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How to use the word malfeasance in a Sentence?

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We are 676 days from the November 2020 election, there are no ongoing lawsuits with any basis in law or fact that have established even the tiniest shred of malfeasance, inaccuracy or widespread fraud in any aspect of the 2020 election.

David Becker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At a minimum we need to reduce if not eliminate entirely their influence over the World Health Organization – the way in which they're blocking Taiwan from participating in the World Health Organization – that would be sort of the minimum criteria, there's another debate about whether you could create a legal construct to hold the CCP accountable for the billions if not trillions of dollars of damages that they've caused through their malfeasance.

Mike Gallagher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For me it was déjà vu. I am very aware of the frailty and the fallacy of the notion of acts of democracy in Georgia, we watched the secretary of state in 2018 set up a system of voter suppression and we watched the current secretary of state continue the same work. The reality is this was a mix of incompetence, malfeasance. It was a deliberate indifference to voters and it's a solvable problem.

Stacey Abrams

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We live in an era of increasingly rampant disinformation, and there are only two ways to address this toxic force that is corroding our democracy : responsibly and in a way that serves the public, or irresponsibly and in a nakedly self-serving manner, facebook's malfeasance when it comes to trafficking in blatantly false information is a national crisis in this respect.

Greg Schultz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was going to speak Utah Sen. Mitt Romney mind without regard to party or politics, and this is very much in line with that, utah Sen. Mitt Romney has great concern about what Utah Sen. Mitt Romney sees as potential misuse or malfeasance in office.

Lanhee Chen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have said that this is -- we've told the court, we've said it in the hearings -- that we are examining the various malfeasance of the President with the view of the possibility of recommending articles of impeachment to the White House.

Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Supreme Court's impossible to disagree with Judge Kavanaugh that, in a perfect world, Congress would take the lead when it comes to investigating misconduct and malfeasance by the President, but what Judge Kavanaugh seems to be implying here is not only that Congress should take the lead, but that the Constitution might itself foreclose independent prosecutors like Independent Counsel Ken Starr and Special Counsel Mueller.

Stephen Vladeck

Found on CNN
5 years ago

( Kim) is not going to want these military commissars helping themselves to any of this assistance coming to the North, that was a problem during the sunshine period, a lot of misappropriation and malfeasance.

Michael Madden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What bothered them was that we were exposing their malfeasance.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
6 years ago

While the emails have never been the focus of our investigation, it was necessary to obtain them, and this committee is the first and only one to do so, if anyone wonders why the investigation is not yet complete, the malfeasance and numerous problems identified in this report are Exhibit A, and prove the committee has faced serial delays from day one at the hands of public officials who sought to avoid transparency and accountability. Congressional Democrats spent most of the day on Wednesday playing down the State Department audit. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Secretary Clinton had acted in good conscience and that Secretary Clinton email practices were consistent with what past secretaries of state had done. The audit did not name any other secretaries who had done so. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, accused Republicans of attacking Secretary Clinton only because Secretary Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Trey Gowdy

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The Big Short you're talking about the advent of hip hop, child soldiers, the sex scandal in Catholic church and malfeasance in Wall Street - I'm pretty proud of that for Hollywood.

Adam McKay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You're talking about the advent of hip hop, child soldiers, the sex scandal in Catholic church and malfeasance in Wall Street - I'm pretty proud of that for Hollywood.

Adam McKay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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