Sentence examples for quash corruption from inspiring English sources

The power grab was part of a broader campaign to quash corruption charges levelled against Mr Erdogan's children, business cronies and members of his cabinet.

I was handed newspaper clippings, property assessments, even a copy of the state constitution -- all by taxpayers with myriad agendas, wanting to quash corruption and save money.

Worries over efforts to quash corruption probes against the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his inner circle, to muzzle the press, to censor the internet and to stack the judiciary were all aired in the EU's recent annual progress report on Turkey's accession talks.

In Pakistan, the general view is that General Musharraf needs the deal to stay in power, that Ms. Bhutto needs it to quash corruption cases against her in the international courts and that there is nothing in it for the people, said Talat Massood, a retired general and political analyst.

In the 30-minute telephone interview from his office in São Paulo, Mr. Temer rebutted such claims, arguing that "impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution". He also said he would not seek to quash corruption inquiries into the Petrobras scandal unsettling his own centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party if he takes office.

If the IOC wants to live up to its ideals, it will have to both quash corruption and make room for change".

Though Trump has mostly espoused Republican policies from tax cuts to the repeal of the Affordable Care Act these voters trusted him and his promises to quash government corruption, bring back jobs, put "America first," and lower healthcare costs. .

Now, in the middle of this drawn-out timetable, the supreme court has turned the contest upside-down, by quashing a corruption conviction against Akbar Tandjung, the leader of the party and one of the seven remaining candidates for its nomination.The upheavals in Golkar, in turn, are altering calculations about the presidential election as a whole.

By at least speaking the language of annexation, he could try to win the enduring support of the racists and the absolutists in a potential right-wing coalition, who might, in turn, quash the multiple corruption indictments that he faces.

Just 10 days after taking office, the planning minister, Romero Jucá, announced that he would "go on leave" following the release of a secretly taped telephone conversation in which he said Rousseff needed to be removed to quash a vast corruption investigation that implicated him and other members of the country's political elite.

Having presided over the end of Sri Lanka's long civil war, Rajapaksa led the nation for a decade until his brutal treatment against minority Tamil separatists and growing concern over government corruption quashed his reelection bid.