Sentence examples for on grounds of corruption from inspiring English sources

The purge of the king's extended family was justified on grounds of corruption, which critics challenge.

Twenty months after she took office, Ms. Bhutto was dismissed by Pakistan's President on grounds of corruption and misrule.

Indian voters threw out the deeply rooted Congress Party in the late 1980's solely on grounds of corruption.

When Pérez Molina and others resisted orders to move out of the capital, Ríos Montt briefly jailed them on grounds of corruption.

The O'Neill government has claimed the chief justice, Mr Injia, is in cahoots with the Somare camp and seeks to have him removed from office on grounds of corruption.

But suspension of aid to Uzbekistan, which Mr. Wolfowitz said was on grounds of corruption, angered some at the bank who charged that the real motive was Uzbekistan's decision to suspend air rights for United States military operations in Afghanistan.

Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, who also heads the Bahrain Football Association, was last year elected to clean up the scandal-ridden group after its former president, Mohammed Bin Hammam, was banned for life from involvement in soccer on grounds of alleged corruption.

But the city charter states that even if the comptroller objects to a contract on the grounds of corruption, the mayor can override him and order the comptroller to issue final approval for the contracts.

In 2008 a number of media outlets, including two TV stations, were seized from bankers on the grounds of corruption.

According to Plato in the Apology, it was that climate of opinion, most strikingly expressed in Aristophanes' Clouds, which had led eventually to the condemnation of Socrates on grounds of irreligion and the corruption of the young.

He could do the same on the Maximus contracts, worth $103 million, or, under the City Charter, he could object to them on the ground of corruption.