Sentence examples for extent of the corruption from inspiring English sources

Pound said he believed Coe had "not the faintest idea of the extent" of the corruption.

Mr. Sires, who was not charged, said that he helped clean up the mess and that the extent of the corruption came as a shock.

America was a place of great generosity, and I'm a product of that generosity, but now America has turned back on its origins; and you realise the extent of the corruption at the foundations of this country".

The authorities expressed amazement at the extent of the corruption that they said had infested Cicero in this latest episode of a town afflicted for decades by mob influence.

The sources have told The Independent that "large six-figure sums" were involved, but the full extent of the corruption is only now beginning to emerge following an investigation by this newspaper.

"What the tourist will never see, though, is who might have been forcibly moved from their homes to make way for the new resorts and golf courses, how much biodiversity has been lost in their development, how local needs might be sacrificed - such as water - and the extent of the corruption.

Government critics like him accuse the foreign press of misunderstanding Thailand; of failing to grasp the extent of the Shinawatras' corruption or of their ambition to monopolise power, by relying on the votes of people outside Bangkok.

If so, the full extent of the endemic corruption and embezzlement of state funds by many of South Sudan's elite, thought to total $4bn £2.76bnn) over the past five years, may be publicly exposed.

The United States attorney in Brooklyn, Loretta E. Lynch, who announced the new charges with Janice K. Fedarcyk, the F.B.I. official who leads the bureau's New York office, said the "extent of the charged corruption is staggering".

Italy remains over-regulated and comes out distressingly badly in international league tables for such things as the ease of starting a business, the extent of corruption, the level of a country's research spending and the quality of its education.In his third government Mr Berlusconi has also pursued an eccentric foreign policy out of kilter with Italy's Western allies.

Although the CPI focuses on perceptions of corruption rather than the actual extent of corruption, the index has been assessed to be a reliable and consistent measure [ 16].