What's the difference between corrupting and demoralization?
Corrupting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrupt
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(3) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(4) We need to put our heads together, and get our act together to fight corruption.
(5) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
(6) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
(7) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(8) Foreign investment has been sluggish because of insecurity, red tape and corruption.
(9) Doreen Lawrence to speak at conference on police spying, corruption and racism Read more Mick Creedon, the Derbyshire Chief Constable who is leading the police’s internal investigation into the SDS, said the public inquiry “will help us with the work that is already underway to make sure that the unacceptable behaviour of some officers in the past never happens again”.
(10) The new police chiefs' first act was to refuse to investigate fresh corruption cases, one of which allegedly involves Erdoğan's son, Bilal .
(11) As corruption consistently ranks as a top concern for Spaniards, second only to unemployment, and with an eye on upcoming municipal and regional elections in the spring, Spain’s political parties have been keen to appear as if they are tackling the issue.
(12) The Kremlin's initial reaction to stories dubbing Russia a corrupt "mafia state" and kleptocracy was, predictably, negative.
(13) The Department for International Development said all direct support to the Ugandan government had been cut in November after a corruption scandal, but a spokesman said the £97.9m in this year's budget would not be withheld.
(14) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(15) Under Xi some of the party’s most powerful figures have been humiliated and jailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of party officials disciplined across the country.
(16) When people are better informed they are able to hold their authorities to account and see resources released for development instead of being lost to corruption.
(17) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(18) Quigley, who was appointed by Labor to run the NBN rollout, had to answer regular questions about his actions and responsibilities as a former senior executive when it was revealed there had been corruption at Alcatel Lucent in Costa Rica.
(19) The 85-year-old ex-president, who has been on the verge of death according to his lawyer, sat in a wheelchair next to his two sons, who are being tried in a separate corruption-related case.
(20) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
Demoralization
Definition:
(n.) The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that demoralization scores were associated positively with dose effect (the more brutal the experience, the higher the scores) and inversely with social supports (the higher the acknowledged presence of contemporary supports, the lower the scores).
(2) That is just a killer sequence there - totally demoralizing.
(3) At the time of the suicide most patients felt lost and angry as well as demoralized and alienated from the clinic where they had been treated.
(4) In both populations, parents' general communication correlated negatively with anxiety, depression and demoralization and positively with guilt.
(5) My overall goal is for fashion to empower women and not demoralize them through negative and sometimes false imagery.
(6) Strangio, in an email to the Associated Press, called Manning’s treatment since her 2010 arrest and subsequent time serving a 35-year sentence “demoralizing and destabilizing assaults on her health and humanity”.
(7) In its differential diagnosis, abulia, akinesia and akinetic mutism, depression, dementia, delirium, despair, and demoralization must be ruled out.
(8) The main objectives of an integrated approach include: stabilization of the individual's sense of self, establishment of interpersonal competence, and enhanced mastery over the affects of depression and demoralization.
(9) Self-report measurement strategies included a medical review of body systems, the "demoralization" scale reflecting psychological symptoms of distress, demographics, and factors that may buffer stress, specifically, social support and knowledge regarding toxic chemicals.
(10) Using a structured, self-administered questionnaire, firefighter subjects were found to be more psychologically distressed on demoralization, specific emotional distress, and perceived threat to physical health.
(11) There was a clear association between occupational prestige scores and demoralization in both sexes.
(12) Both initial and later marital relationship scores had higher correlations with later than with initial demoralization scores.
(13) Several organizational factors were identified that, if present, contributed to nurses' ability to continue or 'hang in' but if absent, contributed to despair or 'feeling demoralized'.
(14) Longitudinal correlations of specific components and aggregated scores of perceptions of husbands' behavior and of demoralization revealed significant stability.
(15) When compared with nonexposed firefighter controls (n = 22), the exposed firefighters (n = 64) had significantly higher levels of demoralization and specific emotional distress 22 months after the incident.
(16) Major depressive disorders need to be differentiated from physiological demoralizations secondary to the strains of somatic disturbances.
(17) If not resolved, the social, cognitive, and social isolation may extend into adulthood, and anxiety, depressive symptoms, alienation, self-hatred, and demoralization may result.
(18) Urinary incontinence is a common, costly and demoralizing problem among the elderly.
(19) But in this type of fatal injuries, too, the place of immediate surgical stabilization and correction of the injured spine is established today in order to help the rehabilitation and to shorten demoralizing immobilization and bed rest time.
(20) The unusual organizational arrangements of this commune, where women have achieved higher levels of equality than in most other societies, offered a laboratory-like opportunity to test the psychosocial factors imputed as a partial explanation for the higher rates of demoralization in women.