The phrase "a system of corruption" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an organized structure or framework that facilitates corrupt practices within an institution or society.
Example: "The investigation revealed a system of corruption that permeated the local government, affecting all levels of decision-making."
Alternatives: "a network of corruption" or "an apparatus of corruption".
Obama's locked into a system of corruption.
"I don't know if we can call it a mafia system but it is a system of corruption.
However, if you can not hope at all to bring this system to account, a system of corruption which is bankrupting our very spirit, stealing the birthright of our children, then what remains?
Mr Kenyatta's father, though revered as the founding president, is also held responsible for entrenching a system of corruption, greed and patronage that besmirches the country to this day.
But if the presidential election comes first, it puts the focus on the head-to-head competition between Mr. Jospin and Mr. Chirac; the latter is considered weakened by the growing allegations that he was at the center of a system of corruption that collected millions of francs while he was mayor of Paris.
The comic is meant to be a superhero's story: a mild-mannered business executive wins the nation's first democratic elections, transforms a system of corruption and impunity into a government that upholds law and order, and shares power with the people.
But he doesn't expect it to change a system of institutionalised corruption.
In each of Dooling's three novels -- "Critical Care," "White Man's Grave" and "Brain Storm" -- an American naïf, a kind of yuppie Huck, tangles with a system of spectacular corruption.
The Washington Post reporter teamed up with fellow journalist Bob Woodward to unravel a system of political corruption which stemmed from an investigation into a burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in June 1972.
You are someone who is smart enough, idealistic enough, bold enough to know that living with yourself in a system of utter corruption would destroy that self as an ideal, as something worth being.
Second, it's created a whole system of corruption -- a three-tiered rate and a black market in which people, often times close to the government, are arbitraging these different rates.
