Sentences with phrase «become corrupt as»

Writing has become corrupted as a result of the pervasive hierarchies.

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Known for: Having waged a war against corrupt officials and won official recognition as the party's «core,» Xi became China's most dominant leader in decades in his first term.

«The marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons,» the story's authors wrote, noting that last year, for the first time, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and intellectual property than on research and development, a striking fact that sharply illustrates how incentives have become skewed in the tech industry.

When one's sensitive appetite is corrupted by vice, as is the case with substance abuse, Aquinas is clear that the will necessarily becomes remiss or impeded.

The historians Yehoshua Arieli and Yehoshua Talmon followed suit, warning that Israelis would become brutalised and corrupted as they tried to rule over an alien people against its will.

However, as we get older, that labeling process becomes somehow, corrupted — leading to all sorts of bad things, bad thinking and false truths.

Organized religion inevitably becomes corrupt in some way as they jump into politics and power struggles.

Popular rule may become as corrupt as autocratic rule.

There one can see a touching picture of all human miseries, not of those poor attrackted by the alms of sovereigns, or of those insects who attach themselves to the reach, but of starving beggars deprived of necessities by the «charity» of their bishops so as to prevent them from becoming corrupted by affluence.

Thus while time and history as creaturely can become corrupted — an arena of sin as well as of «nature,» of injustice and conflict as well as of justice and peace, nevertheless through the divine power and grace, history contains a meaning for those within it.

As the pastors become more powerful they tend to become more corrupt.

«Islam began as a religion of justice but it has become corrupted into an ideology of fear, said the Muslim writer».

Sometime after 100 AD we see the Catholics got a hold of the Bible and rewrote themselves back in as priests becoming corrupted with power.

do you reralize the evolution of the catholics / / becoming so corrupt as to not be same as the first ones right after Jesus died?

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

(One of the reasons the founding fathers were adamant all Americans would have freedom of whorship) It's too simplistic to say the English reformation happened because Henry 8th wanted a divorce, it happened because of the influence of Martin Luther and the rise of Protestants in Europe and because the Catholic Church had become too powerfull, wealthy and corrupt and did not hesitate to burn people it considered Heritics, In England Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated as the foiling of a terrible plot to kill the king, James the 1st and most of the parliament.

He rose on that last day to call for unanimous consent in hopes that that too might help the document be accepted, and he said, «In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

And John, as a prophet of God, understood this from the Old Testament, and he saw how corrupt Judaism had become, and so he went about preaching repentance — telling the Jews to turn from corrupt Judaism, and turn back to what God intended.

Once the mind has â $ œconsented to be orthodoxâ $, then it becomes â $ œnarrow, rigid, mercenary, morally corrupt, and vengeful against dissenters.â $ But if «truth» is in the Christian bible, and it has been studied and accepted as truth, what else is there to pursue?

As soon as the hand of man was involved in the «religion» of the early church, it became corrupAs soon as the hand of man was involved in the «religion» of the early church, it became corrupas the hand of man was involved in the «religion» of the early church, it became corrupt.

part of that is an owner and board who put their profits way above the performance of the team but it is also a manager who conforms to the wishes of the board (and for all I know may have an ownership stake as well) by putting their short term interests above the long term performance of the team as a result the team itself has become corrupted by the regime through insufficient investment in upgrading the team (all the more damaging as the environment in which the team operates has become increasingly competitive) with ocassional panic acquisitions to meet minimal (but ever diminishing) performance targets to keep fans on board the result is a massively unbalanced team of overpaid compliant players who have been around for too long, inexperienced (and also overpaid) young players who have not cost the club much (or anything) and small islands of quality players..

Back before Chelsea became a play thing for a corrupt Russian Billionaire, they were somewhat half decently run and it's fans weren't called and abused as being plastic fans and they were somewhat respected by fans from other clubs.

The problem becomes when an issue arises that can force your business to a grinding halt, such as a network failure, corrupt system, security breach or the like.

Oko Quaicoo, a motor mechanic according to our investigations, became frustrated after the death of their father some years ago when IC Quaye who better known in political circles as «Agbenaa» (and also known for his «Stealers» coinage to refer to corrupt public officials) became the head of the family and started maltreating the family members.

His army was corrupt and he had to adapt and became as corrupt as his army to regain it - impressive from a Machiavellian point of view - sad for Venezuela)

His reign has seen the end of civil war and an investment boom, but has also been criticised as secretive and corrupt with Angola's citizens suffering dire poverty as his family became hugely wealthy.

