Sentence examples for Corrupt from inspiring English sources

Another cable, which prompted Ecuador to expel the US ambassador to the country, accused Ecuador's commander of police of using his position "to extort cash and property, misappropriate public funds, facilitate human trafficking, and obstruct the investigation and prosecution of corrupt colleagues", concluding that "corruption among Ecuadorian national police officers is widespread and well-known".

The former New South Wales minister has been at the centre of several inquiries and has been found corrupt by the Independent Commission Against Corruption on a number of occasions.

Turkmenistan is among the most corrupt and repressive countries on earth, according to watchdogs.

Sharaa is the most senior Sunni Muslim figure in Assad's minority Alawite-led government and he has a reputation for living modestly and not being corrupt.

"You cannot say a man is corrupt until he's proven guilty".

This absence is at least partially explained by the thorough discrediting of nationalism after nazism and the fact that, unlike further east, communist elites did not become corrupt nouveaux riches (and therefore the subject of a rightwing backlash, as in Hungary, for instance).

They point to corrupt politicians and the lobbyists and business people who corrupt them, and give that enemy a name – "la casta", loosely translated, "the establishment".

Their equipment was outdated and ill-maintained, since army purchases were notoriously corrupt.

These days, many of us can be found curled up with a copy of The Hunger Games or Divergent, but what's very clear is that your average teenage girl will probably not end up saving the world from a corrupt dictatorship, like Katniss Everdeen, or be caught in a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf, like Bella Swan.

Two reports into alleged corrupt developer donations to the NSW Liberal party and another into Australian Water Holdings will not be finalised now until its appeal against the Cunneen ruling.

The court of appeal found the alleged conduct surrounding Tilley's crash did not fall within Icac's definition of corrupt conduct.