Sentence examples for he thought corrupt from inspiring English sources

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Primakov, himself a former spy master (in foreign intelligence), began to move against businesspeople and politicians he thought corrupt.

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The discarded Katherine lived far from London, under house arrest, humiliated by her circumstances, unrelenting in her animosity to the woman who had displaced her and (as she thought) corrupted her good husband.

He memorably argued that "if thought corrupts language, language can often corrupt thought" and proposed six rules of good writing: Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

In it, he analyses not only how thought corrupts language, but also how language corrupts thought.

In his 1946 classic essay 'Politics and the English language', George Orwell argued that "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought".

Or, as George Orwell wrote in 1984, "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought".

"If thought corrupts language," Orwell explained, "language can also corrupt thought".

Orwell wrote: "If thought corrupts language, language also corrupts thought.

Chuck Blazer, the American Fifa official who is the chief accuser of the two senior figures to have been suspended this week, stated when asked if he thought Fifa was corrupt: "I think individuals are".

Mr. Berezovsky, who gave testimony last month in colorfully ungrammatical English (Mr. Abramovich is speaking Russian, through an interpreter), continually contradicted himself about whether he thought it was corrupt to use one's media company to support a politician in exchange for political favors.

Her father, a strict Baptist, had objected to her competing in the pageant, because he thought it would corrupt a young girl's soul, but Susie, a blue-eyed beauty with the feathered bangs of a Charlie's Angel, won, and there was her picture with the 1984 court.

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