Sentence examples of "corrompre" in French
Le pouvoir tend à corrompre et le pouvoir absolu corrompt absolument.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
La langue française, d’ailleurs, est une eau pure que les écrivains maniérés n’ont jamais pu et ne pourront jamais troubler. Chaque siècle a jeté dans ce courant limpide ses modes, ses archaïsmes prétentieux et ses préciosités, sans que rien surnage de ces tentatives inutiles, de ces efforts impuissants. La nature de cette langue est d’être claire, logique et nerveuse. Elle ne se laisse pas affaiblir, obscurcir ou corrompre.
The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
Il a corrompu ce politicien avec un bon paquet d'argent.
He bribed that politician with a great deal of money.
Elle posa sa candidature pour un emploi dans l'entreprise qui non seulement avait corrompu des fonctionnaires locaux, mais avait également causé des problèmes énormes à sa propre famille.
She applied for a job at the company that had not only bribed local officials but also caused huge problems for her own family.
Le pouvoir tend à corrompre et le pouvoir absolu corrompt absolument.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Le parti au pouvoir est corrompu, mais le parti d'opposition ne l'est pas moins.
The party in power is corrupt, but the opposition is little better.
Pour une raison quelconque, le message texte s'est corrompu. Je l'ai donc restauré avant de le lire.
For some reason the message text was corrupted, so I restored it before reading.
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