Corruption
Meanings and phrases
corruption
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain; corruptness
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; degeneracy; depravation; depravity; putrefaction
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; subversion
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
- in a state of progressive putrefaction; putrescence; putridness; rottenness
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- is a song against corporate greed, political corruption, and racism.
- It satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America.
- The board was created in the wake of several political corruption scandals.
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- He was arrested to face corruption charges in 2015.
- He was impeached on corruption charges .
- The Taiwan High Court eventually cleared Ma of all corruption charges.
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- The initiatives he took against corruption were not very effective.
- Mbah was an active campaigner for human and environmental rights and against corruption.
- This essay is a polemic against corruption and Gildas provides little in the way of names and dates.
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- It would be the biggest corruption scandal in Latin America.
- Holgersson was involved in a corruption scandal in April 2006.
- At the beginning of his third year in office, he resigned as a result of in a huge corruption scandal.
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- Derek Schofield, embroiled in allegations of corruption).
- There are unproved allegations of corruption against Devananda.
- From the start, allegations of corruption and pay-offs emerged.
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- Both investigated police corruption in Durango.
- ... During ... [2013,] there were reports of excessive force, police corruption, and impunity.
- The case is often raised as an example of police corruption and the problems facing Thailand's justice system.
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- The system was developed ostensibly in response to corruption within the Czech political system.
- At Wangbu's house, Cardo and Oscar decided to clean up the corruption within the Philippine Government.
- Unsurprisingly, Mantuan's attack on corruption within the church reverberated through English literature.
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- For example, the award-winning Senegalese film "[[Xala]]" takes government corruption as its theme.
- Political concerns in China include the growing gap between rich and poor and government corruption.
- Following democratic reforms, "La Prensa" continued to report on politics and government corruption.
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- Ortega had also been reporting on this corruption case.
- On May 20, 2005, Nazaruddin was suspected in the alleged corruption case at the KPU by the Corruption Court.
- In July 2017, ex Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD was charged by the CBI in a corruption case.
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- In addition, corruption scandals are a source of public concern.
- The board was created in the wake of several political corruption scandals.
- During the 1940s, the HKPF faced a number of corruption scandals involving officers.
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- In 1726, he had 26 Company servants brought to Batavia on charges of corruption.
- Activists have made four serious charges of corruption and abuse of office against Anand.
- Dogged by charges of corruption, the Directory collapsed in a coup led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799.
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- Further evidence emerged of alleged corruption.
- But the arrest and imprisonment of Carmelo achieved much more in society than his alleged corruption.
- These theories were based on alleged corruption of the patent examiner Zenas Wilber who was an alcoholic.
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- President Temer is himself accused of corruption.
- On the other hand, his administrations have been accused of corruption.
- In May 2015, 14 people were arrested, including nine FIFA officials, after being accused of corruption.
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- Other candidates were also associated with corruption cases.
- One of the most important corruption cases in Brazil concerns the company Odebrecht.
- The State Court also deals with organized crime, and economic crime including corruption cases.
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- "Tjambuk Api" has been read as a critique of the widespread corruption in Indonesia.
- He was elected to the post again in elections marked by widespread corruption and fraud.
- In the late 1980s, much of Armenia's economy already was opening either semi-officially or illegally, with widespread corruption and bribery.
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- Bowles, who was tainted by corruption allegations, had held the office for 20 years.
- The corruption allegations against Bin Hammam and Jack Warner were leveled by CONCACAF general secretary Chuck Blazer.
- Despite the corruption allegations, the Congress party put him up as a party candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.
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- He is not allowed to hold public office due to two convictions for public corruption in 2014 and 2016.
- As a native of Lake County, Indiana, public corruption was a major focus during Carter's tenure in office.
- As a federal prosecutor, she carried a diverse docket, including public corruption, RICO, drug, and fraud cases.
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- He was arrested in April 2009 during a corruption investigation by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.
- In 1939, Suffolk County Sheriff John F. Dowd resigned while under criminal corruption investigation.
- In 2004, Republican Governor John G. Rowland resigned during a corruption investigation, later pleading guilty to federal charges.
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- His film Pratighatana (1985) was the story of a woman's (Vijayshanti) fight against corruption and criminalization of politics in India.
- It is acting also as a center of excellence for research on the fight against corruption and for the preparation of anti-corruption proposals.
- Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, the president of the party, presented the platform as a new generation of politicians that will fight against corruption and organised crime.