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- noun Plural form of
kleptocracy .
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Examples
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The six-fold rise in the price of a barrel, and the commensurate boost it has given to the petro-kleptocracies, is the central fact of our age.
Courtesy of the Calgary Herald Jeff 2007
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After messing up our foreign policy, he went on to the World Bank where he presided over one of the great calamities of foreign aid, which was this freeflow of money to what are called kleptocracies, these terrible dictatorships that just swallowed up money and McNamara just kept the spigot open.
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St. Augustine famously defined nation-states as what would now be called kleptocracies, states founded on theft:
unknown title 2009
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St. Augustine famously defined nation-states as what would now be called kleptocracies, states founded on theft:
unknown title 2009
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St. Augustine famously defined nation-states as what would now be called kleptocracies, states founded on theft:
unknown title 2009
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He is working to do this with the passage of the health care bill and he probably will do this in Copenhagen, agreeing to $100 billion a year in payoffs to third world kleptocracies so he can look like a winner to western socialists.
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All around the region a host of authoritarian kleptocracies have held on to power for decades.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The hollowed-out political system and the relatively recent appearance of foreign investors and international organizations explain the near absence of the apparatus that has come to define the new kleptocracies.
Ibrahim Warde: From Marcos to Gaddafi: Kleptocrats, Old and New Ibrahim Warde 2011
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The Obama administration’s mistake in ramping up its Afghan War left it needing ever more supplies, worrying about perilous supply lines through Pakistan, and so vulnerable to transit blackmail by the ruling kleptocracies of Central Asia.
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The Obama administration’s mistake in ramping up its Afghan War left it needing ever more supplies, worrying about perilous supply lines through Pakistan, and so vulnerable to transit blackmail by the ruling kleptocracies of Central Asia.
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