Sentence examples for called corruption from inspiring English sources
It's been bankrolled by lots of businesspeople – many of them I'm sure have been taxed indirectly – and they'll be expecting some returns for this outlay, and so how are we actually going to get rid of this thing called corruption, if the electoral process itself has been so corrupted?
That's called corruption!
It's called "Corruption in America".
That hole is called corruption.
There's a word for that, and it's called corruption".
The other Mr Sandel calls "corruption": buying and selling can change the way a good is perceived.
In a speech on Sunday, in the wake of the crisis that has engulfed world football's governing body, the prime minister is set to call corruption a "cancer" and the "arch-enemy of democracy".
"A lot of money in television was collected not as business revenue, but as personal revenue -- or what we might call corruption," said Stephen Kotkin, a professor of Russian history at Princeton University who has studied the Russian information business.
In Citizens United, McCutcheon, and Skilling v. U.S., the Roberts court has limited the idea of what can be considered corruption in a legal sense: the only act a court can call corruption, Roberts's majority in McCutcheon held, is "a direct exchange of an official act for money" — a bald-faced bribe.
After all, wholesale corruption is alive and well in the U.S. As one Indian observer put it, "What we call corruption, you call campaign contributions! Remember the famous $200 million bridge to nowhere in Alaska, whose sole purpose was to ingratiate local contractors who would contribute to Congressman Don Youngs campaign?
