Sentence examples for flood of corruption from inspiring English sources

More recently, however, they have continued to fall, as the PdL has been immersed in a flood of corruption and other scandals involving its regional and local leaders.

He failed to stem a flood of corruption scandals that started under previous leaders, but fed escalating disenchantment with his party, which had ruled since independence.

The high-water mark of the flood of corruption that swept the nation took place in 1874, after Benjamin Bristow was put in charge to reform the Treasury.

Stemming the flood of corruption that swept the nation during Grant's presidency and the Reconstruction period would have required the strength of a moral giant in the White House.

As the Communist Party formally orchestrates a transfer of power to a new generation of leaders, the nation has been fixated on what many say is society's declining morality, highlighted by a seemingly incessant flood of government corruption scandals replete with bribes and mistresses.

With allegations of corruption now flooding the agency and even washing up on the doorstep of the Blue House, South Korea's presidential residence, Mr. Kim's government has been badly shaken at a time when he might have been basking in the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize he recently won for his rapprochement with North Korea.

The flood of public monies into private hands is leaving China littered with such jetsam of corruption: half-built office towers, unfinished bridges and roads to nowhere.

Indeed, the billions of euros flooding from Brussels to modernise infrastructure and public services often prove a fount of corruption.

Jokowi, as he is best known, is the son of a timber collector who grew up in a flood-prone shack.Unlike many Indonesian politicians, he had risen to power untainted by suspicions of corruption.

Sarah Chayes witnessed the damage that flood of Western money -- and the accompanying corruption -- did in Afghanistan.

Revelations of corruption followed.