Sentence examples for corrupt about from inspiring English sources

They were sure there was something weak and corrupt about Obama, who would surely lose to John McCain.

"I really feel a little bit corrupt about that, but I also feel that it's a normal thing to do — to please the boss," he said.

Lustgarten certainly isn't short of opinions: moments after declaring that "most playwrights write to win awards, and there's something morally corrupt about that", he concedes that he has won the odd award.

"We decided on eliminating all businessmen," Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq said Friday of his cabinet in an interview with Al Arabiya, an Arabic satellite channel, in a gesture toward protesters who have made Mr. Ezz a symbol of everything corrupt about the state.

Anscombe also defended a version of the doctrine of double effect, and her commitment to this Doctrine provided a principle she used to try to show what was corrupt about Truman's action.

There is nothing secretive or corrupt about this, no hidden handshakes that make or break a career.

Looked at one way, of course, Chambers continues to be a stain on the sport, to represent everything corrupt and corrupting about it.

According to the above account, an act of institutional corruption brings about, or contributes to bringing about, a corrupt condition of some institution.

"The glass ceiling you're breaking through is about exercising power in a corrupt system, about buying influence in return for large contributions," he added.

He prefers more familiar risks: jokes about corrupt Mexican officials, jokes about an angry Iraq veteran in a wheelchair ("I'm handicapable"), jokes about vaginas.

David Cameron's "most corrupt countries" remark about Nigeria and Afghanistan, made to the Queen and picked up by ever more sophisticated TV cameras, is a complex example of the genre.