Sentence examples for corrupting process from inspiring English sources

–ERNEST HEMINGWAY Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

Given the role corporations now play in political campaigns, political action committees, business associations, lobbyist firms, and special interest organizations, we can explain the steady stream of ethical reprimands, indictments, convictions, and precipitous decisions not to stand for re-election that are a result of this corrupting political process.

The bribe corrupts the tendering process; and it will probably have a corrupting effect on the moral character of the bribe-taker.

Quentin returns to the reasoning that justifies the whole corrupted and corrupting system.

Torture and wanton killing not only were morally corrupting but corrupted discipline in a military organization.

For Plato, it is the visible that is corrupt and corrupting, while the invisible is essential and pure.

"Political speech deserves the highest protection of the first amendment and should only be regulated if there's a threat of corruption," says Laura Murphy, director of the organisation's office in Washington, DC. "The FEC has yet to demonstrate how this new web technology could have a corrupting influence on the political process".

Suppose that in both cases their action has no corrupting effect on an institutional process or other person.

They'd lock all parties with financial interests out of the room and allow their sleek machine to do its job - deciding who'd get paid for doing what - shielded from the corrupting messiness of the political process.

This is because a putative act of corruption of an institutional process or purpose would not be — according to my account — an act of corruption, if the putative corruptor did not intend or foresee the corrupting effect of his action, and could not reasonably have been expected to foresee this corrupting effect.

Introducing this market-based exchange, explained Socrates, had a corrupting effect on the teaching and learning process.