(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.
Forgery
Definition:
(n.) The act of forging metal into shape.
(n.) The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.
(n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you take a forgery to a bank will they give you a real one in return?
(2) But it had at its disposal a hefty deterrent: forgery was a capital offence between 1697 and 1832.
(3) The French financial prosecutor is looking into whether “the calculations constitute forgeries made to justify, after the fact, the wages that were paid”, Le Monde reported .
(4) Key to the case against O’Neill is a letter, allegedly from the prime minister to senior ministers, which suggested O’Neill authorised the payments, but the prime minister dismissed it as a forgery.
(5) The free-market Heartland Institute has moved to contain the damage from explosive revelations about its efforts to discredit climate change and alter the teaching of science in schools, claiming on Wednesday it was the victim of theft and forgery.
(6) The Royal Mint says: "Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 it is an offence to knowingly pass on a counterfeit £1 coin."
(7) But the Bangkok Post's interview with an unnamed DSI agent quoted him as saying the country was also attractive because it is relatively easy to enter and leave; "you can negotiate with some law enforcement people"; and – importantly – some local officials have not tended to see the forgery of foreign (as opposed to Thai) passports as a particularly serious offence.
(8) Once the KGB would have spent months planting well-made forgeries.
(9) In contrast to the FBI's aggressive pursuit of Brown, no probe of the Team Themis project was launched – despite a call from 17 US House representatives to investigate a possible conspiracy to violate federal laws, including forgery, mail and wire fraud, and fraud and related activity in connection with computers.
(10) Moran faces 21 charges: 15 of false accounting, contrary to the Theft Act 1968, and six of forgery, in which it is alleged she submitted false invoices.
(11) "There was forgery and dishonest concealment of material facts.
(12) There is not the slightest bit of forgery in this case,” he said.
(13) The scheme – backed by Italy FA head Carlo Tavecchio, convicted five times since 1970 for forgery, tax evasion and abuse of office – aims to champion “all acts of honesty”.
(14) The Falkirk report arrives at eight conclusions in its executive summary, leaked to the press and widely interpreted as damning proof of forgery, bullying and "machine politics" by Unite , the union.
(15) Williams, a Nationals MP, expressed his support for a further inquiry, saying he had received evidence of fraud, wrongdoing and forgery.
(16) On Monday evening it emerged that a letter from the taskforce chief, Sam Koim, to the police commissioner, leaked to SBS News , claimed new evidence has emerged – including a forensic analysis of a letter previously dismissed as a forgery by O’Neill – strengthening the case against the prime minister.
(17) Iran has rejected most of the IAEA material on weaponisation as forgeries, but has admitted carrying out tests on multiple high-explosive detonations synchronised to within a microsecond.
(18) Also among the dead were an Isis executioner and a forgery specialist.
(19) A Guardian journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan was offered fake Syrian passports by two separate smuggling rings, less than a week after French authorities alleged that a terrorist used a similar forgery to enter the Greek island of Leros, before taking part in an attack on the Stade de France in Paris.
(20) That’s fair enough, but you might think they practice some assumption of innocence until proven guilty of passport forgery.