Sentence examples for corruption and coercion from inspiring English sources

Chalabi only ever took advantage of the systems of corruption and coercion made available to him by Washington.

While Mr. Peña Nieto portrays himself as the leader of a new generation of reformers, he is also a scion of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for more than 70 years through a combination of corruption and coercion until it lost power in 2000.

Although the PRI achieved relative stability, a plus for the United States, it instituted corruption and coercion as the modus operandi of politics.

(The Travis County grand jury charged him with "abuse of official capacity" for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funds for a public corruption department, and "coercion of a public servant" for pushing for the resignation of a district attorney after she was convicted of drunk driving).

The group also said a constitutional referendum in May was marked by "repressive media laws, an almost total ban of freedom of expression," government corruption, ballot stuffing, voter intimidation and coercion, and "the continuing widespread detention of political activists".

With acute business acumen, and the usual cocktail of corruption, coercion and killing, it extended its tentacles to North and South America, Asia and Europe, erecting lethal barriers to entry along the way.

On top of the constitutional defects, it found, the administration of the penalty was marred by corruption (prosecutors withholding potentially exculpatory evidence) and coercion (police forcing involuntary confessions).

After his experiment in bringing a measure of decency to the mine ends in personal catastrophe redeemed by a partial moral victory, he is conscripted into the army, where he tries, once again, to bring a measure of fairness and dignity to a system built on the corruption, coercion and the humiliation of the weak.

Mr. Wickramatunga's final essay catalogs the troubles journalists have suffered in his country — bombings, killings and coercion — all while trying to tell about corruption in government and civil rights abuses during an extended civil war.

Neutralize peer pressure Anti-corruption units and multi-agency taskforces to undermine corruption in police culture Anonymous whistleblowing mechanisms to neutralize peer intimidation and coercion 24.

"But we will not bow down to threats and coercion.