corruption
Example Sentences
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Islamic leaders have a pastoral responsibility to protect their adherents from corruption and radicalization, to keep the wolves from the flock.
Bobi Wine defended Ampe, saying he was using social media to "expose corruption, abuse of power, oppression of lower ranking officers and other evils within the Uganda Prisons Service".
From BBC
The domestic flood-control corruption scandal is weighing on government spending, economic growth and foreign investor sentiment.
NGOs have criticised the move as an attempt to muzzle criticism of corruption.
From Barron's
He has been convicted in two other cases, one for illegal campaign financing and another for corruption and influence-peddling.
From Barron's
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