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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

I warn you that I shall lay all manner of traps, waylay your messengers, bribe them.
No man ever paid a bribe for the handling of the public money, but to peculate from it.
I will corrupt the organist, bribe the choir, double-bank the preacher in advance, and we will all have a rousing time.
It is simply that Calhoun has made up his mind that this is the time for grafters and boodlers and bribe givers to stand together.
He who could bribe the judges the highest got judgment delivered in his favour, while his opponent received the kourbash.
It is not quite true to say that the land grant was a bribe to the voters of Kansas.
Dr. Boxton took the stand and testified, with a minutia of detail, how the bribe had been paid to him.
He could have given any sort of bribe had he deemed the Frenchman purchasable.
In fact, it was the civilized man in him that had originally sought the introduction to her, with a bribe to the untameable.
Did you think you could bribe me with your gifts to tolerate your vileness?
Captain Walcott endeavoured to bribe the American pilot to remain with him.
Large sums of money were ready to bribe the turnkey to connive at an escape.
You, with the impudence of your class, think you can come to me and bribe me to betray my employer.
I have to browbeat, bribe, blackmail and bulldoze you thugs into doing a simple job.
I engaged one of them, by a bribe of some beads, to describe the circumjacent country upon the sand.
Emma wanted to bribe her servant with a present, but it would be better to find some safe house at Yonville.
To be sure, he had heard his father call such money bribe money, dirty money, and refer to the men who took it as being bought up.
No devil had ever tempted a man with such a bribe of perdition.
I took a piece of cake and went out to bribe the Fyne dog into some sort of self-control.
Would a Sunday-school picnic constitute a bribe worth mentioning?
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I am being targeted because of the arms lobby which started feeling that they cannot bribe people and palm off equipment that is not worth it.
The confessions of the three were uncorroborated as to each bribe.
She hated calls of the formal sort, and never made any till Amy compelled her with a bargain, bribe, or promise.
A word from Madame Pan to bigot is of more value than a bribe.
Whether they were always so free from avarice, partialities, or want, that a bribe, or some other sinister view, could have no place among them?
A dark lantern, the servant or agent that receives the bribe at court.
Endless talk about filthy lucre, the budget deficit and national debt, and an almost daily bribe from at least one of the parties has left me depressed and often in despair.
The river deities, however, like those of the sea, were to be propitiated by a bribe, and the infliction of these rude honors to be parried by a treat to the adepts.
Half an hour's chopping wood in his lively fashion was enough to bring him a meal, and when the farmer had seen him working he would sometimes try to bribe him to stay.
My brother tried to bribe them to let him off, but far from listening to him they tied his hands, and forced him to walk between them to the presence of the judge.
The bribe taker naturally inferred that Werper had slain his fellow and dared not admit that he had permitted him to enter the hut, fearing as he did, the anger of Achmet Zek.
He whined placatingly, squirmed and wriggled to show his good will and intentions, and even ventured, as a bribe for peace, to lick Buck's face with his warm wet tongue.

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