Sentence examples for bent officials from inspiring English sources

Chad channels wealth to bent officials.

I was not one who believed the rubbish about match-fixing or bent officials.

To date, RosPil has identified violations in £800m-worth of government contracts, many of them apparently inflated tenders designed to put kickbacks into the pockets of bent officials.

Criminal gangs and bent officials are said to have smuggled in thousands of tonnes of cheap grain from Cambodia and Myanmar in the hope of profiting from government largesse.

The anti-corruption campaign, a means of addressing popular concern with bent officials and "princelings' children of party elders), is a stick with which to beat those who won't toe Mr Xi's line.

That's why the prime minister believes Thursday should be mainly about cracking down on states that take aid even while being blighted with bent officials, and tackling graft in sport.

The party is expected to make its backing of Mr. Bent official at the convention.

In this role, the daughter of a Baptist minister from North Carolina had made her name as a scourge of organised crime kingpins and bent government officials alike.

As a candidate and then as president, Mr. Bush has showed little enthusiasm for rebuilding other nations, an ideological bent that officials say plays into the debate within the administration over the American role in postwar Afghanistan.

Steve Kandell of New York magazine praised the episode's satirical bent about elected officials.

At a luncheon with county union officials, Mr. Bent boasted that he had fired his own brother, "and I like my brother".