Sentence examples for dens of corruption from inspiring English sources

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of Iran's revolution, once tried to ban all beauty parlors, calling them "dens of corruption".

Throughout their existence, critics said the boards too often became dens of corruption and back-room deals, and when the mayor took control, they were replaced by parent councils that were virtually powerless.

The commissioner wants the government to lift the state of emergency in January, two months before elections are scheduled for five municipal corporations (former "dens of corruption", Mr Huda calls them).Meanwhile, the negative short-term consequences of the anti-corruption drive have become apparent.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which oversaw such slums, was a den of corruption and incompetence.

Because Westminster is not a rancid den of corruption, nor a conspiracy against decent people.

We can now say with certainty that it is a den of corruption".

But his most recent job was running Bulog, the state logistics agency, which was a den of corruption in the Suharto era.

Voters see Congress as an ineffectual den of corruption, as they do the judiciary despite a number of courageous judges who risk their lives trying to dispense genuine justice.

The Prohibition Bureau, when Ness joined it, was widely regarded as a den of corruption and incompetence.

Ten years later trailer parks had become "dens of vice and corruption", in the phrase of the then FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover.

Yesterday, those vague suspicions were given more credence as police officials described the cafe as a den of petty police corruption, with officers running license plate checks and fixing traffic tickets in exchange for free meals, power tools that they believed had been stolen, and other items of value.