| We've had 20 high-profile years of corruption, mismanagement, sleaze and notoriety. |
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| Scandals concerning sleaze and corruption have a long history within British politics and have periodically come to the attention of the public. |
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| Nothing will wash away the tarnish of sleaze and secrecy that council has fashioned for itself. |
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| Dip in to any part of the page and it's like lifting a rock off a hill of sleaze. |
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| Long-serving governments will always gain a reputation for corruption and sleaze, and the Prime Minister of the day will always carry the can. |
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| At least it did not end with a sleaze party with its accompanying orgies, nor with the disorderly official drinking bout of a hundred years ago. |
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| But behind the make-up was a hotbed of corruption, violence, sleaze and racism that ruled the streets of Shanghai. |
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| Bickering about ballots might be stone-cold dull, but at least it's not sleaze. |
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| There has certainly been too much misguided media management, some hypocrisy and even sleaze. |
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| The quality of the material speaks as loudly as the color and can make the difference between sleaze and suave. |
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| Her government's standard of sleaze, corruption and lying were soon to pale into insignificance, when their successors got weaving. |
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| Whether it's pitch battles, boardroom corruption, manager's bungs or ticket tout scandals, the whole league stinks of sleaze. |
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| You cannot live a good life, a virtuous life, by avoiding or ignoring the world of vice, sin and sleaze. |
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| What exactly is equally valid with sleaze, populism, and unloveliness, I wonder? |
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| Instead of being sold the unimagined exotic, department stores now sell us tangible sleaze. |
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| Every once in a while, you make a good guess, and because of it, you get another sleaze bucket off the streets. |
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| The guy may be a sleaze and a manipulator, but the newspaper means a lot to him. |
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| In so many words, Santorum says that the bugman is a sleaze, even if he may not have been so sloppy as to violate the law. |
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| Sacrilege, sleaze and ethnic denigration become hysterically funny in their hands. |
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| Olyphant exudes charm and sleaze in about equal proportions, and his edgy performance steals the show. |
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| Meanwhile, poor sad Cynthia is so caught up in her Electra complex that she can't see the incest for the sleaze. |
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| Yet he loves to expose those in the public eye, especially Tory politicians, for sleaze. |
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| He is such a sleaze trying to pretend he's resigning because he's gay and had an affair. |
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| Under the previous Tory government, it became accepted that politics was all about hypocrisy and corruption, otherwise known as sleaze. |
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| Coun Black, a former mayor, was forced to stand down seven years ago and spent years in the political wilderness following sleaze allegations. |
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| Even worse for John, his tenure as PM had been marked by treachery and sleaze. |
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| And now the fall-out from that baptism of fire for the new ruling group has begun, with allegations of sleaze, bribery and illegal voting. |
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| These upper reaches of the music industry suffer a reputation for sleaze and dishonesty, but Hawley offers another perspective on the matter. |
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| And evils like corruption, bribery, sleaze and fraud leave an impact on young minds that yearn for an avenue to let their radical thoughts out. |
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| The Supreme Court filings included only a hint of the nastiness and sleaze from the family fight. |
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| All over Europe the funding of political parties is tainted by sleaze which is bad for democratic politics. |
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| The band reduces electric boogie and original punk-funk to their sinewy essences, with enough sleaze, sass and drunken merriment to power a pimpmobile. |
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| I did not say he created the sleaze but he is up to his ears in the sleaze. |
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| These principles of justice could only be natural for a Liberal minister up to his ears in sleaze. |
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| All that they have changed is that we now have the Conservative logo on the same old Liberal sleaze. |
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| This is an opportunity for the minister to stand in the House and tell all Canadians that the Liberal sleaze going to Groupaction is finished. |
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| It is the same old thing, these corporate scandals and corporate sleaze, this lack of accountability. |
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| The League would include: the waste watcher, the citizen protector, the ethics guardian, the performance police and the sleaze buster. |
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| Despite the unresolved allegations of sleaze and corruption, it is a matter of conviction to this writer that the bulk of our politicians are decent and well-intentioned. |
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| Every day, it seems there is another story about corporate sleaze, fraud and robbery by senior company executives, many with connections to the administration. |
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| I dare say she's had it up to here with politicians and sleaze. |
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| Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment. |
