21.   It opted to back corrupt governments because it feared that the alternative would be worse for vital U.S. interests.

22.   Later, French court papers say, he instructed them in the concept of waging jihad against corrupt governments, saying it was a higher stage of Islamic observance.

23.   Millions of loyal citizens concluded that the war was a militarily unnecessary and politically futile effort to prop up a corrupt government that could neither reform nor defend itself.

24.   Much of that aid money vanished, allegedly into the hands of corrupt government officials.

25.   One diplomat recalled that he once complained about corrupt government officials who kept delaying action on a foreign aid project.

26.   Serpa angers others for his defense of what they see as a corrupt government.

27.   She said by refusing to stand with her class in the morning ritual, she is protesting a violent society and a corrupt government.

28.   Some fear that a corrupt government could rob the canal of its assets and allow it to deteriorate.

29.   Tens of thousands of students were calling for reform of corrupt government practices.

30.   The former paratrooper general would also find himself in fierce conflict with the generals, security chiefs and the array of corrupt government officials whom he plans to challenge.