Sentence examples for of a corrupt character from inspiring English sources

Further, there is a difference between an action which corrupts and which is an expression of a corrupt character, and an action which has a corrupting effect but which is in no sense under the control of the person who performed it, e.g. they did not intend to perform it or their intention to perform it was caused by some agent external to themselves.

Nor is his action the expression of a corrupt character.

Moreover, even if a person has a corrupt character and can do little about this, it does not follow that they have no control over the actions which are an expression of that character.

Here we need to distinguish between a corrupt action that has no effect on an institutional process or on another person, but which contributes to the corruption of the character of the would-be corruptor; and a non-corrupt action which is a mere expression of a corrupt moral character but which has no corrupting effect either on the agent or on anyone or anything else.

Of his corrupt character, he says, he is still a mess.

But whoever replaces Sanders will have the same problems she inherited from Spicer: an erratic, truth-allergic chief executive, an administration full of corrupt characters, a suite of policies that are both cruel and unpopular, and a press corps that has been sick of the misdirection and dishonesty since at least the whole inauguration crowd thing last year.

(As we shall see, there is one important category of corruptors which is an exception to this, namely corruptors who are not morally responsible for being corrupted, yet whose actions are both an expression of their corrupt characters and also have a corrupting effect).

The exception is that sub-class of corruptors who are: (a) corrupt, but not morally responsible for being so, and; (b) whose actions are an expression of their corrupted characters and also have a corrupting effect.

He was a decent, honourable man, a strong advocate of reform and greater democracy who had helped to get rid of the corrupt characters in the old East German Politburo.

Nolan's decision to cast Eckhart was based on his portrayal of corrupt characters in the films In the Company of Men, The Black Dahlia, and Thank You For Smoking.

And there are those corruptors who are not responsible for their corrupt character, but whose actions are: (a) an expression of their corrupted character, and; (b) actions that have a corrupting effect.