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969 examples of Corrupt in a sentence

"Like, we're a bunch of elitist, morally corrupt terrorist-lovers."
Because this corrupt elite in that region has lost even the power of deception.
This was a sink-or-swim environment where involvement in criminal or corrupt activities was entirely necessary if you wanted to survive.
In the 19th century, it was a corrupt politician.
And Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well.
No. What we find in Afghanistan is a judiciary that is weak and corrupt, a very limited civil society which is largely ineffective, a media which is beginning to get onto its feet but a government that's deeply unpopular, perceived as being deeply corrupt, and security that is shocking, security that's terrible.
In Pakistan, in lots of sub-Saharan Africa, again you can see democracy and elections are compatible with corrupt governments, with states that are unstable and dangerous.
His was a lonely struggle, because Bihar was also India's most corrupt state, where public officials were enriching themselves, [rather] than serving the poor who had no means to express their anguish if their children had no food or no schooling.
We could change the invisible clerks within the kiosks, every week, but we could not change this corrupt practice.
The entire project cost about 1.6 billion dollars, Trinidad and Tobago dollars, and in fact, we had a lot of bid-rigging and suspicious activity, corrupt activity took place.
What I mean is that our problem isn't the NSA, neither our corrupt governments, neither ambitious companies that want to sell our data, neither bad people, and it has nothing to do with their intentions, nor with their bad intentions.
What's emerged from this discussion is the following question: Will the cash incentive drive out or corrupt or crowd out the higher motivation, the intrinsic lesson that we hope to convey, which is to learn to love to learn and to read for their own sakes?
If we continue to pile upon ourselves in cities, as they do in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as they are in Europe and take to eating one another as they do there."
Every poor country is corrupt.
We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
Why should tax evaders, corrupt government officials, arms traders and more, be able to hide their identities from us, the public?
If you look at the first clue for 1-across, it starts with the letter C, for corrupt, and just below that we have an O, for outfielder, and if you keep reading the first letters of the clues down, you get cobalt horse, amber owl, silver ox, red donkey, and emerald rooster.
He fought for Rome in Hispania alongside his great-uncle Caesar and took up the responsibility of avenging Caesar’s death when the corrupt oligarchs in the Senate betrayed and murdered him.
But operating this way makes it hard for them to sustain over the long term and exert leverage over the system, which leads to frustrated protesters dropping out, and even more corrupt politics.
Almost all criminal justice systems, they start out broken and corrupt, but they can be transformed by fierce effort and commitment.
Recently, the Gates Foundation funded a project in the second largest city of the Philippines, where local advocates and local law enforcement were able to transform corrupt police and broken courts so drastically, that in just four short years, they were able to measurably reduce the commercial sexual violence against poor kids by 79 percent.
You probably think of FBI agents gunning down bad guys like John Dillinger, or arresting corrupt politicians.
Text: You can say a jury is corrupt.
On social media, they said, "We will release information that ties prosecutors and governors to corrupt drug deals with the cartel."
As the story goes, the legendary marksman William Tell was forced into a cruel challenge by a corrupt lord.
Meanwhile, mounting military failures, and corrupt rule by Margaret and her allies caused widespread discontent, and in the midst of this chaos, Richard of York returned with an army to arrest Somerset and reform the court.
And you worry about how man, embodied in the corporate globalist, has become greedy and corrupt.
Now, I only later came to understand that the poverty I'd seen in the Philippines was the result of decisions made or not made, man-made, by a succession of colonial powers and corrupt governments who had anything but the interests of Sonny Boy at heart.
I saw one study that compared women in Nigeria, one of the most chaotic and violent and corrupt and poorest countries in Africa, to women in North America.
Until a few months ago, Guatemala was ruled by corrupt former military officials with ties to organized crime.
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