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And yet nature teaches us that corruptible things inevitably corrupt.
With respect to the former, republicans typically reject the view (common in the liberal tradition) that public officials are by nature corrupt, and instead view individuals as potentially corruptible , but not necessarily corrupt (Pettit 1997).
Of course, writing can be coarsened and corrupted — that is always a concern of a free press — but writing that is felt deeply and that is truthful is not usually corruptible , and if it is corrupted the discussion becomes, What made it possible to happen, what was the appeal?
So what is corruptible by nature may not in fact corrupt.
In 75.6 Thomas used the result of 75.5 and 75.2 to prove that the human soul is incorruptible, where something is corruptible if it can cease to exist through corruption, that is, by the separation of form from matter as we see it in the death of living things.
Some people contend that women are socialized to be more ethical than men, and others retort that women are just as corruptible but less tested, as they are outside the chummy networks where corruption festers.
And, more subtly, even if anecdote is correct, it does not answer the question of whether power tends to corrupt, as Lord Acton's dictum has it, or whether it merely attracts the corruptible.
Because human beings, even in blue, are so corruptible , some crime-fighters argue that the most dependable new ingredient in the police armoury is not human leg-power, but computerised intelligence.On the screenThe man behind this notion, Jack Maple, is a dandy who affects dark glasses, homburgs and two-tone shoes; yet he has become something of a legend in America's police departments.
In truth, tipping is a mild though widespread form of corruption that seeks to pervert the relationship between employer and employee in favour of the tipper to the detriment both of the employer and other customers.Tipping is also the action of a bully who picks on the weakest and, in the presumption of the tipper, most corruptible members of society.
Beijing now is not Berlin in 1936, but China's bid for the Olympic games has evoked a wave of nationalistic fervour at home, while stirring controversy abroad.After past scandals, the 131 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC are now deemed too corruptible to be allowed to undertake inspection tours themselves.
In the heady days of the early 1990s many assumed that the wave of democratic feeling that had washed away the Communists would permeate everything and that Russia, having been a Communist superpower, was well on the road to becoming a capitalist, democratic one.But the new regime was more fragile and corruptible than anyone had imagined.
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The word "corruptible" functions primarily as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe their susceptibility to corruption or decay. Ludwig examples show its use in describing systems, individuals, and even abstract concepts.
Expression frequency: Very common
