Sentence examples for corrupt customs from inspiring English sources

Corrupt customs officials and police let them do so.

Rumors spread that they had fallen prey to airport thieves or corrupt customs agents.

My thoughts turned to horror stories of corrupt customs officials and throngs of conmen that awaited me on the ground.

The agency has pursued corrupt customs brokers, canceling the licenses of more than 90 so far, out of 800 total.

Making get-rich-quick deals, evading taxes and paying off corrupt customs officials became standard operating procedure, and remain so.

With myriad small ports and corrupt customs officials despite a recent central-government crackdown the mainland is the world's biggest market for smuggled cargoes.

Foreign carmakers are pouring into Russia, building new factories and refurbishing old ones, as demand for cars booms.However, the motive for foreign firms has typically been to get around tariff walls and Russia's nightmarish (and corrupt) customs-clearance procedures, rather than to make the country part of their global supply chains.

Women abolitionists responded by holding a convention in New York City to expand their petitioning efforts, and declaring that "as certain rights and duties are common to all moral beings," they would no longer remain within limits prescribed by "corrupt custom and a perverted application of Scripture".

The Rat List of corrupt European customs officials that he had cunningly obtained was paying off.

In his Flag Day speech, the president vowed to root out corrupt police, customs agents, judges and legislators, whom he accused of enriching themselves at the expense of the ordinary people.

But I read somewhere in the Bible — I can't remember where — that bad language corrupts good customs.