Sentence examples for a corrupt practices from inspiring English sources

A Corrupt Practices Act required candidates for office to file reports of their expenses, limited the amount of allowable expenses, and forbade public service corporations from contributing to any campaign.

He insisted, however, that paying money to Taliban fighters in an effort to get them to change sides was not a corrupt practice.

Once a corrupt practice is sufficiently perceived as commonplace, then it is transformed in people's minds from something objectionable into something acceptable.

Under electoral law "undue influence" is considered a corrupt practice and includes the use of "a fraudulent device or contrivance" to "impede or prevent or intend to impede or prevent the free exercise of the franchise".

He is trying to clamp down on graft, and on Sunday he announced the discovery of 50,000 "ghost soldiers" in the Iraqi army — a corrupt practice in which salaries are drawn for soldiers who do not exist.

The candidate personally hired someone as an election agent, canvasser or agent while aware that the person had been found guilty of a corrupt practice within the seven years before he was engaged.

Beth Jones, Executive Vice President of APCO Worldwide, on April 10 in Astana to discuss a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) case involving Baker Hughes' work in Kazakhstan.

Since 1977 the United States has had a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act outlawing the payment of bribes to foreign government officials, but for years no other country followed suit.

Nothing could be further from the truth.The United States is the only country in the world that criminalises the conduct of offering foreign bribes through a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

In late 2011 the Justice Department opened a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation into Wal-Mart — apparently after the corporation had learned of The Times's reporting and disclosed the problems to the government.

9. 2. (SBU) Summary: A Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case involving malfeasance by U.S. oil technology and services firm Baker Hughes in Kazakhstan will soon be settled, revealing details of bribes paid by the firm's local representatives.