Today, under their deceitful and corrupt watch, fuel has not only become extremely scarce, the price has also risen from where the PDP left it at N86.50 k per liter to as high as N300 per liter and above.

When it became clear she could not wrangle sufficient support, Ms. Niou dramatically withdrew from the Democratic nomination process, denouncing it as corrupt — even though she had received the WFP nomination, which selects candidates through a similar mechanism.

If memory operations occur during a system failure, such as a computer system crash, there is a chance that the memory could become corrupt with wrong data.

A study of ecosystem interaction chains in a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean suggests that human disturbances, such as forest conversions, can corrupt the links that tie together ecological interactions and cause the chains to become radically shortened or go extinct.

It tries to be sweet one minute and decides to be incredibly raunchy the next (very much so when it comes to John C Reilly's corrupted, hilarious and insanely infectious character) and quite often it sways between completely different genres, at times becoming awkwardly stupid as opposed to being actually funny.

As O'Toole learns more about the crime, he becomes convinced that Felix was framed by corrupt local officials, including States Attorney, and old rival, Charlie Haggerty (Frank Converse).

Conceived as a loose riff on star Channing Tatum's time as a male stripper, it has a solid run as a cheerful smut delivery mechanism before hanging up its thong to become a rote «80s melodrama about good kids corrupted by bad drugs.

His usual pessimism oozes throughout this Faustian tale, especially in the corrupting power of a society where evil is everywhere, and yet, its bleakness isn't just used as a device, it becomes the main thrust.

As he did with Bernie Tiede in Richard Linklater's «Bernie,» Black creates an extraordinary image of a corrupt American who becomes larger than headlines as their life spins out of control, and does so with a great amount of compassioAs he did with Bernie Tiede in Richard Linklater's «Bernie,» Black creates an extraordinary image of a corrupt American who becomes larger than headlines as their life spins out of control, and does so with a great amount of compassioas their life spins out of control, and does so with a great amount of compassion.

Chris Klein (American Pie, 2) is the protagonist just by being naive enough not to know why the sport is popular, and as things become clearer that the sport is corrupt, we are supposed to root for him by default.

As their relationship deepens, the lines between right and wrong, friendship and love, and «saving» and corrupting become inextricably blurred.

As Dorian becomes corrupted and cruel, the portrait begins to change, manifesting his sins in visual form.

But like David Bowie's The Man Who Fell to Earth, he has become corrupted by our earthly human ways, and has embraced our once foreign behavior as his own.

Gerard Johnson's gritty British thriller follows a corrupt, coke - snorting undercover policeman (the excellent Peter Ferdinando, who also starred in Johnson's previous film, 2009's Tony) as he becomes embroiled in a...

Based on the book of the same name by former Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, «Black Mass,» which opens in theaters Sept. 18, is the story of Bulger's relationship with John Connolly, the egregiously corrupt FBI agent who cultivated his boyhood buddy as an informant and then looked the other way as crook became kingpin.

During the early part of the film, the story focuses on Bulger's power but then it becomes more about the relationship between Bulger and John Connolly (Joel Edgarton), the FBI agent who used Bulger as an informant but who ultimately became corrupted by the mobster's influence.

NEW BOOK RELEASE THE CORRUPT CLASSROOM: BIAS, INDOCTRINATION, VIOLENCE, AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING SHOW WHY AMERICA NEEDS SCHOOL CHOICE As Lance Izumi writes in his new book, America's public schools are becoming increasingly politici...

What could have become a trite, overwrought, emotional depiction of «woman goes mad with grief, and is further corrupted by power» and, therefore, a backwards - looking cautionary tale, is, instead, presented as moving and human.

Core Capital generally used to correspond to Equity (Ordinary plus Preferred Share Capital), but became horribly corrupted in the past decade with all kinds of contingent / subordinated debt instruments masquerading as Equity.

No, your task is more to explore a hostile, corrupted world, learning bits and pieces about what things were and what they became, all while dealing with a menagerie of monstrous entities that you're not so much valiantly standing up to as putting out of their misery.

Remember that not everything can be transferred from your old PS4 to your new PS4 Pro (this includes data such as passwords and unsynced trophies), and sometimes (not often, but sometimes) this data can become corrupted.

In the time you've been away from Liberty City, the organized rule of the mob has become fractured as corrupt politicians, rival games, and striking unions vie for control of a city where crime is as commonplace as pizza is in NYC.

Targeted at our next most common support requests, fixing the next most common crashes, as well as trying to help players who have become stranded or have corrupted their save files.