And one bad lobbyist, at least one, shouldn't suggest that the entire system is some way corrupt.
They do this by having corrupt or incompetent people controlling access to their oilfields.
The second is the sort that corrupt bureaucrats and their businessmen accomplices are able to purloin.
Critics are already calling Mr Singh's government the most corrupt one in India's history.
Corrupt states become more powerful because revenues from natural resources flow straight to them.
Why would Florida public pension trustees be so resistant to taking action against corrupt financial advisers?
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It details the collapse of a state through corrupt neglect and direct criminal activity.
They are generally not able to be incompetent or corrupt and succeed in the long-term.
Xinhua, however, is dismayed at how internet users are championing Ms Zhao for exposing corrupt officials.
And he himself faced a string of allegations of links with corrupt financiers and top criminals.
The FAS said the officials were "assisting the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau in their investigations".
But that doesn't mean the entire game is corrupt, I do not agree at all.
Half say corrupt officials are a very serious problem in China, up from 39% in 2008.
President MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI (Republic of Georgia): Basically, we had one of the most corrupt police forces.
Why did the masses follow Hilter or Caesar Augustus or any other corrupt leader?
Economists like to think that corrupt behavior can be changed through punishment and reward.
On the other hand, a corrupt or inept consultant can cost a pension billions.
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"Because he knows the Koran, he won't cheat, he won't be corrupt, " Madiha explained.
That will make our corrupt politicians and our immoral culture pay for their sins.
It stalled assistance to Uzbekistan, a corrupt place with a nasty human rights record.
Hardworking, honest citizens chafe at corrupt officials who treat them with contempt and get rich quick.
She also said that jails would become more corrupt if cigarettes were taken off prisoners.
The details of side deals and partnerships and corrupt accounting will all end up forgotten someday.
"We're not saying you should distrust the rich, or the rich are corrupt, " says Piff.
The joke is that the anti-corruption officers are more corrupt than the people they investigate.
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Mr Dmitrichenko said he had told Mr Zarutsky about corrupt practices at the Bolshoi Ballet.
The central government might try to shut brothels but is stopped by corrupt local officials.
If the GOP swore off this corrupt process, the result would be better policy.
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But these attempts have actually made our political system less transparent and more corrupt.
Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, which brought the charges, declined to elaborate on its findings.
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