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| In the end it was the taint of sleaze that destroyed his reputation. |
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| For most voters, internal party cohesion hardly seemed to be the most pressing issue amid a slew of sleaze allegations. |
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| But in the course of the campaign, Olmert the idealist would not be able to free himself from Olmert the sleaze. |
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| This tsunami of sleaze is being propelled by unprecedented advertising buys. |
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| He need spend no time dialing for dollars with all the sleaze and risk involved. |
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| When it was last in power in the 1990s, under Sir John Major, it was tainted by sleaze. |
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| There is a shift among the electorate to get rid of the sleaze, spin and schmaltz and to replace it with vision, trust and integrity, she claimed. |
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| For it is the ease with which the administration is blown off course by the latest whiff of sleaze, misjudgment or scandal that is most dispiriting. |
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| This left us a legacy of legal straitjackets which have, in their way, contributed to the climate of sleaze, greed and corruption which has lumbered us with costly tribunals. |
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| Stories are increasingly about scandal, sleaze and misconduct. |
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| But we should remember that sleaze was not about actual corruption. |
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| Tom is now a sleaze, who cannot hold a steady job to save himself. |
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| So much for Tony Blair's promise to clean up politics and eliminate the sleaze of the Tory years. |
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| The move has been pioneered by Coun Majid Mahmood who fears our city will gain a reputation for sleaze to rival Soho. |
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| Their sexscandal rocked the state polity especially after a sleaze CD, showing Bhanwari and Maderna in compromising situation, was made public. |
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| Mr President, Mr Kilroy-Silk's remarks on the Commission were correct, especially so in the case of Mr Mandelson, whose name is a by-word for sleaze in the United Kingdom. |
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| We have to write it down and make everyone abide by these things because that is why we have all these sleaze accusations coming from the government. |
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| Lowry no longer belongs to the main party of the new government, Fine Gael – the allegations of graft and sleaze forced him out of the party a long time ago. |
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| Mote was elected as a Ukip member of the European parliament for the constituency of South East England in 2004, campaigning against Brussels sleaze. |
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| Designed by Renzo Piano, the new Whitney Museum of American Art stands in an area that used to be synonymous with sleaze, danger and the industrial butchers that gave the area its name. |
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| Is Labour sleaze now more dirty and despicable than the scandals that helped drive John Major from office? |
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| I want to ask him whether or not he remembers these people and all the sleaze, all the scandals and all the corruption in that Conservative government. |
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| Because as long as sleaze runs public and social life in Turkey, the people will have no faith in politicians and as long as they have no faith in politicians, they will put more faith in the military. |
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| Whether it is Brian Mulroney or the present Prime Minister or the former prime minister, their ties to corporate Canada and this corruption and sleaze are all there. |
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| Because of that, I would like to ask for unanimous consent to move an amendment adding, instead of the word liberal, the following: 20 years of Conservative Mulroney and Liberal corporate sleaze and corruption. |
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| I almost feel like we have to go home on weekends and shower multiple times just to get some of the sleaze off from what we see happening in this House because it is not in the best interests of Canadians. |
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| We saw scandal after scandal and sleaze and corporate sleaze. |
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| The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years. |
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| She knew that sleaze Hakido would do something to stick the knife in and twist it to the hilt. |
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| I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that sleaze slept with your boss and I wouldn't take it lying down. |
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| Who is going to take the fall this time for the government's sleaze? |
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| As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze. |
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| In the past it was the individual bed-hopper or sleaze merchant caught banking bungs who were hung out to dry. |
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| In my province, and I speak personally, it reminds people of the rot of the Conservative Party with its scandals and its sleaze and its corruption, and Brian Mulroney and Grant Devine and Eric Berntson. |
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| But in this land of sleaze and cronyism, the gombeen man is king. |
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| A SECOND UKIP MEP is facing a sleaze inquiry over his use of allowances. |
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| The down and dirty sleaze of Filmstar was given an even filthier makeover, while a raucous To The Birds was dedicated to the recently departed Lou Reed, to a massive response. |
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| The journalist decided to leave the sleaze out of her story. |
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| It was presented to parliament by chairman Dr Khalifa Al Dhahrani, prompting allegations that not enough was being done to tackle sleaze and prostitution. |
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