Sentence examples for crooked official from inspiring English sources

This modern retelling of the Job story, set on a barren coastline, is about a family who fatally tangle with a crooked official.

His foes are suitably villainous: a crooked official with a marble-floored mansion, in league, naturally, with a fleshy European arms dealer.All great fun, but whizz-bang special effects cost money, which African film-makers tend to lack.

Zvyagintsev's persecutors in Russia, meanwhile, are outraged by what they see as his grim portrayal of Russian life; the filmmaker's irreverence toward the Russian Orthodox Church (the crooked official in the film has the support of a cynical priest); and his depiction of rampant alcoholism.

Nearly 160 Colombian and Mexican suspected drug traffickers believed to have been operating along the Eastern Seaboard were charged yesterday with trading vast quantities of cocaine and heroin for green cards from an undercover agent posing as a crooked official of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

A crooked official in the defense ministry?

New laws and regulations have given crooked officials more paperwork to hide behind.

The government is still riddled with corruption, and not nearly enough has been done to prosecute crooked officials.

As the country descended into violence, the companies were forced to pay off the men who controlled the roads, whether they were crooked officials, warlords, or Taliban.

For that matter, at $12 million per year, he is a bargain compared with some of the stuff we see in the much more flamboyant real world of the front page: failing wars, gas-guzzling cars, organized religions with their dark sides, crooked public officials, obscenely expensive political campaigns and financial institutions that produced a recession, then needed a handout.

They jumped in with long lists of grievances: taxes, job losses, immigration, crooked local officials, junked cars in neighbors' yards.

When people say that it's only crooks, officials and forced slaves who vote for United Russia, they're spitting in the faces of millions of people!