How To Use Corruptible In A Sentence
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In time, like all corruptible passions of the flesh, this one would simply burn itself out.
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Prima_ are neither ingenerable nor incorruptible Substances; since by his _Alkahest_ some of them may be produc'd of Bodies that were before of another Denomination; and by the same powerfull _Menstruum_ all of them may be reduc'd into insipid Water.
The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of
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Gold has been prized because it is the most inert metal, changeless and incorruptible.
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The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
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Made dogma in the Christian doctrine of the ‘odor of sanctity,’ that moral interpretation of corrupt and incorruptible flesh permeated secular culture as well.
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By nature they are eternal and incorruptible, but Eriugena also thinks of individual created things as located spatially and temporally.
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It would follow, then, that Christ's body was corruptible, which is unseemly.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some kind of body in space, either infused into the world, or infinitely diffused beyond the world -- and this was the incorruptible, inviolable, unchangeable substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the violable, and the changeable.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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He is generally counted as incorruptible good official of the law.
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incorruptible judges are the backbone of the society
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What's worse, many firms just don't pay, especially where poor bankruptcy laws and corruptible courts prevent the seizure of debtors' assets.
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She knew that it would have been a stone shock to Winnie, because Winnie was incorruptible herself.
BAD MEDICINE
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The very word "incorruptible" implies this attitude, as if the natural processes were a corruption, dirtying what is holy; whereas I find, on looking around me, that the intricacy of the decomposition process is incredible, amazing - miraculous, if you will - whether they be the product of some Creator or the result of some intricate evolutionary processes.
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By doing so they will send a message saying British Law is not as bendable/buyable/corruptible as they seem to think it is.
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He was a sound businessman, totally reliable and incorruptible.
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Earthly things were mortal - subject to change and transition - while the stars and planets were eternal and incorruptible.
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They remind me of that crown incorruptible, which is reserved in heaven for all who love the Lord and have submitted to His will upon the earth.
Blumenkörbchen. English
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That such abstract ideas, with names to them, as we have been speaking of are essences, may further appear by what we are told concerning essences, viz. that they are all ingenerable and incorruptible.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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And perhaps even forgotten, for what use is a corruptible and degradable original when digital copies can be searched and cloned at the click of a mouse?
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Now the conventional wisdom is that the media will be kept honest and decent by an army of incorruptible amateur gumshoes.
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Perhaps the fighters would die and decay eventually, but the structure itself was not so corruptible.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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We need someone who can think carefully about changing the economic policy course of the country, who is as economist James K. Galbraith just shared with me "incorruptible", and who can run a big government operation, and instill national and global confidence in his or her leadership.
Steve Clemons: Who Will Succeed Tim Geithner as Next Treasury Secretary?
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Speaking of the doctrine that was communicated to the initiates, Philo Judaeus says that "it is an incorruptible treasure, not like gold or silver, but more precious than everything beside; for it is the knowledge of the Great Cause, and of nature, and of that which is born of both.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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The only way to render this perishing creature solid and incorruptible is for him to entertain and receive the word of God; for this remains everlasting truth, and, if received, will preserve him to everlasting life, and abide with him for ever.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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It is incorruptible, in which respect it is like its Maker, who is called the incorruptible God, Rom. i.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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corruptible judges
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The schools, proceeding from the illusions of sense, had carried this distinction very far; and had established the latter substances to be ingenerable, incorruptible, unalterable, impassable; and had assigned all the opposite qualities to the former.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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He was a sound businessman, totally reliable and incorruptible.
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For us who were sinful, he gave up the holy one; for the wicked the innocent one; the just one for the unjust; the incorruptible one for corruptible men; and for us mortals the immortal one.
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His protagonist-heroes, especially the Chief Justice in The Lawyer and the Libertine and the film director in Appointment at Amalfi, show a scrupulous and incorruptible concern for truth and justice.
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He was a sound businessman, totally reliable and incorruptible.
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He was too straight, too obviously incorruptible; he'd never go along with it.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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And the not-so-good people (to their credit, Taylor and Molony are careful to make no characters unrepentantly evil) are conniving, craven and corruptible.
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But in the second meaning of the word "corruption," we confess that our Lord's body is incorruptible, that is, indestructible, for such is the tradition of the inspired Fathers.
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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Francil, whom R'shiel had always considered the least corruptible member of the Quorum, had sold out for the promise of immortality.
MEDALON
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To his supporters, Rawlings remains an incorruptible savior and pragmatist who kept the country from plunging into chaos.
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For Plato himself, a study of mathematics and geometry leads the mind away from the corruptible and perishable to the contemplation of true Being and eternal order.
