The corruptions and maladministration of the church attracted the satire rather of the citizens and peasantry who suffered by them, than of the nobles who had less to fear and even something to gain.
The patronage of the directors was ill bestowed, and the general maladministration heightened their unpopularity.
His reports on the cases of British subjects, which have formed the basis of representations to the Government of the Independent State, afford, however, examples of grave maladministration and ill-treatment.
A special demand for a complete statement of accounts was sometimes made in cases where gross maladministration was charged against a prioress.
It cannot be denied that the discovery of maladministration will bring more lasting discredit on the government of a country, than the same charges would if untrue.
That grave injustice may occur the Duffy case has demonstrated, but I feel that it is not the taking of the photograph that has given cause to the injustice, but the inefficiency and maladministration of the police department, etc.
The only way out of the difficulties occasioned by the maladministration of the Proprietors was that some Proprietor should be sent over “with full power” to heal all grievances.
When they had excited public opinion, they had Suffolk impeached in Parliament for maladministration of the revenue.
They stirred up the people and Parliament by complaints of the maladministration of the ministers, and used a threatened invasion of the French as a lever against those entrusted with the conduct of the long unhappy war with France.
The indictments are identical: Maladministration in the government of a province.
But it was not only in the army that thismaladministration was visible.
The blame of the wretched condition of the army was traceable to the general maladministration which existed in the Government.
Victory in war and increased dominion had only increased the maladministration of the India Company, which reached such a pitch, that in 1765 it became necessary again to despatch Clive to the scene of action.
No past maladministration of laws can be suffered to destroy their true intent, while the victims of the maladministration live to complain, and the rewards of wrong have not been consumed.
Unnecessary wars, scandalous treaties, profusion of public treasure, oppressive taxes, every kind of maladministrationis ascribed to him.
But these difficulties can be remedied if the general maladministration is improved, and I hope it will be improved as soon as the present regime is changed.
The violence of revolutions is generally proportioned to the degree of the maladministration which has produced them.
One would imagine from the chorus of complaint along this line that every English or American officer accused of cruelty, misgovernment or maladministration was promptly and severely punished.
When serious complaints of maladministration are brought before the Belgian authorities of the Congo, investigation and trial are usually ordered.
In the later editions of the same book he retracts his words of praise; he quotes the atrocities and maladministration of the country.
Guarantees of some similar kinds (the exact details of which might be reserved for later discussion) against the future maladministration of Bulgaria.
The Dutch of both communities had nothing to gain and something to lose by the maladministration of the Transvaal, so that they were nowise disposed to support it in refusing reforms.
