Sentence examples for corrupt tendencies from inspiring English sources

The attorney general's office says the honesty cafes will nip in the bud corrupt tendencies among the young and straighten out those known for indulging in corrupt practices, starting with civil servants.

The law has not yet been passed, and in the meantime newspapers, in particular, continue to nag the government about its poor performance and lambast it over corruption.Most important are South Africa's courts—especially the constitutional one which have long been hailed as a bulwark against the ANC's authoritarian and corrupt tendencies.

More trouble came for Erdoğan when a long-time ally--the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania--subsequently ratcheted up the rhetoric against the then Prime Minister's increasingly autocratic (and allegedly corrupt) tendencies.

Filth did not simply make the poor sick; it made them morally corrupt, with tendencies toward criminality, drug usage, alcoholism, and incest.

The systematic attacks on Ahmadinejad and Mashaei in the mass media as leaders of the corrupt and "deviationist tendency" were followed by calls to oust them.

The electorate knows that the AKP is corrupt, has strong authoritarian tendencies and continues to plunder (but distributes some of) Turkey's resources.

Last week I wrote a piece about Congress: its failure to take responsibility for problems, the way its un-shining example has a tendency to corrupt all our other national institutions.

As one character notes, "The horror of the world hides beneath these infinitely pretty things". He is referring to Leiter's opulent wares, but he is also speaking to a more universal condition of human evil, the tendency of corrupt, exploitative societies to conceal themselves behind the trappings of luxury and glamour.

According to the wording of the act, the brainchild of Roy Jenkins, literary merit neutralises any tendency to deprave, corrupt, shock or disgust.

Its tendency to control and corrupt – whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it.

Until 1959, the publisher of a book that contained any "purple passage" that might have a "tendency to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences" was liable to imprisonment.