The perception engendered by these propaganda organs is one of U.S., Israeli and Western venality.
Just moments after the decision was announced, the Left used it as proof of Israeli venality.
Amid all the venality, there were some good works: missions, orphanages and clinics set up in Africa.
Family members have admitted to venality, and Mr Chen himself sits in jail accused of graft and embezzlement.
Venality in public life is all too frequent: the cumbersome bureaucracy, itself vulnerable to predatory supervisors, reeks of it.
The jail in Los Angeles County, America's largest, is under federal investigation for brutality and venality by deputies and guards.
On the second, the report does not say whether Mr Annan should go for having presided over such chaos and venality.
The main fantasy governing Europe's attitude toward the Middle East is the belief in Israeli militaristic venality, fundamentalist messianism, and territorial greed.
But there, too, you find electoral gridlock and, of course, a preoccupation with war talk, homeland security, corporate venality--just about everything but recovery.
That is a popular thing to say, but it sounds naive, given the deep-rooted venality in Pakistani politics, not to mention the civil service, courts and army.
With a blandly dismissive anti-romanticism, the director sees through the pretenses of civility to the mediocrity, disappointment, venality, gullibility, duplicity, and boredom that pass for daily life.
Small wonder that his supporters see him as the knight-errant of American politics, bravely aiming his lonely lance at special interests and political establishments of every conceivable venality.
Some applaud this as a clever way to get round congressional venality (much as a similar commission managed to close military bases in the past), but sceptics are unconvinced.
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His isolation from reality, the now rapidly increasing venality of his family and regime and his lack of judgement in dealing with the world led to his final undoing.
Reporters, self-proclaimed human rights groups, and the leftist blogosphere in Israel and throughout the world as well as foreign governments happily swallow whole Haaretz's manufactured stories about Israel's purported venality.
Many of the top Palestinian "militants, " for example, may cloak these motivations in politics or religion, but ultimately they are little more than gangsters whose venality conveniently coincides with the prevailing public orthodoxies.
Hundreds of secretly shot videos seized from the home of Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's fugitive spy chief, have revealed the duplicity and venality of many of the country's politicians, army officers, judges and businessmen.
Many Nigerians, fed up with the venality of politics, fear that the political establishment will now feel it can be as crooked as it has been in the past and get away with it as usual.
It is the venality associated with his 1990-93 administration that makes Mr Sharif such a dubious champion of democracy and that makes many people, especially in Pakistan, believe that his main motive was to grab even more power than his two-thirds parliamentary majority already gives him.
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