Sentence examples for corrupt atmosphere from inspiring English sources
"It's very easy to be a pure international judge in a pure international tribunal very far away from Cambodia, far away from this corrupt atmosphere," says Marcel Lemonde, the court's international co-investigating judge and a framer of its internal rules.
The openly corrupt atmosphere and much of the slang ("What's the rumpus?") come out of Dashiell Hammett's novels "Red Harvest" and "The Glass Key," as does the hero (Gabriel Byrne), a morose, alcoholic, and mysterious loner who plays the gangs off against each other.
In 1572, the Huguenot Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, wrote from the court to warn her son Henry that Catherine presided over a "vicious and corrupt" atmosphere, in which the women made the sexual advances and not the men.
It is a sobering indictment of where the "boys will be boys" mentality can ultimately lead: to a systemically corrupt atmosphere where ugly, assaultive, racist, misogynist, and emotional (sometimes physical) abuse is not only endemic, but tolerated and forgiven.
A courtly Southern dance becomes a subtle metaphor for the cozy, corrupt political atmosphere that helped lead to Leo's conviction but might also be manipulated to save his life.
"They were totally corrupt".
Worse, some have corrupt players.
"The whole atmosphere is corrupt," claimed an outraged citizen.
"The whole atmosphere is corrupt," said George C. Barrett, a reformer from that time.
