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Sure, he was handsome, but he came from Mexico's corrupt old ruling party, the PRI, and he was a notorious womanizer.
The very cells that run the show must be corrupt to the bone.
We can easily resign to the fact or to the thinking that government is too inefficient, too corrupt, unfixable.
One of the kingdom’s most prosperous merchants has been exposed for his corrupt dealings.
The first concern is about corruption, and the concern that people in these settings are corrupt and they are untrustworthy.
He freed his subjects from the corrupt Roman Catholic establishment.
Make the idea occur in their own minds that democracy and its institutions are failing them, their elite are corrupt puppet masters and the country they knew is in free fall.
He also attacked city life, and he said that the coasts were corrupt, and what people needed to do was to look inwards to the center of the country, to farmers, who were the essence of Republican virtue, and they should go back to the values that had made American great, specifically the values of the Revolution, and those were the values of low taxes, agriculture and less trade.
The first time I was elected, it was because I called out, by name, corrupt and untouchable politicians.
But over the course of the next year, I came to discover that this orphanage that I had been supporting was terribly corrupt.
And the problems posed by putting kids into institutions don't just pertain to the corrupt and abusive institutions like the one that I rescued the kids from.
But in 2006, when I first met her living in that corrupt and abusive orphanage, she had never been to school.
Our government was corrupt.
Your country talks about democracy, but you support corrupt governments like my own.
So, the thinking goes like this: in a society that's poor and corrupt, our best shot at reducing corruption is to create good laws, enforce them well, and this will make way for development and innovation to flourish.
You know, a society where politicians are corrupt and consumers are poor?
You know, in poor countries, we complain a lot about corrupt politicians who embezzle state funds.
Now, in no way does this excuse corrupt behavior.
Now, in the 1950s, South Korea was a desperately poor country, and it was very corrupt.
When you looked at South Korea's institutions, even as late as the 1980s, they were on par with some of the poorest and most corrupt African countries at the time.
Many groups took advantage of these corrupt customs, but few supported them as much as the Guelfi Neri, or Black Guelphs.
Her provocative poem Foolish Men infamously criticized sexist double standards, decrying how men corrupt women while blaming them for immorality.
The 18th-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was called the “new Diogenes” when he argued that the arts, sciences, and technology, corrupt people.
In recent years, Kenya has been ranked amongst the top 10 most corrupt countries in the world.
Human beings are not born corrupt.
Ethic built Hedge with a singular purpose: to construct a maze that would protect the world machine from a corrupt government.
or, "Let me see who I can corrupt today."
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.
There are almost always laws on the books that would protect these people, but they've often never heard of those laws, and the systems that are supposed to enforce those laws are corrupt or broken or both.
The aggregates of joy and suffering thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there, on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
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