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  • But investor enthusiasm was predicated in part on expectations the changes would continue, especially since the world's fourth-largest country by population still ranks poorly in indexes measuring corruptio

    Reformer Resigns, Rattling Indonesia 2010

  • How can we avoid education in the new literacies becoming an example of “corruptio optimi pessima” the corruption of the best is the worst of all?

    Archive 2008-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

  • How can we avoid education in the new literacies becoming an example of “corruptio optimi pessima” the corruption of the best is the worst of all?

    Literacies Olde and New Bruce Schauble 2008

  • Nam in hoc quod patres corrupti sunt, generant filios corruptae complexionis, et compositionis, et filii eorum eadem de causa se corrumpunt, et sic derivatur corruptio a patribus ad filios.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Est corruptio imaginativae et aestimativae facultatis, ob formam fortiter affixam, corruptumque judicium, ut semper de eo cogitet, ideoque recte melancholicus appellatur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et multo plures utraque habitura, multo splendidior futura, si non hae sordes splendidum lumen ejus obfuscarent, obstaret corruptio, et cauponantes quaedam harpyae, proletariique bonum hoc nobis non inviderent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Blair's Deputy PM to be investigated for corruptio...

    07/09/2006 2006

  • Yet the thesis, ‘corruptio optimi pessima,’ cannot be maintained generally or without regard to the kind of excellence which is corrupted.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • We pass over the extravagances and gross depths to which bhakti, devotion or faith or love, may degenerate in the excitement of religious festivals -- _corruptio optimi pessimum_.

    New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

  • Women (p.  090) were often forbidden to enter a college, "quia mulier caput est peccati, arma dyaboli, expulsio paradysi, et corruptio legis antiquae."

    Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

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