Sentences with phrase «after bribing»

Though he appears in just three scenes in Roman Polanski's 1974 masterpiece Chinatown, John Huston creates one of movie history's most formidable villains: Noah Cross, the wealthy and ruthless land baron who masterminds an elaborate plot to buy up cheap desert property in the San Fernando Valley, irrigate it after bribing the water department, and sell the land for millions.

She let me hold her and pinch her cheeks (after bribing her with a reese's cup.

After bribing my sweet lady with candy and fruit bowls and lots of love she agreed to go and ended up really liking the whole thing!!

After bribing them, they came up with some ideas.

But he is learning a new habit that will continue even after your bribes stop, and habits are powerful in shaping behavior.

The ducks were very cooperative for this post (especially after I bribed them with treats), and these flats have easily become my favorite shoes.

After the bribes, they might cut down even more trees as a result.

Not exact matches

After nearly 400 pages, as the authors catalogue all the wounded players, corrupt tutors and bribes, the individual scandals and outrages begin to seem inconsequential, like mere symptoms of a deeper sickness.

She settled one lawsuit brought by a fashion designer for a reported $ 430,000, and has since been sued by a former lawyer after alleging the attorney had accepted a bribe.

One of the most disturbing aspects of the investigation is the degree to which bribes permeate NCAA basketball, from when high schoolers are being recruited to when student athletes are making plans for after college.

Reilly pleaded guilty to bribery - related charges and was given a three - year jail term, suspended for four years, after being accused of overseeing a «criminal godfather» scheme to bribe doctors.

And there have also been customer complaints that Wag's walkers have lost dogs, with one Long Island customer claiming that the company tried to bribe her after a dog walker lost her Beagle - Labrador mix.

They eventually were taken over by a Canadian firm (well, the Canadian assets anyway) a few years ago some time after a Veco executive was secretly filmed in a hotel room bribing some Alaska gov» t officials.

Other Facebook developments: Suspended: Cambridge Analytica suspended CEO Alexander Nix after undercover reports showed him talking about entrapping politicians with bribes and prostitutes, CNN reports.

Nixed: Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, said it suspended CEO Alexander Nix after undercover videos showed Nix saying he could entrap politicians with bribes and women.

Mr. Anglin also filed a complaint with the Calgary Police reporting he'd received an anonymous death threat after refusing to step aside for Mr. Nixon, and accused what the Red Deer Advocate called «a senior Wildrose Party player» of offering him «in essence a bribe» in return for stepping down — a job with the Alberta Electric System Operator, Alberta Energy Regulator or the Alberta Surface Rights Board, presumably on the assumption the party wins the next election.

After all, they do it because they think it is the right thing to do, rather than because of bribes (heaven) or threats (hell).

«Our treasury rifled; our credit shaken; the poor laborer asking vainly for his honest wages day after day; the rich official reveling in disreputable gains; an enormous debt heaped upon us we know not how; our schools decaying, our teachers cowering before their Catholic masters; our press, when it ventures to complain, threatened with violence or insulted by offered bribes; the interests of the city neglected, its honorable reputation gone.»

After the Resurrection had happened, the guard reported to the authorities, who bribed them to say that while they were asleep the disciples stole the body.

Our question is: One man in how many, after receiving a bribe for the betrayal of a friend, had returned the money, had it refused, had thrown it on the floor in the house of the Lord, and then had it used to purchase a field from the potter?

«Mormon officials bribing the Olympic committee» — just to be clear, they were not mormon leaders, but Olympic officials that may have been mormon, But if you are going to go after the mormons here, you need to go after the evangelical, catholic, muslim and other religions officials that were involved in bribery in all past Olympics as well.

Strategically placed near the checkout line at the grocery store, where, after a frustrating hour of decision - making, calorie counting, list checking, and child - bribing, women would otherwise be forced to stop, wait, and ask themselves a few questions about the meaning of their existence, the magazine aisle dazzles us with photoshopped images of super-skinny models, next to impeccably arranged place settings, next to actresses praised for losing their baby weight in five minutes, next to Martha Stewart holding a perfectly frosted chocolate cake.

«Because after all the bribes, threats and promises that have patched together this rickety coalition, we can not prevent another suicide bomber being born — and nobody can tell us how to dodge this devil's cycle of despair, hatred and, yet again, revenge.»

But after the retirement of his father he is always number 7 because he can no longer be bribed for.

