She bribed the concierge of his apartment building to keep his whereabouts secret. |
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Numerous government officials either have stakes in the mines or are bribed to overlook regulation breaches. |
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Congress voted to set up a special commission to decide it, and those members were bribed from there. |
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No matter how much money she bribed the men with, they didn't let her enter the library, or even order a book. |
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David bribed the private detective that Stephanie hired to make her look paranoid. |
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They could be bribed to give you some bad medicine if someone wanted to be rid of you. |
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We paused to try out a handful of fair rides, but by now time was pressing and we bribed the children away with the promise of an ice cream. |
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If players can be bribed to throw matches can't the selectors be bribed to select players with no talent? |
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The problem was I was very shy and didn't want to do it, so my Mum bribed me with a lipstick and I agreed to do it. |
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They're now under investigation for having bribed foreign officials during that period of time. |
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It wasn't the first time he'd been bribed, nor the first time he accepted a bribe. |
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He alleged that the president had periodically bribed legislators to remove their officers who resisted presidential meddlesomeness. |
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My intransigent refusal to be bribed or terrorised has caused me to be dismissed for a second time. |
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Officials and those who operate irrigation gates can be bribed to open them further or keep them open longer than intended. |
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The yellow metal couldn't be bribed, flattered, seduced, or flimflammed. |
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Adults bribed them, drogued them, held them under influence, in order they should vulgarize the act of killing. |
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He hid his work in his bedroll and bribed friendly guards to smuggle it out. |
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She was then publicly named and forced to take part in a press conference, saying she had been bribed to fabricate the claim. |
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They see him as a huckster who bribed and talked some of America's least-informed voters into backing him. |
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There could be backhanders, bribed officials and matches fixed. |
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His followers weakened and were bribed back to work with a ten percents raise. |
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Likewise, it is immaterial which is the nationality of the briber or of the person who is bribed. |
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The guard and reservists could be put into units deployed for shorter periods, or be bribed to volunteer for lengthier deployments. |
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He claimed in his testimony to a US judge, made public last week, that he was bribed in return for his vote on the 2010 World Cup. |
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The reformist trade union leaders are bribed with the crumbs of imperialist profit. |
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On the third day of his arrest, the author bribed the person that was guarding him and gained his freedom. |
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If so, only a few local workers would need to be paid for tasks like loading and re-packaging, and a few key officials bribed. |
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Officials can be bribed if not reasonably paid, and bribed officials allow the taxation system to be circumvented, continuing the vicious circle. |
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In some countries including Nepal and Russia, victims have been bribed to drop complaints. |
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He also implied that the journalists concerned had been bribed by the opposition to harm his image. |
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Those who control the dams can be bribed to open them to benefit those who pay them. |
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She bribed a doctor into writing a medical certificate saying she was pregnant. |
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You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. |
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Without a bribed official, a halcyon, or eagle, will watch the entry point with binoculars for patterns and opportunities. |
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When Michele Bachmann claimed in 2011 that a supporter had been bribed to defect to Ron Paul, observers rolled their eyes. |
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During his stay at an Italian hospital he charmed nurses and bribed porters into bringing him a steady stream of cognac, Cinzano vermouth, Marsala and Chianti. |
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Donors also apparently have a lot in common with kindergarteners who need to be bribed into napping. |
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Others employed guards or fenced their lands, but local people bribed guards, cut fencing, or illegally made copies of Veterinary Department branding irons. |
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The suggestion was that the man was bribed to tell a false story. |
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The Indian Agents came with peace treaties that were forged and they bribed, threatened and coerced Indians to give up their lands and their children's future. |
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Parliament has attempted to fight corruption but other institutions including cabinet have tended to be hostile to its efforts including some members even being bribed or compromised. |
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Records show the sergeant, 27, was bribed with four pills of Tramadol to sneak the drug to other suspects in Rashidiya Police Station. |
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Her family managed to find her and bribed her captors to let her go. |
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The same day, Thomas Howard, a porter at the bagnio, confessed to Justice of the Peace Sir Thomas Clarges that he had been bribed by Toft's sister-in-law, Margaret, to sneak a rabbit into Toft's chamber. |
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However it was not necessarily very secure, and throughout its history people bribed the guards to help them escape. |
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He also bribed several Roman commanders, and at least two tribunes, before and during the war. |
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Local officials are bribed and threatened so that they keep silent. |
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The damage caused by natural disasters such as earthquakes is magnified in places where inspectors have been bribed to ignore building and planning regulations. |
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They said that Chuck Cadman said he was bribed. |
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He reported that one of the country's most senior genocide prosecutors had bribed other journalists not to publish stories about his extramarital affairs. |
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A friend of her son's bribed a police chief into seizing Gatteschi's papers, including the letters, which were then destroyed. |
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The Soviet-style limited sovereignty' imposed by the EU is, moreover, resisted by some prominent citizens of these countries, who refuse to see their nation bribed by EU subsidies, and who call for the support of our no vote. |
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Any organisation should prevent their employees bribed or bought out by terrorist and criminal organisations perhaps by providing an incentive programme to encourage internal reporting of suspicious activities. |
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But I won't be threatened or bribed or guilted into giving up something that's important to me. |
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Electors were bribed individually in some boroughs, and collectively in others. |
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Many Iraqi commanding officers were bribed by the CIA or coerced into surrendering. |
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Moon bribed a stage hand to put explosives in his drum kit, who loaded it with ten times the expected quantity. |
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In one village after establishing a VNMRM, one well-to-do pit sawyer bribed a village headman who in turn allowed the pit sawyer to cut down Khaya nyasica trees along Ruo River. |
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She was once again eager for divorce but proceedings were frustrated by James, who she believed her husband had bribed. |
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He saw his first pantomime aged three, and was so entranced he refused to leave until an usherette bribed him with a free ticket for another show. |
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The jailer was bribed to taste Cosimo's food beforehand, and the gonfalonier, assuaged by the famous gold-bearing mules, arranged to have the usual death sentence reduced to banishment. |
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In 17th-century France, local power brokers were destroyed, undermined, or bribed. |
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After being bribed by both Hera and Athena, Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Sparta. |
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The Orbán government, prone to fanning paranoia and regularly conjuring conspiracy theories about foreign plots to undermine Hungary, insinuated the White House had been bribed. |
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Still, it's hard not to think that the only bearable person in this animated world is Sid's grandmother, who points out to him that she never needed to be bribed with the promise of a new gewgaw to do her chores. |
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The Italian premier has been involved in a slew of legal investigations, including accusations he bribed a judge in the 1980s to sway a business deal in his favour. |
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This blatant tax grab might never have happened had the federal Conservative government not bribed its provincial Liberal counterparts to introduce it. |
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So then, you know, the winter people bribed him with caribou fat. |
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Romanian victims were moved by trucks to a Mediterranean country, from which they cross to Africa on cargo ships or are flown into a European country where an official can be bribed to allow entry. |
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Jugurtha impudently bribed the Romans into accepting his usurpation. |
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She had bribed the postillion with three rixdollars to take the lad on the mail coach to Copenhagen where, it was hoped, he might find a patron who would pay for an education. |
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The word is that every petty havaldar, sub-inspector and police inspector, licensing clerk and petty official has to be bribed before he'll do his duty. |
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Lucius Septimius Severus Geta, the Pannonian commander, bribed the opposing forces, pardoned the Praetorian Guards and installed himself as emperor. |
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The first exception to a ban on retrying a defendant is if, in a trial, the defendant bribed the judge into acquitting him or her, since the defendant was not in jeopardy. |
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