31.   The notion that the only way to change a corrupt political system is to vote for Fox has became a fixed idea in the mind of thinking Mexicans.

32.   The polls appear to coincide with the view of some Mexicans that Zedillo is an honest man working within a corrupt political system.

33.   The problem is a corrupt system in desperate need of repair.

34.   Their election bid looks more like an effort to preserve their privileges than to reform the corrupt system Yeltsin has put in place.

35.   These three, who abandoned McCain on a key vote last year, are under pressure to use their leverage to contain an admittedly corrupt system.

36.   They have stopped soft-money contributions, hoping to starve a corrupt system.

37.   Why participate in a corrupt system that distorts the political process and undermines faith in democratic government?

38.   You know that a corrupt political system is caving in on itself when the chief advocate of reform is sucked into the gaping maw.

39.   President B.J. Habibie had pledged to reform the corrupt economic systems installed by Suharto, who resigned Thursday.

40.   But as the former head of the Control Yuan, the highest government watchdog body, he is respected as a righteous man in a corrupt political system.