Sentence examples for venally from inspiring English sources

Yet barely a generation ago Uganda suffered under two of the worst regimes that Africa had ever seen, those of the psychopathic Idi Amin (from 1971 to 1979) and of the venally incompetent Milton Obote (from 1962 until General Amin's coup, and again from 1980 to 1985).

More venally, they also want to help the men and women who might do them favours if elected.

However strong the whiff of xenophobia about him, Austria's Jörg Haider won 27% of the vote in his country's last general election, so forcing his party into a ruling coalition, largely because the two main parties of right and left had shared patronage venally for half a century.

Keynes is very persuasive as the venally weak Edmund: a figure traditionally glossed as Judas, although there is something more recognisable and English about Edmund's failure.

Moving from Yahweh's need of flattery to the candor of Greece and the obsequiousness of Rome on down to Dick Morris and Bill Clinton, who flatters his interlocutors by intently listening, Stengel is able triumphantly to conclude (am I reaching too high?) that flattery is more pervasively present than ever, although disguised and venally debased in these relativizing times, in this age of irony.

Some countries will be unable to follow -- they are too corrupt or war-torn or venally governed or not governed at all.

"I wanted it more than other people, perhaps, because I wanted it not venally or narcissistically but desperately, even pathetically".

Having been suckered in by your artist's vividly suggestive depiction of Supreme Court justices cavorting with the rich and — by implication — their being venally influenced thereby, imagine this liberal's disappointment when the accompanying article revealed no such goings on.