Sentence examples for corrupt practical from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Kant insists that such knowledge would corrupt practical reasoning, by imposing an external incentive for moral action fear of eternal punishment and hope of heavenly reward, what he will later call "heteronomy".

In practical terms, this means deal lawyers concerned about potential exposure to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act will probably structure transactions to ensure the company being acquired retains its legal incorporation, so that unit can absorb any charges.

There are practical steps that investors can take to avoid falling afoul of anticorruption statutes and to lessen the potential competitive disadvantage of abstaining from corrupt practices.

This could be so for multiple reasons, including simple economic necessity (need to take more bribes to have enough money to pass along), practical factors (corrupt leaders have less incentive and ability to root out corrupt bureaucrats), and moral/sociological considerations (corrupt leaders signal a culture of permissiveness with respect to corruption).

But the Platonic ideal is either inaccessible — an almost religious faith that you cannot apply to practical policy — or it's corrupt if you try to apply it.

"And, in practical effect, experience teaches that money corrupts, and enough of it corrupts absolutely".

To completely dismiss religion as corrupt nonsense presumes that one is in possession of a truth and practical wisdom that is uncorrupted by the human tendencies that express themselves in religion.

But it's also a very practical country where most problems get worked out, and not in a corrupt manner; most multinationals can do business here consistent with other codes of conduct around the world.

We will see if it corrupts Oehlen, stirs in him a supplementary type of rebelliousness, or, as I suspect, makes no practical difference in how his pictures affront the eyes and unsettle the minds of rich and poor alike.

There are practical difficulties – for example, we know that some government investment funds have been skimmed off by corrupt officials, but it takes careful forensics to track the ill-gotten gains of one rotten official, let alone thousands of them.

Bob's near-zero BER implies a negligibly small probability of error in a practical system and Eve's BER around 0.5 implies that half of the information is corrupted by channel noise.