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How to use the word corruption in a Sentence? Page #2

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Corruption is so rampant, there’s not the same scrupulousness in Russia – it’s former Soviet Union, and it’s not even in the culture to check the expiration because no one would trust it anyways.

– Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve been saying for years now that we’ve got to root out corruption wherever it exists, and it’s why we’ve passed and I’ve signed ethics reforms in the state of Illinois.

– Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

An indictment of this magnitude is a condemnation of a system infected with promises of pay-to-play, and the era of corruption and self-dealing among Illinois politicians must end, the conduct alleged in this indictment is deplorable and a stark violation of the public's trust. Michael Madigan must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

– Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have seen one-party rule with the minority completely shut out, one-party rule leads to what it always leads to, corruption and government dysfunction.

– Brian Dahle

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The limit is a straightforward anti-corruption measure, instead of being independent from donors, a winning candidate -- now an elected official -- is raising money that will go directly into the official's own pocket.

– Daniel Weiner and John Martin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is consistent across all countries, all cultures — if local journalism dies, corruption increases.

– Lokman Tsui

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can not talk about Iraqi Kurdistan or Federal Iraq as a functioning thing because Iraqi Kurdistan's not, the reality is that public services are intermittent, opportunity is zero, corruption, nepotism and violence is ongoing and regular.

– Hafsa Halawa

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These actions reaffirm the U.S. government's commitment to impose costs on the Lukashenka regime for enabling corruption, human rights abuses, inhumane exploitation of vulnerable people and orchestration of irregular migration, and attacks against democratic freedoms and international norms.

– The Treasury Department on Thursday

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So if somebody were just to say, I don't like the results, even though they were properly conducted and there's no evidence of fraud, I don't like the results as I'm going to certify my favorite slate of electors. The political reaction to that would be so severe and so swift, and nobody would do that. And nobody has done it in 150 years. But what we have here is a systematic violation of state laws by election officials, t his level of corruption just can't be allowed to stand. And I think that makes, I think that makes the exercise of the vice president's power here very compelling.

– John Eastman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No one indicted for public corruption and suspended by the City Council should receive a taxpayer-funded salary.

– Ron Galperin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The information available publicly is very worrisome, particularly in the areas of corruption, they could go at this from all different avenues. Follow the corruption trail and then charge money laundering.

– John Cassara

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These reports will go a long way in enhancing the financial transparency and openness that we require in Kenya and around the globe. The movement of illicit funds, proceeds of crime and corruption thrive in an environment of secrecy and darkness, the Pandora Papers and subsequent follow up audits will lift that veil of secrecy and darkness for those who can not explain their assets or wealth.

– Uhuru Kenyatta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Cyber Ninjas've got to deal with Dominion voting machines, cyber Ninjas've got to deal with the corruption that's allowed. Cyber Ninjas've got to have audits.

– Jody Hice

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruption.

– Marvin Cooley

added by Normando
2 years ago

This would be the type of case the U.S. Attorney’s Office would be interested in, and I can speak to that because in my time there – it was brief – the office would charge, prosecute and sentence these types of cases and public corruption was then and is now still a big push for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina, if the need is there for a federal investigation, this certainly is something they would investigate and work all the way through the system to get the results that were necessary.

– Trey Harrell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One of the fundamental issues I think clearly is the corruption in the government…the government itself not havingthelegitimacy in the eyes of the people, you saw what happened at the end. Thesenior government elites, they all just literally bugged out.

– Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Good riddance to the Worst Governor in America, under Andrew Cuomo’s failed leadership, New Yorkers suffered corruption scandal after corruption scalndal, illegal criminal acts committed on the taxpayers’ dime, and unhinged political vengeance and retaliation creating a toxic political culture systemic in Albany.

– Elise Stefanik

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My heart is with the brave Cuomo survivors who endured attempts to discredit them like I did coming forward about Joe Biden with the help of non-profits that were supposed to help women like Time's Up, may there be some measure of justice for the survivors. Now, let's call for a real investigation into Joe Biden and expose the corruption protecting powerful predators.

– Tara Reade

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He said it was not our purpose, as there were already ‘nine thousand prosecutors’ looking at corruption.

– Danya Perry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dutch authorities should swiftly and thoroughly investigate the shooting of crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, determine if he was targeted for his work, and ensure that the attacker and the masterminds of the attack face justice, journalists in the EU must be able to investigate crime and corruption without fearing for their safety.

– Tom Gibson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every operator, spy, foreign agent in the world immediately set their sights and their wallets on the university the day they used Biden's name, corruption isn’t always about money -- sometimes it’s about access.

– Tom Anderson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That accountability ultimately led to reform, and because of that reform, we had a spotlight on the entrenched police corruption in one of the largest police agencies in the country.

– Marilyn Mosby

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We don't know how long it's going to take to undo the embedded corruption and racism in the Baltimore Police.

– Ray Kelly

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nizar Banat is the one that speaks against the oppressor, and for the oppressed... They killed the hope in us. They killed Al Khatib after Al Khatib exposed their corruption.

– Al Khatib

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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