(n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
(n.) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
(n.) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
(n.) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
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.
Degeneracy
Definition:
(a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
(a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the assignment of this dodecadeoxynucleotide may be completed without deuteriation, several NOEs must be assigned indirectly because of degeneracies in the chemical shift of the purine H8 protons.
(2) We show that, even in T cells with this MHC restriction degeneracy, the TCR expressed in the two strains are different.
(3) The results suggest that the formation of IgG immune complexes during an immune response may result in stimulation of idiotypically related clones thus resulting in degeneracy of the immune response.
(4) The functional "degeneracy" of amino acids is described as increasing the interdependence of general functions.
(5) Among amino acid codons with fourfold degeneracy, there is a bias favoring pyrimidines over purines.
(6) The first observation was that a T cell clone with specificity for the 306-324 peptide of influenza hemagglutinin (HA), and raised from a DR1 responder, exhibited apparent degeneracy of major histocompatibility complex restriction when cultured with peptide in the presence of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) expressing a wide variety of structurally unrelated DR types.
(7) This appears particularly important given our current awareness of the degeneracy displayed by certain DNA sequences in terms of their in vitro ability to separately bind to more than one (sometimes several) species of protein factor present in a nuclear extract.
(8) Collectively, this study discerns a degeneracy in the VH4 genes that can encode the Lc1 CRI, indicating the term "supratypic cross-reactive idiotype" may best describe the specificity of the Lc1 mAb.
(9) By this means, ambiguities in the assignment of NOEs that arise from chemical shift overlap and degeneracy are completely removed.
(10) The use of this model may permit a reduction of the mRNA sequence degeneracy and therefore be helpful in the synthesis of cDNA probes or for the prediction of restriction endonuclease sites.
(11) The results indicate that vitamin A deficiency decrease cell proliferation without degeneracy.
(12) The degree of degeneracy of the codons for an amino acid is correlated with their guanine-cytosine content.
(13) Parity violation lifts only the degeneracy of enantiomers of truly chiral systems, the true enantiomers (i.e.
(14) Unfortunately, the degeneracy of the code means that there will be ambiguity in the nucleotide assignments in a third or more of the positions.
(15) Independent degeneracy of periplasmic bodies was occasionally observed.
(16) A 26 bp DNA probe has been constructed with minimal degeneracy to the protein sequence for Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin.
(17) The code gives greater protection (by both degeneracy and guaninecytosine content of codons) to those amino acids that appear more frequently in proteins.
(18) We find that replacing nonpolar residues in the core by polar residues is generally destabilizing, that surface sites are less sensitive than core sites, that some mutations increase the degeneracy of native states, and that overall it is most probable that a mutation will be neutral, having no effect on the native structure.
(19) We have exploited a portion of this region because of the minimal translational codon degeneracy of the conserved residues.
(20) However, the acceptable degeneracy of the signal for glycosomal targeting in trypanosomes is considerably greater than that for peroxisomal targeting in mammals, with particularly relaxed requirements in the penultimate position.