How to Use kleptocracy in a Sentence

kleptocracy

noun
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  • 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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