kleptocracy in a sentence

Examples

1. Mobutu's 31-year dictatorship and kleptocracy reduced what was then Zaire to ruin and ended in May with his exile and the rebel victory.
2. He became the symbol of the Duvalier " kleptocracy, " which combined systematic repression with the illicit enrichment of the dictator's cronies.
3. Ch�vez was immediately catapulted into the national spotlight, with many poor Venezuelans seeing him as a figure who had stood up against government corruption and kleptocracy.
4. His latest project was providing Russian language documents about corruption in Russia for international project " Kleptocracy Initiative ", including documents on registration of cooperative Ozero.
5. "Arkan was a symbol here, not of ideology but of kleptocracy, " said Biljana Srbljanovic, a 29-year-old playwright.
6. It is now Dhammarat's turn to be the target of the obscurantist forces in Thailand as it is the antithesis of the political kleptocracy ruling today.
7. Under Yeltsin, Russia degenerated into a kleptocracy-the assets which had sustained the state economy were sold off to the " New Russians " for peanuts.
8. They quoted Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman and US State Department documents saying that Russia is a " kleptocracy " and a " mafia state " respectively.
9. Matthew Torn also gave an exclusive interview, in which he expressed his respect to and admiration of young Ukrainians, which do their best in fighting kleptocracy.
10. They were a reminder, though, of a basic truth _ that in many formerly Communist countries, the successor to Communism is more often kleptocracy than democracy.