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How to use the word corruption in a Sentence?

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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war.

Abraham Lincoln

added by Normando
4 months ago

I support Semilla and I think they do want to make a change, but I do n’t think the system will allow it, it seems utopian to think that we will have a candidate who is not involved in corruption and narcopolitics.

Loren Giordano

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

The current financial crackdown is a new wave of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign against the financial sector for consolidation of his power.

Chongyi Feng

Found on CNN
11 months ago

As US attorney, he supervised some of the department’s more important national security, public corruption and other high-profile matters, i will ensure that Mr. Hur receives all the resources he needs to conduct his work.

Merrick Garland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This year we will win! But first we will conquer our internal bureaucracy and corruption, once we conquer our internal bureaucracy and corruption, then we will conquer the Ukrainians and NATO, and then the whole world. The problem now is that the bureaucrats and those engaging in corruption won’t listen to us now because for New Year’s they are all drinking champagne.

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's about the big guy. It's about the Godfather, Joe Biden is the Godfather. He is the one who ultimately is profiting on this corruption, he is the one who is abusing official authority to further the criminal activity of his family members. And that's why this is an issue of public corruption.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Fox News Digital's about the big guy. Fox News Digital's about the Godfather, Hunter Biden is the Godfather. He is the one who ultimately is profiting on this corruption, he is the one who is abusing official authority to further the criminal activity of his family members. And that's why this is an issue of public corruption.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He is the one who is abusing official authority to further the criminal activity of his family members. And that's why this is an issue of public corruption.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What’s more important than even these prosecutions is allowing the American people to have an intimate vantage point into this onion of corruption that really permeated the American government in 2015 and 2016 and affected a presidency, and how and why it was allowed to take foot.

George Papadopoulos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Once again, suspected corruption caused casualties among civilians. But this time corruption involved places of worship... We call on the government for an immediate and serious investigation to reveal the truth so corruption doesn't affect mosques and places of worship as it has done with the country's institutions and ministries.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, magistrate Judge Reinhard [sic] rejected the DOJ’s cynical attempt to hide the whole affidavit from Americans, no redactions should be necessary and the whole affidavit should bereleased, given the Democrats’ penchant for using redactions to hide government corruption, just like they did with the Russia hoax.

Taylor Budowich

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are not going to make any compromises and nobody is going to be indispensable including myself in the fight against corruption, because if you do it effectively, there is no reason why this country can not achieve its developmental goals.

Raila Odinga

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no war in the history of the world that is immune from corruption and people trying to take advantage of it, if there are concerns raised, we will address them.

Jason Crow

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The urgent priority is for a peaceful transition of power that respects rights and addresses the root causes of the political and economic crisis which is ultimately about a lack of accountability, corruption and the weakening of institutions that were meant to provide a check on power, if a more stable government... can not be established, the risks are of a humanitarian crisis as well as greater violence and repression.

Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There should be investigations into alleged corruption which has contributed to this crisis, including any efforts to hide assets abroad, foreign governments should investigate assets and freeze Gotabaya Rajapaksa and others if appropriate.

Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy, sanctimonious James Comey was Sanctimonious James Comey boss and made Andrew McCabe look like a choirboy. Sanctimonious James Comey knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI !

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice.

Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What else can we do? being a Sandy Meisner devotee, I’m a romantic about the ensemble credo and synergy and, like this movie depicts, what educated, smart and deeply caring people can do – even a few of them – together at a crucial moment. They can even sometimes defeat the forces of ignorance, corruption and greed, and keep the Homo sapiens ball moving along a little more. Maybe.

Jeff Goldblum

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Injustice and corruption, poverty and pollution, disease and despair. They aren't contained by any borders, if we learned anything from the Covid-19 pandemic, from these last few years of sickness and sorrow, it's how one deadly virus can move through the world. How hunger and violence are woven together. How a war in Europe can ripple through stock markets and supermarkets. And here, how the loss of trees in your Amazon can take a piece of the future from all of us.

Jill Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That is the most corrupt industry in one of the most corrupt countries in the world. You can't disentangle the sources of this wealth from the initial sources of the corruption, casey Michel can not have made that money without specific political connections or connections to organized crime or connections to other oligarchic figures.

Casey Michel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The( conspiracy) label will be difficult for( Sharif) to shake off, corruption allegations( against Shehbaz Sharif) will persist, and it is inevitable that regular Pakistanis will tire of the prime minister's office being treated as a family heirloom between brothers.

Hassan Kamal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to start from where we are and right now. And right now the number one thing is to offer Russians alternative views of the war and talk about corruption in the country, corruption certainly affects every single young Russian over there.

Ivana Stradner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This new action makes it more difficult for drug traffickers to obtain and use these chemicals for illicit purposes. It will also help disrupt synthetic drug trafficking that not only leads to deaths caused by overdose, but also corruption, drug-related violence and insecurity.

Rahul Gupta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is a very clear financial benefit in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin, especially at the time European money comes with questions about freedoms of media, human rights and corruption, which Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't care about.

Katalin Cseh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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