Sentence examples for corrupt misrule from inspiring English sources

Mr. Qaddafi, like other Arab tyrants, has always used the Islamist card to delude Westerners into thinking that the alternative to their corrupt misrule would only be terrorism.

The gangs believed responsible for much of the recent violence, including the attacks on Tuesday, are separate from the politically motivated militant groups but arose from the same miasma of corrupt misrule that has characterized the region for decades.

One conspiracy theory holds that his arrival was arranged by Mr Préval as a coded threat to outsiders that rather than contemplate the defeat of his chosen successor he might arrange the return of a more popular exiled former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a leftist whose corrupt misrule prompted his controversial ousting in 2004.

Disastrous civil wars, onerous sanctions and corrupt misrule turned Yugoslavia from the most open and developed nation in the old Communist orbit into the sick man of Central Europe, with a collapsed economy, plummeting living standards and a wretched inventory of bombed bridges, severed electrical lines and outdated factories.

They should understand that no amount of foreign military power can ever make up for the misrule of corrupt, failed governments like those in Damascus, Baghdad, Kabul or Saigon.

But corruption, unemployment and misrule have worsened.

It is a significant breakthrough for a nation long deemed too wealthy with oil money and too corrupt to be granted relief from debt accumulated over years of misrule.

[C3.] Nigeria Reaches Deal to Pay Debts at a Discount Nigeria reached an agreement with the Paris Club of creditors to pay off $30 billion of debt for $12 billion, a significant breakthrough for a nation long deemed too wealthy with oil money and too corrupt to be granted relief from debt accumulated over years of misrule.

All are senior members or accomplices of the two political parties that have looted and misruled Bangladesh, one of the world's most corrupt countries, for the 16 years since its last military government.

If he merely stepped aside to let one of his fellow villains in his corrupt and vicious ZANU-PF party take over, leaving the apparatus of misrule untouched, the West would be foolish to rush in with misplaced kindness.

Russia, like much of the eastern Europe that it misruled for nearly 45 years, is still mired in poverty, corrupt, barely democratic.