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III ix 37 'quid nisi de _uitio_ scribam regionis amarae', and for the word _uitiabilis_ (in the sense 'corruptible') Prudentius _Apoth_ 1045 and _Ham_ 215 (there is a variant _uitabilis_ in a ninth-century manuscript of the _Hamartigenia_).
The Last Poems of Ovid
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He was too straight, too obviously incorruptible; he'd never go along with it.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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In addition, suppose a bureaucrat was incorruptible and wanted to do his job with total commitment to efficiency, demanding, say, that contractors reduce swollen overtime costs.
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The rich and powerful can buy anything they require because most men are corruptible.
A SEASON IN HELL
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As celebrated in their own eyes, these are always the true, the fearless, and the incorruptible revealers of corruption.
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In time, like all corruptible passions of the flesh, this one would simply burn itself out.
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a policeman who was incorrupt and incorruptible
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I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living Seed of the Word of God.
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Most politicians genuinely believe they are incorruptible.
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Ivory is an arcane substance with the properly of rendering flesh incorruptible.
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Even with corruptible officials, Carol thought this was a rather chancy operation.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Fine if it were time-served and incorruptible Scottish law lords, but would a UN-sponsored court be as independent and free from bias?
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Always wrong, in short; but forthright, and incorruptible.
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By bribery - all men are corruptible - and by removing permanently any so-called idealists who stand in our way.
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Most politicians genuinely believe they are incorruptible.
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As celebrated in their own eyes, these are always the true, the fearless, and the incorruptible revealers of corruption.
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In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver.
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
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Earthly things were mortal - subject to change and transition - while the stars and planets were eternal and incorruptible.
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He was incorruptible, and had an intolerance to sloth and greed.
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They "reign in life" above through the indwelling seed, while all that is "corruptible" goes down into dust below.
Parables of the Christ-life
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While human bodies were subject to hunger and pain, prey to a wide range of diseases and, eventually, decay, those of the saints remained impassable and incorruptible, in Camporesi's memorable formulation.
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The world under our feet was thus for the first time brought into physical connection with the worlds peopling space, and a very tangible relationship was demonstrated as existing between what used to be called the "corruptible" matter of the earth and the
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Wenders always wants it both ways: high artifice and incorruptible honesty.
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Although he chafed at times at her uncomforting honesty, he knew it was the thing—sometimes the only thing—that kept them from losing forever the authenticity they had once believed incorruptible.
O: A Presidential Novel
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General Election 2010: British voting system too 'corruptible', warn Third World observers
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An important aspect of that transformation is contained in Paul's exposition of the two different types of bodies that we shall receive, the present one "corruptible" and the future one "incorruptible".
The Bahama Journal - Bahamas News Headlines
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British courts are less corruptible than their European counterparts because it is easier to nobble one judge than 12 jurors.
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Michelle Bachman invoked the "rule of law", and one conservative blogger held that Gulf Coast residents should take on BP in our "incorruptible" courts.
Terrance Heath: From Alaska to the Gulf & The Niger Delta, With The Party of BP
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I've given up on certainties, but I do still believe in some things: that British racing is incorruptible, and that one day sport will once again be something we enjoy for its own sake.
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If they replied that it could have hurt thee, they would then have made thee violable and corruptible.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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He was methodical, efficient, uncorruptible, perhaps even capable of being ruthless.
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Ye, O most laudable, have forsaken the life that draggeth down, the delights of food and flourishing glory as transient things, and have attached yourselves unto Christ, kindled by His exceeding beauty, cleaving unto Him as sweet-smelling wild roses, and ye were God-beseemingly crowned with the crowns of the incorruptible Kingdom.
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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The Horse, with its rigorous style and feeling of incorruptible honesty, is directly in the Güney tradition of social protest.
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With such sanctified meekness does the Incorruptible lift his seagreen cheek to the smiter; lift his thin voice, and with jesuitic dexterity plead, and prosper: asking at last, in a prosperous manner: "But what witnesses has the Citoyen Barbaroux to support his testimony?
The French Revolution
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Silent observers continue to watch, unsure whether it is us mismanaging our affairs or just the stronger and more corruptible ones keeping their grip tight.
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Even with corruptible officials, Carol thought this was a rather chancy operation.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Some people think the soul, unlike the body, is incorruptible.
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Francil, whom R'shiel had always considered the least corruptible member of the Quorum, had sold out for the promise of immortality.
MEDALON
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But, nevertheless, in this social field most participants prefer to misrecognise themselves as incorruptible substances, ergo they think and simulate behaviour as if they were in the angelic spheres.
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He further presses upon Christians the duty of loving one another with a pure heart fervently from the consideration of their spiritual relation; they are all born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, &c.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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All corporal bodies were deemed to be the product of two principles - primary matter and an added ‘something’ called form - but an absolute distinction was made between the unchanging heavens and the corruptible sublunary universe.
