The perils of corruption, particularly for the poor, are real.
The sheep grazing by the exposed foundations supposedly signify the decline and fall of the Roman empire (Edward Gibbon was apparently a huge figure to Exeter intellectuals, his book a dire reminder of the perils of corruption).
And, not least for anyone who contemplates greasing the wheels of business in pursuit of a quick deal, it demonstrates the perils of corruption -- a force that, in Congo's case, led directly to a national implosion.
She also laid down a gauntlet of sorts: Her campaign is centered around the perils of corruption and inequality; she's vowed to fix a broken system that gave us a shady fake billionaire as president and has failed to provide opportunities for Americans, especially people of color, to improve their lives and ascend to the middle class.
A tribute to one Kenyan whistle-blower's courage and a cautionary tale about the perils of challenging corruption.
FOR years, China's most senior leaders have given warning of the perils of official corruption, comparing it to a spreading cancer, and suggesting that the battle against this scourge constitutes "a life-or-death political struggle for the party and the nation".
Say that he was a sports visionary, or that he was dangerously slow to grasp the perils first of doping and then of corruption.
The perils of challenging deeply rooted patterns of corruption have been brought home recently with the suspicious deaths of two anticorruption campaigners.
One party leader responded to revelations of corruption by warning of the perils of "too much" press freedom, while Lula complained that some publications "act as if they were a political party".Asked about fears that Brazil's democracy could be threatened by an extension of these trends, Lula says this is "unthinkable".
The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, whose deeply political work vividly examines the perils of power and corruption in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
