Sentence examples for corrupting potential from inspiring English sources

"At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt," he wrote.

NO SOONER had the guilty verdicts in the Enron trial recalled the corrupting potential of stock options than along came news of a series of investigations by the SEC and federal prosecutors into the potentially illegal backdating of such options (see article).

· Reputation will probably not be harmed among many your friends and supporters, unless they're crotchety like me, but I have talked to a few friends who feel the same nausea that I do about the corrupting potential of this contest.

But if a single corporation gave a huge check to the association, the leaders of that group, who are White House correspondents from major news organizations, would certainly be aware of the gift, no matter how arms-length, and it would have corrupting potential.

He wrote: "At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt".

In the 1950s, Capesius was able to open a new pharmacy in the town of Göppingen in the southwest of Germany, treated himself to regular "hunting safaris in Africa," and had money left over to corrupt potential witnesses against him.

We believe, and the data presented in the paper support, the idea that soft incentives can be valuable tools for increasing this potential without corrupting the spirit of fundamental investigations, thus further aligning the goals of cell and molecular biologists with those of the broader public health community.

Reduced genetic diversity within a population may corrupt the potential of the population to evolutionarily adapt to changing environments.

Their crimes included, prosecutors said, murdering potential witnesses against them and corrupting law enforcement officers.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Pseudogenes are defined as copies of real genes that originate from duplications or retro-transpositions. Furthermore, the latter is not translated into functional proteins because their coding potential is corrupted by premature stop codons, deletions/insertions and frameshift mutations.