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Only problem is, he is ineffectual and naive as a new member of the corruptible capitalist system.
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Some people think the soul, unlike the body, is incorruptible.
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The rich and powerful can buy anything they require because most men are corruptible.
A SEASON IN HELL
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Now the body is "corruptible," the body is "mortal:" so that the body indeed remains, for it is the body which is put on; but its mortality and corruption vanish away, when immortality and incorruption come upon it.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Gay Marriage Is Now Legal In California!
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We cannot maintain an incorruptible police force in a society that condones corruption.
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Perhaps the fighters would die and decay eventually, but the structure itself was not so corruptible.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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In many ways, it is a better introduction than high school civics and college political science courses that preach an incorruptible legal system - especially its judiciary - that always remains above politics.
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An incorruptible panel of independent and competent adjudicators is imperative in ensuring that competitors are judged purely on the merit of their performance.
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Seasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy, _what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable_.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
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This conservative estimate is based on the assumption that a large number of ultrasonologists are incorruptible.
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.
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But in the course of unmasking them, the novel's hero, Justin Quayle, becomes ever more the white knight, superb and incorruptible in his quest.
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He talked of strong institutions not strongmen, incorruptible police, independent judges, a free press.
Times, Sunday Times
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Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se sont aimes des l'aube de la vie, et la fraicheur des vielles amours prolonges.
Middlemarch
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As documented by Eric Hoffer and others more than a generation ago, the true believer is the most dangerous person to allow even near the levers of power. even when the beliefs are not as nasty as say, fascism or stalinism, the inability to absorb contrary feedback from reality, combined with the inability to connect with real human sentiment (and real human need) makes the true believer morally corruptible from the first instant he or she embraces those beliefs. does this speak against belief? well, if completely unedited by healthy skepticism, by critical thining, yes. but most of us are not so free of doubt that we never question. those who do not have this ability to challenge their own beliefs, though, they are to be wary of. tomemos Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Explaining Congressional Conservatives’ Back-to-the-Future Tactics
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They believed he was independent and vigorous - as well as no longer corruptible because he had already accumulated enormous wealth.
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All celestial objects in the super-lunar region were made of an incorruptible element called aether.
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Silent observers continue to watch, unsure whether it is us mismanaging our affairs or just the stronger and more corruptible ones keeping their grip tight.
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He would have had no tolerance for Lamar except that he was reputed to be a crackerjack trial lawyer, the cagiest, most corruptible criminal attorney money could buy.
The Witness
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Kevin was principled, courageous, incorruptible, unselfish and a man of great integrity.
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The result was a corps that for decades commanded respect as the pinnacle of efficient, incorruptible policing.
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She knew that it would have been a stone shock to Winnie, because Winnie was incorruptible herself.
BAD MEDICINE
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It is thought that the shittah and shittim wood of the Bible, of which Moses made the greater part of the tables, altars and planks of the tabernacle, was the same as the black acacia found in the deserts of Arabia and about Mount Sinai and the mountains which border on the Red Sea, and is so hard and solid as to be almost incorruptible.
Among the Trees at Elmridge
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We have all heard of cunning bowlers turning down their own appeals, withdrawing them is the proper term, the better to impress the umpire with their incorruptible honesty and win a decision next time.
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Wenders always wants it both ways: high artifice and incorruptible honesty.
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Little does it matter what happens to the "corruptible": each fading of the outward only marks a corresponding development of the
Parables of the Christ-life
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We have all heard of cunning bowlers turning down their own appeals, withdrawing them is the proper term, the better to impress the umpire with their incorruptible honesty and win a decision next time.
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For these punishments are temporal; but there neither the worm dieth nor is the fire quenched: for that body of all is incorruptible, which is then to be raised up.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se sont aimes des l'aube de la vie, et la fraicheur des vielles amours prolonges.
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
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Politicians must present themselves as infallible, incorruptible, incapable of dishonesty.
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Even with corruptible officials, Carol thought this was a rather chancy operation.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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And changed -- or "exchanged." the glory of the uncorruptible God into -- or "for" an image ... like to corruptible man -- The allusion here is doubtless to the Greek worship, and the apostle may have had in his mind those exquisite chisellings of the human form which lay so profusely beneath and around him as he stood on Mars 'Hill; and "beheld their devotions.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Reasoning from the common course of nature, what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable.
Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
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The old man may have queered his own promotion but he was still known as the incorruptible and his judgment on the promotions of others was prized.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
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What price political openness, legality, free-trade and an incorruptible civil service - I thought - if the end result is an England full of Macdonalds, Seattle coffee bars and pubs that serve Harvester Fayre.
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Kevin was principled, courageous, incorruptible, unselfish and a man of great integrity.
