Sentence examples for corrupt attempt from inspiring English sources

The threat to veto the money for the D.A. amounted to, according to the prosecutor, two different kinds of felonies: a "misuse" of government property, and a corrupt attempt to influence a public official in "a specific exercise of his official power or a specific performance of his official duty" or "to violate the public servants known legal duty".

An organized, often corrupt, attempt at connecting with the divine.

I believe the bill is a corrupt attempt by the GMO industry (through congressional proxies) to preempt more informative food labeling legislation.

For weeks, O.F.A. had been under fire from good-government groups and editorial boards, including that of The New York Times, who said the group's fund-raising structure could lead to corrupt attempts to buy the favor of the White House with big corporate money.

Bored with peddling a few Stinger surface-to-air missiles to India's enemies, the corrupt officers attempt to hijack a rail shipment of India's nuclear warheads.

This method of the DDD assignment would corrupt any attempt to detect discrepancies between PDD and DDD.

They were charged with involvement in drugs trafficking and with thwarting the investigation of a firefight last April, when five corrupt cops attempting to seize cocaine for resale were killed by the drugs' owners.

Later on Sunday he withdrew an allegation that the Tories were behaving in a "wholly corrupt way" in attempting to attack his inquiry, but maintained the complaint over the story.

In telling the convoluted story of the corrupt Cora's attempt to save her town by creating a phony miracle — and the opposition she runs into from Fay Apple (Ms. Foster), a psychiatric nurse at the local mental institution — the script piles on the whimsy until it thickens into incomprehensibility.

He assembles the suspicions of countless Warren Commission skeptics; provides substantial circumstantial evidence that appears to support one or another theory; and ridicules the dwindling but still significant band of believers in the Warren Commission story, which he sees as a corrupt and politicized attempt to transform a great historical tragedy into a tawdry and trivial crime.

Some scenes are more obviously indicative than others -- as when Smurf -- herself embodying evil, albeit in the service of her family (unlike Pope, who kills for his own crazy reasons and who cares for no one), persuades a corrupt cop to attempt to assassinate J.