I was well aware of the drill here, that is, that a bribe was expected to process the papers. |
|
He used some of his wealth to bribe officials of the Great Court, and through them, he knew everything that passed before the Queen. |
|
That sounds very much like a bribe, but Pearson insists that adults need time when they can be together alone. |
|
The lone superpower can bribe, bully, or impose its will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its potency wanes. |
|
The cash bribe is rarely encountered in this hard-up hobby where every spare penny goes to the ever-open maw of the Post Office. |
|
For years, he had alleged that a player had offered him a bribe to help throw the match. |
|
I've been wondering for a while whether he was persuaded to take a bribe in return for throwing the match. |
|
The police investigator also said Nini had tried to bribe him several times, once offering five billion meticais. |
|
The blatancy of this bribe, which sends all the wrong messages about the use of public funds, has yet to be fully absorbed by most editorialists. |
|
The bribe currency slid downscale to the level of a few pounds of meat or several rolls of toilet paper. |
|
And since he was rich and could afford to bribe a judge, she knew her freedom was slowly slipping away. |
|
For I was both, angry at the constable for accepting the bribe, and fearful of what my dear step-brother had planned. |
|
Every time she accepts a bribe in exchange for spreading a virus, her power decreases. |
|
It wasn't the first time he'd been bribed, nor the first time he accepted a bribe. |
|
He had offered a bribe to an official in order to demonstrate that the official was corrupt. |
|
No one else in any way threatened or coerced Jones, offered Jones a bribe, or even suggested that he shoot Smith. |
|
A service or industry job often goes to the individual who can offer the highest bribe to company officials. |
|
The police officer accepts the bribe after telling them that all strangers are arrested in France. |
|
Did the extras bribe their way in at the gate or did they actually have valid tickets? |
|
The businessman, played by 1970s vedette Donald Piton, also demands a hefty bribe. |
|
|
But it is much harder to nobble 12 independent jurors than it is to bribe or intimidate one judge. |
|
We came here for the cakes from the prize-winning Village Store, but they were spoken for and the bow-tied shopkeeper wouldn't take a bribe. |
|
For a brief time, Fish has stars in his eyes but soon realizes it's a kind of bribe. |
|
Suge's reputation for strong-arm business tactics and how that approach was used to bribe and manipulate are also documented. |
|
Then I'll find out how to stalk, bribe and blackmail book editors and publishing honchos until they relent and publish your book. |
|
The court was told Labour supporters stood on main roads trying to bribe passers-by to hand over their postal ballots. |
|
We will not put any conditions, bribe or inducement to show up at this working group meeting. |
|
Soldiers at the border will demand a bribe and insist on payment before allowing the truck to go through. |
|
He denied taking a bribe to fix any of the matches in the triangular series, contested by South Africa, England and Zimbabwe. |
|
Meanwhile, the Liberals enjoy a substantial lead in the polls without having to bribe voters with their own money! |
|
It's all very well flourishing the old tax bribe, a favourite trick of these conjurers. |
|
It is not impossible to either fake travel permits or bribe the soldiers at control posts. |
|
Guilt-ridden parents tried to bribe their offspring with money and gifts they could ill afford. |
|
Yet, even then, a suitable bribe would more than likely tide them over until the next capture. |
|
The chocolate biscuit cake dusted with coconut was great as a kiddie bribe and also went smoothly with my afternoon coffee. |
|
Public interest groups and the press insist that campaign donors supposedly only give money to politicians to bribe them. |
|
The office is full of touts and bureaucrats who are out to make the process as lengthy and complicated as they can, in order to induce you to resort to a bribe. |
|
Thus, he uses his wealth to bribe union officials to allow him to arrange for a private ward to be opened purely for the convenience of his father. |
|
Said Finn pulling the bribe money he had brought along out of his bag. |
|
When Guppy discovers that Smallweed has the letters and intends to bribe Sir Leicester Dedlock with them he races to Chesney Wold to warn the lady of house. |
|
|
Call it much or call it little, the ineffaceability of this deep stain of experience, it is the interest of old places and the bribe to the brooding analyst. |
|
If they were willing to bribe a noxious couple to help a poor girl then what lengths might the this family go to when one of their own was rotting away in jail? |
|
It was further revealed that some officers would start their formality of ascertaining the number of students only after receiving the bribe amount. |
|
But by then, the police were a living joke, the punch line to a thousand donut jokes and a grafting, bribe taking tarnish on the notion of civil service. |
|
Now, I can't even tempt a minor secretarial official with a petty bribe. |
|
He had to bribe the school to let him do his schoolwork on the road. |
|
Each goddess offers the youth a bribe in return for a vote in her favor. |
|
He accuses his opponent of offering him a bribe to throw a match. |
|
He loves them so much that when a treat, or a bribe, is called for, you could give him a choice between a pod of just picked peas, and a square of chocolate. |
|
There were several thinly veiled invitations to accept other kingdoms hospitality, a bribe, and also something I'm pretty sure was a sexual come-on from a female guildmaster. |
|
We are in no way imputing that he tried to bribe him to throw a match. |
|
A judge who knows that few people will scrutinize his legal reasoning is more likely to take a bribe than one mindful of observers armed with casebooks and citations. |
|
It took a small bribe to get the schematics from the town clerk. |
|
They have oversold the plane and we have to bribe our way onto it. |
|
In dealings with government officials, a bribe usually is offered. |
|
In a sense, she attempts to bribe the pastor, offering to make his church her home. |
|
But at least in Moscow, a bribe or a good connection stand you a fighting chance to get what you need. |
|
Suppose a congressional aide overhears a phone call in which a senator takes a bribe. |
|
There lurks no bribe in the smell and beauty of the flower. Its charm has no ulterior motive. |
|
He alleged the DPP of Nowshera court not to pleading his case neutrally and he had taken bribe money from the opponents. |
|
|
He was later imprisoned for soliciting a bribe to fix another capital murder case. |
|
The more money the better, because there is always that dodgy politician or corrupt official to bribe. |
|
Now the fucknugget tells me he'll give it back. Thinks he can return a bribe like a pair of pants that don't fit. |
|
You save your souls here, eating cabbage, and think you are the righteous. You eat a gudgeon a day, and you think you bribe God with gudgeon. |
|
I never had a bribe or reward in my eye or thought when pronouncing judgment or order. |
|
The documentary claimed it was possible to bribe IOC members into voting for a particular candidate city. |
|
Macau's merchant oligarchs continued to bribe their mandarin overseers and in this way the settlement persisted. |
|
Men are such clots, dates don't mean much to them, and if he does start counting, you can always bribe the doctor to tell him it's a prem. |
|
Because such an officer would have done what he did for the sake of the bribe. |
|
I offered the children a bribe for finishing their homework. |
|
And you will not take a bribe, because a bribe will blind the alert, and will twist the words of the righteous. |
|
The pre-Christmas bribe worked in the short term because all-night boozing was introduced in winter, with more coppers on the street than you could shake a nightstick at. |
|
Assorted party Quislings should remember that the current paradigm is a tax-payer funded smoke and mirrors game, constructed to bribe people with their own money. |
|
The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883 criminalised attempts to bribe voters and standardised the amount that could be spent on election expenses. |
|
Barbie met Suarez Gomez regularly in the early 1980s, acting as a go-between for the druglord and corrupt Bolivian army colleagues he wanted to bribe. |
|