Sentence examples for corrupting forces from inspiring English sources

Sandra's bravery, determination, and toughness in the face of the media storm she has endured over the last few years are inspiring - to me, to Nadia, and to millions of women and girls around the country - and Sandra will need this toughness to stand up to the special interests and corrupting forces in Sacramento and do what's right.

He said he felt some pessimism over whether the new system would be resistant to the corrupting forces of drug traffickers.

The cherished myth of the rock 'n' roll band as a tight, harmonious unit fending off the corrupting forces of the outside world doesn't hold true here.

Leftist approaches to the "Ring" are nothing new: Wagner designed the libretto as an allegory for the corrupting forces of nineteenth-century capitalism, and late-twentieth-century productions by Joachim Herz, Götz Friedrich, and Patrice Chéreau articulated that agenda onstage.

Originally published in Germany in 1953, this dark novel by Koeppen (1906-96) tells of an honest politician who returns to Bonn after World War II to take part in the rebuilding of a gutted nation, only to find his idealism smothered by the corrupting forces of realpolitik.

However, the pressures to succeed and the temptations of recognition and influence can be corrupting forces.

In what other sport is such a key contributor so readily dismissed as a sideshow or an almost corrupting force?

Senator Hennings, of Missouri, has expressed the view that oil money is the greatest single corrupting force in American politics today.

In other words, not only is gambling a vice; gamblers themselves are an inherently corrupting force.That view has a long history.

Mexico's drug cartels have been a particularly powerful corrupting force.

Hard-liners see the internet as a possible corrupting force, but many Iranians use proxies to access banned sites.