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Перевод: venal

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Тезаурус:

1. A better description of the Mafia would be as a network of criminal contacts regularly exploited by shifting alliances of ruthless drug-traffickers and extortionists, who flourish where politicians and policemen are venal or lazy.
2. Comedy had always been anti-establishment but now if the Progressives were happy to see shyster lawyers, pompous and hypocritical capitalists, and venal politicians then so much the better.
3. Ezra can be mistaken - more thoroughly mistaken than most people - but he has never been venal.
4. Oily major-cable snake Rob Lowe attempts to lure Wayne and Garth on to his network, all the while conspiring with a venal videoarcade owner who really wants to use their show as a Trojan horse into adolescent spending power.
5. Langland's denunciation of a corrupt and venal religious establishment and Chaucer's ironical portraits of cynical, hypocritical friars, lax monks and nuns and of pardoners selling indulgences paint a grim picture.
6. Apart from confirmation that in dictatorships, scientific corruption flourishes together with the more venal kinds, perhaps it is that we should not accept the recent predictions of Argentina's early possession of an independent nuclear arsenal without some reservation.
7. Presidential scandal is often lipsmackingly venal, in both a financial and sexual sense.
8. The law courts are venal and can take decades to decide a case.
9. Roffman and Purdy list a number of new film genres that developed during these years but the vast majority of individual films mentioned did not move very far from what was becoming a stock depiction of the city with its gangsters, "modern" women, and venal politicians and lawyers.
10. The Sunni Mourabitoun ("Ambushers") militia, which was Nasserist by persuasion and venal by instinct, allied itself with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General command (PFLP-GC).
11. The Whig reformers had their own political views in mind when they described the typical Scottish politician as a man whose position was secured by extensive bribery of a small venal electorate concerned only with individual advantage, or, alternatively, by the politician ignoring the true electorate and placing reliance upon nominal and fictitious voters who had been added to the freeholders rolls in the counties.
12. Why, then, should Japan's venal politicians care how they are rated?
13. How can a single thread be drawn to link the peasants of Peru with the sararimen of Tokyo, or the rumbustious politicians of Australia with the venal cadres of communist China?