Sentence examples for corrupt powerful from inspiring English sources

Bill also meets an old chum, Nightingale, now a jazz pianist after dropping out of medical school, and he ministers to a beautiful girl who has OD'd on coke and heroin while having sex with the corrupt, powerful Ziegler.

The time continuum must have been disrupted, creating a new temporal event sequence resulting in an alternate reality in which Biff is corrupt, powerful, and married to your mother, and England are World Twenty20 champions.

When the Soviet Union fell, much of what the Bolshoi had in the way of evening-length ballets was pre-revolutionary classics revised according to Soviet dictates and post-revolutionary ballets created according to those dictates, tales of brave underdogs besting — or piteously defeated by — corrupt, powerful folk.

If power corrupts, powerful inequality indebts and ultimately enslaves.

Some corrupted powerful political factions in Baghdad are simply preventing the flow of money to Kurdistan, trying to arrest their evident progress.

Supporters of the chief justice see him as a bold campaigner against the corrupt and powerful.

And, while they do, they will be mostly in the possession of the corrupt and powerful few.

The only problem is her father, a corrupt and powerful millionaire who is stealing from the water supply.

For Karzai the solution was to "bring the tribes to our side" by appointing a corrupt but powerful tribal bigwig as governor.

He began to gain prominence in the late 1980s when, as a neophyte lawmaker, he threw his parliamentary nameplate at a military dictator, Chun Doo-hwand and publicly berated corrupt but powerful tycoons, including Chung Ju-yung, the founder of the Hyundai conglomerate and a mentor of Mr. Lee, a former Hyundai executive.

In an assembly made up of elected representatives from various political parties and social sectors, a new, likely more progressive and inclusive constitution could have a lasting impact on the country's corrupt politicians, powerful sweatshop owners and repressive military institutions.