Sentence examples for discovery of corruption from inspiring English sources

As proud members of the British upper classes reared under Victoria, they are not about to let the discovery of corruption in the family and the possible ruin of innocent clients set their stiff upper lips quivering.

The plot – a young man who fantasies about being a hijra and commits murder in drag, pursued by a jaded inspector whose discovery of corruption in influential families put the kibosh on his career – is standard fare.

It is true that German Christian Democracy, unlike Italian Christian Democracy, has survived the end of the cold war, the discovery of corruption, the decline of the church, and the erosion of traditional conservative values in Europe.

In 2001 the scandal surrounding the Barings collapse was dwarfed by discoveries of corruption in large American corporations.

They decided they could no longer afford to duplicate all the intricate layers of local democracy and administration, and have tried to consolidate either with other cities or with the county itself.Then, last year, came discoveries of corruption.

As he tells it, the mischief started when the legislature, after an explosive discovery of widespread corruption and on a strong bipartisan basis, created the "left-wing" Government Accountability Board (GAB), which actually was an independent watchdog governed by retired judges tasked with monitoring ethics and campaign finance laws.

This process would promote discovery of the gross corruption that underlies many of the old regime's foreign business dealings without causing a witchhunt or jeopardising those existing contracts – many with US and UK firms – that are actually corruption-free.

In Mexico, it is often impossible to know who is behind something — a massacre, a candidacy, an assassination, the capture of a crime boss, a "discovery" of high-level corruption.

We recently had a very bad experience in Greece: the discovery of bribery and corruption in the judicial system.

The disappearance of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E over the Pacific in 1937 has bred conspiracy theories involving the supposed discovery of her briefcase, military corruption and wartime malfeasance by the Japanese; but the exhibition's sober judgment is more severe.

However, these projects also brought accusations of corruption and shoddy workmanship notably the discovery of structural flaws at the new airport shortly after it opened and questions were raised about how beneficial such projects were to the country's economy.