629 words) - 03:22, 23 May 2024
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