Sentence examples for official graft from inspiring English sources

And in a separate case of official graft, several top officials of a major northeastern city have resigned under a cloud.

But it is the smaller, more personal brushes with official graft that have motivated many people to turn out for Mr. Hazare's movement.

Most Chinese know that the alleged bribes are but a pittance when measured against the breathtaking scale of official graft in China.

Given the widespread hatred of official graft, it is hard to find much grass-roots sympathy for those caught up in the system.

On Sunday, the Congress Party president, Sonia Gandhi, tried to take the offensive on the corruption issue by accusing the B.J.P. of hypocrisy and outlining a proposal to fight official graft.

As the crowds supporting Mr. Hazare grew larger and more passionate this week, person after person seemed to arrive on the New Delhi streets carrying their own tale of official graft.

Nuhu Ribadu, the most energetic head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria's official graft-busting body, was squeezed out of the post at the end of 2007.

Organized Crime Members (Members): "Organized crime groups are a specialized subset of criminal enterprises that maintain their position through the use of actual or threatened violence, corrupt public officials, graft, or extortion.

Organized Crime: "…any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities" and "maintain[s] their position through the use of actual or threatened violence, corrupt public officials, graft, or extortion".

There is also, officials said, graft on a monumental scale.

This month Congress sacked two prominent officials over graft.