How to Use kleptocracy in a Sentence

kleptocracy

noun

• This can be traced back to the end of Robert Mugabe’s kleptocracy.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• At his urging, Russians gathered in the street from coast to coast to protest the kleptocracy.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
• But kleptocracy experts and lawmakers say more needs to be done to rein in Putin.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
• The analogy with wholesale state kleptocracy was too sharp, and the film was banned for ever.
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• By then a tidal wave of Russian money had been sucked out of the country by the kleptocracy that had looted Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 2 Mar. 2017
• Putin's kleptocracy has but one viable business, oil and gas.
  — Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
• The government of Vladimir Putin is a murderous kleptocracy, a danger to its own people and to all people.
  — Mario Loyola, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• In the past 30 years, corruption has become entrenched, kleptocracy the norm.
  — Rebecca Hamilton, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
• Mrs Warren has since focused heavily on her loathing for sleaze and kleptocracy on the campaign trail.
  — The Economist, 27 Sep. 2019
• Putin’s rule is a transnational criminal enterprise and should be treated much in the same way that the U.S. has approached Venezuela’s kleptocracy.
  — Nate Sibley, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022
• This meant a loss of tens of millions of dollars, as the impact of sanctions rippled across a hidden corner of what critics call Russia’s kleptocracy.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
• The fact that America has been a bastion of anonymous shells is a blight on Washington’s claims to be fighting kleptocracy and grand corruption abroad.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2019
• The dictionary defines a kleptocracy as a government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 7 May 2017
• Trump was elected in part by people who had been ripped off by the international kleptocracy in places like Warren.
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2021
• Newman understands how kleptocracy and oligarchic excess — both in Russia and in the West — repel and attract us in 2022.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2022
• But make no mistake: Putin and his allies favor kleptocracy.
  — Time, 8 Apr. 2022
• The world of kleptocracy is protected by its own complexity as well.
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2021
• But Mueller’s filings stand on their own as an important rebuke to global kleptocracy.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• The sanctions are designed to punish the kleptocracy behind the two-month war by cutting off access to wealth, property and luxury hiding places.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• Those skills have taken on greater weight with the ongoing war in Ukraine and the Biden administration’s focus on corruption and kleptocracy.
  — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2022
• The network that kleptocrats rely on to move and stash illicit cash contributes to the cycle of kleptocracy, further eroding democracy and the rule of law.
  — Alexandra Wrage, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• In the post, which cost Shor’s party less than $100 to upload, the oligarch accuses Sandu’s government of corruption and kleptocracy.
  — David Klepper, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
• Richard Evans, a historian of the Nazi kleptocracy, points out that the party’s ideological grip on millions of minds was its real power.
  — WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• The Justice Department has brought other kleptocracy cases against the children of heads of state, including one involving the daughter of the president of Uzbekistan.
  — Louise Story, New York Times, 20 July 2016
• Yet none of Guaido's failure alters the underlying crisis at the heart of Venezuela: that its kleptocracy and mismanagement are still bleeding it dry, with hundreds of thousands still refugees around the region.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Jan. 2020
• This is our billionaire kleptocracy and its bought-and-paid-for Congress stirring up the toxic passions of the middle class to keep their jobs — with little or no regard to which pediatric cancer patient gets trampled in the stampede.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Opposition lawmakers said the 1MDB scandal had turned the country into a global kleptocracy and warned that re-electing the ruling coalition would destroy Malaysia.
  — Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
• Putin’s Russia has been given many labels, from kleptocracy to Mafia state, but the most analytically helpful may be among the oldest: feudalism.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• Russia has been given many labels, from kleptocracy to Mafia state, but the most analytically helpful may be among the oldest: feudalism.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• Post-independence, Congo veered into kleptocracy under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2019

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