corrupts

He knows those people are only rarely, or incidentally, nice people, and that "power corrupts" is not just an empty maxim.

MIND MELD: Young Adult SF/F Books That Adults Will Like, Too 2008

Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi were placed under house arrest, and Iran's rubber-stamp parliament yesterday called for them to be tried as "corrupts" and hanged.

Egypt and Iran 2011

Yet a victory for Mr. Caperton would establish the proposition that political speech -- not contributions to a politician's campaign, but the independent speech of citizens -- "corrupts" democracy.

Can Congress Regulate All Political Speech? Jeff Patch 2009

Then Eclipse "corrupts" each image according to real-time air quality index (AQI) values for its location.

American Scientist Online 2009

As Bradley A. Smith and Jeff Patch of the Center for Competitive Politics argued this week in the Wall Street Journal, "a victory for Mr. Caperton would establish the proposition that political speech - not contributions to a politician's campaign but the independent speech of citizens - 'corrupts' democracy."

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Then Eclipse "corrupts" each image according to real-time air quality index (AQI) values for its location.

American Scientist Online 2009

Apparently, that "corrupts" some internal linkage within the document.

Discussions: Message List - root 2008

"corrupts" Mexico (though I admit I've never understood how money - being fungible - earned from one sort of dishonest labor is somehow "dirtier" and more corrupting than money earned in other dishonest enterprises).

The Mex Files 2009

Justice Souter also expressed this concern as a fundamental basis for the Establishment Clause: Government aid corrupts religion.

The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

The hallelujah chorus praising the online mobilization that brought down SOPA are the same folks who claim free business speech corrupts the political process.

We Are All Citizens United 2012