Sentence examples for amount to corruption from inspiring English sources

Fifa's ethics committee is investigating whether the payment breaches rules, including constituting a conflict of interest, and whether it could amount to corruption.

Such contracting may not amount to corruption in the legal sense, but it conveyed the message that power derived from operational and financial links to the U.S. rather than from the legal authorities.

Nonetheless, he wrote, the opinion means that in the majority's view, lawful contributions and lawful expenditures, when taken in combination, amount "to corruption sufficient to silence those who wish to support a candidate".

When fresh-faced rookie Jake, played by Ethan Hawke, gets a "training day" with Alonzo, he realises that the accommodations his boss is making with certain bad guys amount to corruption and psychopathic self-deception.

He added, "If one of my cops says to me, 'My father got a ticket, can you help me out?' I say, 'I'll do what I can.' " State Senator Eric Adams, a Democrat from Brooklyn and a former city police captain who has been talking to his friends on the force about the issue, said such professional courtesies did not amount to corruption.

But more recently, the Roberts Court has said that only bribes amount to corruption.

Though prosecutors are expected to retry Mr. Blagojevich — convicted of a single count of giving false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation — the jury deadlock added a puzzling ingredient to the public conversation about what amounts to corruption and what does not.

The IPCC referred the investigation back to the force after saying it "did not amount to serious corruption or misconduct".

The matter was referred to the IPCC which said it "did not amount to serious corruption or misconduct".

The case was previously referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission which said it "did not amount to serious corruption or misconduct".

In a statement, a spokesman for the IPCC said: "The outcome of the IPCC assessment is that we are satisfied the matter requires investigation but does not amount to serious corruption or misconduct which would merit an IPCC investigation".