(a.) Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible.
(a.) Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.
(n.) One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.
(n.) The quality or state of being incorruptible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally the importance of fish will not only increase for economic, but certainly also for ecological reasons, because it is well established as an incorruptible bioindicator of our environment.
(2) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
(3) "The sharia justice system is swift and incorruptible.
(4) But Mr Putin has ended that disarray and rehabilitated the KGB as the embodiment of the ascetic, incorruptible public service.
(5) Buhari, a tough-talking ex-general with a reputation for incorruptibility, was viewed by many Nigerians as an almost messianic figure who would rescue the country from its kleptocratic ruling elite and crush Boko Haram , the homegrown jihadi group responsible for thousands of deaths in recent years.
(6) To his supporters he is an efficient, tough and incorruptible administrator whose style of economic governance – dubbed " Modinomics " – has worked wonders in Gujarat and can be rolled out across India.
(7) She writes of herself: "Impregnably honest, utterly fearless, incorruptible by the worldly lures which tend to weaken and deflect most reformers, yet sane, scientific and happy, Dr Stopes, hating all conflict, is fighting on behalf of others."
(8) Those super-rich Russians and Chinese – the biggest buyers of investor visas for people committing at least £1m – see a stable political system, an open economy, honest courts and incorruptible officials.
(9) The embassy-provided programme notes described Jiao as “a role model for civil servants with his hardworking, upright, incorruptible personality”.
(10) But after a year in which Boko Haram and government corruption has dominated local headlines, the ex-general has two things going for him: a reputation for strong leadership and incorruptibility.
(11) To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is barbarity.” Not a week passes without reference to these statements in the Spanish media: only the other week, the founding editor of the centre-right daily El Mundo sarcastically dubbed Iglesias “The incorruptible senor X” , a reference to Robespierre’s nickname.
(12) Michnik, Lehman said, was "a brave, incorruptible and tolerant Polish rebel who has never tired of speaking out in the European public sphere".
(13) Even his most vicious critics would concede that he is utterly incorruptible; he knows how to handle a global crisis; and he is a genuine devotee of the game.)
(14) But by hollowing out the civil service – historically the only system via which efficient and incorrupt public services were brought into being – this government is set to increase the opportunities for corruption and corporate exploitation of environments chronically prone to market failure while undermining exactly the institutions that might protect the taxpayer.
(15) Glossing over the moderate liberals’ appalling political errors, the standard account traces the Terror to Robespierre’s beliefs: thus emerges the idea that radical democracy, equality and incorruptibility breed violence.
(16) The come-back of a psychopathology of "faculties" linked to the notion of deficiency and reinforced by fascination with computers, also represents the need of humankind to believe in an incorruptible soul.
Mali
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Example Sentences:
(1) That is happening not only in Brazil, but also in poorer cotton-producing countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Chad.
(2) It was concluded that transmission in eastern Mali has now been reduced to the levels required to control onchocerciasis.
(3) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(4) Obama permitted them to operate with minimal restriction, proliferating the physical scope of the global war on terrorism to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Mali and Niger and the digital scope around the world.
(5) As Bradford University professor Paul Rogers told Jones, the bombing of Mali "will be portrayed as 'one more example of an assault on Islam'".
(6) The president of Mali , Ibrahim Boubacar Këita, speaking on national television late on Friday evening, declared a national state of emergency effective from midnight.
(7) In fact the then president, Amadou Toumani Touré, known as "ATT" more out of derision than any sense of affection, was viewed as deeply corrupt and incapable of delivering the changes that Mali – still one of the five least-developed countries in the world – needed.
(8) France immediately extended its bombardment of the Islamists with air strikes in central Mali.
(9) The Tuareg are likely to play a key role in any lasting solution in northern Mali – or lack of one.
(10) France intervened following a direct request for help from Mali's interim President, Dioncounda Traore.
(11) And then there were other disputes, such as Berlin's refusal to become involved in French military missions, first in Libya and now in Mali, and the recent failed fusion of the aerospace and defence firms EADS and BAE Systems .
(12) Islamists in Mali threatened Saturday to "open the doors of hell" for French citizens, in a statement following the adoption by the UN Security Council of a plan to oust al-Qaida linked militants from occupied territory.
(13) The MNLA said it was ready to join the French-led campaign against "terrorist organisations" but would not allow the Mali army to march on Kidal.
(14) Utilizing a framework developed by the Faculty of Law, University of Dakar, Senegal, and the Development Law and Policy Program, Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University, the Sahel Institute undertook a comprehensive study of the legal and social status of women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal.
(15) Potentially the most destabilising regional development is the secessionist movement in neighbouring northern Mali, driven by battle-hardened, largely secular Tuareg forces who fought for Libya's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, as well as Islamist fighters.
(16) These data are interpreted to mean that resorptions of bone anterior (nasal spine) or inferior (alveolar bone) to bacillary populations in the nasal mucosa of patients with lepromatous disease in Mali occur independently.
(17) French troops are in Mali as part of the ongoing Operation Serval, which started at the beginning of last year and is aimed at ousting Islamist militants in the north of the country.
(18) When it topped the index in 2006 its ecological footprint per person was no higher than those in non-industrialised countries like Mali and Swaziland, life expectancy matched that in Turkey, and life satisfaction levels were considered as high as New Zealand’s.
(19) Therefore schistosomiasis may be considered a man-made health problem in rural Mali although the infection is endemic in the whole country.
(20) Reports of thousands of people left off the register, ongoing security concerns and allegations of voter fraud have fuelled concerns that Mali is rushing into the elections, six months after an international military intervention drove al-Qaida-linked rebels from control of the country's north.