Mr. Levy replied, "Someone with so little concern for his oath of office that he takes bribes to fix murder cases" should indeed be presumed to have presided over a fundamentally corrupt courtroom.

Judge came to the belief that the structure of the Board, with the members of which were nominated by individual vestries rather than being directly elected, was fundamentally corrupt.

These political groups claimed that the elections were consistently rigged by the government, and that participation merely lent a fundamentally corrupt process undeserved legitimacy.

Moreover, his behavior is presented as "an aberration rather than an expression of a fundamentally corrupt character" and thus appears pardonable.

"It's a fundamentally corrupt situation, corrupt for both debtors and creditors," he said.

At the same time he was becoming angrier about prevailing economic and social winds, Mr. Golisano became convinced that the political process was fundamentally corrupt.

According to some authors, such as Mehnert, this practice was fundamentally corrupt.

In the late 1960's, the notion that society was fundamentally corrupt took hold among many young leftists, nowhere more powerfully than at Berkeley.

In 1989, Mullins wrote The Rape of Justice, where he argued that the United States legal system was fundamentally corrupt.

It was not in her nature to accept without argument that her daughter was fundamentally corrupt.