Sentence examples for treachery corruption from inspiring English sources

Both the departing president and his successor spent most of their adult lives in the governing party, universally known as KANU, where treachery, corruption and malfeasance were in no short supply.

Through treachery and corruption, Flem Snopes gathers power in Frenchman's Bend, Miss.

In truth, totalitarianism spawned heroism, treachery and corruption in the church, as in other parts of life.

The Act of Union is the foundational event of modern Scotland, and not just for nationalists – although they see 1707 as a defining act of grand historic treachery and corruption.

All the essential elements are there: overweening ambition, a poisoning, a sink of corruption, treachery and blackmail.

"If you scratch a great hero, you find a complete ass," says Pennington of the tragic protagonists; and he sees, in the plays written in the Jacobean era, a sharp, incisive criticism of privilege and the corruption, treachery and dissimulation within the court.

Allegations – denied by both sides – of intimidation, corruption and treachery abounded.

MacMillan's ballet is one of the grimmest in the repertory, a story mired in corruption, sexual treachery and madness, but even so it's rare to see a performance that inhabits so fully the nastiness of its material.