They have already tried their best to bribe AC Milan to part ways with Kaka; plus, this summer will surely be interesting, as the club goes after some of the biggest names in the game with a war chest at their disposal.

Fifa president will be investigated by his own ethics committee after allegations that he knew bribes were being exchanged for votes have emerged.

For those who missed the first post and the poll, I'd written about a study which found that young kids who were bribed with a physical reward were more likely eat vegetables they didn't like, even three months after the study, than kids who'd been praised for eating hated vegetables or had been simply asked to try them.

When he was finally ready to poop in the potty (after we tried everything - bribes, lectures (what were we thinking on that one?!)

Does that mean he willingly accepted the bribe and only had a change of mind after his party had found out?

He said the suspects tried bribing the police after they were busted but the officers refused their offer.

The call for repeal comes after Sen. Malcolm Smith allegedly sought to bribe his way onto the GOP ballot line for New York City mayor through the Wilson - Pakula waiver.

Some 22 lower court judges are currently serving a suspension placed on them by the Judicial Council, after they were captured in a video taking bribes in a two year investigative piece.

Skelos's sentencing comes just over a week after his former counterpart, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a separate case involving the Manhattan Democrat masking bribes as legal referrals.

This revelation comes barely a day after the Chief Justice's Committee instituted to investigate the scandal had publicly issued a hearing notice to the judge, who was captured on video allegedly receiving bribe at Zongo Junction in Accra.

1) The Akyem Mafia were behind the fake Free Press publication after the Supreme Court Petition accusing Otumfuor of bribing the judges on President Mahama's behalf.

A week later, the Presby Moderator in an unprovoked manner, organized a press conference claiming some politicians who are uncomfortable with his utterances attempted buying his silence by bribing him with a cash of US$ 100, 000 and a house with a swimming at the expensive Trassco Estates, which he rejected, but hours after his claim, his former PRO, popped to refute the claim, saying he was present when his Moderator pocketed US$ 100, 000, and collected the keys to a four - wheeler car from a political figure.

Venditto has been a powerful Republican leader until he stepped down after federal prosecutors charged him and County Executive Edward Mangano for taking bribes.

A federal jury in Manhattan found Joseph Percoco guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of soliciting bribes after deliberating for parts of three weeks.

► David Villanueva - Sgt. Villanueva, who also worked in the NYPD's License Division, was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on modified duty after the US Attorney charged Lichtenstein with bribing officers in the division for access to gun licenses for his friends.

Nearly two weeks after he was accused of trying to bribe his way into Gracie Mansion as a Republican, state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis) returned to Albany Monday and was kicked out of the Independent Democratic Conference.

Nearly six weeks after the corruption trial began, jurors Thursday afternoon were dispatched by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni to begin deliberations into whether Percoco, a longtime confidante of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, used his top government post to enrich himself via bribes paid by two companies with business before the state.

Assemblyman Eric Stevenson has been indicted for taking bribes, and Nelson Castro resigned from the Assembly after taping him, and presumably others, for years.

Then bribing politicians would rely on them staying bribed after the money stops flowing.

He restated the comments by the former PRO of the Presby Church, Dr. Emmanuel Acheampong that Prof. Martey is corrupt and a liar after accepting a bribe of 10, 000 dollars from a presidential candidate of a leading political party in Ghana.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

The charges come just months after Mr. Bharara charged former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with accepting what he described as kickbacks and bribes disguised as legitimate work done for law firms.

Singh, a longtime friend of the Manganos, entered a secret guilty plea to bribing Mangano, Venditto and an unnamed New York City official at the U.S. District Courthouse in Central Islip on Oct. 17, 2016 — one year, one month and 11 days after Mei.

After initially planning to testify in a Manhattan federal court trial in which he's accused of pocketing $ 22,000 in bribes, the Bronx pol changed his playbook on Friday by opting to remain mum, claiming he was wrongfully under the impression that he was required by law to take the witness stand as a defendant.

Pigeon — who for decades has quietly assisted candidates, companies and sitting officials as they navigate the labyrinthine factions of Erie County politics — was arraigned the day after the judge, state Supreme Court Justice John Michalek, resigned from office and pleaded guilty to accepting bribes.

Disgraced lawyer Joseph «Jay» Savino said he is now cleaning bathrooms in a Rockland restaurant after pleading guilty to taking bribes to influence the New York City mayor's race.