Sentence examples for exposing bribery from inspiring English sources

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In the wake of a New York Times article exposing bribery in Wal-Mart's Mexican arm, the nation's second largest public pension fund, the California State Teachers Retirement Systemm, sued the company and voted against all of its board members.

The charm of the journalists in "The Front Page," it's worth remembering, had to do with their functioning, for all their gruff cynicism, as a force for good in society — exposing bribery, not engaging in it, and helping to exonerate the falsely accused, not sullying the innocent.

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Similar reportorial gambits took her into sweatshops, jails, and the legislature (where she exposed bribery in the lobbyist system).

Tahiti's Temarii was suspended from all football-related activities for a year by Fifa's ethics committee following a newspaper sting designed to expose bribery and corruption, and is understood to be considering whether to waive his right of appeal in order to allow his confederation to exercise their one vote.

But the grinding economic crisis, which stalled projects and ended the flow of cash, has helped lift the veil on corrupt officials, exposing graft, bribery, payoffs, secret favors and other misdeeds on a scale that few imagined.

An article on May 15 about Steve Sansweet, a former journalist who is now head of fan relations for Lucasfilm, referred incorrectly to his role in a prize-winning series of articles in The Wall Street Journal exposing multinational bribery.

The investigators also said that while the company itself had been "very responsible and has given us their full support", the firm's operation in China "tried to pay bribes" in order to "obstruct" their efforts "in exposing their bribery behaviours".

Former Mayor David Silva and Angel Perales, who served as interim city manager of the small, working-class city, had already made deals to plead guilty to extortion and bribery in a case that exposed graft, vote rigging and drug use at Cudahy City Hall.

The latest revelations have put the governing Workers Party on the defensive yet again, as investigators expose a bribery scheme across several high echelons of government.

In early 2003, after the Argentine government suspended the project, one of the middlemen, Carlos Sergi, warned Siemens executives that failure to pay outstanding bribe obligations "might well be detrimental to the image of the corporation and its managers" and cause him to expose the bribery scheme, according to the charges.

In the late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies, the New York City police officer Frank Serpico captured the popular imagination when he tried to expose rampant bribery and corruption in the N.Y.P.D., culminating in an episode in which he was shot in the face under bizarre circumstances during a drug raid.

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