Sentence examples for corrupt power from inspiring English sources

There are no corrupted nations, only corrupt power.

But is it a match for the corrupt power of materialism?

But it also reflects deeper contemporary fears of the apocalyptic and the macabre: of bad science and corrupt power.

A broadsheet editor determined to follow the trusted maxim: all power tends to corrupt, power point corrupts absolutely.

It is not unusual for major cities to have underworlds: corrupt power centres and schlocky, sometimes violent nightclub strips.

Just as Egypt's revolution has been hijacked by the same military that upheld Mubarak's corrupt power, Libya's revolution, too, has come asunder.

He has also attempted to provide basic health and educational services to people who were neglected under the corrupt power-sharing arrangement known as the pact of Punto Fijo (1961-1998).

Thailand's politics are cleaved, roughly, between the rural poor, who have supported the populist policies of politicians aligned with Mr. Thaksin's family, and a traditional ruling class that has dismissed the Shinawatra clan as corrupt, power-hungry and dangerously divisive.

It was essentially the same argument as Jarosław had made in 1990: their rivals, the Democratic Left Alliance and Civic Platform, were fronts for the corrupt "power-system" that had denied Poles their revolution.

Madame Alexander used to make a "Liesl" doll (still available in collectors' circles), named for the eldest daughter of an Austrian family that fled their country when it was annexed by a corrupt, power-drunk dictator.

Farrell and Giustozzi add: "By arriving with insufficient force, aligning themselves with local corrupt power-holders, relying on firepower to keep insurgents at bay and targeting the poppy crop, the British made matters worse.