He led the CTM, which grew increasingly corrupt and conservative, until his death in 1997.

Mr. Mugabe, who had seemed so ascetic, presided over an increasingly corrupt system.

But the Roman empire, overstretched and increasingly corrupt, began to crumble.

His New Order administration's authoritarian and increasingly corrupt practices led to much discontent in the 1990s.

The slogan was quickly upheld by those who saw the Shevardnadze regime increasingly corrupt and failing.

There is also a sense that conventional politics is increasingly corrupt, and its practitioners are being discredited.

It doesn't really matter as we'll soon be able to buy our school qualifications in this increasingly corrupt country...

Society was increasingly corrupt, he declared, and values had been turned upside down.

Thus in 1956, he escaped from an increasingly corrupt and oppressive regime.

Along with these weak rulers came increasingly corrupt officials who took advantage of the decline.