Sentence examples for compromising materials from inspiring English sources

"Some people think that this site is for publishing compromising materials," he said.

The Bell, more timely, consisted of political statements, compromising materials on government officials, and letters from all corners of the empire.

Almost daily, the security services, still called the K.G.B. in this former Soviet republic, have been conducting raids on the offices and homes of people linked to the opposition, interrogating them for hours and confiscating computers and other potentially compromising materials, human rights groups say.

The media went nuts when an unverified dossier surfaced in January claiming Russia had compromising materials about Trump and had colluded with his campaign — and Mueller is now reportedly investigating its contents.

"During a [political] standstill, Americans in search of compromising materials on Putin were desperate to bite, at least, St . Petersburg the city where Putin was born, where he, apparently, had his children baptized and where, of course, he has so many friends," Kondrashov said.

The other is to manipulate the flow of compromising material.

Central to this system is the notion of kompromat, or compromising material.

"I have kompromat" — compromising material — "against you, you have kompromat against me, I have some prosecutors, you have some judges.

Post-Soviet Russian politics has its own tradition of kompromat, or compromising material designed to erode a rival's reputation.

Wiretapping to gather compromising material on political opponents is common in Ukraine, Russia and other former Soviet republics.

"Core individuals collect and amass detailed compromising material (kompromat in Russian) that can be used as leverage on every key figure inside and outside of government," they write.