Sentence examples for corrupt past from inspiring English sources

Holding the convention in Las Vegas is shining a light not just on Teamsters' corrupt past but also on a new and highly embarrassing accusation of corruption involving a top aide to James P. Hoffa, the Teamsters president, who has vowed to rid the union of corruption.

In this way of thinking, any new information about his corrupt past has no political salience.

Mr. Berlusconi's initial foray into politics in the early 1990's was greeted by many Italians as a welcome break with a corrupt past.

Stanley Aronowitz, a City University labor expert, said labor unions had not flocked behind the strikers partly because of the parent union's corrupt past.

Protestant historians, on the other hand, portrayed the late medieval church in the most negative terms to show the necessity of the Reformation, which was characterized as a movement that broke completely with a corrupt past.

If the film enacts a fall, it is from a relatively guiltless present into a more corrupt past that is also a realm of greater beauty and more intense feeling.

The parliament also voted on a key law on "lustration" that will allow public officials with corrupt pasts to be dismissed from their posts and put on trial.

The membership roll has been growing rapidly and now includes dozens of nations, including some, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar, for which E.I.T.I. membership has marked a big step away from the worst excesses of their corrupt pasts.

Guess what: He did not care for how his successor portrayed the Cianci administration: bad, corrupt, the past.

At the time, he promised to wrest Ukraine from its corrupt, authoritarian past, though today it remains mired in political stagnation.

We investigate the determinants of firm corruption and highlight contagious diffusion of firm corruption under mutual influences of firms' past corrupt history and between peers.