Sentence examples for cause corruption from inspiring English sources

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Indeed, some actions that are done out of a desire to achieve good are corrupt actions, namely, acts of so-called noble cause corruption.

"Outsized donations cause corruption or create the perception of corruption.

Murphy's defence is described as "noble cause corruption", in that he attempts to spin his abuse into a holy act, casting molestation as a form of sacrament.

A windfall of federal cash spawns graft in much the same way that oil wealth or foreign aid can cause corruption in poor countries.

At the time, the authorities said the officers were using the surplus as rewards for information, with one law enforcement official describing it as "noble cause corruption".

Instead, that became an example of what one figure in the film calls "noble cause corruption" — a tendency to excuse transgressions supposedly done in the service of good.

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It's noble-cause corruption.

One law enforcement official even called it "noble-cause corruption".

The officers are not suspected of making any illegal profit, and one law enforcement official has said police officers' trading of drugs for information in the pursuit of arrests could be described as "noble-cause corruption".

I'd just finished a film on sex abuse, clerical sex abuse in the Catholic church, called Mea Maxima Culpa, and I'd been thinking about these issues of faith and belief and also corruption, specifically noble-cause corruption, where the end justifies the means.

Not only is Nigerian oil theft helping to keep the world price of oil high, it is causing corruption and social disorder, says the president.

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