Sentence examples for as a swamp of from inspiring English sources

This week his officials ordered the closure of trading firms linked to the defence ministry, which are widely seen as a swamp of corruption.

Like many critics, Kennedy sees college "revenue" sports -- football and men's basketball -- as a swamp of mutual exploitation and bad behavior.

The scene could easily play as a swamp of Freudian camp, but Ms. Gugino and Mr. Schreiber imbue it with a sizzling conviction that wipes the smirk from your face.

"Reddit can be seen as a swamp of standing water that's been allowed to breed pestilent mosquitoes," said Katherine Cross, a former Reddit moderator and PhD student in sociology at the City University of New York, where she studies online abuse.

But Fleischer's most provocative film on this theme is the still potent "Mandingo" from 1975 (Feb. 23, Walter Reade Theater), an anti-"Gone with the Wind" that treats the pre-Civil War South as a swamp of degradation for white masters and black slaves alike.

A former finance minister wrote that Hitler "was so thoroughly untruthful that he could no longer recognize the difference between lies and truth" and editors of one edition of "Mein Kampf" described it as a "swamp of lies, distortions, innuendoes, half-truths and real facts".

But don't send your cakes and congratulatory WKDs to my office just yet (the address is really not that hard to find, just FYI) because there is still a swamp of bullshit as thick as Brooke Shields' hair to wade through.

The greenest government ever that Mr Cameron promised on the steps of the Department of Energy and Climate Change sank into a swamp of contradictions as industry and consumers complained about the impact of paying for carbon-free generation.

In recent years, as Washington has sunk further into a swamp of dysfunction, local leaders are rising to meet many of the toughest challenges facing the country -- from economic growth and environmental protection to public safety and poverty.

In a blog post last year, Huffington Post Media Group President and Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote about mayors' rising prominence in the U.S. "In recent years, as Washington has sunk further into a swamp of dysfunction, local leaders are rising to meet many of the toughest challenges facing the country," they said.

They describe Washington as a swamp and speak of Democratic and Republican congressional leaders with the same levels of frustration and disappointment — while describing Trump as if he were a longtime neighbor.