How to Use anti-corruption in a Sentence

anti-corruption

adjective
  • Only five of the 23 counts against Madigan are tied to the anti-corruption law and could be dropped.
    — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Yes, but: Only five of the 23 counts against Madigan are tied to the anti-corruption law and could be dropped.
    — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 9 July 2024
  • The program was launched in 1988 as part of a series of anti-corruption reforms.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Its anti-corruption activists and defense entrepreneurs hope that the West will be patient—and have faith.
    — Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The 72-year-old centrist Mulet has taken a vocal anti-corruption stance in recent months.
    — Tara John, CNN, 24 June 2023
  • In recent months, despite martial law, anti-corruption protests have been held in many Ukrainian cities.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Yoon has also filed legal complaints against those who tried to arrest him including the head of the state anti-corruption agency.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Under the agreement, the company will have to demonstrate good conduct for the next 3½ years and foster a culture of ethics and compliance with anti-corruption laws.
    — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The central threat to his government and its anti-corruption promises is Ms. Porras.
    — Jody García, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2024
  • Similar anti-corruption laws can be found around the world, and U.S. and foreign multinationals are still subject to them.
    — Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • López Obrador was elected president in 2018 — his third attempt at the top office — on an anti-corruption platform.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The new framework has four major pillars: supply chains, climate, anti-corruption and trade.
    — Colleen Long, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The images of notorious bribe-takers walking out of prison and the mass resignation of the Milan anti-corruption pool in protest of the decree forced a crisis.
    — Alexander Stille, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Support could founder, however, if the country is seen as a black hole for Western aid, adding further urgency to the anti-corruption campaign.
    — David L. Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2023
  • In the first round of Guatemala’s presidential election on June 25, a relatively unknown anti-corruption candidate won enough votes to go through to the runoff.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
  • But Bernardo Arévalo, a centrist running on an anti-corruption platform, was in second with about 12 percent of the vote.
    — Simon Romero, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • Last month, the autocratic Gulf state of Qatar handed out anti-corruption awards in partnership with the United Nations.
    — Natalie Ecanow, National Review, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Although, there is still much room for improvement in terms of female representation in the boardroom, and as far as anti-corruption and bribery are concerned.
    — Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • When it was upheld by Italy’s top criminal court in 2013, he was stripped of his Senate seat, and banned from public office for several years in keeping with anti-corruption laws.
    — Frances D'emilio, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
  • However, China remained a weak spot, as the government’s anti-corruption campaign across the health-care sector led to a decline in orders.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 July 2024
  • Both Brazilian presidents’ prosecutions were part of a yearslong, sweeping anti-corruption probe by the courts that has jailed dozens of politicians.
    — James D. Long, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
  • The raids were conducted by the force’s anti-corruption and public crime investigation team.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • Moore calls on Ukraine to step up its anti-corruption efforts, which have made strides under President Volodymyr Zelensky but failed to stamp out bribery and other bad behavior.
    — Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • He was found guilty of contempt of court by the constitutional court for his refusal to testify to an anti-corruption commission.
    — Sarah Dean, CNN, 29 July 2024
  • Khan, who captained Pakistan to cricket World Cup glory in 1992 and entered politics four years later, rose to power on a ticket of anti-corruption.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But since the Georgian Dream party won democratic elections in 2012, there has been backsliding in anti-corruption, press freedom, and justice.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The new charges against Navalny relate to the activities of his anti-corruption foundation and statements by his top associates.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • In 2019, the country set up an anti-corruption agency under the PPP’s political rival.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The massive anti-corruption protests that Navalny once managed to mobilize before the invasion now seem unlikely to reprise in Putin’s lifetime.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The scandal has unfolded in Norway which always scores high in Transparency International’s anti-corruption index, tied for fifth in the most recent global ranking.
    — Graham Dunbar, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025

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