Sentence examples for corruption once from inspiring English sources

Corruption, once endemic, is now being checked.

Mr. Stier leads an internal Teamster task force that is supposed to ferret out corruption once the federal supervision ends.

The country's vice-president, Kgalema Motlanthe, admits that at every level of government the scourge is "far worse than anyone imagines".On the campaign trail, Jacob Zuma, now president, repeatedly pledged to root out corruption once in power.

Played out on the front pages of newspapers here, the disagreement has undermined the credibility of Mr. Moi's efforts to stamp out corruption, once again putting Kenya's shaky relations with international lenders in jeopardy.

"There will be less corruption in Africa," he said, "if there is no place to hide the proceeds of corruption or if the proceeds of corruption, once uncovered, are returned to their real owners, the people of Africa," he said.

Fighting corruption, once seen by some American officials as vital to building an Afghan government that could provide a credible alternative to the Taliban, is now a relatively low priority as the Obama administration focuses on scaling back its commitments in Afghanistan.

Corruption, he once explained to a reporter, was not an African word.

President Levy Mwanawasa, who began the corruption investigation, once served as Mr. Chiluba's vice president.

While still politically influenced, Ukrainian law enforcement is no longer the swamp of incompetence and corruption it once was.

After decades of population decline (see chart), political bungling and corruption, Detroit, once America's third-largest city, now needs an emergency manager to save it.

A headline in the state-run People's Daily proclaimed, "U.S. SENATOR'S CORRUPTION CASE ONCE AGAIN EXPOSES HOW MONEY RULES POLITICS".