Sentence examples for outright graft from inspiring English sources
This can range from outright graft to a lack of competition, poor regulation and the transfer of public assets to firms at bargain prices.
For nearly 20 years, billions of dollars in undisclosed payments by foreign oil companies have been kept off official state receipts via outright graft and simple exchange-rate sleights of hand.
The problem is not outright graft, but institutional corruption whereby the incentives for elected officials are perversely aligned, leading them to spend too much time making promises to special interests and not enough time governing (to say nothing of their susceptibility under the current system to entirely undisclosed threats from heavy corporate hitters).
These not-so-longish-shot hopes brought him into a series of negotiations that, a federal complaint charged, moved beyond the horse-trading of ordinary legal-graft politics into the realm of outright bribery.
And the conversations with voters that are being logged and reported on by Labour activists in those kinds of seats, are a big part of the reason why - although Ed Miliband's team won't say it publicly - that the party believes it has some reasons to be cheerful, not about winning outright, but that hard graft may well pay off.
No one knows how much of the money disappears as bribes, graft or outright theft.
BERN--Swiss researchers may soon face new federal regulations and perhaps an outright ban on xenotransplantation--the grafting of animal organs, tissues, or cells into humans.
The list of missteps, lies, deceive, graft, collusion, sexual hijinks and outright theft from the public till is too long to spell out.
Mr. Gillette's book shows how administration after administration in the city fumbled chances to halt the exodus -- some by graft, others merely by either lack of foresight or by outright incompetence.
Since the crisis took hold in Greece, several politicians have criticized the job-for-votes system and corruption in public life, including former socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou who repeatedly highlighted graft as the country's major problem, and former deputy premier Theodoros Pangalos who stated outright that Greeks use their vote to secure a government job.
