Sentence examples for corruption and decay from inspiring English sources

Great wealth leads to decadence and complacency, and hence to corruption and decay.

His nature, as it always used to be, is alive with corruption and decay.

Kaye doesn't flinch from corruption and decay, but he's not obsessed with them for their own sake.

THE factors luring homeowners like David Gonzalez into Bridgeport — a city whose persistent problems with crime, corruption and decay have at times subjected it to derision — offer strong evidence that those problems might be conquerable after all.

(Side note: Among novels of expatriates adrift in places of corruption and decay, my heart belongs to Lawrence Durrell's "Justine," in which the city of Alexandria scuttles and heaves, and the characters are but its many avatars.

Perhaps it is a tired analogy, but it is starting to look like the decline of the Roman Empire, which fell not from outside menaces, but because of corruption and decay from within.

It is a heady mix of corruption, pollution and decay, with just a hint of salvation.

Or will it become ever more mired in bad governance, racial tension, poverty, corruption, violence and decay to turn into yet another African failed state?

All told, it's a roster of corruption, despotism and decay.

If that sounds almost self-consciously grim and gritty, it's in keeping with Hand of God's carefully cultivated atmosphere of urban corruption and moral decay.

But as long as Kenya remains mired in corruption and political decay, the government will lack the popular support necessary to build a strong country and fight terrorism.