What's the difference between embezzlement and plagiarism?

Embezzlement


Definition:

  • (n.) The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
  • (2) Special prosecutors investigating Park’s relationship with her longtime confidante , Choi Soon-sil, had demanded Lee’s arrest on charges of bribery, embezzlement and perjury.
  • (3) He used the pre-recorded speech to deny accusations of embezzlement, saying: "They aim to tarnish my reputation and discredit my integrity, my stance, my political and military history during which I worked hard for Egypt and its people in peace and war."
  • (4) His former deputy prime minister, Damir Polančec, was charged in September in the biggest case concerning alleged embezzlement and money laundering to the tune of €60m (£50m) at the country's largest food company.
  • (5) If if was corrupt it should never have been here.” Last month the EU froze assets of former president Yanukovych, and 21 other people held responsible for embezzling state funds.
  • (6) The former managing director of a state car plant in Georgia is not bitter, either, about the accusations of embezzlement and misuse of public funds.
  • (7) Navalny, who led mass protests against Vladimir Putin three years ago, was handed a suspended sentence on 30 December after being found guilty of embezzling money in a trial that led to his brother being jailed on similar charges.
  • (8) Navalny was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement on Thursday in Kirov, but prosecutors unexpectedly asked for his release the next morning.
  • (9) GFHC, a subsidiary of the Bahrain-based investment bank Gulf Finance House, accuse the former Leeds managing director of fraud and embezzlement, with detailed documents alleging he fabricated at least 55 invoices to secure payments to five different bank accounts, two in Dubai and three in the UK.
  • (10) Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are accused of embezzling the entire crude oil production of Yukos over a six-year period.
  • (11) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
  • (12) But on Wednesday morning the eyes of the Russian elite – from ministers to Kremlin critics – will be on an unassuming courthouse in the centre of this city, where Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin's loudest foe, will go on trial charged with embezzlement.
  • (13) The charges relate to alleged embezzlement by her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin.
  • (14) At a press conference on Thursday, the Ivorian state prosecutor Simplice Kouadia Koffi said the couple were accused of "aggravated theft, attacks on the national economy, embezzlement of public funds and pillage".
  • (15) I will continue to represent the interests of people who want Russia to be a normal, honest, not corrupt country.” In a trial widely seen as a means of silencing him, Navalny was convicted of embezzlement from a state timber company in Kirov in 2013, but he was allowed to run for mayor of Moscow while he appealed against the ruling.
  • (16) A judge in the provincial city of Kirov, 500 miles north-east of Moscow, found Navalny guilty of embezzling 16m roubles (£300,000) from a timber firm while advising the region's liberal governor in 2009.
  • (17) 7.27pm BST EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed to add four names to the list of people whose assets in the European Union have been blocked for allegedly embezzling Ukrainian state property under fugitive pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych, the Associated Press reports: The new names, which brought the total to 22, including Yanukovych himself, are to be made public Tuesday.
  • (18) Khodorkovsky, 47, an oil tycoon who was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to eight years in jail for fraud two years later, will appear in court in Moscow today to hear the verdict in his second trial on embezzlement charges.
  • (19) According to state media, Ji Jianye is being investigated for "severe violations of discipline and law" – a euphemism for embezzlement, bribery and other official abuses.
  • (20) He has been convicted on politically motivated embezzlement charges that have been described as "bizarre" and is not due for release until 2023.

Plagiarism


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of plagiarizing.
  • (n.) That which plagiarized.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
  • (2) Unethical conduct in research can be divided into five categories: 1) falsification of data, in which the researcher manipulates results, provides data without experimentation, or biases the results to give a false impression of their value; 2) failure to credit others (former colleagues, students, associates) for research results or ideas; 3) plagiarism, use of other's published material (ideas, graphs, or tabular data) without permission or credit; 4) conflicts of commitment or interest in which work or ownership in a private firm in some way conflicts or detracts from the duties to the institution they represent or allows private gain through the individual's employment at the institution; 5) biased experimental design or interpretation of data to support public or private groups that have provided financial support for research.
  • (3) Fresh evidence of Independent journalist Johann Hari's habit of alleged plagiarism has emerged from a lengthy interview with Afghan women's rights activist Malalai Joya in July 2009.
  • (4) This quasi-science, which regards nation-states as living entities and was one of the sources of Nazism, was the subject of a book he published in 1968, and which was attacked by specialists outside Chile for comprehensive plagiarism.
  • (5) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
  • (6) How big a problem is cheating and plagiarism among students?
  • (7) Whelan – who was one of the first bloggers to accuse Hari of plagiarism, and has since found other examples – concludes Hari is "taking other people's interviews and passing them off as his own".
  • (8) Recent charges of plagiarism have not been limited to Mexico .
  • (9) The decision, coupled with a ruling by New York district court Judge J Paul Oetken in December against a separate claim of plagiarism by the American writer Eve Pomerance , author of two unfilmed screenplays about the Victorian scandal, means Effie is now able to be released.
  • (10) A s a writing teacher at Boston University I can usually detect plagiarism.
  • (11) Simon Kelner, the editor-in-chief of the Independent, described the online plagiarism row over star columnist Johann Hari as "politically motivated" and "fabricated anger" at lunchtime on Wednesday.
  • (12) Thompson had been accused of plagiarism by the American writer Eve Pomerance, author of two unfilmed screenplays about the Victorian scandal titled The King of the Golden River and The Secret Trials of Effie Gray.
  • (13) There was also less copying, plagiarism and disruptive behaviour.
  • (14) Tokyo 2020 Olympics committee rejects plagiarism claims over logo Read more “We should make a structure that will emotionally move people all over the world,” the prime minister said.
  • (15) Plagiarism feuds Johnny Cash v Gordon Jenkins: Cash was forced to pay composer Gordon Jenkins $75,000 for using lyrics and melody from Jenkins’ 1953 track Crescent City Blues as the basis for his own 1955 song, Folsom Prison Blues Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams v Marvin Gaye: a jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s family $7.4m in 2015 after he ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had copied their father’s music to create their hit Blurred Lines George Harrison v Ronnie Mack: George Harrison was found guilty of “subconscious plagiarism” of Ronnie Mack’s He’s So Fine for his song My Sweet Lord.
  • (16) Japan’s hapless preparations for the 2020 Olympics have suffered another embarrassment after organisers decided to scrap the Games’ official logo amid accusations of plagiarism against designer Kenjiro Sano.
  • (17) But, as an educator, there are all sorts of parallels with plagiarism that I’ve dealt with in my own classroom.
  • (18) No one at this stage had said there were problems of authorship or plagiarism with the thesis.
  • (19) As recently as last week, however, Japanese officials rejected claims that Sano was guilty of plagiarism , noting that Debie’s design was not a registered trademark.
  • (20) Cheeky that, because Boris is both super-hack and politician, one whose media ethics got tangled with a spot of plagiarism in his youth and got him dismissed by the Murdoch-owned Times.