Sentence examples for pervasively corrupt from inspiring English sources

Equally fine is Sean Connery as Jim Malone, the only "good" cop in Mayor (Big Bill) Thompson's pervasively corrupt Chicago.

The processes set in motion by the K Street Project resulted in a pervasively corrupt Republican majority that was rejected in 2006.

For example, Ung informs us that her father was an undercover intelligence agent for Sihanouk and an official in the Lon Nol regime, which was notoriously, pervasively corrupt.

The more intrusive and demanding the military tax collection or the state's control of the rosters of city senates, the more profit there was for a pervasively corrupt administration.

For one thing they say surprisingly little about the roots of Japan's current malaise: the one-party rule of the Liberal Democratic party -- with the possible exception of the Communist Party of China the most pervasively corrupt and crony-ridden apparatus in the region.

As the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz warned in 2010, exempting the largest banks from criminal prosecution has meant that lawlessness and "venality" is now "at a higher level" in the US even than that which prevailed in the pervasively corrupt and lawless privatizing era in Russia.

The idea that American politics is pervasively corrupted by money is not a fringe position.

Readers React Can anyone witnessing the electoral process in 2012 seriously doubt the pervasively corrupting influence of money, particularly large chunks of money, in our political system?

The 2011 Presidential contest in South Ossetia, which ultimately came down to a race between the presumedly pro-Russian candidate Anatolii Bibilov and the dark horse former Minister of Education Alla Dzhioeva, was judged to be so pervasively corrupted that the following year there was a second election in which all of the 2011 candidates were barred from running.

There was a pervasively upbeat mood.

Pick the pervasively smoky shrimp club.